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[cyrano]

I'm strongly considering attending AmberCon, despite knowing very little about Amber. If anyone has advice, information, accomodations to share, or the like, feel free to let me know.

EDIT:
I should have been more clear. I meant advice about attending the Con.

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[mnarra.livejournal.com]

Come. I've been once, yearn to go again, and believe that you will not only love the con but I'll get Coyote-time, so everyone wins!

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I remember dropping you off there on the way to OryCon. Did you stay in the dorms, or a gaming room? Did you see them? Is the money saved worth it, do you think?

[mnarra.livejournal.com]

I have stayed in the rooms, I have stayed in the hostel dorms. I've never been crowded, had to wait for the bathroom, or been disturbed. If Shannon were with me, I'd take a room. If it was nearly anyone else, a hostel dorm would be fine for most purposes.

YMM, of course, V.

Staying anywhere at Edgefield is simply cool beyond words. Going for Ambercon is icing on the cake.

[zdashamber.livejournal.com]

I've stayed in the hostel! Though admittedly, it was the women's hostel. I'm pretty sure the men's hostel is a mirror image. Anyway, I think it's fine. You walk in and you're at the end of the short arm of an L-shaped room. In front of you is a small sitting area by the window, with a couple lamps and a few chairs and a table, and you can get wireless internet there, which isn't possible in every room. To your right will be two bunk beds on the short arm of the L and then around the corner, four more bunk beds. Scattered between the beds are a couple chairs and lamps. The lockers are along the inside wall, wooden cabinets about 1.5'x6', with a shelf at the top and a hang bar below; they lock with a key.

The beds are solid wood, twin sized mattress resting on solid plywood, reasonably comfortable. They have a lower sheet and upper sheet on them, I think, with the blanket folded up along with folded towels/washcloths/bathmats. If you get there Thursday there are is usually maybe only one other person there, also probably with the convention, so you can check out every single pillow to steal the one you like best. The busiest night is Saturday; in the women's hostel the most people I saw then was I think 11, and the least perhaps 4.

The two big annoyances: on a busy night, it happened that I came in early and made up a bed for myself on a lower bunk (because you do have to put the blanket on and arrange it just so), and draped my dressing gown over it and everything, and then came back at 1 in the morning after gaming and drinking to find some fucking jackass rotting in my bed, so I had to make up another bed on an upper bunk while trying to wake as few people as possible. The second annoyance: some people are fucking idiots who don't know how to hostel, and they come in at 1 in the morning and flip on the lights and chat drunkenly with their buddy while making the bed they should have made earlier. And then they talk to you in the morning about how they could have scored if they had their own room. When you just want to fucking get the hell away from them. GRRRA! But most of the people who make it all the way out to the Edgefield are dedicated and smart enough to find the place, so those idiots are less likely to appear.

Tips: get an upper bunk in the dark back area, and then you can rely on its location, and also no one will wake you by climbing up it. Bring a LED headlamp so you don't have to turn on the lights. Have your evening shaving stuff/morning dressing stuff/etc encapsulated the previous afternoon so that you can be in and out of the hostel room once, in a few minutes.

Also, you should totally come. You'd fit right in, and everyone would love you, and you'd love everyone.