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Jim at Dragon*Con 2010
llwaynest:
Actually rooms will be harder to come by now because two of the satellite hotels have been sold to Georgia State University and anyone planning to stay there are SOL. They are now university housing. This will be my 10th year attending. My best piece of advice is plan ahead.
Download the schedule asap and sort out what you want to see accordingly. Plan on standing in line to the bigger panels for at least an hour. If you really want to see someone like, Adam Savage, leave the hour to hour and a half prior to the start of his panel free for standing in line. Otherwise you probably won't get in.
Hubby and I print the schedule as soon as it's available and then color highlight three things for every time period. We also block out time for food. (We have eaten breakfast and dinner in line, otherwise we wouldn't have seen Nimoy, Shatner and Savage last year)
Lines will be long so patience and preplanning is a must. Jim drew a fairly large crowd last time and it was SRO. Hopefully he will get a larger room this year.
D*C clears rooms between panels and starts lining up once the next panel starts. Except for panels at the Hyatt in Centennial ll and lll. They have been known to line up two panels in advance because they can stick the lines outside and wrap them around the hotel.
D*C also puts out a daily newsletter called the Daily Dragon that lists any schedule or room changes. I think they are also on twitter so you can get updated electronically.
That's all I can think of for now, if I can think of any other tips, I'll let y'all know.
Leslie
Stiletto:
That sounds....completely crazy. Um, which hotels were sold? Heh...really thinking we should transfer our memberships and go to the beach, instead. :'(
Yeratel:
Maybe the hotels are just sold out of rooms they're willing to let go at the Con rate. I got a reservation at the Sheraton Atlanta, one of the Dragon*Con core hotels, last week using some of my Skymiles. I'm glad I didn't have to pay cash, though, because it would have run over $900 for the whole Con weekend.
geminigrey:
If you haven't been to Dragon*Con before, I would highly recommend it, at least once. The only event that I know of that rivals it that I've been to is Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The official numbers report around 40,000 people, and I think they've started having to move some of the tracks to the Westin, making it take up something like 5 hotels. (The actual numbers are probably more like 60 or 70 thousand, but that's another story...)
Do yourself a favor, and google 'Guide to Dragoncon', and take notes. The programming guide won't come out until about a week before D*C, so be prepared to break out your highlighter and/or Excel to try and figure out how much you can cram into the weekend.
I find myself scrabbling to make a Dresden costume here at the semi-last minute, and I'm already dreading the southern heat in September wearing a duster. Ah well, it's for a good cause, right? :)
llwaynest:
--- Quote from: Stiletto on July 12, 2010, 03:06:56 AM ---That sounds....completely crazy. Um, which hotels were sold? Heh...really thinking we should transfer our memberships and go to the beach, instead. :'(
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