Dragon Con- Sold out

POSTED BY: nvghostrider
UPDATED: Friday, October 2, 2009 15:24
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NVGHOSTRIDER

Thursday, October 1, 2009 2:49 PM

Well the Marriott sold out this morning at 7:30 am...

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JAYNESGAL

Thursday, October 1, 2009 3:17 PM

Glad I got my rooms booked at the Hyatt a few weeks ago....

You can't take the sky from me....

SAB39

Thursday, October 1, 2009 5:10 PM

I tried at about 9, I KNEW I should have tried at midnight :( I wonder if they have any kind of waiting list for cancellations...

MSA

Thursday, October 1, 2009 6:49 PM

I'd check forums and boards to see if anyone has a cancellation... also 60 days prior to D*C the Hyatt is requiring payment so a lot of rooms may suddenly become available...

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

SAB39

Thursday, October 1, 2009 6:54 PM

Sounds like a plan, thanks :) Any particular forums you'd suggest (other than FFF.net)?

I'd really like to be in the Marriott because that seems to be where the majority of things I'm interested in are at every year, but I guess beggars can't be choosers...

RALLEM

Thursday, October 1, 2009 7:05 PM

While Dragon con sounds like a fun experience to attend, I don't think I like the spirit of the event, if people are going to reserve rooms in advance like that. It is possible someone may have reserved a room for themselves, but I suspect most of the reservations were made just so others can't get the rooms. All of the rooms in a hotel booking out in fifteen minutes sounds very suspicious to me.

http://www.swyzzlestyx.com/index.html

SAB39

Thursday, October 1, 2009 7:08 PM

Not at all - the other three host hotels have been available (and sold out) for almost a month, and by the time the actual event happens there are about ten other hotels which will also be full of con attendees. So there have been several hotels' worth of people all of whom knew that the last remaining host hotel was going to open its bookings on Oct 1 and that they would likely sell out fast.

Even so I don't think it sold out in 15 minutes - I'm presuming the bookings opened at midnight and if they didn't sell out until 7:30 then that's actually longer than I would have expected it to take.

MSA

Thursday, October 1, 2009 8:33 PM

The reason reservations fill up so fast is that these icky football fans who have some major game during the same time period figured out about Dragon Con's nicer rates... so they jump our reservations. There's no way to force someone to prove they are part of Dragon Con to get the rate so we're kind of SOL.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

AURAPTOR

Thursday, October 1, 2009 9:13 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
The reason reservations fill up so fast is that these icky football fans who have some major game during the same time period figured out about Dragon Con's nicer rates... so they jump our reservations. There's no way to force someone to prove they are part of Dragon Con to get the rate so we're kind of SOL.

While I happen to be a fan of college football, I have to give props to the DC fans for thinking so far in advance. For the football game, held at the GA Dome that same weekend, teams will change each year ( Between the SEC and ACC ) but DC will ALWAYS have the same fun filled folks, year in and year out.

Rallem, I'd wish you'd rethink your cynical views on why folks are getting rooms so far in advance. I've been to DC twice, and I HIGHLY recommend it for anyone even remotely interested in Sci-Fi and the like. Staying in the participating hotels gives fans a great opportunity to be IN on most of the fun, room parties, etc...

The T.Rex they call JANE!

HELL'S KITTEN

Thursday, October 1, 2009 9:31 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
The reason reservations fill up so fast is that these icky football fans who have some major game during the same time period figured out about Dragon Con's nicer rates... so they jump our reservations.

...eh, that's debatable.
Don't forget that your own "browncoat buddies"
also decide to place reservations for entire blocks of rooms (e.g. 15-20 rooms),
thereby fucking over the rest of us. ^__^

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