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Cramped Quarters

October 7th, 2014 | by Trae Dorn
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  1. Langland
    Langland
    October 7, 2014 at 7:11 am | # | Reply

    Well it’ll all be fine.

  2. calvsie
    calvsie
    October 7, 2014 at 7:31 am | # | Reply

    is it just me or is kurtz style person running Yakisobacon’s table?

    • Trae Dorn
      Trae Dorn
      October 7, 2014 at 8:05 am | # | Reply

      It’s a homestuck cosplayer.

  3. Chiaroscuro
    Chiaroscuro
    October 7, 2014 at 10:53 am | # | Reply

    Oooh. nice banner, BorkCon!

  4. Langland
    Langland
    October 7, 2014 at 11:57 am | # | Reply

    I forgot to add something, I know we do it all the time but has the hotel staffs of all these hotels ever complain about their being like 12 people in a single room? Because I know on a normal occasion growing up in a 7 person family that hotels cap out usually 4 or 5 people in a room so in my family’s case we always had 2 rooms because of this.

    But has there ever been any complaints from the hotels about this?

    • Ed Rhodes
      Ed Rhodes
      October 7, 2014 at 12:07 pm | # | Reply

      …not if they don’t find out about it! 🙂

    • EcchiKitty
      EcchiKitty
      October 7, 2014 at 8:37 pm | # | Reply

      Offically, hotels don’t allow ‘extra’ people in a room, in part because it’s a safety violation. If the Fire Marshal were to catch that many people staying in a room, the hotel could get into legal trouble. Plus, having all those people stay in several rooms is more money for the hotel.

      On the other hand, the hotel is generally aware that all those people wouldn’t be there if they couldn’t share, which would mean no money for the hotel. And the Convention, which gives money to the hotel, wouldn’t be happening without all those people. So hotels tend to not look too hard at how many people are actually staying in a room. But if you’re blatant about it, they can, and and sometimes will, take action.

      • Chiaroscuro
        Chiaroscuro
        October 11, 2014 at 10:41 am | # | Reply

        Exactly. My con very strongly pounds a “Four people in a room!” now, but in the early days, we had 15+ people in a staff hotel room for several years running. A big ol’ suite, which meant room for everyone (I brought an inflatable bed and claimed the spot behind the minibar), but still cramped.

        Most people I know keep to the 4-person limit. Pushing beyond that point gets so cramped folks don’t try it again unless there’s desperation points.

  5. antrik
    antrik
    August 16, 2016 at 12:12 am | # | Reply

    For a conference in Belgium we once rented a suite with I think six beds, for a dozen or so people to sleep there. (Plus a few more that met there in the evening, but didn’t stay for the night.) The staff was looking funny when more and more people kept arriving, but they didn’t say anything…

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