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- Don’t Use Third-Party Links in Email – Object Lesson: Comic-Con Registration
A click tracker that couldn’t hold up to the strain of Comic-Con registration prevented thousands of potential attendees from getting into the system in time.
- Comic-Con Hotel Deadline & Second Chances
Today’s the last day to cancel a hotel reservation with no penalty, so rooms should free up soon. If you’re waitlisted, you may have a second chance at a hotel.
- How to Get a Hotel for Comic-Con
Planning to go to San Diego, but couldn’t get a hotel room through the convention? Here are some things you can try to find a place to stay during the con.
- Comic-Con Hotel Experience: 2010
After 8 hours I finally got my hotel confirmation. It wasn’t one of the 12 I’d requested, but it’s downtown. Here’s what happened, from what I could see.
- Comic-Con Hotels 2010: Reviewing the Reservation Form
Travel Planners finally streamlined the process to minimize the impact of the massive traffic spike that always accompanies Comic-Con reservations.
- Pre-Game Thoughts on the New Comic-Con Hotel Procedure
SDCC used to let you pick your hotel from the rooms still available, then crash. Now you’ll submit a list of choices and wait to hear back from them.
- Comic-Con 2010 Hotel Block Opens March 18
SDCC and Travel Planners are making some interesting changes to the hotel registration system to fix some of last year’s problems. But will they work?
- Comic-Con Hotel Booked – Sort Of (2009)
It took 1 1/2 hours, but I managed to reserve a hotel for this year’s Comic-Con by phone. I never did get through online.
- Comic-Con Hotel Block Opens March 19, 2009
Well, that’s cutting it close with just a few weeks’ warning. It used to be you’d know months ahead. Of course, the con block used to not sell out either.
- Getting a Hotel for Comic Con (2008)
Tomorrow morning at 9:00 PST, rooms in the convention block go on sale for this year’s Comic-Con International. I was going to write up a bunch of tips last week, but CCI beat me to it by launching their own blog, Staying In San Diego. Visit it today, because it’ll probably be swamped tomorrow. (Though […]
- Comic-Con Hotel Booked! (2007)
Jammed phone lines, a busy fax, and an overloaded website turned a 5-minute booking process into an agonizing hour of waiting, timeouts, errors and restarts
- A Few Reservations (Comic-Con 2006)
Comic-Con hotel rooms sold out within hours this year. The crunch is so bad the agency has sent out a plea for people to cancel extra rooms they don’t need.