Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:07:20 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Bad Hotel Stories, was Re: An infrequently asked question
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> sgs at aginc.net 12/16/04 11:50:01 AM >>>

>
>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.

When the American Booksellers Asociation was in Las Vegas (1989 I
believe), one of the attendees, having checked in, went to their room,
discovered the door slightly opened, and just above the bed a spray of
red stuff.  Possibly blood.  They asked for a new room.

Oh, at Smofcon, it was mentioned that the Fairmont in San Jose had
signs posted in the sleeping rooms warning people not to use their cell
phones, since they could set off fire alarms.  Gee, guess I'll have to
use the handy hotel phone right there... yeah, right.

& of course, there's the ever beloved Hostility House.

mjw