From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Balticon in 2006 - Hunt Valley Inn
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:37:05 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 4:21 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Balticon in 2006 - Hunt Valley Inn

> At 03:32 PM 3/14/05 -0500, Michael Walsh wrote:
> >>>>> omni at omniphile.com 3/14/2005 3:19:30 PM >>>
> >
> >snippage occurs
>
> And a good thing too!
>
> >>Say!  Maybe fandom should just pool all our money and buy a hotel?
Then =
>
> >"The Tucker Hotel was based on a suggestion of Bob's, in 1952 when the
> >ChiCon II and its prices signalled the start of the Big Convention =
> >movement,
> >that fans simply build a hotel of their very own for holding conventions
=
> >in, moving it from one site to another as required.
>
> That's not a bad idea, really...
>
> Seriously!  Put the hotel on a cruise ship and dock it in cities as
needed.
>  That would let you hold cons on both the west coast and east coast, as
> well as much of the great lakes region over time.  You could also do
> seagoing cons that go to places like Bermuda for a week...maybe even meet
> AE449!  ;-)

Periodically bids have been placed for cruise-ship Worldcons -- but none
successfully.  I think there are several problems, one of them being
expense, and another the "captive" nature of the con (you couldn't leave
the ship in mid-con).  More recently there seem to be health problems
associated with cruises.

--Ted White