Wow!

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

I'd heard that the hotel was small, but I had no idea just HOW small it was - I feel like William Shatner at the end of season 2 on original Trek. ^*

Just a suggestion: If there's enough Security available, it would be a great idea to station someone outside the elevator banks on every floor to avoid overloading. And whoever it was who had the idea to require everyone to exit at the top and bottom floors: thank you! "Up to go down" may have been acceptable at the Park Plaza, but it's definitely not an option at the Hyatt.

Looking forward to the next Arisia...and hoping that after that, we'll have a bigger hotel...

PS - One suggestion: since a lot of editions of Clear Ether disappeared kind of quickly, perhaps PDFs could be posted on the Arisia website?

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* - Specifically, right after he took off his girdle.

Comments

[agharta75.livejournal.com]

Well, then this particular hotel doesn't meet convention requirements and shouldn't be used again. Something has to change for next year; last weekend's situation was not only grossly inconvenient but was actually unsafe. If someone had called the fire marshal Saturday morning, when the only visible access to the second floor was a one-person wide broken escalator, the convention would have been shut down. (And, yes, I asked around if there was another stairway. I eventually found the fire stairs, but no one on the first floor seemed to know where they were. )

[redknight.livejournal.com]

The stairs up from the first floor may not have been well marked, but the stairs DOWN from the upper floors (what the fire marshall really cares about) seemed to be well marked with illuminated exit signs.

[quietann.livejournal.com]

If you know of a hotel in the Boston area that is *available*, *reasonably priced* and better than this one, please do let the con-comm know!