We have our hotel!
It's the Hilton Arden West, located only minutes from the state capitol and Old Town. Early arrivals will have fireworks aplenty to ooh and aaaah at! The ginormous Arden Fair Mall awaits your shopping pleasure equally nearby, in case you need a final touch for your hall costume, or just want to check out the enormity of it.
Room pricing is a simple $109/room/night, regardless of size. Parking is complimentary. The hotel is non-smoking, and offers wi-fi, as well as all of the function space we need!
We will make an announcement as soon as the hotel block is open for reservation.
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We're looking, we're looking!
At this time our Hotel and Facilities team is exploring a number of properties in Sacramento, with an eye to both adequate available rooms and function space, and accessibility to nearby local dining and tourist opportunities.
We've already found several promising properties.
And yes, we know it's hot in Sacramento in the middle of July, so we are keeping that in mind during our search, as well!
We'll post more as soon as we know more
How about we just bring tents? Works for the SCA....
At least there are no cow patties like at Mile's house....
I live in sacramento.
One location, if it is available for that weekend, is the Radisson Hotel.
It's large, has hosted various large meetings, has restaurants and a bar, and is away from the downtown traffic glut.
It's located off Hwy 160 and is within walking distance of a Costco.
I know there was a Westercon back in the '80s at the old Red Lion on Arden sway. It's now a Doubletree Inn (The old Sacramento Inn has been re-named "Red Lion"...It's across the street and down a bit from the current Doubletree. Both hotels are located within walking distance or Ardentown Mall and the Arden Marketplace.
Candace
Hi Candace -- yes we're aware of all those places and have in fact visited most of them, plus a few more. Now we're in the exciting step of waiting for them to reply to our requests for proposal, so we can see which might best meet both our needs and our budget.
I enjoyed the convention when it was in Sacramento last time. I remember the hotel being more than adequate for what was then a larger Westercon than we have now. I remember a closeby restaurant called the Peppermill. I thought it was good and had good prices.
That was at what is now the Doubletree Sacramento, out by Arden Fair shopping center. It is one of the several properties we have looked at.