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PAX East 2011 Hotel Discussion Thread and Poll
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This year, it's looking like our convoy might be 8+, so we're planning on renting a house for the weekend.
I suspect that would be that if you weren't regularly reloading the page on Thursday, a lot of the good rooms were gone before you got a look in. The Wednesday night (before the con) went terrifyingly quickly in the nearby hotels.
Of course, this is why you need a PAX London, to help reduce strain on the existing PAXes...
But then I would have to fly to London for PAX. No wait, that could be awesome.
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pretty sure I saw somewhere that the rollaway is only an option for single-bed rooms. I doubt it's a strict policy, unless they just don't have the space. if it's really important, I'd definitely call the hotel and ask.
I've booked rooms of all kinds an managed to get rollaways. I think the real restriction is that they are first come first served. Some hotels will let you reserve them in advance, others won't.
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Yeah, I just phoned the Westin Waterfront. Their policy is first-come, first-served for rollaways - no reservations ahead of time. Not sure exactly how many they have, but depending on mode of transportation it might behoove one to at least consider bringing along an air mattress if you're not arriving on Wednesday. I doubt by the time the ETA rolls into town there will be any left for us. Now I just have to figure out where/how to pack an aerobed along with my clothing, games, and BYOC....
There's bound to be a Walmart or a Walgreens in Boston where you can get an aerobed on the cheap if you don't want to bring one with you.
Is anyone interested in staying in that area this year?
I'm talking to the staff of the Lenox and they're willing to hold a block of rooms for us for $159 a night. (1 queen or 2 double beds)
It's a 4 star hotel and the restaurant and pub there are top notch. They had free wired and wireless internet in the rooms as well. The hotel is a ways from the new convention center, but it's near the train line and it's not far by cab. It's too far to walk at night, you'd want to take cabs back if you stay for the concerts.
If there's any interest, I'll get the room block paperworks started.
PM me if you think you'd be interested...
There are several Walgreens, but Walmart does not exist in Boston. (Though there are some in the suburbs).
I just changed my reservation, so there should be one available for a bit
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It's a bit out of the way, but if you happen to travel from the North I remember there was a Walmart in Salem. It was quite along the way too and should not be hard to find.
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Just got a two bed room for 4 people. $139/night. I'm coming from Upstate New York. Can I just take the Mass Pike through boston and get off somewhere near the Waterfront?
Yes, you can take I-90 and get off just before the tunnel to Logan. I think it's exit 25 and it'll put you a block or two away from that hotel (and right next to the convention center). As long as you aren't going in during rush hour, you should be fine going straight in the Mass Pike way.
Does anyone know if the Seaport is within walking distance from the con? If not whats the parking situation at the center?
I stayed at the lenox last pax, and I didn't mind walking down the block.
The reviews I read of the Seaport said it's about a 2-5 minute walk to the convention center, anyone else hear different? I also was staying at the Lenox last year and had a great time!
2 minutes might be too short, but 5 minutes is about average. I'd venture more like 5-8 minutes. Not terrible at all really. At least the weather will be nice in March (maybe?)
Oh joy.....o_O
Coming from the UK where its snow here is usually pathetic, i'd quite like a little snow... My hotel is a 15 minute walk from the convention center though, across one of the bridges, so hopefully America is smarter than the UK and doesn't come to a grinding halt the moment there is a little bit of snow on the ground..
don't worry, boston has had march blizzards before, we can totally handle it. in fact, i think the city suffers more when we DON'T get a lot of snow and all the snow plows at the ready don't get any work.
I'm pretty excited to be going again, but I did have an issue with the room booking. I wanted to stay the sunday night as well so I could leave monday morning at my leisure instead of the flurry sunday. Unfortunately they only let me book thu/fri/sat nights and not sunday. I find it odd that they have 100+ rooms (for single beds) left on friday/saturday but apparently 0 left for sunday night. Could this be just that they didn't add in rooms for sunday night on the block? What's my likelihood of getting them to let me stay the extra night at the same rate? (as opposed to the extra 80+ bucks it would cost to stay a night at the regular rate)
Thats because Sunday night was sold out of rooms in the block. They had a lot but not as much as the nights of the show itself.
Oh man, I'm a New England boy, but went to undergrad in North Carolina. The ONE time it snowed, the entirety of Wilmington shut down from 1/2 inch of accumulated snow. It was hilarious.
Exactly. The only exception I'd say is the blizzard we had back in December of 2003. We had about 4 feet of snow in Salem in one nite and the national guard had to come dig us out. Don't worry, Boston would be able to handle the snow that would typically fall in March. Hell, last year's PAX there was barely any snow on the ground and none fell.
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the general rule of boston weather is there is no rule. especially being march, snow could hang around for weeks of frigid temperatures or it could disappear the next day in warm sunny weather. expect the unexpected, folks.
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Just figured I'd warn everyone.
(Of course, after last winter down here, I'm prepared for anything.)
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