I just returned from Convergence, up in Minneapolis. It was an 1800 person SF con, in a tower hotel, with three elevators. There were no major elevator difficulties. One elevator was malfunctioning Saturday morning, but it was quickly repaired.
As far as hotels being freaked out by all the 'furry weirdos'...Convergence had taken over this hotel. There were signs advertising parties plastered on every vertical surface in the hotel. There were loud, raucous parties on the two party floors (which happened to be poolside cabana rooms...the best party setup I have ever seen) until 4 or 5 am both Friday and Saturday night. There were Klingons. There were scantily-clad people. There were fanboys of the extreme type. There were really bizzare-looking people, doing really odd things. There was a huge, helium filled UFO balloon hovering over the pool area all weekend.
And the hotel loves this convention. The convention loves the hotel. Convergence makes this hotel a shitload of money every year, and as such, the hotel gives the convention pretty much anything they want.
Just some extra datapoints. Furry conventions are not weirder than SF conventions; that's just a false argument. All I know is that Anthrocon (yeah, I'm attending two conventions in two weeks. I'm insane.) has a really hard act to follow.
I just returned from Convergence, up in Minneapolis. It was an 1800 person SF con, in a tower hotel, with three elevators. There were no major elevator difficulties. One elevator was malfunctioning Saturday morning, but it was quickly repaired.
As far as hotels being freaked out by all the 'furry weirdos'...Convergence had taken over this hotel. There were signs advertising parties plastered on every vertical surface in the hotel. There were loud, raucous parties on the two party floors (which happened to be poolside cabana rooms...the best party setup I have ever seen) until 4 or 5 am both Friday and Saturday night. There were Klingons. There were scantily-clad people. There were fanboys of the extreme type. There were really bizzare-looking people, doing really odd things. There was a huge, helium filled UFO balloon hovering over the pool area all weekend.
And the hotel loves this convention. The convention loves the hotel. Convergence makes this hotel a shitload of money every year, and as such, the hotel gives the convention pretty much anything they want.
Just some extra datapoints. Furry conventions are not weirder than SF conventions; that's just a false argument. All I know is that Anthrocon (yeah, I'm attending two conventions in two weeks. I'm insane.) has a really hard act to follow.