OK, time for some fun facts!
Wireless internet has only be advertised for the pre-event space in the Executive Meeting Center. this means it is the best place to play your DS!
The Executive Meeting Rooms advertise T1 access.
The guest rooms all list High Speed.
Wifi elsewhere will have to be investigated in person.
The South tower of the hotel is 15 stories tall.
The North tower is 9 stories tall.
The top floor of the North tower features balcony rooms.
EVERY room of the South Tower features a balcony!
The towers connect on the 3rd floor through the 9th floor at the glass elevator landing.
The stairwells at the end of each tower (4 stairwells total) connect the top floor of the tower with the 3rd floor WITHOUT KEYCARDS. Some of the exits on the 2nd and Ground floors have no internal access, are alarmed, or just go outside.
The stairwell landings for the South tower are outside and have see-through-metal-grates for floors! OMGWTF!
None of the stairwells require key cards for the guest room floors.
The Glass elevators go from the lobby to the 15th floor, these elevators have a 6' diameter and a capacity of 3500lbs.
There are elevators for the North tower that go from the lobby to the 9th floor, these elevators are 6'x4' and have a capacity of 2500lbs.
There are 476 hotel rooms/suites in the entire building, so more than 1500 people can stay at the hotel every night!
The Exhibitor's Hall is still in the parking garage! hyuck hyuck!
The Exhibitor's hall has windows nearly the full length of every side.
The Exhibitor's Hall may not have restrooms (we're looking into this)
The parking garage has at least two levels worth of parking.
The Mexican restaurant/cantina doesn't open until the afternoon.
The restaurants can seat about 100 people each.
The swimming pool is only 8 feet deep at the deep end.
The Executive Meeting area has an entrance door that can be locked to secure all of those rooms at once.
The Ballroom Lobby and the Cascade Ballroom hallway feature a handful of well placed network drops (but we don't know the quality and accessibility of said network).
The Portland room looks like an older (and smaller) version of the Boardroom from the Hilton and is isolated from the rest of the convention space.
There ARE indeed bathrooms near the Front lobby, they are located between the front desk and the Pacific NW ballroom. The Executive Meeting center also has bathrooms of its own.
The concierge booth to the left of the entrance can give you a map of the nearby restaurants (and walgreen's, Safeway, Fedex/Kinkos, and liquor store).
Tri-met will be running the MAX every day until after 12am, so no-one will be forced to depend on C-Tran.
