Lodging

We have reserved essentially the entire hotel, consisting of ~63 rooms and ~47 suites, which cost $79/night and $99/night, respectively.  They are also holding 25 rooms for the two days following our meeting for those who plan to attend the scimon training session. The hotel rooms are quite nice for what they charge as compared with many other local hotels.  Perhaps people who double up on rooms might want the "double suites."  The hotel and conference center are next to each other, and within walking distance of restaurants and other businesses, so it is entirely possible to take a taxi from the airport and avoid paying for a rental car.

Update:

The deadline for these held rooms (July 24), as well as the extension to the deadline (July 31) have come and gone, so it is hit-or-miss for rooms at Lod Cook.  Feel free to give it a try (though price and availability are uncertain), or check out the lists below for other hotel options.

To try Lod Cook, please call 1-225-388-1007 or 1-866-610-COOK.  In all likelihood, you will be greeted by an answering machine.  It will invite you to use their web site to make a reservation; please ignore this, as you cannot get the good rates we've arranged online.  Then you may be tempted to just call back to get a human, which may be quite time-consuming.  Instead, it may be best to just leave them a message with your phone number; they will call you back.
It is about a 15 minute walk from the Physics building to the site of the hotel and conference center.  So most people can avoid renting cars even if you are attending a face-to-face meeting.  Parking over the weekend on campus is available for face-to-face folks.  Parking at the conference center/hotel is free and plentiful during the entire conference.

If you cannot get through to make your booking, please call or send an email to our group secretary, Karen Richard at 1-225-578-1194 or karen@phys.lsu.edu.  If you're really stuck, please get in touch with Joe Giaime or Gabriela Gonzalez.  Thanks again for your patience.

• The Lod Cook Hotel and Conference Center.  (But please remember you should not use their on-line reservation system!)
  

Other Hotels

Here are some other hotels, for the face-to-face meetings and for when the Cook Hotel is full:

• A list of hotels from the Baton Rouge Convention Bureau (with map)
• Here are some more hotel options: Ask for the "LSU Rate" (Thanks! Marie) from these hotels, as you "will be attending a scientific conference on the LSU campus"
  • Comfort Suites - (225) 923-3377, 3045 Valley Creek Dr. (I-10 @ College Dr. off Bennington Ave.) Baton Rouge, LA. $109-119/night (ask about their LSU rate)
  • LaQuinta Inn - (225) 924-9600, 2333 S. Acadian Thruway (I-10 @ Acadian Thruway), Baton Rouge, LA. (ask about their LSU rate)
  • Courtyard by Marriott - (225) 924-6400, 2421 S. Acadian Thruway (I-10@ Acadian Thruway), Baton Rouge, LA. (LSU Rate - $89/night)
  • Best Western Richmond Suites - (225) 924-6500, 5668 Hilton Ave. (I-10@ College Dr.), Baton Rouge, LA
  • Chase Suites by Woodfin - (225) 927-5630, 5522 Corporate Blvd. (I-10 @ College Dr.), Baton Rouge, LA
  • Homewood Suites by Hilton - (225) 927-1700, 5860 Corporate Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA