I don't know if I posted this previously, but here's a tip I might follow this year.Unload your stuff at the hotel, and if there isn't any parking left (or if you don't want to pay like 20 bucks a day!), after unloading head up to the MARTA station on Lindbergh. You can park there safely for the whole weekend much more cheaply ($7 a day!), and then pop back down via MARTA. Honestly, you won't need your car the rest of the weekend. Even when I lived in Atlanta, the Jeep was parked and never moved until I was going back to Alpharetta. http://www.itsmarta.com/getthere/stations/lindbergh.htmThen come Monday morn, get your stuff downstairs (which is a total pain, btw), have someone babysit it while you go fetch the car at MARTA. You'll be taking the train from Peachtree Center, which is like a block or two away from the host hotels, back to Lindbergh to the get the car. Obviously, after parking at Lindbergh, you head TO Peachtree Center to get to the con. Obviously, just like you'd do at the hotel parking, keep valuables out of sight. Car is perfectly safe, though, and if you stay all four nights, you save like $70 on parking and tipping alone.
Yeah, these are REALLY good points. I know I will still end up parking in the parking garage, just so I could get to the car if I wanted to... and may even load up some stuff Sunday night - but the smarter thing to do would be what you have said here.
Quote from: Trathor on June 09, 2009, 07:24:11 PMYeah, these are REALLY good points. I know I will still end up parking in the parking garage, just so I could get to the car if I wanted to... and may even load up some stuff Sunday night - but the smarter thing to do would be what you have said here. They are good saving money points, but it's an inconvenience. You just have to decide on what is best.We typically start loading the car ( in the garage ) Sunday afternoon. We do more on Monday but not until 1800 at least. It is way crazy on Monday. We finish loading all the costumes on Tuesday. We don't leave until Wednesday so we have very little to take to the car by then.
And just to see who is reading this thread, I'm taking orders for "pie" for con. More details on that later, but if you want some, I'm making it again this year and willing to make extra, for only the cost of the ingredients, for those that want some.
Oh, it's totally inconvenient, Martele, but a good option for those on a budget. I can afford to park in the hotel garage, but with many other people sleeping on floors to save money for con, I wanted to give that option. Seventy dollars is a lot!
I don't go to con unless I can afford the whole weekend being able to pay for the room myself, which I am blessed to be able to afford, but then I'm middle-aged and married to a lawyer.
This is my first Dragoncon and I have reservations at the Hilton and the Sheraton. Which one should I stay at?
Quote from: Darkly Noon on June 18, 2009, 04:28:16 PMThis is my first Dragoncon and I have reservations at the Hilton and the Sheraton. Which one should I stay at?I haven't stayed at either hotel but I spend a decent amount of time in the Hilton since the podcasting track is there. Elevator access is pretty good and the rooms there seem nice. No real experience with the Sheraton myself.Kevin