*chokes*

[agilebrit]

Okay, I just checked the average room rates for the downtown Denver Hyatt that WorldCon has contracted the rooms for?

OUCH, man.

I'm going to start saving now. This...ain't WriterCon. Not by a long shot. This is a whole 'nother level of Con. I'm looking at around a thousand dollars just for the room, food, and the registration--assuming I can find a roommate or two. This isn't taking transportation (such as a car rental) or even getting there into consideration. Plus, walking-around money? Eek!

If I could start getting paid for my writing, that'd be just keen...

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[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm not ruling out going at all. I've checked other hotels in the surrounding area, and the Ramada is eminently doable, and the train goes right by it. So even if I have to room alone, I could stay at that one.

What gets me is that in most of these nose-in-the-air, we're-so-hoity-toity places, you don't get a free breakfast and they want ten bucks a day for internet access, whereas in the cheaper places that I've seen people mock ("Under a hundred bucks a day? UGH! Fleabags!"--seriously, saw that on customers_suck the other day and was gobsmacked), they give you breakfast--sometimes a hot one--and free internet. It's weird.

They'll be posting their con-goer rates in January. But I still need to start saving for it now. This will also score points with the Hubby, who will be more easily persuaded to make up for any shortfall I have if he sees that I'm serious about saving.