Thursday morning Comic-Con hotel reservations opened and to say it was chaos would be an understatement.
Instead of doing reservations the usual way, they decided to use this new fangled ridiculous system where everyone had to pick their top 12 hotels and then wait for an e-mail to tell them what hotel they received.
Unfortunately, what really happened was that everyone waited around all day, only to find out that they were put in a hotel that they had never requested that was miles away from the convention center.
For example all the places I requested were in the downtown area very close to the convention center, so naturally I was put five miles away in hotel circle. And apparently I wasn't the only one this happened to. Nearly everyone who registered Thursday morning had issues.
With the Anaheim convention center breathing down San Diego's neck this is the last thing they needed right now. The real problem is that with all the massive problems and three days straight of complaining attendees there has been no statement from comic-con on what happened.
A show like this is kept alive by the fans, so when you screw them over like this with no apologies it seems counterproductive. There's also the idea that there was no need to change the system in the first place. We all know going in that it will be difficult to get rooms for comic-con and we prepare for that but this new system added new headaches that were unnecessary.
With three and a half months to go Comic-Con has already alienated a majority of its audience. I can't wait to see what they do as the convention gets closer.
Unfortunately, what really happened was that everyone waited around all day, only to find out that they were put in a hotel that they had never requested that was miles away from the convention center.
For example all the places I requested were in the downtown area very close to the convention center, so naturally I was put five miles away in hotel circle. And apparently I wasn't the only one this happened to. Nearly everyone who registered Thursday morning had issues.
With the Anaheim convention center breathing down San Diego's neck this is the last thing they needed right now. The real problem is that with all the massive problems and three days straight of complaining attendees there has been no statement from comic-con on what happened.
A show like this is kept alive by the fans, so when you screw them over like this with no apologies it seems counterproductive. There's also the idea that there was no need to change the system in the first place. We all know going in that it will be difficult to get rooms for comic-con and we prepare for that but this new system added new headaches that were unnecessary.
With three and a half months to go Comic-Con has already alienated a majority of its audience. I can't wait to see what they do as the convention gets closer.
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