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After Social Media Overload at SXSW, Here's Where We Slept Last Night

Where: 112 Academy Drive [map], Austin, TX, United States, 78704

It's our SXSW Hotel revealed!

HotelChatter was only in Austin for one night of SXSW but we ended up scoring one of the 14 rooms at the Hotel St. Cecilia. This here is room #8, one of the three studio rooms.

We liked the spaciousness of the room and the hard wood floors (the fur rugs didn't bother us but they may bother PETA.) We also dug the view of Austin from the semi-private back porch area.

The hotel is about a 15-minute walk to the Convention Center, which seems do-able but was made miserable today by pouring rain. Still, the hotel's super cool design and attention to detail won out here. And the fact that it was super quiet. No Foursquare-Gowalla showdowns here.

Room rates are a little pricey, about $350 for a studio room (on a non-SXSW weekend) but there is free WiFi and free parking. Hallelujah!