Originally Posted by
Pa Kettle
Not to be a shill or anything, but there's one hotel so close one could literally walk 100 yards east over the 11th Street bridge to get there.

'sOK, I'll shill for ya.
If you stay here, you can get a few more minutes of precious sleep before waking up at 0-dark-thirty to get in line at Franklin:
http://www.starwoodhotels.com/sherat...ropertyID=3079
(For the
cheap budget-conscious, like me, there's also this, about the same distance away:
http://www.super8.com/hotels/texas/a...0901:Rio:Local.*

)
*I'm not vouching for it, as I've never stayed there myself--I just saw it on Google Maps.