Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:50:01 -0500
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: An infrequently asked question
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Michael Walsh wrote:
>>sgs at aginc.net 12/16/04 10:57:33 AM >>>

>>Most Unicons were at the Sheraton Silver Spring; a real pit of
>>a hotel
>>if there ever was one.  Of the local con hotels, only the
>>Hostility
>>House had worse management.  The current (Hilton)
>>management is a great
>>improvement.
>
> Some of the attendees back then were a little under aged and over
> alchoholed.  And in one year the con shared the hotel with, I believe,
> Boy Scouts.  Yikes.

The Unicon with the Boy Scouts was probably the worst Unicon at the
Sheraton, but the worst overall was the first Malice Domestic.  The
hotel ended up getting their Sheraton franchise yanked because of it.
Turns out that the person at HQ handling complaints was a mystery fan;
after getting nasty letters from about ten of her favorite authors, she
started an investigation.  Turns out things were even worse than the
letters had implied.

Turns out that the Sheraton was under renovation; suppposedly to be
finished well before the con.  It wasn't; they ended up putting people
in rooms with no carpet, rooms where the carpet had just been laid and
reeked of carpet glue, and (the champion) at least one room with no water.

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Steve Smith                                    sgs at aginc dot net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."