Pro's & Con's of your hotel stay for FanimeCon 2006?

[happysky]

I tipped the maids around 50.00 the first night and was in heaven! Those ladies came before going to sleep and cleaned up, straighen out all our stuff, bought in new towels at least 3 times a day, I swear we were the cleanest people at the con with everyone taking baths around 3 times a day. The ladies even helped us carry out our stuff to our car...

Good times. Great housekeeping. Sadly the didn't speak much english, but they went beyond the call of duty.

$50!? Heck, I'd go beyond the call of duty for that too!! (;

P.S. Leroy, do you know if it's true that you can request a later check-out time without being charged extra?

[snorlax]

I had a wonderful experience at the Marriott, just like I did last year.

Our room was amazing. We were in a corner room on the 19th floor, which made me VERY happy. The view was amazing and there was plenty of room for all of us.

My roommates were all really cool and considerate, no loud entries at 3 AM, no drama, no craziness. Just a ton of fun.

The hotel was very helpful, even though they had no blankets left, they did send us some extra sheets, and that helped us out.

Next year:

1) I'm getting a junior suite with a sofa
2) I'm only having 2 roommates.
3) I want to order for a mini fridge.

that's about it. I had a great stay.

Thanks for the positive feedback. I'm glad to hear that your stay was a nice one but am sorry to hear that the hotel ran out of blankets. I will bring this up with them and see if this is something that can be prevented next year.

As for your requests for next year, I do want to bring to everyone's attention that the Marriott only carries a limited number of mini fridges and they are reserved for those that need it for medical uses.  I'm sorry to be the one to give the bad news on mini fridge requests but hope that everyone understands.

Thanks again.

Leroy

[snorlax]

I got transferred to a king-sized bed room instead of two doubles... I didn't really care, since I was the only one there, but I can imagine that given they sold out, anyone who was supposed to have a king-sized and got stuck with something else is probably pissed off about it.  I'm probably not the only one it happened to, either.  I would've made a fuss, but as I said, it wasn't a big deal to me and I just wanted to crash someplace without waiting around...

Hi there, I would like to follow up with your situation. Can you let me know what hotel you had a reservation for? Also, when you say that you got transferred to a king instead of a dbl/dbl...was this told to you by the front desk at check in? Were you given a king room because the dbl/dbl wasn't ready when you checked in? And if you can provide your confirmation number so that I can look up your reservation, that would be great as well. Should you wish to discuss this off the forum, please feel free to email me at: [email protected]. Thank you.

Leroy

[snorlax]

i shouldnt complain because i wasnt the one who reserved the room (altough i did pitch in a few more dollars than my roomies), but here we go.

hilton got our reservation wrong, trying to give us two rooms w/double beds instead of one. we fixed it up, but we ended up having to stay on a smoking floor, which made sleeping a bit of a problem.

and...yea. the all-too-well-known elevator problems, but thats a given.

the tv's didnt have any a/v outlets, nullifying the use of my roomie's ps2.

everything else was good, though.

Hi there, may I ask you to elaborate a little more on your situation?
I'm trying to figure out how the hotel got your reservation wrong. Were two different reservations made for you? If so, did you make one and your roommate make another one? Or did you each make your own reservation and decide at check in that you wanted to share one room?
Please email me at: [email protected] with your last names and confirmation number(s) so that I can look into this.

Thank you! Leroy

[snorlax]

25th floor .

OUCH! I thought I had it bad, (17th floor and two hurting ankles for me) but wow, man 25th floor. :shock:

No kidding. It wouldn't been bad if I saw angels and Jesus there, but no luck. I will request next year to put me in the lower floor. Oh yea, I asked for a rollaway and they told me it was free when I made the reservation online. When I checked in and asked for the rollaway, they told me it was $10 extra. What gives?  :evil:

Hi there. I just took a look at your online reservation and do not see any request for a roll away bed noted on your reservation. Also, if you made your reservation online, when did you speak to someone about a rollaway bed? Was this person at FanimeCon Housing or at the hotel?

At the Marriott, king bedded rooms with a rollaway and high speed internet combined were sold starting at $115 sgl/dbl occupancy, so I'm a little perplexed to why someone told you that a rollaway was free when the rate was already pre-established.

If you could provide further info, that would be great. Either on here or to: [email protected].

Thank you and I'm sorry that you were given the wrong information.

Leroy

[snorlax]

Overall it was good (7th floor, yay).  Kind of lonely since it was only my brother and I sleeping (but a lot of times just me) in a room with two twin beds. I'd be nice to see how rooming with more people is.
Awesome showers, good and quick house keeping, mini fridge for milk and cold cuts, great beds (and for some reason there was a porno under one before we even got there)

The only bad things were the elevators, not people but the pressure, and losing a fanime shirt and just found out also my teeth retainer.  Does anyone know if we can call or do anything about losing stuff like this?

