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So people were running multiple browsers and that worked? Why would they set up a system like that, it seems really unfair.
Any word on why the Coronado hotels were missing from the sale? I checked the Coronado Marriott out of curiosity, they did have some $379 a night rates, but non-cancellable.Also, I liked the addition of the green running person in lieu of the queue numbers, those numbers confused a lot of people in the last sale.
I think I saw on twitter that the Coronado hotel blocks were already 100% booked. My guess is for talent. Same with the Pendry.We have seen hotels appear in the past during the waitlist that were not part of the original sale. Maybe it will happen again?
I think this will happen. I remember in the emails from the Sony leak someone talking about how they needed to confirm their block for the MGH by a certain date or the time would lose them.
We don't know the algorithm OnPeak uses, so this is indeed all speculation. But we do know that OnPeak cites statistics to Comic-Con International that specify the % of attendees who "got placed in a room of their choice."
We were finally able to confirm with onPeak (Director of Product Development, not a phone rep) AFTER the sale (sigh) that they are prioritizing downtown over non-downtown if you selected both. But that would have been good info to know beforehand.
That's cool to know. You guys do such a fantastic job! I'm also curious what the order of preference is, in this (complicated but relevant) situation, if an attendee:1. chose 6 downtown hotels, none of which are available at time of processing, but several other downtown hotels ARE available.2. chose 6 non-downtown hotels, several of which are available at time of processing3. chose the checkbox of, "If none of my preferred hotel choices are available... put me at closest available"My GUESS is, that even with selection of the preference for proximity, and that they say they prioritize downtown, my guess is that in the above scenario, even though there are still downtown hotels available, just not ones you specified, I bet they'll put that submitter in one of the Mission Valley hotels that matched their preference selections. I could be totally wrong on that, but, it seems like the proximity of the hotel doesn't get factored in until "none of (your) preferred hotel choices are available". That scenario is probably encountered by a non-trivial amount of submissions, and the common sense understanding of "prioritizing downtown" would maybe lead someone to expect that, "if there's anything downtown available, give that to me first," but I don't think that's what actually happens. In the above scenario, I think the submitter gets Mission Valley'd. Hence, why I left the non-downtown options blank.
I'm still confused about the waitlist option. It had no other info except to be put on the waitlist. Are they going to do that weird thing where you just go look at whatever is left and pick something like last year? With the 2 waves of confirmations, it feels like you have to make some hard choices: take what you get on may 1 (which might not be what you want), roll the dice and see if you get something may 8, or take a chance with a not explained waitlist.My first thought with the 2 waves is that a lot of downtown hotels will go back into the pool because those who get what they want may 1 will have other group members who cancel/don't deposit. But now I wondee if they give those rooms to the waitlist or to the may 8 group.
This is the dilemma I tried to express a few screens ago.In the past, if you don't take a hotel, you don't get on the waitlist. You just get dropped from the system. The only people on the waitlist in the past were people who got nothing or people who got a hotel they didn't want.That's the way I understood it, but I could be wrong. Maybe you do get on the waitlist if you don't like the hotel they gave you. Maybe someone can expand on that. I've never asked to be on the waitlist.But, now, with two waves, it's unclear whether you take the hotel you don't want, but are in the front of the line on May 8th OR you move to the back of the line.