{"id":2010,"date":"2011-03-04T10:17:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T16:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2011-03-04T10:17:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T16:17:56","slug":"siggraph-2011-housing-reservations-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/siggraph-2011-housing-reservations-open\/","title":{"rendered":"SIGGRAPH 2011 Housing Reservations Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siggraph.org\/s2011\/for_attendees\/travel-housing\">get your reservation<\/a>.\u00a0Even if you think you have a 10% chance of going to SIGGRAPH 2011 this year, I recommend holding a room now.\u00a0You can cancel the reservation later at no cost until July 21.<\/p>\n<p>Me, I went with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripadvisor.com\/Hotel_Review-g154943-d184894-Reviews-Empire_Landmark_Hotel_and_Conference_Center-Vancouver_British_Columbia.html\">Empire Landmark Hotel<\/a>, as it was a good balance between price and distance (location also sounded good). The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripadvisor.com\/Hotel_Review-g154943-d182556-Reviews-YWCA_of_Vancouver-Vancouver_British_Columbia.html\">YWCA<\/a> was very tempting, though \u2013 really, if you\u2019re traveling alone (I\u2019m with 2 others), it\u2019s an incredible bargain ($99 a night) for a single person and has a noticeably higher rating than the Empire Landmark on TripAdvisor.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, also, if you\u2019re an interactive rendering type of person, don\u2019t forget that <a href=\"http:\/\/highperformancegraphics.org\/\">HPG 2011<\/a> is colocated with SIGGRAPH 2011 and starts on August 5 (a Friday), so you might want to book from August 4<sup>th<\/sup> on. You can always carve off days from your reservation later. That said, choosing August 4<sup>th<\/sup> does trim down the available hotels a bit. For me, HPG is a must-attend; when it was colocated with SIGGRAPH in 2009 (it alternates between SIGGRAPH in North America and EGSR in Europe) I found it offered <a href=\"http:\/\/kesen.realtimerendering.com\/hpg2009Papers.htm\">more relevant papers<\/a> than all of SIGGRAPH itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go get your reservation.\u00a0Even if you think you have a 10% chance of going to SIGGRAPH 2011 this year, I recommend holding a room now.\u00a0You can cancel the reservation later at no cost until July 21. Me, I went with the Empire Landmark Hotel, as it was a good balance between price and distance (location [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[136,218,9],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","tag-conference","tag-hpg","tag-siggraph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2012,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions\/2012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}