My Guide to the San Diego Comic Con

According to the nifty graph at the Con's web site, four day passes are completely sold out. Saturday passes appear to be at the 60% mark.

Time is running out, if you plan on going, register now, before they're gone. As the site says, no badges will be sold on site.

Update June 16: Saturday is now sold out. Still plenty of tickets for Thurday, Friday and Sunday, though.  Hurry, hurry, hurry.

Update July 12: Friday has been sold out for nearly a week now, Thursday is catching up fast.  It looks like it'll be a complete sell out. 

In the newest update, I've collected some info about the hotels that were offered through the Con's travel agency. While it's stuff that's easily available out on the web, it would take a bit of work to find and compare. Hopefully, this stuff will more useful when housing opens up for next year's Comic-Con. Don't expect really detailed information, I'm not trying to compete with the likes of Priceline or Hotels.com.

Included are links to the actual hotels, and Goggle maps showing how to get from the hotel to the Comic-Con. The maps are not perfect, as they show driving routes to the Comic-Con rather than the best walking directions. In some cases, they go out of the way, due to various one-way streets in downtown San Diego. But they do give a good idea of what to expect.

Hopefully, I'll figure out the Google Maps API enough that I'll be able to offer some nicities like overlaying the shuttle routes.

I finally got to work and put up the rest of my pictures for 2007.  I also found the secret hiding place of my missing 2006 pictures, which was on my friend laptop I had borrowed.  At this point, I'm still trying to identify some of the pictures and add links as such (I need to take better notes), but at least now you can see them. 

Preview Night, 2006

Preview Night, 2007

Day 2, 2007 

Day 3, 2007

Day 4, 2007

And the all important, Masquerade, 2007, with over 200 pictures. 

 Con Housing is open , not that it will do you much good at this point.  Anything closer than a mile is gone.  And even now, four and a half hours later, TPHousing's server is still flaky as hell.

Yeah, that was a lot of fun .  Still, I was able to get a room for the Con.  It's not the room I wanted, but it is the room that many people would kill for.  After about 50 minutes of clicking, I got a room at the San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina.  Yes, right next to the Con.  I "lost" four rooms due to the poor state of the servers, though.  Click, wait, 

 Of course, as if the significant price increase the hotels hit us with wasn't enough,  the hotel tax rate went up from 10.5% to 12.5% on January first of this year.

  To be honest, this is about the same trouble I had last year, where once I got all the way to the "Clicked to confirm" button, only to have the server crash on me.  It really shouldn't be a surprise for Travel Planners to have such a response by now.