10 Best Geek Hotels

I'm personally partial to pretty much any of the W hotel chain for outright geek cred (and I know a number of smaller hotels with plenty of techie capabilities as well), but HotelChatter went above and beyond in identifying which hotels are truly the best for geeks. This is much bigger than free Wi-Fi and a minibar stocked with Jolt cola, as the site notes. A true geek hotel has to speak to the very heart of nerditude. And some of the hotels on the list are hard not to be awestruck over.

#1 on the list is New York's Tribeca Grand, which has" premium rooms outfitted with the digital pioneer Apple's latest multimedia technology." The rooms include an Apple G5 PC, cameras, microphones, wireless gear, and an iPod and Bose SoundDock. You flew all the way to Manhattan and, fortunately for you, you won't have to leave your hotel room! Check out the YouTube video of the room on the HotelChatter site (linked in the first paragraph).

Some of the other hotels on the list are more about the geek in you than the technophile: The Hotel @ MIT has robots in the lobby, and New Zealand's Woodlyn Park is done up as a hobbit hole. Perhaps the coolest of all is Tunisia's Sidi Driss, a sunken cave in the desert that includes some of the buildings from Star Wars' Tatooine set, where you can stay for US$12.30 a night.

The one hotel on the list I can attest is not a real geek mecca is the Las Vegas Wynn, which was nothing but trouble during my recent stay there. From malfunctioning air conditioning to room keys that just didn't work, it was the geek hotel equivalent of Windows Millennium Edition.

LINK: Best Geek Hotels in the World