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From my past experience at Hilton & Marriott. I reserve the room ahead with a major credit card. The credit card report never says anything about this reservation. It's just a card on file to hold a room open for you. It won't be charged unless you end up using it as your payment card, cancel after the cancellation date or don't show up without cancelling.

On check-in day, I present my debit card (different card than the credit card I reserved with) as payment. After getting my key & heading to my room, I check my bank of America account on my phone. It will say how much it has authorized the hotel for (including deposit) and the most I see them take is $50-100 over what my room will cost me for the weekend. It just authorizes the hold for that much on the account, doesn't take it out. And you can spend whatever funds you have besides what's authorized on the hold.

On the second day, they normally slip a paper under the door saying how much they'll actually charge you for the room. And on the last day or after we check out, the purchase is finalized but it drops the deposit and the charge goes through for what the hotel actually cost me in the end.

I normally have enough in my account up front for hotel check-in & parking. I then collect everyone's share in cash for the room and use that cash money to enjoy the con. Put any remaining money back into the bank after we leave the con.

Also, I noticed Hilton was very convenient with check-in times. Always got my room right away checking in around 2-3pm. Last year at Marriott, I tried checking in at 3pm and the Marriott didn't have my room ready until almost 7pm.

I think Fanime 2012 was mostly excellent. I had no problems with anyone overall here, the rovers were excellent at barking out directions to places when I asked and kept lines going smoothly.

Some interesting points:

*The pocket schedule was cute and handy.

*Why is the "Masquerade" called "Cosplay Spectacular" now? At first I thought they had completely done away with "Masquerade" until I read the info about the Cosplay Spectacular. Although, after seeing the massive line outside for it, I didn't bother going.

*I liked how the Swap Meet was moved into another hotel. I miss it being in the gaming room and going back and forth from playing games to browsing people's stuff, but I know there is a TON more people doing swap meet, so the two pretty big rooms in the other hotel was a great idea! Got some great deals on things!

*The Manga Library was a surprising relaxing place to just chill back on a bean bag and read a book while waiting for the next major panel or showing.

*I loved Hot Yaoi Nights this year! They actually showed some decent stuff and I was fighting to stay awake the whole night to watch it. But Antique Cafe (Live action Korean movie) was actually surprisingly good. (When I saw it was live action, I thought i'd be making fun of the acting but I didn't, I really enjoyed it) And they had a remake of the Yaoi anime-ish movie I saw back in 2010 called: Ai No Kusabi. When I saw that title at Yaoi nights 2010, it was so bizarre, that I thought I was on drugs and having a stoner dream while watching it. To see a remake of that same yaoi this year was just awesome.

Negative points:
*I REGISTERED for Speed Dating, but didn't get in and I lined up about 20 min before my time slot at 2pm Sunday. Apparently the girl next to me, wasn't able to get in the day before for her slot, so she was coming back. And the guy in front of us didn't even register but was praying he'd get in >_> None of us got in, but I heard people who didn't register at all, got into the event. I wasn't TOO set on the event so I immediately left, even when the staff invited us to wait 2 more hours to possibly get into the next time slot (when a new batch of people should be having their turn).

*The Badge Lines were ridiculous. Of course more and more people come to Fanime every year (I've been going every other year since 06). And I understand the issue of the power outage the night before. But maybe like other people mentioned, it would be a good idea to mail out badges a month or so before the con? Other major events like E3 mail them out beforehand. It took me 2 hours and 40 minutes exactly to get my badge in the At Con registration line on Friday (got in line at 1:50 and got my badge at 4:30-- my friends that pre-reg'd got their badges about 20 mins before me and we lined up at the same time). Of course I've waited longer than that for concert lines and other things ;D I should just remember to bring my MP3 player and DSi next year.

*I heard about discounted parking for the convention center (Some people said it was $10 a day with validation, idk if this is the case?). But I didn't bother to ask where to find it (so that's my bad) so I simply paid the $65 for the weekend xD

*Some panels filled up waaay too fast. I had never tried to go to a panel before at Fanime in past years that was too full to get in, so that surprised me. I'll line up earlier for panels next year. Most of the panels I did attend, however were quite amusing. The Zelda Debate panel was professional. The Feenels Late Night Dreamworld panel was really unexpected but hilarious with over-exaggerated audience games of "Who's that Pokemon?"

Hmmm? so where is the list of music videos they showed for the Awesomely bad j-music videos?

I like the video with twinkies shooting out cream filling. So wrong xDDD

Zac Effron is having a big party by himself in the fields man. o__o I wanna join.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5mYDNqSrzY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL37snqMJx8

Samba de amigo is teh shit!

It was a fun partaayyyyyy~! Yoooooooz.

Oh man the High School musical trailer made me want to dannnceeee~! Literally.

I kept bugging one of my guy friends to see it with me and he was like "I think I'll pass"

you better be open :d

I'll see if Rena wants to go.

Yesss

and Jun hopefully :U along with mikey = amazingly awesome times

Hells yeah ;D

Oh man, considering I hate Naruto, this kind of makes my day ;D

But also, I feel bad for the kid, to have to have died. Though he shouldn't always copies what he sees on tv x__X Not that I blame media but also blame the stupid kid.

I think either one would be fine I guess? May 18th or June 22 works fine. I just hope I can get a ride.

I went to Laser Quest last year for the first time in a group of 16. It was really fun and my first time playing laser tag. I got rank #7 overall on the games xD

Haha no Rave at Fanime = Failure. The Rave was one of the best things for me last year.

I don't know if I'll be going this year anyways. x__X

Homg, I lurved that from last year.

SIGN ME UP! ;D

Age cause I just put up the awesomest wallpaper:

XP I don't really know what that is. XP

But are these the same characters?

Woah, that desktop is SO "colorful"! I can't even see the icons, lawl.

Yeah it is pretty colorful. It hurts my eyes though.

Another one from awhile back:

Heh that's for my laptop. It's still the same actually but google news would be updated.

And yeah I own two desktops and a laptop o_____o;

Here's one of mine from awhile ago. My desktop now looks completely different but I'm too lazy to clear off the random icon junk and take a screenshot right now.

In a way I'm kind of glad they started doing that.

I have never uploaded copyrighted stuff, only homemade stuff from my digi cam but no one wants to watch that =/ And all my friends upload copyrighted stuff and get better ratings which of course would be obvious for them to get compared to me.

Although I will miss the free anime fansub viewings if they do get rid of everything copyrighted.

I like seeing people who like the same interests I have, and not being afraid to show it and be themselves. I felt like I could get along with pretty much every one I saw there. Because everyone is so open and friendly and so much stuff is going on at once.

And I like Fanime, because it gives me somewhere to go and just have fun with friends. Then when it's over I wish I could go back.

It's cool to see people cosplay and display their costumes and people so eager to cosplay and take pictures of other cosplayers. I don't cosplay myself but it makes me happy to see that other people enjoy it so much.

O___o DDR Disney Mix Cause it's rare oddly.

<__< and all the JP DDR mixes (well some aren't rare xD).

Vagrant Story
Xenogears as well.
Some other rare Psone rpg games.

Why are you picking on Pikachu T_T

*stares at Avatar*