If you are missing any items or left any behind accidentally at the hotel, please do call them. Housekeeping does keep track and a log of items found and if they have your item, they will send them back to the rightful owners. But the cost of shipping is usually charged to the person that lost or left the item.  

Leroy

[snorlax]

I tipped the maids around 50.00 the first night and was in heaven! Those ladies came before going to sleep and cleaned up, straighen out all our stuff, bought in new towels at least 3 times a day, I swear we were the cleanest people at the con with everyone taking baths around 3 times a day. The ladies even helped us carry out our stuff to our car...

Good times. Great housekeeping. Sadly the didn't speak much english, but they went beyond the call of duty.

$50!? Heck, I'd go beyond the call of duty for that too!! (;

P.S. Leroy, do you know if it's true that you can request a later check-out time without being charged extra?

Yes. Depending on the hotels availability and flexibility, it is possible to get a later check out time without a late check out fee. During busy times, some hotels may not honor late check out because they might need to have housekeeping go in and clean the room for the next guest. If a hotel is able to extend a late check out, it is usually anywhere from 1-2 hours.

Leroy

[Babbit_Chan]

Check out at 11am (Perfer 12pm)

When did you check out? Monday check out was 1PM (for us at least, but my other friends checked out the same time the day before as well)

Like you said, the self serve parking was cheaper than the Marriott - my brother was staying at the Marriott but came to park in the Hilton garage.

I think someone already mentioned the problem with requesting double beds and getting king size instead. We had five people in our room, so we rotated each night, but there was plenty of floorspace which was actually kind of nice. For once we could move and everyone had cornerspace for all of their things.

Other Pros:
-Free wireless (near the internet cafe)
-Refrigerator
-Locks on the bathroom doors

[FanFicGuru]

Marriott also had a late check out policy thing. It was good because I was able to request that we have a bit longer (We got until 2 PM) to check out. THat helped because then we weren't running around, we were still out of there by about 1:15, but the fact that we could do that was awesome.

[Leishu]

The best way I can describe the dealings of the Marriott with my companions and myself is complete incompetence.

First, they didn't bother actually checking our reservation in their system when we arrived, but just took a look at the number and immediately (incorrectly) stated that we had a reservation for the Hilton, forcing us to pack everything up and head over to the Hilton.

Second: The Hilton basically said "No. They're idiots," and sent us back to the Marriott (after calling them and explaining how to use the reservation lookup system to the incompetent desk-staff).

Third: When we got back to the Marriott, it took them a half-hour to process us in and then they ended up double-charging the room to our credit cards.

Fourth: They completely, COMPLETELY ignored the "Do Not Disturb" tags at all times.

[LawyerGirl]

Since Fanime has been held at this location, I have always stayed at the Marriott.  This year was noticeably better than last year for me.  Last year I requested extra towels several times (all of us, fortunately, shower daily), and none were ever provided.  This year, I did the same, and towels were promptly provided whenever I asked.  We had a great room on the end of the hallway (less noise) and room service was prompt as well for my roommate, who ordered it.

The only problem I did have was trying to get my car a couple of times--even though I waited in the lobby near the door, when they brought my car up they failed to notify me, so I ended up waiting for nothing because my car was already brought up and parked in the far corner of the valet parking space!  It wasn't at particularly busy times, too...  :?

Anyway, this year went quite well as far as hotel accommodations go!

[happysky]

oh... and I dunno what the Hilton stocks, but the Marriott had nice Bath & Bodyworks Aromatherapy Citrus somethingsomething Shampoo/Conditioner/Lotion/Soaps. i forgot to grab the unused ones before we left :X.

and thanks for the answer Leroy!! (:

[Sora]

I would have to say that it's the first hotel I've stayed at that has a fridge. :) As to whether I'll stay at the Hilton again remains to be seen, as I've now stayed at both the marriott and the hilton.

[BunofGovt]

I stayed at the Marriott last year and this year and had no problems either time.  This year I got a room on the 8th floor and was able to walk up/down the stairs when I couldn't wait for the elevator.  I was able to snag a fridge last year, but they had run out already by the time I checked in on Friday - I didn't need it after all, though so no prob there.

I like that the Marriott has the Asian film rooms downstairs so I could just run downstairs and hop into one of the rooms (sweet!).  The Corner Cafe Kitchen was not bad, either, the salads were not that expensive and they had a great bag of tortilla strips.

oh... and I dunno what the Hilton stocks, but the Marriott had nice Bath & Bodyworks Aromatherapy Citrus somethingsomething Shampoo/Conditioner/Lotion/Soaps. i forgot to grab the unused ones before we left :X.

