Costume Con 2008

[bladespark]

I just booked my room for Costume Con 2008. It's in SanJose, at the very same Doubletree that hosts Further Confusion every year.

I have myself and JJ in there, but there's room for two more, so if anybody's interested in rooming with me, drop me a line.

If you need more info about Costume Con, you can visit the CC26 website or just ask me about it!

Edit - FC roomies called off on account of STUPID. I was an idiot, now can we all QUIT RUBBING IT IN?

Comments

[harliquinnraver.livejournal.com]

i thought FC was in San Jose. surely it cant be the very same hotel?

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Brainfart. It's in SanJose!

[harliquinnraver.livejournal.com]

XD ah ok. how much is it and when? we dont live far from there. :)

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Which one?

CC is $85 just now. (It's one of the more expensive cons. It'll be $100 at the door.) It's April 25-28, 2008.

FC you may know already, it's $40, and is Jan 24-28.

[harliquinnraver.livejournal.com]

ill be at FC 09 i think. doubt we can make 08

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

*nods* I'll look forward to seeing you there. Barring the unexpected, I shall be at 09 as well.

[harliquinnraver.livejournal.com]

yay! :)

[lanabananaotter.livejournal.com]

That's right on my birthday! Maybe I can convince my mom to let me go as a birthday present! :O She doesn't realy trust the average furry, but she thinks you're cool, so I'm sure rooming with you wouldn't be a problem! That's so cool!

I'll get back to you soon...

[lanabananaotter.livejournal.com]

P.S.- I mean at Costume con.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Ah. Costume Con isn't a furry con at all. I'll probably be one of three fursuiters at the entire event! It's for professional costume makers, and dedicated amateurs. Mostly historical people, actually. The sheer number of hoopskirts and dresses with huge bustles at the thing sometimes makes the halls nearly impassible!

[lanabananaotter.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much what I'm looking for.
Furry really isn't the hugest thing in my life, but costuming appeals to me like none other! :3
I'd love to attend, it would just be so fun! I'd like to experience a costume convention ahead of a furry convention.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Awesome! I went to my first CC more or less by happy accident, it happened to actually be held in the town I lived at at the time. (It floats, new location every year.) I had such a blast I knew I'd have to go back again, but I wasn't able to make the last two, they were both too far off, and at times when I was broke.

[bovil.livejournal.com]

Ogden was a pretty good con...

We're trying to convince the fursuiters that they're really welcome at Costume-Con. I expect in San Jose we'll have more fursuiters than usual, because there are more local fursuiters.

There's usually been a good balance between historical and SF/Fantasy costume at Costume-Con, and the professionals are definitely in the minority. The SF/Fantasy competition has always been bigger than the Historical competition. Check out The Costume-Con Visual Archives (http://www.costume-con.org/) to get a feel for the competitions in other years.

That said, this is California, and there will be a huge number of historical costumers at CC26.

[beetlecat.livejournal.com]

I'll be going. Booked a room a long time ago on the fursuit floor, but haven't bothered looking for people to fill it. Figured I'd worry about that later :D

[beetlecat.livejournal.com]

I'm going to FC, I mean. Costume Con would be amazing, but I can only think about con at a time right now. Too far away.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

*nods* I've known I wanted to go to CC since they announced the location back in 2005. I bought my con attendance ticket in 2006. *grins* There's no freaking way I'm missing it. Now I just have to hope I can actually get my costume done for it!

[lanabananaotter.livejournal.com]

Okay, my mom and I are talking about it...

I can't seem to find on the site about how early it starts on the 25, and what time it ends on the 28... could you please tell me? (that's CC)

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

They don't have that info up yet. It'll be in the events area, probably, though there may be a schedule under programming as well. It's still quite a ways away, after all.

My experience is that things won't get swinging much at all on the 25th, just an intro party maybe, but most events will be on the 26 and 27, with a last few things before noon on the 28th, with most people driving/flying home that afternoon and evening.

[lanabananaotter.livejournal.com]

Okay, my mom says I can go!
How much would my share of the room cost? :3

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Hrm. If I'm doing the math right, $74.25. ($99 per night with taxes and stuff, times three nights divided by four people = $74.25 per person for all three nights.)

