Kumoricon hotel?

[algeh]

According to the Kumoricon webpage, they're really hurting for people to book more hotel rooms, so the hotel doesn't get mad. It's $89 per night for up to 6 people in a room. I'm all about having a crash room if I can get at least 3 other people to say yes so it's only about $45 per person (plux tax) for the weekend. 6 people for the $30/person level would be even better. I'm willing to crash on the floor one night but not both, unless the the other people staying let me pay less money for the room in exchange for me taking the floor, in which case I'm fine with the floor both nights. However, this would need to be worked out TODAY because the room rate expires tomorrow. Anyone in? I'll probably call xiara and greatblondelf tonight if you two don't comment, so please comment even if it's "no" to avoid phone calls. Also, pre-reg ends the 14th, so if you're going, now's a good time to fill that out.

Comments

[giapet.livejournal.com]

I'll be up for it-- especially if we can get more than 3 (I'm in cheap-mode). I'm not pre-registering because I won't really have money until school starts, but I can promise now that if you tell me when you're booking the hotel, I'll pay a share even if something crazy happens and I don't end up going (I had a crash room on my credit card for a con once, and then *half* of the people didn't show up for the first night *without* telling us, and they refused to pay for the first night, so I'm not going to pull that shit on anyone).

Also, I'm willing to sleep on the floor. :D

[algeh]

Conclusion: screw it, they don't have any rooms with 2 beds in them left at the con rate. I was mostly willing to spend money on this level because the con said it was hurting for booked rooms, but if all the doubles are gone then that's either not true or someone was very dumb in explaining what kind of rooms anime con goers want, and either way it's not my fault and I'm sure as hell not going to stuff 6 people in a one bed room. (The Marriott also has a really annoying method of determining this, where they give you a page with a long list of "room preferences", which may or may not be available at all at the convention rate and/or already all booked, and then yells at you on the next page that your selection won't work and you have to go do it again until you've tried every stupid selection through brute force and ignorance rather than just giving you the actually available options to choose from, but that's another rant.)

[giapet.livejournal.com]

Well, how many can go in one bedroom and how much do they cost? Just out of curiosity.

[greatblondelf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it seems like we'd have to do it today, anyhow......then again, I didn't mind the floor......nor do I mind sleeping next to people, really......

then again, it sounds like the heat is off the con to "get people into the hotel."

[algeh]

Same price as 2 queens...it just isn't worth it to me to pay that much money for 4-6 people vs one bed.

[algeh]

Same price and number of people. If it were cheaper, I'd do it, but the only way that Sean could go is if he and Siobhan could each only pay $30, so we'd really need 6 people.

[greatblondelf.livejournal.com]

well, I'm pre-registering now-ish, and I think the idea of getting a room for at least one of the nights would be good. I should probably ask Liz, since I think she'll be coming along too, and ask how she feels abotu both nights, since, though not broke, we're not loaded at the moment either. How many people would that be in all? is anyone else coming? Furthermore, is there the chance you'd want to get still more people and (slightly) overload with, say, seven people? I'm not sure if chuck is going or not, but I could try to find out......

And I suppose I'm fine sleeping on the floor, but if they give us a big bed, or two smaller ones, we might all be able to fit into them. :)

[algeh]

I wouldn't want to overload the room, since I don't want to have to do any silly sneaking-around behaviors, so no more than 6. If Gia and I are both coming (which we will given at least one additional person to make 3 total, since that's her cutoff point), that leaves 4 slots for you and your entourage. It's $89*2=$180 for the weekend, plus tax. If it were 3 people, that makes $60 each + tax for the weekend, $45 each + tax for 4. If there are 5 or 6, I want to split it differently for floor vs. bed people, thinking $20 for floor people, which makes it $40 each for 5 or $35 each for 6 for those who get beds (Gia has called first chance at being a "floor person"). If 3 people want to share a bed, they can figure out how to distribute their total $90 cost amongst themselves. (The room would have 2 queen beds assuming they have any of that type of room left, failing that 2 doubles, failing that 1 king and we see how many people fit on it at once, I guess, but they still had 2 queen bed type rooms available this morning so I figure we could still get that kind.) I need to know tonight, though, since I have to make reservations in the morning if I'm doing it at all. I'm planning to wait on collecting the money until the con since I trust y'all, but if you say you're going then I'll want your share even if plans change since it'll be booked on my credit card.

[algeh]

Conclusion: screw it, they don't have any rooms with 2 beds in them left at the con rate. I was mostly willing to spend money on this level because the con said it was hurting for booked rooms, but if all the doubles are gone then that's either not true or someone was very dumb in explaining what kind of rooms anime con goers want, and either way it's not my fault and I'm sure as hell not going to stuff 6 people in a one bed room. (The Marriott also has a really annoying method of determining this, where they give you a page with a long list of "room preferences", which may or may not be available at all at the convention rate and/or already all booked, and then yells at you on the next page that your selection won't work and you have to go do it again until you've tried every stupid selection through brute force and ignorance rather than just giving you the actually available options to choose from, but that's another rant.)

[(Anonymous)]

Hi, I'm Peter, from Kumoricon, and I randomly googled to this page. I just wanted to respond honestly to your post: at that point in time, we asked the hotel for how many rooms in the kumoricon area people had reserved, and it was very low, low enough to worry we would be paying thousands of dollars in penalties. In the process of three days, mostly unbeknownst to us, because the hotel doesn't tell us anything unless we ask, and we get them on the phone, we made our number, because people waited until the last minute to book hotel rooms.

So basically, we encourage everyone to book hotels early, because it keeps us from living in abject fear :-)

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Ah. Good to know. In the end, I'm kind of glad we didn't get a room, since with the con ending at midnight each night no one was ever really ready to call it a night when we came home from the con, and so we probably would have gotten in trouble for noise stuff anyway. I'm glad you managed to make your room quota, though.