Bouchercon flip-flop

[neadods]

I keep trying to make up my mind about Bouchercon and failing to.

Reasons to go: it's a mystery con within a day's driving distance in which books will be handed out right and left. I won't have another viable chance to attend until Raleigh 2015.

Reasons not to go: I was pretty meh about the one in Baltimore. (I know, I know, different concom every time.) It's a lot of money and time off to drop two weeks after I get back from a long weekend in Stratford, ONT. There is no con hotel.

I'm going to repeat that last, because to be honest, it's the biggest sticking point. There. Is. No. Con. Hotel. The concom has picked a convention center and worked out a deal with hotels in a 3-to-10 block area with convention rates.

The concom, to be blunt, expects every single attendee to be given and/or buy their body weight in books and then haul them by hand for 3 to 10 city blocks.

The mind boggles, it truly does. I mean, I know I'm a rarity, commuting to Malice, and it's awkward sometimes to not have that hotel room to run back to to drop the load, pick up that thing you forgot, even rest for a while. But that's just me. The runners of the Worldcon of the mystery world are expecting their entire attendance to do that!

It's so close. But it's going to be so mind-bogglingly annoying!

Comments

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

The concom has picked a convention center and worked out a deal with hotels in a 3-to-10 block area with convention rates.

Is that unusual in America?

[neadods.livejournal.com]

It's more common to have the convention in a single hotel, or have a main function hotel and satellite hotels (sometimes with shuttle).