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nesbit37 posted:At what wait time does it seem the downtown hotels ran out? Seems roughly 90 minutes was the mark they ran out last year. It depends on what exactly you're looking for. I had to wait 50 minutes and there were no rooms with 2 beds connected to the convention center, but there were rooms with 1 king by the time I got in.
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W00t! Westin!
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Woo! Back in the CrownePlaza! wheeeew. And now I can relax until event registration opens.
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Got the Le Meridien for half of what our room was last year, waking up at 9am to be finished by 9:15 because I am a goddamn lottery superstar was pretty legit.
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Anyone have experience with the Omni? The guy in our group who got in fast enough said it was the only connected hotel left that had non king rooms
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Jan 25, 2016 01:35
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It's where the anime is.
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I've never stayed in the Omni, but I dream of getting to hang with anime crew
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Enjoy the Anime Ghetto. I'm sure the hotel is nice, but the hallways will be crowded with waifus
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I saw some people talking about waitlists on the Good Hotels. Can anyone tell me how to do that?
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:I saw some people talking about waitlists on the Good Hotels. Can anyone tell me how to do that? I thought they cut those out last year - you had to manually check the housing portal to see if any rooms were released.
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djfooboo posted:Depends on their policies for non-regular rentals. I'm not sure, but I know someone who found a place to stay via them last gencon and might be able to provide some info or get you in touch with the owner.
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Carteret posted:Enjoy the Anime Ghetto. I'm sure the hotel is nice, but the hallways will be crowded with waifus uhhh why was the omni not at the top of our hotel reg priority list
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Link43130 posted:Anyone have experience with the Omni? The guy in our group who got in fast enough said it was the only connected hotel left that had non king rooms The Omni is awesome, I've stayed there the last few years and again this year. Yes larpers will try to recruit you to do whatever. But there is an awesome bar and the weird con-goer stories from the bartender are hilarious. The basement clears out at night if you need gaming space, as does the second floor.
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Anime nerds, in my gaming con?!
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Jan 25, 2016 03:22
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Got my usual sheraton city center, i feel lucky about it since everyone in my group but her got an over 2 hour wait - hers was 45 minutes. As always it is like a massive stone weight is removed from my chest now that lodgings are secured.
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Double Agent posted:It depends on what exactly you're looking for. I had to wait 50 minutes and there were no rooms with 2 beds connected to the convention center, but there were rooms with 1 king by the time I got in. FYI, if you have to I would just take the king. I had to settle for a king last year in the westin but when I got there they I just asked and they switched me to two doubles no problem. Its not a guarantee, but if the hotel has empty rooms of the same price due to cancellations or people not wanting to pay rack rates for the empties I am sure most won't have a problem switching.
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8one6 posted:The "I should get first pick for hotel rooms" and the "Why should the VIGs get (benefit)" are always fun. I'm kind of liking the "Exhibiters aren't real people, they shouldn't be allowed to book downtown" argument I saw advanced on the forums.
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http://www.ibj.com/articles/55356-rising-occupancies-spur-downtown-hotel-building-boom In theory, another ~2000ish people downtown for next year, maybe? Hard guesses and prayers, though, who knows. Buildings!
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I got the Courtyard for my hotel. Is it any good? Can a Standard Double/Double host 3 people?
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Exmond posted:I got the Courtyard for my hotel. Is it any good? Can a Standard Double/Double host 3 people? Well there are many Courtyards on the list, but assuming the Courtyard Indianapolis Downtown, the Queen/Queen room allows up to 4 people per Marriott's website.
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Exmond posted:I got the Courtyard for my hotel. Is it any good? Can a Standard Double/Double host 3 people? You can host as many as you can cram in there per gen con standards
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Depending on how you stack them a Queen room can fit dozens, hundreds of people even.
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:Depending on how you stack them a Queen room can fit dozens, hundreds of people even. Just think if you cram a hundred you're probably paying about 2 dollars a night. Sweet deal
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I got a 1-King at Crowne Plaza.
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1-King at the Hilton for me, three blocks from the con. *nice* I only had a 44-minute wait for the room lottery, which was nice.
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Y'all got lucky, we had a group of 6 separate people and the earliest time slot we had was an hour forty-five  Airport hotels for everyone.
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I feel like they make the housing lottery worse every year. Surviving the worst of it makes you a Gen Con veteran. Followed my advice from last year and had a room at the Conrad Hilton around Christmas. You really have to get those rooms early, even with preferential treatment from the hotel chain, or they'll all be gone by the time you get around to it.
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Honestly it could be worse. Last year I spent more on a hotel 20-25 mins away from the con hall that was barebones as heck. This time I have a suite 10 mins away. I can live with that.
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LuiCypher posted:I feel like they make the housing lottery worse every year. Surviving the worst of it makes you a Gen Con veteran. Eh, it's a lottery. If you were in sub-1 hour-wait, you probably think the lottery is great. I can't think of how else they can deal with the supply-demand problem. Just pray Indy's lust for another Super Bowl gets a ton more downtown hotels! Which, going by the YOY increase in attendance...won't help.
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LuiCypher posted:I feel like they make the housing lottery worse every year. Surviving the worst of it makes you a Gen Con veteran. I think we book ours like 2-3 weeks after Gencon. However, that rate was $1770 instead of the $870 or so it was through the lottery. Still worth it, but it's nice to win the lotto and save like $225 per roomie  This is our first year winning the lotto unfortunately. We keep talking about trying to VIG it up but it's like impossible to get VIG nowadays.
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Sigma-X posted:...We keep talking about trying to VIG it up but it's like impossible to get VIG nowadays. There's a better chance of getting one in 2017. A few of the VIGs are bitching about the change to the companion pass limit and are threatening to drop their vig badge. These people are loving morons.
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You have to win a different lottery to VIG it up. I tried and failed this year. It's a lot of money, but at least you are basically guaranteed to get your hotel of choice.
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Hey Quarex, should we just transform this thread into the perpetual gen con thread instead of a new one each year?
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nesbit37 posted:Hey Quarex, should we just transform this thread into the perpetual gen con thread instead of a new one each year? Yeah I vote this. I may have spent the past 4 days setting up an automatic system for checking the hotel page for a downtown hotel and alert me when/if one pops up. If you keep checking there's pretty regularly 5-7 mile hotels opening up!
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:Yeah I vote this. I put the idea into the ether for some friends and couldn't get anyone to do it for me for free. I manually refreshed for a while, but, that's for the birds.
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:Yeah I vote this. Offer your services to the public, charge a finder's fee, pay for Gencon. edit: free bag of strokeweed with every room
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If anyone is serious about that, pm me. I'll probably post in the thread whenever <10 mile hotels open
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So the discussion about "OMG we have to move Gen Con!!!!1!11!!ELEVENTY" has started up again on the gen con forums and it reminded me of the episode my podcast did about the subject (as part of a larger discussion). So if you want to listen to me and my friends make fun of midwest towns this link should skip the SB101 discussion we had with a local reverend.
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The Marriott East just opened up. 10 miles from the ICC.
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