Hi Nolelover- Enjoy your trip. When you check-in they will ask if you want to self park and charge you 6.00 per day to do so. Your room key will operate the gate at the parking lot. Sometimes it won't open the gate to enter, just take a ticket, but it always open the gate to leave. You can park in the lot for valet park, it's the lot on your right as you leave the front of the hotel. They have an elevator on that side and it seems more open spots then the self park lot, don't be fooled by the "lot is full sign". The only thing full of it is the sign. Last, they have bell service and then a separate person to bring all your stuff to your room. Request a room near an elevator, the hotel goes on forever, and there's only 1 bank of elevators.