Anyone from Omaha/Kansas City area planning on coming?

[omahastar.livejournal.com]

I've looked into flying down, and the prices are ridiculously expensive, so this year I am planning on driving from Omaha to the con.

I'll be arriving in Atlanta on Thursday, leaving Tuesday.

Is there anyone planning on coming who would like to ride along and chip in on gas?

Comments

try priceline

[frankkmiller.livejournal.com]

I just got a $200 hotel room in Chicago for $70. I can't recommend these guys enough.

Re: try priceline

[rosewalker.livejournal.com]

Do you use priceline a lot? If so, I'm wondering how it's been for you. I just used it for the first time in March for a trip to Chicago. We got a room at the Drake for $89... and I'm pretty sure we got stuck with the extra-crappy room they won't sell to anyone but their super cheap priceline customers (from the floorplan, it was clearly the smallest room on the floor, the thermostat didn't work, there were no sheets on the bed, which was a queen & not a king like had requested, and it was right next to the elevators). It was the worst hotel experience of my life. When we called to complain we were told we could pay a fee to upgrade to a *standard* king room... as if I was going to give them any more money, we already paid an extra $20 to check in an hour early.

Er, sorry for the hijack, I'm just wondering if I just had really crappy luck, or if my experience was typical. It seems like priceline has the best deals but I don't want a repeat of that experience! (And for the record, we were super nice & polite to the front desk guy, who was super nice to us until he pulled up our reservation and then suddenly cooled off about a hundred degrees).

I started using it because of Dragoncon

[frankkmiller.livejournal.com]

and have never had any bad luck. We've used it for the past 4 years. Now I use it for family trips and car rentals when I need one. This year we got some damn nice hotels for $60, and the hotel we're staying in on Thursday night in Buckhead (I gave up on the whole get-my-badge-on-thursday thing) was only $25 .. and it's a nice hotel.

But, you can't back out. I've just run into some people over the years who say they can't make dragoncon because they're spending so much on hotel rooms and you really can play it cheap.

Re: try priceline

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

We used it a lot for vacations last year and had 90% good luck. The one time it failed dramatically, we were checking into a hotel late and the clerk couldn't access the automated reservation system, so we had to prepay full rate and then be reimbursed/credited in the morning when the system was available. We didn't know exactly what town we would be sleeping in (it was a mid-trip stop), so if you avoid that it's pretty solid.