[lanabananaotter.livejournal.com]

Sounds good. I have a friend who might be interested too. She's doing some musical theatre stuff for the nnext couple of days though.
I guess I'll email you when things get sorted out a bit more. This is going to be so fun! Thanks, SPark. <3 <3

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Yay! Spiffy.

[bovil.livejournal.com]

Gotta love my Costume-Con 26 Google Alert...

I can tell you rough times for start and finish.

Hospitality suite and registration will probably be open already Thursday evening.

Dealers room opens on Friday morning, programming starts around lunchtime. Big social Friday night.

Programming winds up on Monday afternoon, with the "Mouskerade" (dress your stuffed animal for a silly costume competition) at the Monday night post-con party in hospitality.

[kaura-nighthawk.livejournal.com]

Wow, my hometown even. Um. Lemme get back to you on that- first I gotta google "Further Confusion."

[kaura-nighthawk.livejournal.com]

Ah, wait. Nm. I'll be in Napa Valley both times.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Aww, so sad. You would have hilarious fun at a furcon, I bet. Furries are endlessly amusing.

[tarathene.livejournal.com]

So, you actually need two roomies for FC? In the Doubletree or in the Holiday Inn? ^^ I currently have reservation at the Holiday Inn, though not paid yet of course..

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Ah crapit. *pokes* Last year I made reservations for the hotel in October, and got a room! They're sold out ALREADY? I reserved for CC today, and was just now going to reserve for FC. Meh. That sucks!

[tarathene.livejournal.com]

I think they've actually been sold out for a month or so. People probably booked early since even the overflow hotel's block sold out last year too prior to the con. :/ You really almost need to be in the Doubletree I'm sure, with your selling of things, yus? Someone might have room if you can find it, I know you know more people than I do that attend such things! Let me know, though, if you do need room in the Holiday Inn. So far it is only my girlfrend and I so there is an entire bed/half a room unused. Poke me and remind me if you might need it, too, I'll try not to sell all the floor space or anything in the meantime. *grins*

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'll let you know, I guess. *sighs* If I can't get a room at the hotel I may nix my booth and just display fursuits like some of the other suiters do, or something.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Hey, I've decided to change plans. I'll be happy to room with you folks.

[tarathene.livejournal.com]

Ah! Splendid, and such things. I hope we're not annoying roommates or anything. I'll let Yui know and such, though she knows I've been looking for rommates to reduce costs some at least. ^^ Shall we just split the cost 50/50 for the nights we're both there? We'll probably be there a day and night early to actually meet offline pre-con.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me. I'd planned on getting there on Thursday to get registered and all that jazz, so that's when I'd be checking in.

[tarathene.livejournal.com]

Thursday to Monday then for you it sounds like. We'll make sure you can check out after us if needed, if we have to leave for flights sooner, but it shouldn't be a problem. We'll probably only have to go an hour or two before check-out anyway.

It looks like (with the insane 10.06% tax) $49 or so per night (for half). Cash or check at the con works fine, cash preferred if only so I can spend it there on things. ^_~

And no, I don't think you not getting a room in the Doubletree was due to stupid. I procrastinated and even kept checking to see if I still could, and tried waiting until after I found roommates to book room. It ended up selling out the day I finally decided to give up and get one anyway, before they even had it on the FC website (it took 2-3 days for the news to be put up). Last year they kept saying how many rooms were left even for quite a while until they did sell out. This year they seemed to without warning. Thankfully they seem to be moving to a bigger hotel for 2009, so we'll see how things go for that.

Very happy to have you aboard, let us know if there are any questions you have or any concerns you want to address prior to the con! It will be quite good to see you again, too.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Spiffy. Cash at the con I can do quite handily. I can't think of much to address, other than that I'll have at least one fursuit, and have toyed with the idea of bringing the snake, though I probably won't.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

*nudge* Er... I hope this won't upset things, but somebody who has a room in the hotel on the fursuit floor has offered me space, and since I will be suiting, I'd kind of prefer to be there, rather than a quarter mile away.

I thought I'd let you know.