930man

thats my thoughts

TrackDays247.com

Austinites: WHich is better?

New Braunfels, TX
or
Best Western Atrium North, 7928 Gessner Drive, Austin

(not sure how bad traffic would be to get to track)

BEST WESTERN Atrium North
7928 Gessner Drive
Austin , Texas
78753-6506,

consolidated

More weekday traffic at North Austin hotel, but shorter trip and in town-ish.

Doc GTO

Same thing happened in Indy. We got rapped the 1st year flying and staying in a overpriced crap box and then smartened up and rented and drove up a A class RV and parked across the street from the track. Best way to do it! We woke up to the sound of 13K RPMs!!!

dotframe

We thought about renting our guest room but the bed in there isn't exactly up to code

Rene

I was talking to someone this weekend at TWS that said a neighboring farmer cleared a field for RV parking within walking distance to the track & that the spots were reasonable.

tlarocque

Yep... I looked into flights (ridiculous) and hotel rooms (more ridiculous) and have decided to put my tickets up for sale and skip the event. I tried VRBO and some kid with a studio in downtown Austin wanted $500/night. Blow me.

Hope they get it figured out by next year as I'd like to see the F1 circus on American soil but, for now, I think I'm headed back to Monza next year. Will be cheaper.

Bud Kobayashi

Thanks to good pre-planning we got great rate in nice hotel downtown before they know what is what. My cousin find that everything Georgetown down to San Antonio completely crazy with prices. This because people in this area have experience with overcharging visitors for all kind of events. What my cousin did find is that if one travel another 30 mile or more north of Georgetown to Temple, these rates still in $60s and 70s for race weekend. Another good thing about only being 65 mile up IH-35 from the north, is that you pick up Tollroad 130 which shoot out easterly and then straight down to track.

Worth gas money and save $300 night for old motel that smell in Austin.

uscarrera

We 3 Florida boys are sitting in section 5 we got a Hampton Inn 35 minutes away based on traffic expectations commute could not be more than 2 or 3 hours each way

Ski

I'm also staying away first year, they will barely have everything ready - didn't they just finish paving two weeks ago? I'm not paying $600 for Hampton Inn in Austin. Plus, the last time I was through Austin and a major event was held, traffic was worse than Houston I-10 West at 5:30 pm

ShakeNBake

We're seeing a ton of new Austin listings on VRBO/HA for the race....there is a really sweet one here, comes with a helicopter.

http://www.vrbo.com/428860

Horus2000

That was a good tip. Yesterday I booked a relatively decent Days Inn in Temple for $55/night. About 70 miles north via the tollway and I35. Shouldn't be too bad.

Bud Kobayashi

We have some friends that make reservations at both Quality Inn and Countryside Suites in Temple. They pay only $65 for night during entire weekend. What is great about coming down Interstate 35 is that you pick up Tollroad 130 miles before town of Georgetown and then shoot straight to track missing all bad Austin traffic.

You did good and with extra money can buy more beer.