Tried to get a room, got that damn res_111 error. tried several times again after that, only to get to confimation only to be told some of the night/rooms were now sold out.
Now everything is gone.
It's a really shitty website, any reservations system with half a brain holds your allocation until you complete the booking or quit (or times out after say, 3 minutes). What a mess.
Easy time over here. Had the credit card info ready to cut-and-paste and got everything lined up by 10:02. Even had two browsers open but only needed the one. I guess good luck has to strike eventually ;)
Went pretty smoothly this year, thankfully, but of course rooms got snapped up quickly. Having to take a wild guess at what reservation type to choose (what??) certainly made it a more exciting situation. I ended up trying several right at 7:01, finally decided 3 Night Stay was the way to go, then booked four nights (Thursday-Monday) under that code. Something they could have warned us about in advance, at the very least.
As of 10:23am Eastern, for 3 Night Stay option, Thursday-Monday, two people, I'm still seeing Radius one-queen rooms available. The Radius is great if it's just you and one other person, no elevator wait, great location, all that. That is, of course, if you can get the page to load at all. :P
So, in the past has anyone seen them open up more rooms later or is this it. If you didn't get one you just have to wait and see if someone cancels?? and if thats the case, do you just periodically call the hotel or do you go back to passkey? thanks for any help. I was on at 10 and it told me sold out immediatly
I didn't trust the time so I kept trying the site & it would reload after 30 seconds & tell you to come back. Kept doing that knowing it would let me in at the right time & at the worse I would be 29 seconds into the event. Which it finally let me in. But didn't think to have my info so I could cut & paste. So it took almost 3 minutes to get to the reserve button. Which I did & it sent me into the "spin" cycle. Was tempted to hit the button again but didn't. Remained in that for 2 minutes & then it gave me the error message that 4 nights were booked. Tried for 3 nights but then the room wasn't available. Refreshed again & all the rooms except one type were gone. I gave up at that point. Can anyone tell me if I should of hit the reserve again after I was in the spin mode for more than 30 seconds. I can't believe the site doesn't do like concert sites & hold it until timed out or such. Guess I will try for the Marriott now. Don't want to stress out all year. Decided to do this early this year but this is stressful too!
i got through the passkey fine and got my room, which is exciting, though i still don't have the confirmation email. but I have the confirmation code they gave me on the last page, so i'm going to give them until this afternoon before i start calling trying to figure out what's going on. wednesday - monday, yay!
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Date: 2012-10-02 02:09 pm (UTC)It's amazing that they can book that entire hotel in less than 6 seconds...
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Date: 2012-10-02 02:15 pm (UTC)Now everything is gone.
It's a really shitty website, any reservations system with half a brain holds your allocation until you complete the booking or quit (or times out after say, 3 minutes). What a mess.
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Date: 2012-10-02 02:24 pm (UTC)As of 10:23am Eastern, for 3 Night Stay option, Thursday-Monday, two people, I'm still seeing Radius one-queen rooms available. The Radius is great if it's just you and one other person, no elevator wait, great location, all that. That is, of course, if you can get the page to load at all. :P
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Date: 2012-10-02 02:55 pm (UTC)thanks for any help. I was on at 10 and it told me sold out immediatly
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