Westercon 74 Work Day

Those people who arrived a day early here in Tonopah met over lunch at the Tonopah Station Hotel, after which some of us including our hotel liaison, along with Lisa and me, met with the Mizpah-Belvada hotel sales manager. There, we went over a pile of things we needed to review. Nothing to worry about; just a lot of details to get right. We learned that of the 40 rooms in the Belvada Hotel (all of which are blocked for our convention), 34 are reserved. If you are still dithering and want to stay in the hotel closest to the Tonopah Convention Center, I suggest you book your room now. Remember to use the convention's promo code, which is on the Westercon 74 hotels page. There are more rooms available at the Mizpah Hotel, and at the Old Brewery Hostel (all three properties are under the same management). There are lots of other hotels in Tonopah, all of which are listed on the Westercon 74 hotels page, but not an infinite number of them, and once the town's 500 hotel rooms book up, there aren't any more to be had.

Later in the afternoon, we met with the Tonopah Convention Center and once again went over details. Things look pretty good. They understand more about what we want, and we learned some more about what they have that we can use. If I'm being cagey, it's because some of the things we came up with today haven't been finalized yet.

Some of us went to dinner at the Tonopah Brewing Company, which is excellent. I bought too much food, but brought some of it back with me in a to-go container, since we have the kitchenette including a mini-fridge. A few of us after dinner came back to the Belvada Hotel, where we were able to sit with decent distancing in the comfortable lobby furniture and talk about all manner of things until it clearly was time for us to get some sleep before we need to be at it again tomorrow morning for the actual official meeting day. I'll have more to say about that tomorrow.