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jerseydevil said:
Morgan Spurlock COMIC-CON EPISODE IV: A FAN


did the hotel dance this morning...we shall see what turns up.
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SmytheKing said:
Same here. Put down for like six of them. Hopefully I get one. Not really sure what the odds are with this since it's the first time I've done it this way. Got on right at 9am so hopefully better than others.....maybe?
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Last year we got assigned hotels that weren't even on our choice list. We wait listed for better and Kingsqueen was persistent and we wound up with a really great hotel. So, expect the worst but know that it's not necessarily what your final result will be.
 
Not that anyone is sweating it yet...it would appear that once again the powers that be promised something they could not deliver. The hotel choice confirmation emails said that the selection notices would go out no later than...well, today. Judging by the folks freaking out on their facebook page NOBODY has received any notification of choices/request for deposit emails yet.
 
here was my response...

Dear Comic-Con Guest,



Thank you for submitting your housing request with Travel Planners.



Unfortunately, at the time your request was processed, there was no more inventory that met your selected criteria.



General Comic-Con 2012 Housing will re-open on April 10, 9AM PT. If you would like to check up-to-date official Comic-Con hotel availability, rates and information, please visit Welcome to Comic-Con International :: Up Next...WonderCon 2012 - March 16-18 's housing page at that time.



Kindest Regards,
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**** you. Seriously. I have no fear that we will get something, but this is just another example of a **** system getting worse/not better.
 
jerseydevil said:
here was my response...



**** you. Seriously. I have no fear that we will get something, but this is just another example of a **** system getting worse/not better.
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yeah. much like i said last year, you have a group of people running this huge thing like it's not a huge thing. i was fortunate that I ended up getting a place (not on my list and a mile out but it's something), but they really really REALLY need to get their **** together. this is unacceptable at this point. it's been three years of them screwing something up in some fashion or other and it's really a shame. they either need new people running it, or someone to recognize that things are out of control.
 
Yeah, I am pretty disgusted with the whole affair. I was so relieved after waiting for 5 hours and stressing the hell out with the reward of getting tickets at the con for this year. Thought all my troubles were over. And now, the frigging hotels are as hard to get as the tickets if not more so. Seems pretty ridiculous. I would imagine that a lot of ticket holders do not have rooms. How can that be? They should have more than enough rooms to go around...it's not as if they do not know what the capacity is. It really is a new cluster**** every year. The general excuse is 'hey, they are trying' well it's once a year. There isn't a lot of room for trial and error. You are right...it's not a mom and pop affair anymore, something that is apparently lost on the powers that be.
 
jerseydevil said:
Yeah, I am pretty disgusted with the whole affair. I was so relieved after waiting for 5 hours and stressing the hell out with the reward of getting tickets at the con for this year. Thought all my troubles were over. And now, the frigging hotels are as hard to get as the tickets if not more so. Seems pretty ridiculous. I would imagine that a lot of ticket holders do not have rooms. How can that be? They should have more than enough rooms to go around...it's not as if they do not know what the capacity is. It really is a new cluster**** every year. The general excuse is 'hey, they are trying' well it's once a year. There isn't a lot of room for trial and error. You are right...it's not a mom and pop affair anymore, something that is apparently lost on the powers that be.
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My guess with the hotel rooms is this:

The hotels allotted a certain amount of "discounted" (and I use that terms so ****ing liberally here) rooms to sell. The rest will be released on the general sale on the 10th. Probably at a higher rate, but also likely many more rooms that are available. It's BS, but I'm betting that's what happens. So, the place you wanted will be there to pick up, but you'll be paying another 10-15% on top of the previous rate. Since they know people will rush to get them, they'll make an even better profit now.
 
/Film Video Interview: Morgan Spurlock Discusses ‘Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope’ [Part 1] | /Film

Saw this Saturday. Harmless fun...could have used a little more color. Maybe they can do a sequel about how damned hard it is to not only get tickets, but now a hotel room. Registration opened back up this morning and we find ourselves STILL without a room. The entire process is regressing to the point where it may be easier to win the mega millions than it is to have a stress free process of getting tix/hotel. Here's an idea...TURN CONTROL OF THIS OVER TO PROFESSIONALS!!!!!!!!! Or simply toss the towel in San Diego. Maybe it does need to move.
 
jerseydevil said:
/Film Video Interview: Morgan Spurlock Discusses ‘Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope’ [Part 1] | /Film

Saw this Saturday. Harmless fun...could have used a little more color. Maybe they can do a sequel about how damned hard it is to not only get tickets, but now a hotel room. Registration opened back up this morning and we find ourselves STILL without a room. The entire process is regressing to the point where it may be easier to win the mega millions than it is to have a stress free process of getting tix/hotel. Here's an idea...TURN CONTROL OF THIS OVER TO PROFESSIONALS!!!!!!!!! Or simply toss the towel in San Diego. Maybe it does need to move.
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I mentioned a while back and it is worth repeating, If you can not get a close hotel of one on the bus route checkout the Trolly system SDMTS - Trolley Information then see if you can find a hotel near a station on the route. It's cheaper and they run all day and into the late evening.
 
One change this year I do not like is they will no longer offer on site presale tickets for next years Comic Con. You will be forced to go thru the online BS next year.
 
JWR said:
One change this year I do not like is they will no longer offer on site presale tickets for next years Comic Con. You will be forced to go thru the online BS next year.
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Do you have confirmation of that? About 3 weeks ago I was sent a survey asking specific questions re:that very subject...what percentage should be sold on site, how many(per), etc. It did not sound like they were ready to cancel that option.
 
well that really blows. At least
I don't have to get up @ 3am and wait for 6 hrs though. After the hotel fiasco of this year maybe it's time to take a year off. The whole process is becoming too frustrating and it sucks the joy out of the event.
 
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