There is no official "host hotel" for LDRS 29.  You may stay anywhere you want, including camping on the lake bed.  (The banquet is not being held at a hotel this year; instead, we're holding it at a banquet facility called the Sundowner Ranch, which is just a few miles west of the lake bed, within sight of the launch site.)

We spoke to several hotels/motels in the area, and the "discounted" room rates that they quoted us were higher than what you could get, without any special discount, at the same places via online travel web sites.

Our advice for the best deal would be to use your favorite travel reservation web site to search for places to stay in Apple Valley, Victorville, Barstow, or Big Bear Lake, CA.  All four areas are roughly the same drive time from the lake bed (between approximately 30 and 45 minutes), and there are a fairly wide variety of places to stay, suiting most price ranges and comfort and amenity levels.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Lucerne+Dry+Lake+CA&t=h&z=9 is a map that shows the launch site in relation to surrounding cities.  As you can see, Barstow is about 45 minutes straight north on Highway 247 (which eventually becomes known as Barstow Road).  Apple Valley and Victorville are west of the launch site, about 30-45 minutes off Highway 18 and Bear Valley Road.  Big Bear Lake is about 30-45 minutes south of the launch site (and about 20 degrees cooler); just follow Highway 18 south from the Lucerne Valley Market, and up into the mountains.

There are two motels actually in Lucerne Valley: the Ace Motel, and the Portal Motel.  The ROC Board makes no recommendations whatsoever regarding these two facilities, save to note that we have been told that they may not be quite up to the high standards set by Bruno's famous "country club" in Gerlach, NV.  Caveat emptor.