At the close of DEF CON 24, it was announced that we would be at Caesars. On Monday or Tuesday, the @defcon twitter account announced room reservations at Caesars was open. I checked shortly after, and saw rooms were available, but no DEF CON rate. Then a link was added to the top of the page on the main site for DEF CON 25 and room reservations ( https://resweb.passkey.com/go/SCDEF7 )
Announcement that we are moving to Caesars: (Tweeted Aug 7)
https://twitter.com/defcon/status/762459635806633985
First announcement on twitter that room reservations for DEF CON are live: (Tweeted Aug 9)
https://twitter.com/defcon/status/763207438874972161
Followup tweet with reservation link: (Tweeted Aug 10)
https://twitter.com/defcon/status/763462344676483072
I checked on Monday and saw rooms available at Caesars which included rooms with 2 Queen sized beds, but starting prices were around $200+ for all rooms. Same was true Tuesday.
When I finally found the link on the main defcon web page (the top-left DEF CON 25 link had the reservations, but the lower-left only lined to the older DEF CON 24 pages) and checked status, I could see there are choices of several hotels, including Casears. Clicking on Caesars showed several rooms where each had a single King sized bed and 2 or 4 choices for rooms with 2 Queen sized beds. Today (Aug 10, one day later) all of the "cheap" rooms with 2 Queen beds show up as sold-out. Even the more expensive rooms show up as sold out for Wednesday, Thursday, Friday Saturday of DEF CON 25. The only 2 Queen bed rooms with any of the DEF CON dates only included Wed through Saturday with checkout on Sunday for around $211 to $231 per night plus tax and resort fees.
It is crazy to think that all of the rooms with 2 Queen beds could be gone in less than 24 hours. I've asked the @defcon twitter account if they really are sold out of 2 Queen rooms at the cheaper rate at Caesars to confirm.
Checking directly with caesars.com shows the cheapest 2 queen rooms (without the DEF CON rate) are "Nobu 2 Queen Deluxe" for Tue ($189), Wed ($219), Thur ($249), Fri/Sat ($319), Sun $249 , plus tax and resort fees. The rooms still show up as available without the DEF CON rate, though.
Announcement that we are moving to Caesars: (Tweeted Aug 7)
https://twitter.com/defcon/status/762459635806633985
First announcement on twitter that room reservations for DEF CON are live: (Tweeted Aug 9)
https://twitter.com/defcon/status/763207438874972161
Followup tweet with reservation link: (Tweeted Aug 10)
https://twitter.com/defcon/status/763462344676483072
I checked on Monday and saw rooms available at Caesars which included rooms with 2 Queen sized beds, but starting prices were around $200+ for all rooms. Same was true Tuesday.
When I finally found the link on the main defcon web page (the top-left DEF CON 25 link had the reservations, but the lower-left only lined to the older DEF CON 24 pages) and checked status, I could see there are choices of several hotels, including Casears. Clicking on Caesars showed several rooms where each had a single King sized bed and 2 or 4 choices for rooms with 2 Queen sized beds. Today (Aug 10, one day later) all of the "cheap" rooms with 2 Queen beds show up as sold-out. Even the more expensive rooms show up as sold out for Wednesday, Thursday, Friday Saturday of DEF CON 25. The only 2 Queen bed rooms with any of the DEF CON dates only included Wed through Saturday with checkout on Sunday for around $211 to $231 per night plus tax and resort fees.
It is crazy to think that all of the rooms with 2 Queen beds could be gone in less than 24 hours. I've asked the @defcon twitter account if they really are sold out of 2 Queen rooms at the cheaper rate at Caesars to confirm.
Checking directly with caesars.com shows the cheapest 2 queen rooms (without the DEF CON rate) are "Nobu 2 Queen Deluxe" for Tue ($189), Wed ($219), Thur ($249), Fri/Sat ($319), Sun $249 , plus tax and resort fees. The rooms still show up as available without the DEF CON rate, though.
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