I’m happy to say (I think) that I am officially too old to go dog-piling into a hotel room with five or six of my closest friends. My back can’t handle floors the way it used to, and I need space to spread out.
I’d love to hear some of your favorite “crammed in a hotel room at a con” stories that anyone might care to share!
Hotel my ass… try sleeping in the van!
Or kicking the guy who laid claim to the bathtub for his bed out so you could shower.
We were 4 guys in one hostel room. we had like 2 beds together where 3 people slept. The other one had to sleep in bathroom floor. The most epic time, was when i had to go take a dump and took it while the other guy slept. What’s funny there? I didn’t flushed. I locked the door and made enough noise to wake him up, and let him suffer with the foul discovery he was about to make.
That or another of our friends being so religious, that even when we killed a bug or even a fly, he would hit us hard, saying that it was a life, and it shouldn’t be killed.
And then before dinner he almost swallows a fly and starts hitting himself xD.
Well, its not exactly yhe same, but myself and four gaming buddies once drove 13hrs to GenCon crammed in a pretty small car. That we are all still friends says alot about our friendship I think. Some spooning did occur as well…
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I have yet to experience the platonic co-ed con room sharing.
Are you suggesting that Miyoko, Babs, Jason, Arthur, and Skip are going to be involved in some co-ed spooning?
No real platonic room-sharing stories here, although one SDCC the wife and I had to share a really small bed due to hotel overbooking (our first investment as a married couple was a biiiiig mattress) (we like to sprawl). One night, there’s a massive THUD! and my wife wakes up to find me sitting on the floor. That’s about the best story I can give you…
ah, what we’ll do to save a buck. just spent two nights in a hotel room in oregon with 5 other people for a wedding, and now about to do the same with 5 other people in vegas. cramming just helps you to get to know your friends a little more… physically.
I’ve roomed a few times with Stan… he’s awesome and smells like mints…
Yeah, condiMINTS from all of the fast food crap rolling around the car on the road trip out.
Our record for cramming people into a room, Katsucon 2007 at the omnisheraton….Fourteen people
it….
was..
COZY….
We alternated beds and had an air mattress and two chairs….rooms were HUGE
Wow! Impressive!
I think we packed 7 or 8 of us into a room at Dragon Con about 15 years ago. I think it was a little bigger than a typical room, but crowded regardless. And don’t get me started on the bathroom.
We had 6 guys packed into a suite at the Best Western in Chicago for Wizard World Chicago a few years back. There was a king-sized bed being shared by 3 of the guys, we had 2 rollaways, and I slept on the floor (which was the best thing I could’ve done, since my back was killing me from our non-stop road trip — fixed my back).
The drive was way more interesting — since many of our crew were bachelors in the truest sense of the word. Bologna dipped in a jar of mayo in Iowa in August with no refrigeration — ’nuff said.
I love you Stan, but I am now Mildly ill…
Mind you, I wasn’t eating that.