Aromatherapy Orange Ginger body lotion, shampoo and conditioner.  Only the body lotion is available for purchase at the Bath & Bodyworks shops, I have checked at several places and even asked at the front desk:  the shampoo and conditioner are only to be had in a room at a Marriott.  :cry:

I managed to get a late checkout on Monday (2:00pm) but was able to get my car from valet, load up all my luggage, and then have it returned it to parking with no problem and not a long wait for the car, either.  So I checked out by 9:00 instead and hung out in the vid rooms, etc.

The maids were very friendly and understanding when I had to go up to my room to change for a gathering on Saturday and offered to come back later to clean up.

Had Cartoon Network (!) and managed to catch Samurai Champloo.  I'll be staying at the Marriott next year too.

[IamTetsuo]

DOH!  I knew I forgot something, I forgot to leave a tip for room service!  :oops:

Stayed at the Marriot, 12th floor loved it.  Very good for waiting until 2 or 3 weeks before the con to get on the waiting list!  Room right around the corner from the elevator and a great view of the "HILT N" sign  :lol:  Bed was comfy, plenty of room space, great curtains (actually too good, had no idea what time it was until I could roll over to the side of the bed where the clock was  :P ).  Liked the fact that the TV had S-Video up front too, even though that I only used it once when my friend brought his laptop up, and then we didn't really watch the TV as we were busy drinking and taking Jell-o shots  :D
The safe was a nice touch made me feel much better about leaving my laptop, cd's, and cash in my room.
As for the lack of a mini fridge, I just brought a cooler and kept it filled with ice from the ice machine.
The bathroom door was weird, I could definatly see that as being a problem if you had roommates.
Was my first time staying in a hotel by myself, I'm definatly going to do it again next year!

[ADORABLEAZN06]

the hotels look very nice, i think i might go one of these 2 hotels next yr

[ip136]

I had an AWESOME time at the Hilton this year. They've most definitely got my business for next year. Sean, the person who checked us in was extremely helpful.
Somehow Fanime Housing had put one room under my name, and the other under my bf's name.. so even though 'joint' rooms were requested, they didn't know what they were joining to so the request wasn't fullfilled. So when I went in to checkin, Sean spent 20 minutes moving single rooms around to make it work. We ended up getting a King size bedroom, but it was even a corner room so it was HUGE and ajoint to two double beds. It worked PERFECTLY!

We were able to get a roll-away in the king bedroom as well to make up for it, and there was enough room in the room to WALTZ if you wanted to. ^_^ *heart*
We were also able to get a microwave for the room, and they were both equipped with fridges right off the bat. As for check-out the front desk lady was very nice, thought probably stressed, and b/c of the back-up of so many people checking out, we were able to chill in our room past the check-out time until a bellhop came up.
Oh! And we just brought a t.v. to hook-up and play games on. The tables were large enough to have the t.v. and snacks on it. ^_^
Also! There wasn't anywhere NEAR the jam packing in the elevators, that I noticed at least.

The only con is, when we went back up to the room to officially check-out there were men in our room taking apart the beds for some reason or another. When they asked us why we were there, I said to call in our check out, they told us we were checked out, I asked if they had checked us out and they said 'no'... Then one of the men took all of the key cards I had left on the desk. But I told the front office that they entered before they should have, and that one of them took the card keys. I haven't been charged for the room yet on my card, but I'll probably keep an eye for it just in case they try to charge us. That's probably my only concern *^_^* other than that..

Hilton = Awesome

[Glitch]

pros:
No charge for the microwave.Yummy warm food ready for us on that. ^^
Two free water bottles each day.
Courteous staff.

Cons:
Parking.We had a hilton pass to go in and out.But there wasn't a guy there to let us out.We spoke to him through the intercom and he never came out.
Stairs and elevators.The stairs in the hilton were only for emergencies.We were on the thirdfloor.the convention was right there merely on the second floor.Using the stairs would have saved us from the nightmarish game of waiting for the elevators.Our room was right on the next floor!!!
The pool right next to our window.We always heard loud people next to us due to only being seperated by a window.And we had to have the shades closed to keep certain people from peering in on us.

[Tuplica]

What kinds of problems were people having with the elevators at the Hilton, other than the third-floor issue?  I know they were a bit crowded this year at times, but I never saw them as bad as the Mariott elevators were in prior years.  Although I did experience the' pressure' issue I think someone mentioned before... had a few dizzy spells on them, especially with the frequent starts and stops.

[Kegan_Flame]

I stayed at the Hilton with two other people.. i loved it, direct acces to the con, room was easy to get to, good pricing & the bed was SOOOO comphy!!! I really thought it was a great experince overall..