aaron c beals

* The Parc 55 hotel is well-placed in Union Square, with close access to both shopping and the Moscone convention center. It’s an older hotel, but you wouldn’t know it from the inside. It appears to have been redone recently. The room is nice-sized and very clean. The bed is huge and comfortable.

* The folks at the hotels Hertz/concierge desk are pretty rude. Unless you need to rent a car, steer clear.

* Internet access at the hotel _sucks_. It costs $15/day and the connections are terrible. You have to pay per-MAC, not per-room or even per-computer… So if you want wireless, you can only use wireless, and if you want wired, you can only use the wired. The wireless is only 802.11b and performs much worse than that, and the wired isn’t much better.