Originally Posted by
DVon
Well do you know when they release the rooms that haven't been taken? I really need a room for two nights that weekend.. Its my birthday weekend and I really want to visit Chicago. I have a room for one night in Chicago but would really need two.
Welcome to FT!
From my experience with conventions/conferences, they release rooms about 30 days out. So I'd keep checking daily for availability.
You might also consider switching hotels downtown if you can get 1 night at one downtown property and another night at a different downtown property. It's not optimal, but it would keep you downtown.
The other thing to do is try to book the same property as 2 single nights & then get the hotel to combine the ressies when you check in so that you don't have to switch rooms. There are a # of reports on the different hotel forums that someone is trying for a ressie for 2 nights & it shows up as unavailable, but when they book the 2 nights individually there is availability.
Graph Expo is large enough (several thousand) they're not going to cross-check hotel registrations against convention registrations. I think that's probably more common on somewhat smaller conferences than large trade shows. But at this point my guess is GE has released its room block.
Cheers.