Lake Placid 2009 - What can I do NOW for lodging?

Those that are staying there this year get first dibs on the same place. There are two brokers that I found that had many places to rent but they were horrible at getting back to us as they are swamped.  The condo going price I found for '08 was like $2500+ for a week most were more like $3200+. Farther away the cheaper it was.

Lots of folks have multiple racers stay in a bigger place and split the cost.

My family is 7 so no sharing for us. I opted to stay farther out to save money. We are staying out about 10 miles on the bike course but it was about 40% of staying closer. Saving money and being able to cook was more important to us staying close.

Last year when we went to watch we stayed 60+ miles away and took the shuttle bus from the other end of Lake Placid which was fine.

My suggestion is to set a budget and start looking around. I found a website that had link to many places I think from the IMLP website and I did a lot of searching before hand. If you could look around and talk to folks the couple of days before the race you might have a leg up.