Tag: Hoteloween
San Diego Comic-Con will stay in San Diego through 2027
The San Diego Comic-Con will stay in San Diego for a few more years, as local hotels agreed to make enough rooms available
Surprise! Comic-Con is San Diego’s biggest event
The San Diego Convention Center's annual report reveals Comic-Con's huge economic impact...and how it compares to other events
Hotelpocalypse comes for SPX and NYCC
Getting a hotel room for some popular comics events is becoming a lot harder - and more expensive
SDCC 2023: Hoteloween is here – getting a hotel room for Comic-Con
The annual Comic-Con hotel lottery takes place today, and there are some new wrinkles to navigate.
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 8/6/19: Can The Joker save us from 30-50 feral hogs?
Plus what the heck is being built in downtown San Diego and will there be more hotel rooms?
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 5/10/17: Who fired what now?
§ This column has been absent for the usual reasons, a big deadline on an outside project, travel and the fact that running this site now takes up about half my day. But I've...
San Diego Comic-Con #hoteloween 2016: the terror of the random
The San Diego hotel room lottery, known variously as #hoteloween (by a few old timers) and #hotelpocalypse (by the current generation), took place this morning and it was a terrifying new version that found...
Early bird hotel rooms now available for San Diego Comic-Con 2016
The annual "Early Bird Hotel Room Sale" is on for the San Diego Comic-Con. If you can't stand the stress and heartache of Hoteloween—believed to be held April 5 this year—you can just go...
SDCC ’15: Comic-Con is staying in San Diego! Plus next year’s dates and this...
Life as we know it is going back to normal next year as the dates for SDCC '16 have been revealed and it's back to the normal third week dates of July 21-14....
#hotelpocalypse is over…how will your life continue?
Some people are very upset about how this year's San Diego Comic-Con hotel sale went. But should they be?
#hoteloween: just how fast must you be to get a good room at Comic-Con?
Getting a hotel room for Comic-con is a physical and mental race against the clock. You need to have Nolan Ryan's fastball, Ronda Rousey's reflexes and Edward Snowden's keyboard skills. It's the ultimate test of nerves for nerds.
But some may wonder, just how short IS the window to get a room downtown?