Tag: SDCC
San Diego Hotel: Holiday Inn on the Bay
Hotels went on sale for Comic-Con International this week. I sat things out this year, since we’re only making a day trip. Naturally, everyone I know who was trying to get a room ended up with the smoothest experience in more than five years, rather than the crashes, timeouts, frustration that we’ve come to expect.
In case you didn’t make it through, or if you decide to just chuck it all and do something else, here’s a link to some ideas on how you can still get a hotel in San Diego.
TicketLeap dissects the bottleneck that led to Saturday’s Comic-Con ticket sales meltdown
For the techies: TicketLeap dissects the bottleneck that led to Saturday’s Comic-Con ticket sales meltdown. (TLDR version: Hostname lookups were turned on in the database, and it was blocking on DNS.)
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Bridge Under Construction
Eventually, this will connect the Hilton Bayfront parking structure with the Petco Park parking lot. It’s not exactly an ideal spot for the convention — they really need a bridge near 5th Street — but it should help a little when it’s completed.
At Comic-Con International ← Check out my write-ups.
Tower Spiral
Looking up at the antenna on a TV news van.
At Comic-Con International 2010 ← Check out my write-ups.
San Diego Convention Center
Over the weekend I attended Comic Con International in San Diego. It was fun and exhausting as always. I’ve posted over 150 photos of people, costumes, displays and sightseeing on Flickr. If you’re interested in write-ups of events, stories, quotes and such, I’m keeping an index of all my posts over at K-Squared Ramblings and Speed Force.
Back from Comic-con, mostly unpacked, and now sorting & uploading the rest of the photos.
Back from Comic-con, mostly unpacked, and now sorting & uploading the rest of the photos.
Wow. Some downtown San Diego lots are pre-selling parking now. If you want to park
Wow. Some downtown San Diego lots are pre-selling parking now. If you want to park underneath the convention center, I’m guessing you’ll need to buy it today.
Marriott Towers and Pool
The Marriott Hotel in Downtown San Diego, right next to the convention center.
Hotel reservations for Comic-Con International go on sale at 9:00 Pacific time tomorrow morning. For the last several years, demand for hotel rooms has been so high that hours spent redialing a phone or trying to get into the website have been typical. The travel agents have set up an entirely new procedure to counteract it. I’ve posted some thoughts on the change over at K-Squared Ramblings.
I guess we’ll see tomorrow how well it works.
Update: Better than I expected, at least for the first part. Here are my thoughts on how the process worked.
Update 2: The request may have gone smoothly, but the rest of the day turned out to be an exercise in frustration.
Update 3: I’ve posted some tips on how to get a hotel for Comic-Con if you couldn’t get one through the convention.
Wow. Saturday tickets for Comic-Con International (San Diego) are 95% sold.
Wow. Saturday tickets for Comic-Con International (San Diego) are 95% sold. If you want to go Saturday but don’t have tickets yet, you’d better hurry!
WTF? 4-day passes have ACTUALLY SOLD OUT already! I was starting to think December…
WTF? 4-day passes have ACTUALLY SOLD OUT already! I was starting to think December maybe, but the first week of November? I'm glad we finally bought ours a few days ago!
4-Day passes *with* preview night have sold out.
4-Day passes *with* preview night have sold out. Annoyingly, there’s no indication of how many 4-day passes *without* preview night are available, or what the percentage was, or anything at all to gauge whether the remaining memberships are likely to sell out next spring or next week.
San Diego Convention Center and Hilton
Viewed from the Omni Hotel across the street, taken during a weekend trip to San Diego. Same viewpoint as this night photo.
Now, imagine that lawn area full of people waiting to get into a Comic-Con presentation.
Update: You may be interested in my tips on how to get a hotel for Comic-Con.
Need last-minute tickets to San Diego Comic-Con?
Need last-minute tickets to San Diego Comic-Con? The show sold out weeks ago, but the con is re-selling canceled memberships on eBay. They’re going FAST, within minutes of each auction going up, so your best bet seems to be to follow their updates on Twitter to find out when a new auction goes up.