the_gneech: (Kero Bluestreak)
the_gneech ([personal profile] the_gneech) wrote2007-07-16 10:13 am
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WTF Hotel

What's the deal with con hotels being sold out seven months out? That's just nuts.

Anyway, for those of you who don't know, the Further Confusion hotel is sold out and has been for a couple of weeks now. Not just the con block, mind you, but the entire friggin' hotel right down to the janitorial closets. There is an overflow hotel a few blocks away, which is a Holiday Inn, but those are always such an unknown quantity that I didn't want to mess with it.

So I found a Courtyard by Marriott, which is rapidly becoming my favorite option for hotellage, just about the same distance as the overflow hotel but straight up Technology Drive -- Starbucks is right between the two, in fact, and as how I pretty much always stop in there in the mornings at FC anyway, it doesn't really add anything to my morning pre-con walk.

It does make it harder to stash stuff in my room or stop back in the room for a quick nap, but usually at FC I don't do that as much anyway.

Maybe I should book my room for next AnthroCon now. ¬.¬

-The Gneech

[identity profile] the-gneech.livejournal.com 2007-07-16 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
So are we talking about room scalpers, or what?

-TG

[identity profile] duncandahusky.livejournal.com 2007-07-16 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it's just people seeing what's going on with Anthrocon and Further Confusion and assuming the same is going to happen at Midwest FurFest. This is a wonderful self-fulfilling prophesy, since this creates the very run on rooms that they were worried about. As for the discrepancy between room reservations and registration numbers, I chalk that up to the fact that it costs nothing to reserve a room, but $120 or $30 (depending on membership level) to register for the convention. People figure they can go ahead and get their room reservation in now, then register at their leisure.

At least, that's my speculation. I suppose scalping is a theoretical possibility, but I have yet to see any evidence of something like that happening at any furry convention that I know of.

[identity profile] the-gneech.livejournal.com 2007-07-16 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, I just wanted to make sure I understood you. :)

-TG