Newbie Asking About Youth Hostels

tell me if i'm wrong your european? Generally hostels are almost impossible to find in the state save around the appalchian trail. but the good thing is in January Giza will start the share a room forum and that will help you save on room cost big time so just be patient and give it another month. I'm sure then some friendly fur will be moore than willing to split the room cost with you.

I'm actually Australian. The other thing is that the whole share room thing doesn't sit right with me, cause (no offense), you never know what kinda people there are on the net. I'd rather a cheap room somewhere by myself. I'm looking forward to meeting new people at the Con, but I wouldn't feel safe sharing a room with people I have never met face-to-face before, you know?

Thats cool. I'll keep a ear out in case I change my mind, but maybe if someone could tell me of some cheaper places around. $125 a night is pretty steep for one person.

A few comments:

1) Over the years, I've roomed with people who I had not met in person before. I found that if I got to know folks online first, that helped LOTS, insofar as cutting down on surprises. (For example, I roomed with a smoker one year, but because he informed me in advance, I made sure to get a room with a balcony so he could go out and smoke.)

2) Networking networking networking! With the con being 7 months away, now is the time to start asking your friends (and their friends) if anyone else is going to the con. You might just find someone that someone you know knows who is attending.

3) Roomshare forum. Yep, that'll be up in January. See my previous comment about networking.

4) On the subject of cheaper hotels in the area, I feel obligated to point out that Anthrocon's continued existence is contingent on filling our room block in the Westin and OMNI hotels. The way convention business models work here in the US is that conventions such as ours agree to give the hotel(s) a certain number of roomnights, and in return, the hotel provides its function rooms (and guest rooms) at a steep discount. In the event that we ever fail to meet our contracted room block, we are required to make up the difference in revenue to the hotel. Such an event would be a huge hit on our budget, and place the future of the convention in jeopardy.

 
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I've done the backpacking-in-Europe thing before, staying in hostels along the way. I never came across any that offered single-bed rooms; it ranged anywhere between three and ten. Do Australian hostels do the one-bed thing?

Anyway, what the other folks above said. If you're really tight on funds, you can try to "overbook" a room, to split the costs five or six (or more) ways. For that, you need to agree beforehand on who's sleeping on the floor, and you have to be careful that the hotel doesn't find out that there are more than four people in the room. (The extra folks can't have their own room key, for example, nor can they deal directly with the hotel staff.)

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Wouldn't staying at a Hostel be the same as sharing a room with strangers in the hotel? If I remember correctly, Hostels are like dorms that you share with any number of people that you more than likely don't know. I'd say just wait for the room share forum to open up and try to find a roommate or two there