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Yesterday, it was announced on the main site and twitter that DEF CON Room rates were posted for several hotels:
URL1=https://defcon.org/html/links/dc-new...#dc23roomrates
Announcement on Twitter:
URL2=https://twitter.com/_defcon_/status/512705595682459648
And the large version of the image in that tweet:
http://ow.ly/i/6VYZb/original
With this announcement, people will begin to book hotels. What have you found in your review of hotels? How are you deciding? What kinds of things are you looking for in your room at DEF CON?
Share your thoughts and how you are deciding where to stay.
Starting things off:
I reviewed all of the 1 star reviews on yelp for Paris and am part way through all 1 star reviews with Bally's.
Some things found:
Some hotels in Las Vegas will charge your room a tip for luggage service to room, so if you tip the bellman for assistance you may be tipping more than you expect. Ask about this at check-in if you plan to use luggage service at your hotel.
You check-in at 4pm or later. If you want an "early" check-in (which from reviews averages out to be between 3pm and 4pm, with many requests to "check back 1 hour later" starting at 10am) then there is a fee. This fee seems to range from $10 to $40 depending on who, or when the request was made. That fee may only allow you to check in at 3-4 pm instead of 8am.
At the Paris, many rooms have no refrigerator. They claim on the phone that the "Red Rooms" have fridges, but online complaints say that not all Red Rooms have fridges. If you want a fridge, ask to see if your room has one. If your room has none, while supplies last, they can rent you a fridge. Rate at time of call was $25/day unless you have medicine to keep cold, then the cost is free per day. However, there was a complaint I read that a person using the "for medicine" fridge got a tiny fridge, not capable of storing much of anything else. Consider this if looking to exploit this loophole. (thinking) "Well, my [booze||Prescription meds||.*] are 'medicine' so gimme free fridge!"
For those of you that want DC TV to the hotel rooms, hotel selection may include this bit of useful information:
Discussion is very early and things may change, but there is this consideration:
https://forum.defcon.org/showthread....l=1#post131992
Combined with this twitter dialogue:
https://twitter.com/_defcon_/status/499798165126914049
If the speaker tracks will be at Paris, then Paris rooms are more likely to have DC TV to hotel rooms. But since Bally's is a neighbor, and shared parent company, maybe they have capacity to share the same video to their rooms? Would other properties also be able to do this? Which?
Things could change overnight. Maybe planning could move speakers to Bally's convention center for $reasons. Maybe DC TV will be available over wifi (unlikely) or wired hotel LAN with multicast (assuming they have wired LAN and this is possible, which make this unlikely too) or maybe no DC TV at all, or maybe something else.
Which hotel are you choosing and why?
Many free shuttles *between hotels* do not allow you to bring luggage.
The monorail connecting to our hotel and a few others on "our side of the strip" does NOT yet go to the airport. There are plans, but don't expect to use it to get to the hotel.
What have you found in your planning for a hotel and visit to DEF CON 23?
URL1=https://defcon.org/html/links/dc-new...#dc23roomrates
Originally posted by URL1
Announcement on Twitter:
URL2=https://twitter.com/_defcon_/status/512705595682459648
Originally posted by URL2
http://ow.ly/i/6VYZb/original
With this announcement, people will begin to book hotels. What have you found in your review of hotels? How are you deciding? What kinds of things are you looking for in your room at DEF CON?
Share your thoughts and how you are deciding where to stay.
Starting things off:
I reviewed all of the 1 star reviews on yelp for Paris and am part way through all 1 star reviews with Bally's.
Some things found:
Some hotels in Las Vegas will charge your room a tip for luggage service to room, so if you tip the bellman for assistance you may be tipping more than you expect. Ask about this at check-in if you plan to use luggage service at your hotel.
You check-in at 4pm or later. If you want an "early" check-in (which from reviews averages out to be between 3pm and 4pm, with many requests to "check back 1 hour later" starting at 10am) then there is a fee. This fee seems to range from $10 to $40 depending on who, or when the request was made. That fee may only allow you to check in at 3-4 pm instead of 8am.
At the Paris, many rooms have no refrigerator. They claim on the phone that the "Red Rooms" have fridges, but online complaints say that not all Red Rooms have fridges. If you want a fridge, ask to see if your room has one. If your room has none, while supplies last, they can rent you a fridge. Rate at time of call was $25/day unless you have medicine to keep cold, then the cost is free per day. However, there was a complaint I read that a person using the "for medicine" fridge got a tiny fridge, not capable of storing much of anything else. Consider this if looking to exploit this loophole. (thinking) "Well, my [booze||Prescription meds||.*] are 'medicine' so gimme free fridge!"
For those of you that want DC TV to the hotel rooms, hotel selection may include this bit of useful information:
Discussion is very early and things may change, but there is this consideration:
https://forum.defcon.org/showthread....l=1#post131992
Combined with this twitter dialogue:
https://twitter.com/_defcon_/status/499798165126914049
If the speaker tracks will be at Paris, then Paris rooms are more likely to have DC TV to hotel rooms. But since Bally's is a neighbor, and shared parent company, maybe they have capacity to share the same video to their rooms? Would other properties also be able to do this? Which?
Things could change overnight. Maybe planning could move speakers to Bally's convention center for $reasons. Maybe DC TV will be available over wifi (unlikely) or wired hotel LAN with multicast (assuming they have wired LAN and this is possible, which make this unlikely too) or maybe no DC TV at all, or maybe something else.
Which hotel are you choosing and why?
Many free shuttles *between hotels* do not allow you to bring luggage.
The monorail connecting to our hotel and a few others on "our side of the strip" does NOT yet go to the airport. There are plans, but don't expect to use it to get to the hotel.
What have you found in your planning for a hotel and visit to DEF CON 23?
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