Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Anime Expo Hotel Information  (Repost)
From: shogun@sutro.SFSU.EDU (Mike M. Tatsugawa)
Date: 8 Jan 93 01:21:59 PST
Distribution: world
Organization: The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation


As long as we are on this SiliCon/AA thread, I might as well describe
the hotel at Anime Expo.  Anime Expo will be hosted in the Oakland
Convention Center and Parc Oakland Hotel.  We are in the financial
district of Oakland (insuring safety and lots of nearby banks) and are
on the border of Chinatown (lots of CHEAP food.)  I would say that
there are about 50 places to eat within a five block radius of the
hotel, so saving money and eating well will be no problem.

Because of the rapid growth of Expo, we are moving to the OCC because
it is in the heart of the Bay Area.  Almost everything (except San
Jose) is connected to the Oakland Convention Center via the Bay Area
Rapid Transit System (BART) a type of pseudo-subway system the holds
the Bay Area infrastructure together.  You can enter the BART station
at OCC and $1.55 and 10 minutes later, pop out at the downtown
shopping district in San Francisco or $.80 and 5 minutes later, be at
U.C. Berkeley.  You can clearly see the advantage in terms of getting
fans to the Expo and visitors to other site-seeing areas in the Bay
Area.

The Oakland Convention Center and the Parc Oakland Hotel will be the
crown jewel of Expo.  We are currently looking at moving the Dealers'
Room to the West Hall of OCC, resulting in about 25,000 square feet of
dealers' space.  This means that the dealers room will be more than
three times the size of the dealers' room at Anime Expo '92.  With the
quantity of dealers who have expressed an interest in being at Expo,
we believe that everything will fit in nicely.  There is also a
refreshment stand and eating area in the dealers' room as well.

The Art Show will also be housed in the West Hall.  It should be
featuring both models and art work and will take up about 7,500 square
feet of space.  This means that the art show will be three times
larger than the art show last year.  With the spectacular prizes
offered by Newtype Hobbies & Toys, we believe that there may be over
200 modeling entries in just that aspect of the show!

The Live Programming Room will be housed in the East Hall.  This room
is about 15,000 square feet and seats about 1,000.  This would make it
twice the size of last year's Live Programming Room.  The Secondary
Programming Room is in the Parc Oakland Hotel and will be larger than
last year's Secondary Programming Room.

Video and Film will be housed in larger rooms as well.  Expect to see
up to FIVE tracks of video running at the same time during the day.
Two will be the 24hr tracks that you have grown accustomed to seeing.

In all, Expo will have control over the entire Oakland Convention
Center and Parc Oakland Hotel.  This totals to more than 75,000 square
feet, or about three times more space than we had last year.  Of
course, floor plans aren't locked in stone yet and thing can change,
but we just wanted to give everyone a feel for the hotel.

If any of you have attended San Diego Comic Convention or WonderCon,
then you know what the feel for Expo will be like, but we will be on a
much smaller scale.  (I think the fans will be much more behaved as
well.)

If there are any questions, please feel free to ask.  That's what
we're here for...


Mike
-- 
Mike Tatsugawa, AKA shogun: The busiest anime fan in the world!
President, SPJA:  2425 B Channing, Suite 684, Brk, CA 94704
Publicity Coordinator, Anime Expo '93