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PAX PRIME 2012 Information and FAQ (READ THIS FIRST, THEN ASK ALL QUESTIONS HERE)
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Before PAX (this year will be my third) I had mostly been to comic book and small retro game cons. I like to play but I don't consider myself to be a serious gamer if that makes sense, anyway, PAX was amazing as a first timer. There is so much going on that I never felt like there wasn't something to do or see. I would say look at what was available at Prime 2011, check East 2012 and see if there was stuff going on you'd be interested in seeing, trying, listening to and go from there.
I've never been to Sakura-Con, we always did ECCC and honestly as much as I loved ECCC I'd rather be at PAX. We moved out of state in the fall and are flying back to Seattle for PAX this year, it is my kids end of summer trip and it's one they all can't wait to get to, even more than Disneyland!
Shipping cookies for Prime 2013
Also there will be an Official Hotel Discussion thread soon I'm sure.
DAILY RATES
Hourly Rate 0-2hrs $5.00
All Day $10.00
Evenings $5.00
Event $5.00
Here is a list of all the First Hill locations: http://www.u-parksystem.com/locations/default.asp#first_hill_seattle
As long as you don't mind walking a few blocks you can save some cash on parking.
AWESOME thanks for the advice ^.^
Though im still debating because of how you get your badges. The whole sending the badge in the mail is bothering me. I mean has anyone ever had theirs get lost before?if so what happened? cause i mean i know the badges dont have your name or anything on them so it's like what do you do cause you paid 60 for it.
If you do not receive your badge, you can always email pax_questions@paxsite.com for a resolve.
We are looking at the Sheraton, Thurs.-Sun. and expecting a rate around $180/night.
1)Was this the price for one of the Suites?
2)If so, was there any options on the type of Suite through the PAX reservations?
[ ] PAX Coin Ordered/Reserved
If I remember correctly, you could only book normal rooms through the PAX Hotel Site, and it was around $160-ish per night I think?
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Unfortunately not. Passes are 1st come 1st serve.
Prime is very popular. 3 Day passes sold out in 22 days last year.
Your best chance is to buy a pass and then either ask for a refund** later on, or try and sell to one of your friends.
**no guarantee refunds will be offered
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You might be able to reserve through One peak and still use your points, you may just have to call to get it all taken care of (unless it's a black out date than YMMV). I believe the Hyatt mentioned they'd do this to my wife whose a Hyatt Club member. (But don't quote me on any of this, YMMV, some assembly required and what not.) In any case, I'd consider calling either the sheraton or the rewards place. Onepeak seems just to be a agrigator, all of the billing and whatnot was done as if we had directly booked with the hotel.
I work for one of Starwood's call centers, and trust me, changing third-party bookings to another rate plan (whether that's points or whatever) takes an act of God.
Pm'd the link to small lady
Happy booking
(it's kinda surreal booking for prime 5 days after getting back from east)
I'd bet so too.
Relevant info: #PAX East: 3 Coin Lunch organizer. 2012 Trading card available. Pokecrawl Assistant 2012. Pokecrawl attendee 2011. Cult of the Leaf attendee 2012.
The difference is, a representative from Reed Expo posted the link a little early on the Forums to give Forumers a small jump on everyone else for East. In this case, the link was incorrectly given out by OnPeak before it should have been public to anyone on this forum.
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[ ] PAX Coin Ordered/Reserved
I sent them an email yesterday asking when it would be available for booking (I arrange for 4 of us and they work out of town so hopping to book a meetup to plan) and they sent me a lovely little email that said they where available right away. I even phoned in to confirm something About my res and they didn't seam to think anything was wrong.
Then I posted the link in between clients at work. Oops.
Hopefully this doesn't mess anyone up, and sorry if it did.
Like I said in PM. This wasn't your fault so please don't feel bad.
Yeah, SmallLady is right, there was no reason for you to think it wasn't available if OnPeak sent it to you like that. (also last time it was posted from Reed Expo, the people who run PAX, not OnPeak, but still, it was an official channel)
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Also, you are awesome for including the bobcat.
Direct from the airport to downtown seattle is the Light Rail.
Once hotels are actually live, then yes, we'll post a roomshare thread
I'm not sure that portion has ever been confirmed. It's been a rumor before, but generally unsubstantiated. I always buy the first day they're available, and I've been in the first wave and the last wave before in different paxen.
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Ah alright thankyou.
Yes, yes they do. That is there for fire safety.
In my experience (and YMMV for PAX since it's a "hotel at capacity" style event) I've found that this is varied by degrees. First, some hotels will change you extra per person over 2 people, even for the same size room (I don't think the PAX booking system does this so it's kinda moot.) In these cases, I've found that (generally) showing up with 4 people for a room paid for 2 people (but a room that can accomadate 4) doesn't really get much friction. Best way to tell how many people a room can hold is looking at the beds. 2 People for every double or larger bed seems standard for the hotel industry.
Also, I've found that Hotels will usually just turn the other way with regards to adding +1 to a room (over what you listed, to an extent). So 3 people in a 2 person room doesn't usually provoke a fight, 5 people in a 4 person room may be pushing it. Trying to cram 6 more people into a room (that's not some sort of suite designed for it) will hardly ever work. (I'm from a family of 6, so there is an exception to this, but unless your really just coming with your spouse and kids....)
Of course any time you push the rules, you engage certain risk, so if there is a problem (too loud, something broken or the like) you only make yourself more likely to be "dismissed" from the hotel. The other thing to caution about this is, for obvious reasons hotels will only let people get new keys made who are on the reservation, so if someone else loses their keys (or as happened to us last year at the Hyatt, the keycards got reset by accident) your group will have to meet up to redistribute keys which can be troublesome. (I actually forget how we figured out our keycards were reset. I think they called us, because it was some floor wide accident, so it wasn't like we were standing outside our rooms unable to get in. Of course given the Cell Phone Fun (TM) at PAX I didn't find out until a few hours after it happened.)
I am wondering how group bookings work in this kind of situation. My hope is that I can just create a group account using then On Peak system when it goes live and we each pay separately into a pool that goes toward that one account. My main reason for asking is that I know hotels tend to give out group discounts and this is a fairly large group. Also its much easier to have everyone pay their share directly rather then a middleman (IE me) doing it for them and risk something going wrong. If this is not possible do you have any tips as to how to coordinate a group of this size? If it makes it any easier On Peak has an office in Chicago and I could directly talk to them possibly bypassing any issues with the online signup.
If its better to talk one on one feel free to add me or my partner in crime and UK/EU contact Pie_Tony.