Comic-Con Cruise Ship?
If you’ve ever been to Comic-Con, you are probably aware of how difficult it can be to get a room in town during the Con. Local hotels quickly reach capacity before the convention even starts, making it difficult for our visitors coming from all over the world to attend this huge event. This also means more traffic, as attendees have to commute from increasingly longer distances to get to the Convention Center every day.
Well, “doug” on Comic-Con’s Staying in San Diego blog had a brilliant idea that I’d like to help promote:
“A SOLUTION FOR THIS YEAR’S HOUSING ISSUES?
I know this will sound insane and impossible, but hear me out…Notice how the convention center bumps up against a big body of water right out back? (go ahead, check google maps… i’ll wait) And how there are lots of places to dock a big boat? There are these things called Cruise Ships that have hundreds of rooms in them that can accomodate thousands of people. Some cruise ships handle anywhere from 1500-3000 or more people in them at once. Plus, they have all sorts of amenities and staff right there on the boat.
Imagine CCI booking a cruise ship for a week THAT GOES NOWHERE except sits at the dock behind the convention center. The cruise company spends less money on fuel because they don’t go anywhere. They can staff it mostly in the evenings since mostly everyone will be at the convention center during the day. This would work out for the cruise company in many ways, allowing the cost to be less for CCI, if in fact they’d spend any money at all. The cruise company could write it off as a charitable expense because CCI is non-profit (they’re still non-profit, right?). They aren’t using all of their boats all of the time. They can use this event for training staff before they send them out on real cruises. They can sell tons of food and alcohol and host ballroom rented parties (example: how awesome would the official DC or Marvel party be on a big cruise ship?). Plus, they get to advertise the fun of going on a cruise to a few thousand people all at once, possibly garnering a whole new set of people who might want to take a real cruise sometime in the future…”
To read the full text of doug’s comment, see Hotel Reservations UPDATE… Since Comic-Con completely sold out before it began this year (for the first time), we can all hear the death-knell for our favorite convention in San Diego. When you have more people who want to attend an event than you can accommodate, it’s the obvious time for a change. Bringing a cruise ship in to provide more hotel rooms, decrease traffic, and perhaps even use the ship’s ballroom, theatre, and other facilities to expand the Con would be awesome. This is an idea whose time has come! Photo credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/46258685@N00/1073886997/
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