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The PAX 2006 Room-Share Thread
ctishman
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Okay, PAX Hotel registration is open, and the rooms won't last forever. Let others share the cost, or find someone to room with. Here's how it works:
If you have a registered room:
Enter the following information:
Hotel: (Doubletree/Hilton, Red Lion, etc.)
Room Type: (ex.: 2 Queen Beds)
Nights Staying: (ex.: nights of the 24th, 25th, 26th & 27th. Make a note if it's all-or-nothing)
Beds Available: (Don't forget your own bed!)
Total Price for a Bed: (For all nights, assuming it is filled to capacity)
Bags Available:
Total Price for a Bag: (Same as above)
Smoking: (Yes or No)
Contact:(This is where your email goes, or just have them PM you)
Room Holders:
1) Don't post an opening until you have reservation # in hand. Rooms fill up quick, so you can't count on one being available for walk-ins.
2) Remember Washington State's 14.4% hotel tax in your room rates, unless you're extraordinarily generous.
3) When the first person checks in, his or her card will have a reservation placed on it for the full amount for everyone, which is then freed up in pieces as your guests pay. This is just how hotels work, and yes, it sucks.
4) Finally, remember to update your infopost as slots fill (and/or empty)
If you're looking for a room:
Read down the list until you find a suitable room with an available slot that meets your needs. Contact the room holder to reserve it.
As of now, I'm making my room available. Rates are up from last year, but are still the same split between all occupants (1/3 for bed, 1/6th for bags)
Hotel: Doubletree/Hilton Bellvue
Room Type: 2 Queen Beds
Nights Staying: 24th, 25th, 26th & 27th.*
Beds Available: 0
Total Price for a Bed: $175.41
Bags Available: 0
Total Price for a Bag: $87.70
Smoking: No
Contact: ctishman at gmail.com
*All or nothing. No reservations accepted for less than all four days.[url][/url]
If you have a registered room:
Enter the following information:
Hotel: (Doubletree/Hilton, Red Lion, etc.)
Room Type: (ex.: 2 Queen Beds)
Nights Staying: (ex.: nights of the 24th, 25th, 26th & 27th. Make a note if it's all-or-nothing)
Beds Available: (Don't forget your own bed!)
Total Price for a Bed: (For all nights, assuming it is filled to capacity)
Bags Available:
Total Price for a Bag: (Same as above)
Smoking: (Yes or No)
Contact:(This is where your email goes, or just have them PM you)
Room Holders:
1) Don't post an opening until you have reservation # in hand. Rooms fill up quick, so you can't count on one being available for walk-ins.
2) Remember Washington State's 14.4% hotel tax in your room rates, unless you're extraordinarily generous.
3) When the first person checks in, his or her card will have a reservation placed on it for the full amount for everyone, which is then freed up in pieces as your guests pay. This is just how hotels work, and yes, it sucks.
4) Finally, remember to update your infopost as slots fill (and/or empty)
If you're looking for a room:
Read down the list until you find a suitable room with an available slot that meets your needs. Contact the room holder to reserve it.
As of now, I'm making my room available. Rates are up from last year, but are still the same split between all occupants (1/3 for bed, 1/6th for bags)
Hotel: Doubletree/Hilton Bellvue
Room Type: 2 Queen Beds
Nights Staying: 24th, 25th, 26th & 27th.*
Beds Available: 0
Total Price for a Bed: $175.41
Bags Available: 0
Total Price for a Bag: $87.70
Smoking: No
Contact: ctishman at gmail.com
*All or nothing. No reservations accepted for less than all four days.[url][/url]
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Thanks in advance,
Richard
All the hope and glory, all the sacrifice in vain
And if love remains, though everything is lost,
We will pay the price, but we will not count the cost.
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edit:
ROOM HOLDERS: CHECK YOUR RESERVATION DATES - I had my dates written as the 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th, which was right for last year, but wrong for this one. This year's hotel dates (assuming day-before arrival and morning-after departure) are the 24th, 25th, 26th & 27th.
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For E3, I'm going to have share a room with four people, and it's still $300 per person.
I may just end up looking to find a room to share rather than pay for one for myself.
