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.

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[glasscannon.livejournal.com]

I'm still a bit of a DC noob ('09 was my first year), but for the life of me I can't understand why people put up with this shit from the Marriott, and indeed rush to book there.

My husband and I decided we wanted to go to DC'09 while DC'08 was in progress, so I read up on all the past posts on hotels, and booked a room at the Hyatt barely three weeks after con last year. I called later and requested a room in the Radius Tower, and we loved it. We didn't have to wait for an elevator once, not even during checkout -- having to use your room key to activate the elevator really helps. We had no trouble booking back in Sept '08, and they let us check in around 9am Friday morning (after an overnight flight and then waiting in line for our badges, oy). No noise problems, but we still felt like we were in the middle of all the action, about half way between all the stuff at the Hyatt and all the stuff at the Marriott.

I can only assume the wait for elevators at the Marriott was hellacious (I avoided them like the plague), but I'd be willing to bet that we could get from our room in the Radius Tower, down the elevator with no wait, through the food court and the hamster tubes and get to Sear faster than it would take most people staying at the Marriott to get an elevator and get to Sear.

Add to that the ease of getting reservations at the Hyatt both last year and this year (I've already booked a Radius room for DC'10, naturally) vs. Marriott's ridiculous Oct 1 firing pistol, and some of the unbelievable behavior that's been reported about the Marriott staff, and I can't really fathom why it's still first choice for a lot of people. So you have to use the tubes or cross the street to get there. Is it really worth this much trouble to get a room at the Marriott so you can avoid that walk?

Hyatt

[glowingdome.livejournal.com]

You and your husband need to meet us during D*Con 2010. It sounds like we would get along, and we can introduce to you to several friends that we typically only see there.

We host at least one party every year. Is there a way to PM on Live Journal? I really don't understand LJ very well.

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