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Who's Going To Pax East 2011??? And Opinions On The BCEC/Hotel
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Always check rewards memberships (Your credit card should have some, at the least) and AAA discounts - I (hopefully) reserved a room at the Westin Waterfront for 104 a night.
I'm holding off until the hotel info goes up, it just feels like it's taking forever to do so. (Never been to Boston before so I figured PAX is a great excuse to visit.)
David:
Can you speak as to the cancellation policies? Is there an immediate non-refundable deposit, or do we get charged at some later date? Or won't you know until everything is set to go?
Generally speaking you can get a refund if you cancel before a few days before the reservation. There often is a deposit when you first make the reservation, but if you cancel it you can get the deposit back (as long as you don't wait until the last minute).
Well BCEC's address is 415 Summer St, Boston, MA 02210 so just get driving directions from the hotel you're looking at to BCEC with Google or some other direction provider.
What he said, and so much more.
I strongly suggest you use MyMaps from Google Maps. Put down markers and notes about everything you will find out. After a little while you should end up with a few sweet spots that will better indicate what's the best place for you.
You can indeed find out what you should expect when using the travel tools in Google Maps. Use driving, public transportation and walking options. And do reverse lookups. You can get interesting results just by looking at what the public transport system looks like.
I use a mix of Google Maps and Google Search for finding hotels. That and an Agragator which I don't want to name for forum policy reasons. There are many of them out there so it should not be hard to find one that suits you best.
I also use a Taxi Fare calculator. They are not precise but they do give you a good idea of costs you should expect.
It's hard to explain without showing you an example, but through various searches I did on the net to find cheap hotels, travel distances, reverse lookups on the public transport lines, etc, I ended up with a very detailed MyMaps project that clearly showed which hotels where cheap and which where not. Which areas I needed to avoid because the cab fair was going to be too high. Which places where within respectable walking distance (given that the temperature will be mild enough). Where are the best rated places for eats, for shoppipng, you name it. I especially like maping out the locations and schedules of potential bus stops or subway stations that could come in handy!
Though I already booked a hotel I'm still waiting to see what PA will have to offer. I think I got myself a very sweet deal and all but if there's not much different I just might end up going to the other hotel instead.
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Which hotel did you book a room at? If I can get a better deal that's closer I'd be interested in having more options depending on the hotel offerings from PA. (Of course Boston's also rather notorious for cockroach problems, so I'm a bit leery about roach motels).
I have a hunch they're not actually sitting around with a giant throw-switch labelled "Hotel Registration", going "Should we put up registration yet? Nah, make them wait..."
I suspect in fact they're making sure that it actually produces hotel registrations at the end, as opposed to, say, toast. Which would be less useful, even if tasty.
Then, like most people who deal with deadlines in software, they stop giving out estimates until the code is complete?
Seriously, this is why it's so hard to wring information from companies in many cases; if they estimate early, and it slips, people complain. If they leave everyone in the dark, people accept it.
Ya it will.
a few days wont matter much yo
If I may?
I don't know just how important it is for you to have a hotel as close to the convention as possible... It may help you to know that there are some other interesting cheap options that are not as far as they may seem.
Just saying that if you miss out on the registration, there will be other possibilities. Since I booked my own hotel I'll gladly share what I found out.
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Thanks for the Taxi calculator. Already downloaded it my droid.
I've already booked with them. Since they're more of a business hotel, the rates are cheaper for the weekend. I stayed at the one in NYC a few years ago and that was a good stay. Anyways, you'd save money there even with taking a cab than booking closer to the BCEC.
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It's just too bad we can't get group codes for airfare. I'll be spending more on my plane ticket than the hotel.
As far as the delays...we decided to move the engine over to Unreal figuring we'd just have to change the art which would be a quick and easy change. As it turned out, adapting the codebase to that engine was a bit more complicated than it first seemed, and we started running into new limitations of the engine we weren't entirely prepared for.
With unskippable cut scenes....
Now with curved surfaces.
BOOKED AND BOOKED!
Westin Waterfront here I come.
thanks so much for the update!
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Thanks so much for the hard work. Got my room all squared away! Now all that remains is the wait...for...five months...
D:
David Coffman rules.
MADE FROM AWESOME.
You sir, are a very sensible goose.
I have to admit, I kinda booked a suite in the meantime. I've cancelled it, for which I feel a little bad, and re-booked at the same hotel for half the cost. Somehow, $160/night less is easing my guilt, as well as my slight disappointment I'm not getting a suite.