In the last several weeks I have heard from a few people who have claimed that hotel rooms in Las Cruces were already tight for October’s X Prize Cup: according to one person I talked with at the ISDC earlier this month, all the hotel rooms in Las Cruces were already booked for the weekend. That’s not all that surprising: there are not that many hotels in Las Cruces, and they were filled up weeks in advance of last year’s event. Many people, myself included, ended up staying in El Paso, about 50 kilometers to the south.
But are all the rooms in Las Cruces already booked, more than five months in advance? Last night I checked room availability using Orbitz for a four-night span (October 18-22), which would encompass both the Cup itself (October 20-21), and a conference immediately preceding it. It turns out that while a few hotels are sold out, including the Hilton, many others have plenty of rooms available, and at affordable prices. So there’s no need to panic about hotel availability just yet, although if you’re even thinking about attending it wouldn’t hurt to get your rooms sooner rather than later. And in the worst case scenario, El Paso is not that far away…
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