I thought 3 or 4 tracks was a good con (speculative fantasy, pagan or other)
I think, but am not sure since I haven't been in quite a few years, that Further Confusion (furry con) and BayCon (SF/fantasy/comics/etc) both have a lot of simultaneous tracks too. They both used to be in the same hotel as PantheaCon still is, but both have moved (to bigger or just better digs, I dunno).
And it's already sold out for next year? That's INSANE! Even WorldCon doesn't "sell out". Why don't they just book more than one hotel?
There are overflow hotels for booking rooms in which I guess they have negotiated con rates with, but as far as the function space they only use the one hotel. I think they're the only one of that size right there (the overflow that comes to mind is a nearby Holiday Inn -- a pain to back and forth to even if they did have meeting space, which I think they don't, not much anyway.)
"Sold out" here refers to the room block, which I think at this point is practically the entire hotel, not badges/memberships -- I think they sell as many of those as people will buy.) There was a poll a couple of years ago about moving to the Santa Clara Convention Center, I think it was, but some other group had that facilty on "our" date (President's Day weekend) and either primacy of the date won out or they didn't do it for some other reason, because here we still are at the Doubletree.
(I think DragonCon sells out its entire gigantic hotel, FWIW.)
A thing to keep in mind for all of this is that the SF Bay area is densely populated. The metro area of Ottawa is somewhere over a million, I guess; the SF Bay area is basically one giant metro area encompassing some 7 million or more, and we have one of the highest percentages of Pagans (and geeks, and other assorted weirdos) around.
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Date: May. 20th, 2010 02:30 am (UTC)From:I think, but am not sure since I haven't been in quite a few years, that Further Confusion (furry con) and BayCon (SF/fantasy/comics/etc) both have a lot of simultaneous tracks too. They both used to be in the same hotel as PantheaCon still is, but both have moved (to bigger or just better digs, I dunno).
And it's already sold out for next year? That's INSANE! Even WorldCon doesn't "sell out". Why don't they just book more than one hotel?
There are overflow hotels for booking rooms in which I guess they have negotiated con rates with, but as far as the function space they only use the one hotel. I think they're the only one of that size right there (the overflow that comes to mind is a nearby Holiday Inn -- a pain to back and forth to even if they did have meeting space, which I think they don't, not much anyway.)
"Sold out" here refers to the room block, which I think at this point is practically the entire hotel, not badges/memberships -- I think they sell as many of those as people will buy.) There was a poll a couple of years ago about moving to the Santa Clara Convention Center, I think it was, but some other group had that facilty on "our" date (President's Day weekend) and either primacy of the date won out or they didn't do it for some other reason, because here we still are at the Doubletree.
(I think DragonCon sells out its entire gigantic hotel, FWIW.)
A thing to keep in mind for all of this is that the SF Bay area is densely populated. The metro area of Ottawa is somewhere over a million, I guess; the SF Bay area is basically one giant metro area encompassing some 7 million or more, and we have one of the highest percentages of Pagans (and geeks, and other assorted weirdos) around.