Hello, friends!
We have great news for you further down, but first, important hotel stuff! The bad news is that the hotel broke our group code for several days. Any reservations made during that time won’t count toward our contracted total. If we don’t reach our total, it could mean big fines for the con.
The good news is, it’s fairly easy for us to change your room to the group rate: all we need is the first and last name your reservation was booked under, and we can arrange for the hotel to switch you over.
Even if our rate may seem higher than the rate you booked, we confirmed with the hotel that it’s probably not. We negotiated some incredible concessions for our rate:
- All reservations (including ours) have $16 per night added to them upon check-in. This is a hospitality tax implemented by the city of L.A. and is not reflected in the website rates. However, reservations booked through our group rate will have this secret extra charge removed upon check out. So please add $16 per night to the rate you reserved when comparing it to our group rate.
- Many of you were concerned about the high deposit for incidentals pre-authorized on your credit or debit card last year. We initially negotiated a $250 cap on this for the whole stay, but now the hotel has agreed to waive the deposit entirely for rooms booked under our group code this year.
- Regular parking cost at the hotel is going up this year to $60 per night. For rooms booked under our rate this year, it’s only $20 per night. If you’re planning on bringing a car, you’ll want your room booked under our rate. (Fair warning, part of the deal to get the deposit waived means you’ll pay the parking bill upfront as a separate charge from the room.)
- Rooms booked under our group code are cancellable until the night before the convention. Other rates generally don’t have this benefit.
If you want your reservation under the group rate, you can reply to this email with the name used to reserve the room and we’ll take care of it for you.
You can also simply cancel your reservation and re-book online now that our group code CESRCG is working again. However, you may have difficulty if you try to call directly, since the rep likely handles many hotels and won’t have been briefed on the specifics of our situation. The best way is to either handle it online, or let us handle it on your behalf.
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The GREAT News:
After our last email, we received a huge outpouring of support. We’re awed, we’re humbled, and we’re so, so grateful. Some of you are sponsoring new attendees, some are sharing their love for Escapade on Discord, tumblr, and Blue Sky, and many of you donated. Thank you so much. You may make the difference between whether Escapade survives or not.
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More great news!
Agatha All Along and Wicked streaming on Sundays before the convention!
Umber will be hosting showings of Agatha All Along on Sundays, 1/5/25, 1/12/25, and 1/19/25, at 2pm PST (5pm EST). Each showing will be around 2.5 hours.
Kosmi link: https://kosmi.gg/xp51uu
Umber will be hosting a showing of Wicked on Sunday, 1/26/25, at 2pm PST (5pm EST).
Kosmi link: https://kosmi.gg/xp51uu
Join her to check out these popular new fandoms before the convention!
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And even more great news:
The vidshow deadline has been extended to 1/23/25. You now have a couple more weeks to procrastinate. ^_^
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Thank you all for your patience, your kindness, and your generosity. We’re working hard to make this year’s Escapade more fun than ever. We hope to see all of you soon, if not in 2025, then in 2026!
-Escapade Con Com
