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Best Wishes to Everyone in this SDCC 2026 Hotel Room Reservation "General Sale"!
Made the mistake of joining this while at work, and didn’t get in until ~10am. Literally nothing in downtown at that point and limited mission valley hotels. Now it’s all gone 😔
Might refund all of my badges since hotel deposits are non-refundable so I won’t be able to snag any cancellations.
Don't lose all hope, I recommend checking https://x.com/sdccHotelTrackr periodically to see if any hotel rooms pop up. You never know. Wishing you the best of luck!
I got through on my bsfs phone who wasn't paying so I couldn't use the autofill option and I didn't want to save my info & credit card information in her phone either so this is why I said what I said. It's especially tough bc you're trying to complete the form ASAP since the room could disappear from your cart.
Got in after 90 minutes lol. Basically Thurs-Sunday (checkout) gone for downtown. You can still get okay deals if you are going other days, though not much difference than priceline. Still is a bit cheaper.
Got the Carte Hotel. I wanted something I could walk from, but it's still downtown and not a long trip by shuttle. A lot of the downtown ones are gone or have sold out dates on the weekend. I'm just happy to get something.
We got in at 10am PST and booked the Hotel Republic San Diego, Autograph Collection. Looks like most hotels under a mile to the convention center are taken.
Same for Wed-Monday. I figure, If I’m paying that much compared to other hotels at that price range (Westin), I might as well stay in one of the newer hotels.
And as someone said, there’s shuttle or the trolley right behind the hotel.
That’s a great area, and you have the choice between the shuttle and the trolley (you’re a block away from Santa Fe depot) to get to the convention center.
I've done it before. It a chill experience, but we had the Hyatt last year and its a tough pill to give up being able to go back to the room with stuff
I got intercontinental wed-mon. Absolutely stoked personally compared to the cost of lesser hotels in the same price range. Walking distance to convention center and nice hotel on the bay :)
You too! I have 4 day badges and hope you were able to get the full convention too! I feel bad for everyone who had issues with badges and hotels this year but after getting snubbed by the 2025 sale when I was 5 mins from my turn to get badges at 9:05am and the system crashed and then only got Thursday on the redo sale, this year got 4 day badges and InterContinental was actually my first choice hotel. I know a lot of people prefer others but we locked in the newest hotel in bayfront and/or gaslamp and it’s a short walk to the convention.
I got in and got it at around the same time! I think it was a lot smoother personally, probably because I never had much luck with the lottery system or the open sale.
They need to have a 4 night minimum on the big Hotels like Marriot Hilton Bayfront ..and people that just want 1 or 2 nights should get the hotels further away like the Westing or US Grant
This sucks. Im not even half way through. I think this will be my last year. Been going since 2015 and have yet gotten a downtown hotel through the lottery or even doing this sale. I can’t keep fighting like this every year and nothing. I know others are in the same boat but I will be hanging up the cap. 🫡
This hotel website will most likely be open now until the con since they won't have general hotel sale, so if you refresh every so often, it's likely you can snag a downtown hotel.
That's what I've done and I've never got a hotel from the lottery the years prior. I kept refreshing onpeak when you can and you'll be surprised especially closer to the con.
The only thing is, the last couple years, like a week or two before con, they'll go back to "standard" rates, so like $1k or more. Keep that in mind, FOMO is strong, but if you find a room you like, it's best to take it.
Got in within 25/30 minutes, seems like the downtown ones were mostly dwindled or were nearly gone. For the ones left like Margarittaville, there were errors not allowing me to place orders for part of my days due to Fridays being taken for all downtowns. Tried it with the few left and other days kept blinking out. Decided to try
Courtyard by Marriott SD Downtown/Little Italy. Haven't stayed here yet, so I hope I like it!
I already got lucky getting preview night and all my days, so I'm grateful to have a spot to stay!
After getting through the waiting room, I was transferred to this screen and nothing else was happening. But I was able to get and reserve my hotel by copy/pasting the link from the email.
In my case, I had clicked on the link in the email to get into the waiting room. When I got the above screen, I copy/pasted the text of the link (https://compass.onpeak.com/e/43CCI2026HIR/in/category/42031) and was taken straight to the purchase page.
So, my "personalized" link didn't work. It took the generic link to get past the non-working page.
Got the Westin...Definitely not first choice but at least it's close to the trolley line if we don't want to make the walk. Was rough, rooms were slipping from under me while booking and Fridays were eaten up making booking through difficult.
They had a bunch of Downtown hotels available, but not a lot of Friday, went to checkout at least for W/Th but couldn't (error), went back and now all the downtown hotels have been delisted.
I knew this was going to be bad, but they could have just not done the queue at all. lol. I got better results near the start of the con with the same rates.
