Marriott

[destinyfroste.livejournal.com]

Alright, I just spoke with a very helpful gentleman at PassKey who told me:

#1 - The block sold out in 35 minutes
#2 - Only a few more rooms were opened up and those sold out immediately
#3 - The entire hotel is sold out.

Lovely. Alright all you room horders...start canceling and give the rest of us a chance! ;)

Seriously though, I am sure there will be a lot of room juggling as people find roommates and people cancel multiple rooms. There is also a chance of cancellations depending on when Star Wars Celebration V is held...it might be in August, which means a lot of the Star Wars fans will have to choose one or the other and as DCon is every year but Celebration is only once every...so many years...Celebration is looking like the choice for most of them.

Comments

[dizzydame.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's good to know. Probably too expensive for me but at least something to throw out to the roommates. Thank you for passing that along.

[sushithegreat.livejournal.com]

Don't call, try using the Marriott's website:

http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/atlmq-atlanta-marriott-marquis/

[ubiquitous-a.livejournal.com]

Yeah, actually if you do the points thing, you can get it cheaper than $379/nt.

That category of Marriott (cat. 4) costs approx. 20,000 points a night if you use points to pay for a room. 4 nights is 80,000 points. You can buy points at a rate of $12.50 per 1,000 points, which brings it to just about $250 or so, per night.

You have to make the reservation with them knowing you're intending to "buy" the room with points. It actually ends up being even cheaper, since if you're paying in points, you don't also have to pay the taxes on the room (they're included).

Anyway, that's another route you can check. There certainly will be a limited number of rooms available for reservations that way, but it's perhaps a slightly more creative way of snagging a room at a realtively reasonable rate. :)