Due to our variety of programming, we strongly suggest you plan to come all three days of A-Kon and stay at the hotel to make it more convenient for you. The price of your membership is designed to help cover the costs of hotel rental, equipment rental, airfare for guests, and their hotel accommodations. It also covers any fees guests charge for appearing, the vast costs of printing, postage, and logistics. There are several reasons you may want to stay at our host hotel even if you live within 100 miles of it. Also, staying at our host hotel really helps the convention.
Many conventions have deals with the hotel to fill x number of sleeping rooms.
If they make this total, they may receive a discount on the convention space rental, which allows them to pass cost savings on to you in terms of membership fees. A-Kon always strives to negotiate the lowest possible room price with it's host hotel. You should bear in mind, however, that due to A-Kon's size and requirements for all the space we need for the great programming we offer, we cannot use bargain basement hotels. We will get this as low as possible and will try to make some arrangement with lower-priced hotels in the area with shuttle service between them as well. The advance sales help us better determine our budget and have funds available as early as possible to help get lower airfares, increase our advertising, print more flyers, etc.