Worst Texas Democratic Party Convention ever
The Alamodome is not easy walking distance from any of the hotels and they only had buses in the morning but not at night. You had to take a cab to get back to the hotel. The food court had one vendor who ran out of food on Saturday The lines were very very long.
The Alamodome is not set up for meetings. There were a limited number of elevators and most of the caucuses and meeting were on the upper floors with bad access and poor maps.
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You are a trooper!
it's almost as if they said "Hey! Let's have the convention in the Alamodome!" then forgot all about it until the day before.
Disability caucus on the top floor, far away from the elevators, & the closest access was through the VIP "no peons allowed" zone. Someone attempted to make me turn around & walk aaaaalllll the way around the building, when I could see my meeting "room" (I will use the term very loosely; it was more of an open area in a very noisy spot with a bunch of chairs crammed in) on the other side of some curtains. Not today, Satan. Not today.
Absolutely no signage or directions to show you how to get to the actual convention floor & the "map" included in the program led you to the backstage area. 
Putting the entrance to the floor ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DAMN BUILDING.
No water. No food. Tons of closed concession stands (but they did start opening up later. I guess enough people bitched about it.)
How this place passes the ADA standards I'll never know. I was so worn out by the end of the day, I had to be helped to my friend's car, something I haven't needed for months now. My legs & back ache & I'm having problems walking again, problems I thought I had overcome.
Bottomline: The space was way too big. There were no actual rooms to hold caucuses, so all of them were extremely noisy. No signage to tell you where to go. Useless, unmarked maps in the program. Caucuses spread out all over everywhere. I ended up staying for a caucus I wasn't interested in simply because it was where my SD caucus was going to be held.
Fortunately, one of the rules passed by the Rules Committee is a rule stating that the entire ADA applies to all future Democratic conventions, events, headquarters, etc.
We'll never become a purple, much less blue state without competent and dedicated leaders.
I roomed with my barely teenage daughter. Perhaps you remember her? She was surveying everyone on whether they liked cake or pie better. Then they would ask her about politics and folks would be shocked when she could discourse at length! She collected a whole purse full of political pins that way.
Glad you got a great deal on your room!
