At 03:29 PM 3/15/2009, David Kusumoto wrote:
** Today, Comic-Con is gigantic, with crowds of around 100,000 or
more held at the huge San Diego Convention Center on the harbor --
and though the event still retains its geek factor -- it's far more
inclusive, with tons of stuff for children and movie-related
material and events going constantly. When Comic-Con started, its
only attendees were young adults and grumpy old men. The trouble
today is few can afford to attend Comic-Con. And I understand that
this year's bash is already sold out. In terms of its impact on
traffic and people crowding our streets -- Comic-Con is bigger than
the Super Bowls our city has hosted. Every Comic-Con, locals avoid
downtown. But now that we have a major league baseball stadium
downtown, it's a nightmare.
Comic Con is gigantic but it's actually quite affordable. I've been attending
as a professional since the late 1970s so haven't paid for a membership in
30+ years but I believe a full (four-day) membership is around $65 or $75.
Individual days can be had for as little as $20.
Right now, it's only the four-day memberships that are sold out. There are
oodles of daily memberships still available. Saturday -- being the con's
most crowded day -- still had 75% of its memberships available. The other
days had still higher percentages available. I suspect that will change quite
soon, now that the full memberships are gone. But even buying four one-
day memberships, the freight is only $110. Not free but hardly out of reach
for a high percentage of the population who might be interested.
What is expensive are hotel rooms. San Diego is never a cheap town to
stay in and the hotels take advantage of what events are in town to raise
their prices to see what the traffic will bear. (Personally, I'm not
willing to
pay $200 a night to stay in walking distance of the convention center so I
stay about a mile away, at a very nice little hotel in Little Italy,
for about half
that rate.)
Craig.
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