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My time slot was the 25th at 12pm and I got my waitlist confirmation by 1pm, haven't heard back yet though.

I'll be there as Amethyst :)

This sounds really fun!  Would participants need to bring supplies, like fabric and sewing stuff?

Would there be any interest in a Neko Atume gathering?  I'll be going as Pepper and a friend will be going as Tubbs :)

For those who have gone in recent years, is getting on a waiting list worth it?

This year is the first year I personally have had to get on the waitlist, but my friends have done it in past years and it worked out for them.

I'm so mad!  The site is crashing just as badly as every other year, I tried calling and I was on hold for 20 minutes and had to give up because I'm at work.  This is even worse than previous years, the new system has solved NOTHING.  Now I don't have a room.  SO MAD.

Wont lie, im really salty about how this years hotel reg turned out. i bought my ticket less than a half hour after they made the announcment about how buying your ticket sooner = earlier hotel reg...and my block is today at noon. But everything i wanted is gone.

Same!  And if they'd made the announcement when registration first became available, I would have registered right away.  It's such a bummer.  I've been attending this con since '08 and have stayed at the Hilton every time, but now I'll be stuck with some other hotel.  It won't be the same experience that I look forward to every year :(

My booking window isn't until tomorrow but I've been checking the hotels page just to see how it's going.  Looks like king and double rooms at the Hilton are gone already :(

This reminds me of a funny panel I heard about a while back called 50 Shades of Cosplay, in which the moderator invited cosplayers to come up and read an excerpt from 50 Shades of Grey as the character that they were cosplaying, haha.  I haven't read My Immortal but I'm sure a dramatic reading would be funny :)

Tried to book the Hilton Doubles from Thursday-Tuesday, immediate a lot of hotels became unavailable. As soon as I was booking the Hilton, it said it would be overselling for me to book and to call the number. They put me on a waitlist and I had to book the Ramada. We'll see if the waitlist works. They said I would know if the waitlist pops by the 17th of May, but to me that is really cutting it close to knowing what hotel you are staying at.

I wonder if they'll be opening up new rooms with each priority booking block or if this means that Hilton doubles are unavailable from here on out.

I don't think fanime has my other group members emails. When I got original confirmation for the badge I was sent everyones info. That kind of sucks, would have been nice if we were told ahead of time.

I think everyone in the group should have received an email separately with their reservation info.  That was the case for us.

Same, I used my e-mail address for everyone that I registered in my group.  I emailed fanime housing about it and all they told me was that they were unable to send my group members' booking information since they all used my email.  But they didn't tell me how to get my group members' booking info :(

I just got mine too, however, I thought it was 1 confirmation per badge?? How does it work if your a group leader? My date is 24th at 6 am >. <

I'm wondering the same thing, I'm a group leader and I have a couple of other people in my group that will need to get their own room, but I'm the only person who received the email about hotel booking window.

The 24th at 6am though, that's a good time slot!!  Mine isn't until the 25th at 12pm, I hope there are still rooms available :/

Finally an announcement!   I'm glad we finally have an official update! Although, I wish they had announced this a month ago when registration went live ... if I'd have known that my ability to reserve a hotel room depended on when I registered, I would have registered right away.

I'm also wondering if this new system means that rooms can potentially sell out before they even become available to people who registered later than others?

I also need to book more than one room.  Can staff advise please?

Anyone know how much registration costs right now and when the first price jump will be?

OMG I genuinely want to cry now. Thank you very much for letting me know that it will happen this year. I really hope this doesn't mean that yaoicon is dissolving cuz i never got to go to it if it is. T-T

I don't think Yaoicon is dissolving, but you should def try to go this year, it's so much fun!  It's happening in September at the Hyatt in San Francisco :)

I'm so sad I missed this!  I completely forgot about it because I was using the schedule grid to plan out my con and I didn't see this event in there :(  Will you be doing this again?  I'd love to see it at SacAnime or YaoiCon later this year!

Anyone know?  I'm really curious to see how many attendees there were this year :)

I posted mine on the FB event page https://www.facebook.com/events/889653784414078/

I'm wondering if the easiest way to do this may be to meet up in the bar at the marriott then discuss where to go from there?