BotCon 2010 date and location announced

[dirge]

Cool, Orlando. Nice & close to Tiger Woods...

There's an NBA team in town, sadly it's the offseason.

[Sleeve]

Received my confirmation email. I'm booked to check in at the Swan on the 23rd and check out on the 27th.

EDIT:

Saw this on TFW2005 -

"Response has been incredible! In less than 24 hours the room block is at 185% of capacity. The hotel will continue to take reservations until there is no availability left and then we will look at overflow properties outside of the Swan and Dolphin complex.

Currently there is availability at the Dolphin for every night except Wednesday the 23rd and Thursday the 24th. HOWEVER, there is plenty of space still available at the Swan for all nights. The Swan hotel is about 100 yards from the Dolphin and they share the same swimming pool complex. So, if the reservationist needs to put you in the Swan, don't worry, they are right next to each other and it will only take about 2 minutes longer to walk to the convention center."


Anyone thinking of going should book fast unless they want to wait until the next rund of hotel offers or make alternative accomodation plans.

[SeishinKibou]

ooOOoOOOO I might be able to come along to this one! But it really does depends on how much the flight and accom will cost. I'll have to go around my contacts and see where people are staying and suchhhh Disneyworllld Eyyyayy

[griffin]

Got a confirmation email as well (at 2.13am this morning), for the full 7 days, but I wonder how 'confirmed' it really is if they have an extra 85% reservations for the pre-arranged allotment.

I also think that these recent years of over-whelming first-day reservations, is from people like me who are just holding a room in case they go - and probably many of those original reservations are cancelled over the many months leading up to the convention. So I think it could be misleading to have all those rooms pre-booked, but we'll still see a record turnout.

[Sleeve]

ooOOoOOOO I might be able to come along to this one! But it really does depends on how much the flight and accom will cost. I'll have to go around my contacts and see where people are staying and suchhhh Disneyworllld Eyyyayy

So far my four nights accomodation is US$536. I made sure to request two beds for the purpose of having someone stay with me, and it's $25 extra each night for another person. Should I have someone stay with me, which is ideally what I'd like as it becomes a lot cheaper, the total cost is $636, so US$318 for each person. Depending on how the dollar sits, it's going to be a hell of a lot cheaper for me than this year.

Got a confirmation email as well (at 2.13am this morning), for the full 7 days, but I wonder how 'confirmed' it really is if they have an extra 85% reservations for the pre-arranged allotment.

I received a second email this morning after I rang them to rectify a mistake they'd made. They'd only booked me three nights, not four. About 15 minutes after I got off the phone from them the email came through and it was a different format to the first, with all the details about check-in and check-out and the extras I requested, costs, charges and everything.

[SeishinKibou]

So far my four nights accomodation is US$536. I made sure to request two beds for the purpose of having someone stay with me, and it's $25 extra each night for another person. Should I have someone stay with me, which is ideally what I'd like as it becomes a lot cheaper, the total cost is $636, so US$318 for each person. Depending on how the dollar sits, it's going to be a hell of a lot cheaper for me than this year.

Awese~ I'll have to do some budgeting calculations to see if I can afford the trip and still have money for SDCC 2011. Also the price of the flights will be another thing. But I think I can make the event. I just need to see if my career job gets a take off. Though I'm sure a weekend away isnt really going to cut into it too much. Save a seat~ =D

[Sleeve]

It's settled, I'm going back to Botcon.

[griffin]

I still only have the original reservation request. Maybe I should ring up and get another email sent like you did sleeve.

[Sleeve]

I still only have the original reservation request. Maybe I should ring up and get another email sent like you did sleeve.

I'd recommend it. Leaves a safe state of mind knowing you've definitely got the reservation. The Hilton buggered up my on the first hit this year as well, and along with all the problems I had getting the details right for my Primus package, I've learnt that when attending Botcon it's best to make a phonecall to ensure everything is in order. Knowing my luck I'll still end up having 'Mooloolava' as my location on my pass again.

[griffin]

An update shows a photo of where the two hotels (Dolphin and Swan) are located in relation to the convention centre - for anyone yet to book, or have already missed out on the closer (Dolphin) hotel.

http://www.botcon.com/BotCon10/

It is certainly a massive complex, and that's just the hotel side of things.
I just don't understand the point of having fancy, expensive hotels at Theme-parks, if you are only there for the theme-park. You won't be spending much 'awake-time' in the hotel, or using its features, and the only reason you are staying there is because it is the closest hotel to the theme-park (which you'd be spending most of your time at anyway). A theme-park hotel should be the cheapest, no-frills type of hotel imaginable, because its not like someone would stay at the hotel, just for the hotel itself and not be there for the theme-park.