What Hotel Rooms Can You Get for SXSW?
Despite the recent reports that signal music festivals might be dying, everyone's favorite Texan music fest--South by Southwest--is still very much on again this year. If you have the time to get to Austin (perhaps the downfall of our economy has freed you up a bit, eh?), hotel rooms are available but not quite affordable. We have a feeling Austin is trying to milk this event even harder in the wake of the economy's collapse.
We checked our hotel rates search engine for March 13-16--prime festival time and found the Hyatt Place Central Austin for $109 a night. This hotel is about five miles from downtown and it involves a freeway ride. But if you are a music geek who needs to upload or edit music, video, bootlegs, whatever, remember Hyatt Place has all the geeky tools you'll need to make that happen.
However, many hotels close to the music festival's center in downtown are trying to capitalize on their location. Take the Four Seasons Austin for $420 a night (heh. 420.) or the Hampton Inn and Suites Downtown for $299 a night. Hampton Inn! The Hilton Garden Inn Downtown, which is hosting a few jam sessions, will cost you $279 a night. The Omni Downtown is going for $339 a night but the Omni Southpark is a doable $112 a night. It's just four miles away on another freeway.
Fortunately, Austin has an almost-obscene amount of budget hotels like Holiday Inn, Comfort Suites, Hilton Garden Inns, Courtyards in its metropolitan area. Meaning you can get even cheaper hotel rooms but you'll have to figure out ways to get to downtown on your own.
Got any hotel recommendations for South By Southwest? Put 'em in comments below!
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