I'll be following this thread cause when I asked my DH if he wanted to go to Houston for the quilt show, he said ok (decided there is much in quilting after I "made" him to to National Quilt Museum in Paducah!). We are staying downtown near one of the bus/trolly lines that cover the area near the Convention center. Flying down, so it will be a quick trip I'm not taking classes--spent all my class money this summer at the KCRegional Quilt Fest, but so excited to go! I got our room on Hotels.com and we are about 10 minute walk to the ConventionCenter--the hotels listed on the show website were either way too expensive or full already. But we wanted to be close enough to walk (since flying) without renting car and dealing with parking. so I basically added parking fees in with room fees as what you'd really be paying if you had car--seems like most of the downtown hotels only have valet parking and none that I saw had free parking. Of course, you live much closer!