podfication | Lodging Finder Post!

For folks not in easy driving distance of the Twin Cities, you can use this post to find roommates to share a hotel room with or connect up with some of the locals who are able to host some attendees for the weekend!

The GPS Community Center is located at 1121 NE Jackson St., Minneapolis MN 55413. There are quite a few hotels in downtown Minneapolis that are an easy bus ride away. Google Maps should be able to give you the logistical lowdown on that, depending on which hotel you're looking up. Metro Transit also has your back.

Note: You may be tempted to stay at the University Inn off of 4th St as it's the closest hotel to the center, but trust me and do not do the thing. Maybe something has changed in the last decade since I lived in that area, but I know it as a place to avoid and am thus passing on this important info.

Locals, if you have some guest rooms or couch space you're able to spare, please chime in! Any space available at an individual's home is at their discretion, of course.

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I'd be interested in Airbnb as that seems way better for my price range and could be quite fun to have a house to gather at.
I've used Airbnb a fair bit and had great luck going by reviews. The 8 person place looks like it might be a great fit if it's close. The 2-5 person appt/loft might be a bit small if we fill to the 5 person capacity? Sad the 16 person place doesn't have reviews it'd be awesome to have 16 of us all together but I'm definitely leery of signing up for anywhere without reviews esp if reviews for other properties by the owner are a mixed bag. I haven't looked into location on any of these.

Okay, my new proposal is this place which should be SUPER close to the meetup space. I say we get it for four people: you, me, paraka, shmaylor. That would be $474 total, which is $60 per person per night. If a fifth or sixth person wants to get in, they could. Cost goes up with more people, so with 5 people it would be $53 per person per night and with 6 it would be $49 per person per night. I'm assuming the days would be Friday to Sun, which would mean check-in Friday at 3:00 PM and check-out Sunday at 11:00 AM. If people wanted to stay Sunday night and check out Monday morning, that would be something worth discussing, though I personally have to be back at work on Monday so I couldn't.

What do you think? If it looks good and all agree, I could go ahead and book it and if more people wanted to jump in I'm sure we could email the airbnb people to update the numbers later...

I love this idea! So much that I almost don't want to stay at my own house. :) :)

That sounds like a great idea! The house looks really nice. I'll also be heading back to work on Monday, so I won't be staying Sunday night either.

My only question about that particular rental is that it looks like it has two queen beds and one queen air mattress. Are people okay with sharing beds? I'm cool with it, but I just wanted to check. Another option would be to bring extra air mattresses. I've got one that would probably fit in my carry-on. (Oh, and I guess there are couches as well, but I am Too Tall for sleeping on couches, so I don't tend to think of them as sleeping spaces)

I think those are all good options. I'm cool with sleeping on a couch, and I'm also very comfortable with sharing a queen bed, if there is anyone who doesn't mind sharing with me! If everybody agrees to the rental, then I guess we can figure out the sleeping arrangements from there.

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Whoo! I'm super excited, emailing you now!

This is a bit outside my price range, I'm going to take RevolutionaryJo up on their offer down thread since then I can save money for food. I saw Reena offered up thread to be your hotel buddy, perhaps she'll want to join in for Fangirl house excellence?

Nah, Reena opted to stay with a local as well. I guess I'll sit back for a bit and see how things develop and then decide whether to go with airbnb or hotel from there!

I located the address of this place with a little bit of creeping and I LOVE THIS IDEA. I love this for multiple reasons, partly selfish:

Because I'd be so close, I have a full size (I think??) air mattress it'd be super easy to get to you guys to use if needed. Also, if people need to stash luggage at my place on Sunday, they'd be welcome to.

I also have a car, which can be taken (either by me or someone else) to make runs to the Target & 24 hour grocery store like 5 minutes up the road, or the liquor store (about 10 minutes in the other direction).

Since there would be at least 4 people here, and me + the 2 people staying with me (and my fannish, podficcing roommate) like 5 blocks away, while it's not quite the "all in the same hotel" feel, it would indeed be a critical mass of fangirls all in a relatively small--certainly walkable--area.

I'd be in for joining on a pod-house, and that should be within my price range (more in my price range with 6 but I can swing it with 4 too). I can provide not-serial-killer character references upon request. :)

Our reservation is approved. Not sure if you saw the last thing I said since I edited it into my comment rather than posting a new comment, but can you email me your contact info (name and email address) so you I can add you to the reservation on Airbnb?

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