If you are one of our dear Lift10 participants, and haven't yet booked your hotel room, please do so when you have a few minutes.

As an international convention hub, Geneva is always a very busy place. But this year Lift falls in the same week as a large international aviation expo with 10,000 participants. Therefore we recommend that you book your hotel as soon as possible.

We have put some rooms on hold in a selection of convenient hotels for you. These options expire a few weeks before the conference, depending on the hotel, so the quicker you book, the greater your choice :)

Below is a quick overview of the hotels. Geneva Tourism has set up a dedicated Lift10 booking website through which you can conveniently make your bookings. You can access these offers on this link in English and in French

Most of these hotels are close to the Geneva Main Station, which is a 10-minute tram ride from the conference venue (the CICG).

If you did not book your flight or accommodation so far, we invite you to contact our travel agency partner Yellow Balloon Tour. Please contact Namguk Kim, tomy9200@naver.com.

They will be glad to assist you with your booking. See you soon in Jeju :)

I guess I chose the wrong hotel. I went with Hotel Capitole, which is recommended on the LIFT site. I've been here about an hour and in that time the only good thing was the friendly check-in girl (Lili). Otherwise,

• The non-smoking room reeks of old cigarettes
• The WiFi isn't working (I'm writing this with the ethernet connection of one of the PCs in the lobby)
• The manager just had a LOUD heated argument with one of the guests who apparently ran up a large bill on his tab and doesn't have a credit card. I'm sitting here in the lobby as a guest of the hotel and there's another guest here too and the manager didn't care one bit. After the guy left (to try and get some money to settle his bill) the manager kept venting his frustrations. Very, very unprofessional and it just created a horrible atmosphere. I would at least have expected him to apologize from us. And now it seems that they're calling the police.

OK, so from my personal little experience, I would avoid Hotel Capitole.

I hope my stay improves.

I'd love to hear from you if you're happy with your hotel. I might ask for a refund and move to a different one tomorrow.

Update: And it only got worse: Techno music piping through the walls from the bar downstairs (I'm on the 2nd floor) until 2am was a nice finishing touch to the evening and a shower that alternated between boiling and freezing was a refreshing start to the morning.

Please, someone give me hotel recommendations! I gotta get out of there! :)