Yeah it's going to be a madhouse anyway. This year I will be bringing along some tools so that it wont be that hard to connect the consoles to the TVs and I know SOMEONE will bring enough ethernet cable or wifi hubs to link up all the ds' and xboxen. I hope it's like one big hotel party.
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Why?
I was hoping for a bed, since packing my bag would take a lot of space in my luggage.
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Go stay with Elder then.
Or, hell, just ask the people at the hotel for another set of blankets.
why don't you cry about it some more
Cause.
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i don't believe in sharing rooms
That and I doubt Munkus would like being peed on.
lolz
precisely
Hotel: Doubletree/Hilton
Room Type: 2 Queens
Nights Staying: 24, 25, 26, 27*
Beds Available: 0
Price for bed: $129.65
Bags Available: 0
Price for bag: $64.83
Smoking: No
Contact: PM or drakenul at gmail.com
*Like ctishman, this is an all or nothing deal.
EDIT: Bed taken on 2/14/06. Last bag taken on 3/16/06 (post update on 3/23).
Also, will the guys that are sharing the room please PM or email me about if you would rather have 2 keys to share between us or 4 (since it affects price from what I posted, I'd rather poll the group).
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Edit: I no longer need a room. I got tired of holding out and just got a room to myself.
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This seems to conflict with all the free internet access we had while staying at the Red Lion for PAX05.
What I don't recall was the Red Lion having any convention space. Where the heck did they hide it?
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There was a stupid convention going on there at the time. That stupid convention is at the Doubletree now.
Was that the D&D convention? I remember walking past a bunch of them, they didn't look like they were having a good time. Maybe it was because in addition to the swag I was wearing, I had my arms full, and they had nothing but untamed beards.
whoa whoa whoa, wait a second
are you saying that stupid, filthy D&D convention is going to be at the doubletree this year
i might have to switch to the red lion
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Wow. I hope they like NERF.
I just copied the first post, but lets see:
$85*1.144(tax)=$97.24
$97.24*4(nights)=$388.96
$388.96/3(for bed)=$129.66
$388.96/6(for sleeping bag)=$64.83
::Scratches head::
ITS THE GOBLINS' FAULT!
Doc I predict we will get along just fine.
It's $115/night if you want quad occupancy registered. The main upside to this is that everyone gets a key, so you aren't always running back and forth to let people in.
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Really?
Khoo said that they might not get special rates at the Doubletree this year because they had booked over there instead of the Red Lion this year...
Weird.
Room Type: 2 Queen Beds)
Nights Staying: nights of the 24th, 25th, 26th & 27th
Beds Available: 0
Bags Available:2
Total Price for a Bag: $20us per night
Smoking: Yes
Contact: cyraxwins@gmail.com
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1. Garthor has claimed a bed.
2. I no longer have a girlfriend, so if any ladies want to share my bed, you are free to do so.
Enter the following information:
Hotel: Paragon Hotel
Room Type: 2 Queen Beds
Nights Staying: Nights of the 24th, 25th, 26th & 27th.
Beds Available: None, I believe Garthor is taking this one.
Total Price for a Bed: $343.20, divided by two is $171.60.
Bags Available: Depends on how many people, if any, want a spot.
Total Price for a Bag: Depends on how many people want a spot; make me an offer.
Smoking: No
Contact: joe.evrard@gmail.com
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A "Bag" means a spot to sleep on the floor, I believe.
They cast a shadow like a sundial in the morning light. It was half past 10.
Hotel: Hotell Doubbletree
Room Type: 2 Queen Beds
Nights Staying: 24th, 25th, 26th & 27th.
Beds Available: 0
Total Price for a Bed: N/A
Bags Available: 2
Total Price for a Bag: $90
Smoking: No
Contact: zionxero @ hotmail. com
Hotel: Doubletree
Room Type: Three rooms, two beds each
Nights Staying: 24th, 25th, 26th & 27th (all or nothing)
Beds Available: 0
Total Price for a Bed: N/A
Bags Available: 10/12
Total Price for a Bag: $60
Smoking: Yes
Contact: moe_fwacky @ yahoo.com
Edit 6.6.6: 2 bags to yesacs