The Dreaded Waitlist

So, as I stated before, I had originally put in for a hotel room for Comic Con. Their way of getting a hotel room is/was as daffy a scenario as I could possibly concoct but it was the only way of getting a hotel room as you could try to check Expedia or one of the other search engines for hotel rooms and try to reserve one (which I tried a few months back) and you only get the "sorry, no available rooms for that date" box.

In the ongoing saga which is the additional hotel room scenario, I received an email for the email address I used when asking for an additional hotel room at 10:30 a.m. the day of reservations for hotel rooms off the Comic Con site.

The email I received stated that we still cannot find you a hotel room but you are now on a waitlist. They go further stating, we know you want to have a hotel room and we are sure that many people made duplicate hotel rooms until they found their perfect hotel room and will be canceling the duplicates. However, since we made the new policy of paying for an evening's room and tax, we are not sure exactly how many are duplicates but you are on a waitlist anyway. If you don't want to be on the waitlist (and essentially don't wany any hotel room within 10 miles of Comic Con), then let us know and we will gladly take you off.

So what is a person, who placed their reservation order at anywhere from 15 minutes (or 9:15 a.m.) on supposed to do if they want a hotel room and there are none available? Perhaps not asking for 12 responses in hotel rooms or finding another way to do this might be in order. I'm sure that the reserving of hotel rooms is NOT Comic Con's problem and I'm sure they take great strides to make sure that their paying guests find hotel rooms because it would not make sense if they didn't considering the number of people who obviously attend this convention every year, but what is a person supposed to do if they can't find adequate room and board?

I can talk like this because I do have a hotel room reserved but for those poor souls who don't and are traveling to get there (we are traveling for 8+ hours), they should have some place to stay. While San Diego is a big city and there are numerous places to stay, this is terrible for someone who wants to join this convention and would have to travel miles just to go every day, let alone have to find parking, pay for the parking and then travel back to their hotel room.

The dreaded waitlist saga continues. Let's see what they'll do next to accommodate us shall we?