February 9, 2015
Festivals Extra: Hey, Go Get A Room For SPX 2015
They ran out of rooms at the host hotel for the 2014 Small Press Expo last year around August 1. I bet they'll run out much earlier for 2015.
So you might want to avail yourself of a room reservation earlier rather than later. You'll have to double-check as you're making them, but I'm pretty sure they're easy to cancel right up to that week, if that makes a difference.
Tips.
1) This is probably one of the more important reservations to make in all of comics festival-going because of the "Camp Comics" element of the show, so you might want to let that motivate you to action. TCAF, in contrast, I don't see much of a difference wherever the hell you want to stay.
2) Sometimes when you do a room through an event they won't let you guarantee a certain kind of bed arrangement (one bed or two). If it's a chain, though, and you're a points program member, a reservation you make through an event should show up in your reservations profile as soon as you make it. You can usually edit your reservation profile from there, including a request for two beds. It's worked for me before, anyway.
3) Looking at the prices by day for Wednesday through Monday just through regular sites, it looks like Sunday they may have more reservations than on other days. So if you can't get the system to accept, say a Friday to Monday rez, you might get it to go for a Friday to Sunday rez, after which you can use a getaway hotel or a similar strategy.
4) If you don't get into the Marriott but find yourself accessing this post at some future, frustrating date, the back-up hotel for a few comics-makers last year was
this Hilton, one subway stop the direction away from downtown DC away. I heard good things, and I'm nearly at the age where a little remove may do me more good than harm.
As is always worth nothing, SPX is one of the foundational North American comics shows. If that whole general area of comics interests you in any way, I urge you to try it out some year.
posted 2:55 am PST |
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