Anyone planning on attending the NFL Draft?

[Cincinnati_Kid]

I'm definitely not going but where do they come up with these numbers? I've mostly read 300,000 not 5. Most people attending will be locals, not visitors to the area. There are about 5,000 hotel rooms downtown and 40-45,000 in the burbs. Most of the suburban hotels have lots of rooms available at their regular rates so if they are from elsewhere they must be camping.

Oh, I agree with you. The news media was forecasting those numbers. They are just hyped up promoting the city, I guess because Detroit is in the sporting world spotlight these next couple of months, because of the NCAA Tournament games this weekend here, and the draft. And to your point, while they have added a few new hotels recently, I don't think they have enough space downtown to accomodate all those people.

[slick]

Don't forget the gazillions of dollars they will bring~!