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PAX East 2015: -Pass [X] -Hotel [X] -Time off[X]
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When do East tickets usually go on sale? After the crazy Prime sellout, I don't want to be left out of East. I haven't even bought my airfare yet because I'm afraid I'll miss the ticket opportunity.
As for my own preparation, it comes down to registering first and foremost. I would not arrange travel and lodging until after the passes are ordered. Not only would it suck, but would also be an awkward conversation with my significant other. I have been researching some flights and accommodation in preparation, however.
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Keep an eye out for Hotels and Badges around October/November. Check the forums and Twitter as well, since the PAX Site may be updated a few days behind. According to my e-mail receipts, I booked the Westin on October 18th through OnPeak (the official hotel release) and bought my 3 day badge on November 3rd. I could not find the information for the year before that, but I am pretty sure it was somewhere along those lines as well.
Traditionally, PAX East 3 day badges will sell out, but in the past it took a few days before that happened. None the less I would be careful. Every year the event gets bigger and more popular, so I would not be surprised if the 2013 edition sells faster than it's predecessor considering there were many other events coinciding with it.
Just a side note - Every PAX East has been a little different from the last. It's still in its infancy, so take the above with a grain of salt.
This year's Prime was the first where they sold out in basically 48 hours. In the past Prime historically been sold out in a month, East a bit more than that (This years EAST had some single day passes left the last few days before the con).
That being said, I still think it's extremely prudent to keep a close eye on sales, as those who didn't make it to Prime will probably be looking at East as an alternative....and a lot of people didn't make it to Prime.
Not that this stopped me from enjoying myself for the last 2.
Sorry, couldn't resist. I missed last year's and I am sure as hell not making that mistake this year. So I'll be stalking the PAX East page from now till they go on sale
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this is going to be my third pax (all easts). my first one was just kind of checking things out, last one i actually did the ppd and interacted with community people a bit, and next year will be BEST PAX EVER. for real. i know we still have a long wait ahead of us, but returning to the forums is SUPER exciting on its own. hooray!!!
this is very true, there were actually sunday passes still being sold AT pax east 2012. HOWEVER, if you combine the jilted prime folks with everyone who didn't go to last east because of easter/passover/anime boston, you get absolutely guaranteed higher attendance for 2013. hopefully it still won't be the madness that prime was, but you never can tell.
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IMO it's almost no different from Prime overall cost-wise with the exception of how long your flight is. I'm sure that there are some differences, but it's not WILDLY different. They're both big cities, it's still PAX.
Yea I've been researching and it looks like I should be able to get round trip from Chicago for $226. I just hope I get a pass and a room at the connecting hotel. I'll just have to watch this forum religiously.
East has a lot of similar pre- and post- PAX activities. There is a bar crawl (Pokecrawl), a Magical Mystery Tour, Pre-PAX Dinner, Pre-PAX Gaming Night, Girls Meetup, etc.
The past two years, hotel reservations became available in mid-October. I don't know when 2010 passes when on sale, but 2011 were available starting in early November.
edit: don't book your plane tickets and blame me if its some other date but I do consider this as a fairly reliable way to guess the date.
I had an unbelievably amazing time at my first prime and don't want to wait a whole year to enjoy that again. With that in mind I've began contemplating going to both this upcoming year and would like some advice/answer to the below question from pax pros that do both every year. While it would be a little tight at probably two spots I shuld be able to afford going to both, my only problem/ concern is getting two weeks off in one year since I am looking for a new job and have no idea where ill be working at the time.
So yeah to any pros that do both or have tried to in the past would you reccomend. Doing both in one year or just going to one for longer than the actual convention? Like I said I can unless something drastic comes up afford both or a longer trip, my only concern would be getting two weeks off one for each.
Basically it comes down to this:
1) they're both PAX, so yay
2) One is in Seattle, one in Boston, there are pros/cons to each city that are unrelated to PAX.
3) Prime is spread out due to the venue not being large enough, East's venue is massive and awesome so PAX is all in one glorious space.
4) Prime is spread out in a very active part of the city, so the walk to get to other things can take you near new awesome stuff Seattle has to offer. East is in one spot that is growing but is not super active, so you have to take a 5-10 min subway ride to the hotspots (personally I like both sides of this one, for different reasons).
5) Prime is at capacity, East has room to grow.
I could probably go on forever, but I really encourage you to search the forums a bit to find some of these discussions from the past.
I will leave it up though since you replied before I could take it down to give context and as you said people ask this a lot. So now they won't have to