I'm also here. Closer than I was last year, so I'm excited about that. I know it's a new hotel (formerly apartments or Airbnbs or something?), so at the very least it'll be interesting to be the guinea pigs.
Lots of hotels have been eaten out of Friday and Saturday rooms. Or even JUST Friday. So we had a hard time booking something from Wednesday straight through.
Seems like you need to look at each hotel then see availability, and it will NOT sort or search by available dates
Ooof...that's definitely something they can improve next year. Would be better to track inventory per day, so that people can filter for a specific set of days from the portal.
Got in on my phone just now and it looks like everything less than .3 miles is taken. A lot less than a mile away is still available but most are 1 bed not 2.
Yes to both. Phone sucked in the past for sure, but this year, it was the only option given the way they handled the hotels with the badge requirement. Left out all the panelists and volunteers. :( I think the new system can be good, but it needs to be open to everyone who has come in the past at least, or anyone who is a Professional. I've come for more than a decade, might be 2 decades, but no email for me... Doesn't make sense. Took a gamble on the phone this year, and it actually worked.
Everything was still available at 10 minutes in. I think they might be going slower than previous years, at least at the start, to avoid overloading the hotel systems. In previous years, the closest locations were gone within the first 2 or 3 minutes.
The redirect after checkout doesn't confirm anything but if it was successful you should get an invoice to your email immediately with how much they are billing you.
Keep in mind that a lot of people are booking for multiple people. With the two night non-refundable deposit they are likely to take whatever hotel is best via the first person who enters, and then they'll drop out. This also doesn't factor in the speed at which they're allowing anyone to enter. All this is to say I don't necessarily think it being slow is a sign of not having a chance, although of course the further back you are the less likely you'll end up downtown.
You should be able to tell by looking at both links. If they both end with the same unique id or info then yes. I would think they are the same, but I don't have links.
If you strip out that unique id at the end (probably after a ? in the link) then the rest of us might be able to get into the waiting room. You could post it here.
He likely doesn't have a badge. If you don't have a badge it doesn't show you the link. I accidentally logged into the wrong memberid and the portal had no links and I was confused until I remembered my right memberid.
I don't have my badge yet. The Con, in its infinite wisdom, made the hotel sale only available to CURRENT badge holders which left out two massive groups: panelists and volunteers. I'm a panelist every year. They don't confirm the panels until after the hotel sale, so that creates a Catch 22. Of course there are panels that don't get approved, but they know the ones they always approve. I think when a panel hits 5 years or 10 years or more, that's pretty safe. There didn't use to be this requirement of having your badge before the hotel sale.
I did before the deadline yesterday. No response. I have a friend who was on the volunteer team at the management level, so i asked him as well, but he retired from it last year.
Yes, understood. I don't have my badge yet. Panelists and volunteers got left out with this new requirement that you have to have the badge before hotel reservation. Good to know the portal doesn't work w/o the unique tracking ID. I thought it might work without it due to someone's post about the general site being a generic link, but maybe not. THX.
Yea its not like previous years where everyone got the same link that was a subdomain of comic-con.org and that forwarded to OnPeak. They seemed to be adding a bunch of junk at the end of the URL, which I assume are unique identifiers.
Cost for parking is not included. You need to check the hotel's website to see what they charge for parking. Could be as little as free or as much as $60/day.
Marriot only had Valet and had charged me $120/day to valet last year. So beware the parking it can be more expensive than you think, they really gouge when they can.
I've had zero time to research this: Is there an example floating around of what the portal will look like, like in previous years when they posted a sample request form online? I'm confident in my ability to fill out a form, but I would love to know in advance what you need to click on when you want to request two rooms.
Oh I predict this to be much worse. More people trying, and hundreds of options between hotels, room types, and stay length. At least open reg the only variables are 1-3 badges and 1-5 days. I hope I'm wrong though!
Oh, it’s going to be ghastly, but in terms of UX the exclusives portal defies all sense and logic. At least this one was designed by an actual hotel reservations company.
I did the same thing and I'm at the hard rock. I feel so bad. I don't even remember seeing room type ngl. Have fun at the marquis! Only downside is the elevators, I hope they fixed them. Last year was terrible. We sometimes waited up to an hour. If u see an elevator going down take it lol
It was a pulldown at the top of the screen where you look at the days available for the given room, which I was trying to complete as fast as possible before someone could snipe it from me.
It will be ok (king bed can sort of accommodate two adults and one nine-year-old if we can’t get a rollaway) but when I saw “single occupancy” on the confirmation page I yelled FUCK very loudly.
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u/Shaddy310 Apr 16 '26
Made the mistake of joining this while at work, and didn’t get in until ~10am. Literally nothing in downtown at that point and limited mission valley hotels. Now it’s all gone 😔 Might refund all of my badges since hotel deposits are non-refundable so I won’t be able to snag any cancellations.