Doug is holding the ChipChat auction at Gold Coast on Monday; Convention doesn't start till Wednesday.

Just found that Gold Coast is offering 20% off rooms this summer. This is not an auction rate, but available to anyone if you use the code Y13BDRM.

Here is the reservation link (which you may have to copy and paste in to your browser address space):

https://www.bconnectedonline.com/resnetf.php?GCY13BDRM

Don't forget though that there is room tax and a small ($3) resort fee to add.