$)#&* GenCon Indy Hotels

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

Sigh. We have a hotel room for GenCon Indy, but totally no thanks to the system in place. Wasn't the idea that Indy had more than enough space and to spare?

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[zrealm.livejournal.com]

They've learned, a while ago, that this wasn't really true - there are rumours that they want to move again as soon as they can (but who knows if they can find somewhere better!)

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how untrue it is. When Josh and I missed getting official hotelspace in Milwaukee, a friend clued us into a non-convention hotel. Raised the price, but it was available.

In 2005, we made the decision to attend GenCon fairly late. Booked in July, I think. We got the Hyatt Regency. Now, we had to pay substantially more, but the room was available. This means that the convention didn't lock down all of the rooms in that hotel.

Same thing this year. When everything filled in the first ten minutes to an hour, everything close, I mean, we used other channels. We didn't do the Hyatt Regency this year, but we could have, just at a higher price than the higher price we're currently paying.

I don't know how these things work for conventions. Maybe the hotels won't let them book more than a certain number of rooms.

[jl8e]

Apparently they make more rooms available at the con rate over time. (Gavin says he's never had a problem getting con-rate rooms later.)

Assuming canceling your current reservation won't be a problem, you might want to try again later.