[This was recently posted to the Fourth Street Fantasy Convention website and is being cross-posted automatically to this community. You can comment here or there.]
Getting There
Magenta Griffith’s excellent instructions on how to get to the hotel are available on the website; folks may also comment with more info on that post or here on livejournal.
The Lay of the Land
Registration will probably be at a table in the hallway outside of the Courtyard rooms on the first floor. Programming will take place on the first floor in Courtyard rooms 1-4 (which will be merged into one big room); the dealers’ room will be in Courtyard rooms 5 & 6 also on the first floor. The consuite will be in two adjoining suites on the second floor (rooms 226 & 227) which are above the Courtyard rooms; the smoking consuite will be in a room elsewhere on the second floor, and the brunch will be held in the Terrace Room on the second floor.
Confused yet? Have a look at a map of the first floor and a map of the second floor.
Registration
Registration will probably be located on the first floor at a table in the space outside of the Courtyard rooms (where programming & dealers’ room are); if it’s not there, there should be a sign telling you where it is.
Beth Friedman, our head of registration says:
Registration will open around 2 pm on Friday and 9 am on Saturday. Length of hours will depend on amount of business — I reserve the right to close up shop and leave a sign that says “to register, find me in programming or grab me after the panel is over” if things are slow.
Yes, we’re aware that the consuite and dealers’ room are opening at Noon on Friday so will be open before registration is open. Dealers can pick up their badges from Daniel “Stitch” Mohr in the Dealers’ Room. Folks will be able to pick up their badges on Thursday night at the work party/playreading, though we can’t guarantee all the other registration materials will be available then.
If you don’t have a badge or haven’t yet purchased a membership and show up on Friday before Beth gets there to open registration, you’re welcome to check out the Dealers’ Room (once it’s open) or help the folks in the consuite with setting things up (anytime after 10am or so).
Programming
The programming schedule is online and now includes program item descriptions.
Most programming will take place in Courtyard rooms 1-4. The Brunch will be in the Terrace room on the second floor.
- Friday: 3pm ’til 10pm or later with a dinner break from 6pm ’til 7:30pm.
- Saturday: 10am ’til 8:30pm with a lunch break from 12:15pm ’til 1:30pm and a dinner break from 6pm ’til 7:30pm.
- Sunday: 10am ’til 5pm. The Brunch, which is included in your membership, will take place between 11am and 1pm in the Terrace Room.
Dealers’ Room
The Dealers’ Room will be located in Courtyard rooms 5 & 6 on the first floor next to the programming room.
Hours:
- Friday: 12:00pm - 6:00pm
- Saturday: 10:00am - 7:00pm
- Sunday: 10:00am - 6:00pm
A consignment service for book sales is available on a first come, first served basis– check out the Dealers’ Room page for more info.
A Fan’s Gotta Eat
A restaurant guide is now available on the website. Thanks to Kit Gordon for putting this together!
The Sunday Brunch is included in your membership and will run from 11am ’til 1pm on Sunday; the brunch will be located in the Terrace room on the second floor.
Stay Connected
We’ve contracted with the hotel to have wireless internet access for our members in the programming and dealers’ rooms (Courtyard rooms 1-6) from Friday morning ’til 9pm Sunday.
There’s free wireless internet access available at the hotel. Hotel wrangler Jenett says:
The hotel provides free wireless to everyone in the public spaces: the front lobby, a large atrium (including the pool area) outside where programming will be. I’ve gotten access in the hotel restaurant and bar, but I don’t know how far inside that space it goes. I’ve picked it up several times: it seems to be slightly slow, but quite functional. It does not include the consuite. (We figured people that desperate for ‘Net can walk out into the atrium area…)
Weather & Traffic
Fourth Street Elsewhere Online
Members (and folks who wish they were at the con) will surely be posting about the convention in the Fourth Street Livejournal Community. Fourth Street also has an event page on Facebook. I (your humble webmaster Laurel Krahn) may tweet about the convention as @4thSt; if you have useful info or interesting observations you’d like me to post to our twitter account, just let me know. I may retweet some things other congoers are saying, as well. If you post pictures of the con or con-related activities to Flickr, please tag them “fourth street fantasy” so they’re easy for us to find.
We have a Wiki and encourage you to post info and pictures to it. We’ve had some problems with spammers of late and also had some technical difficulties so had to restart the whole thing (seemed reasonable since there was so little content). If you created an account previously, you’ll need to create a new one. At the moment, Laurel Krahn and Kevin G. Austin are the wiki administrators– if you’re good with Wikis and want to join that team, let us know. | 
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