We are bringing all our guys and looking at hotel costs it would have run into a LOT of money,
we then had the idea of looking at rental houses, we found one that sleeps 18 ! has things like a pool table, plasma tv, pool hottub internetc ect for $2000 for the entire week.

if you are bringing a bunch you may want to look at this as a much cheaper alternative to the hiked hotel rates due to all the conventions