When I was renting scooters, I always made sure ahead of time that I had a scooter reserved for me. I never had any problems getting one.

As you know, Leigh walks with a cane these days. When we inquired, we were told that all of the carts were spoken for and no more were available. As for myself, that kind of distance on concrete floors was why I stopped being a trade magazine journalist. The distances between events were just killing and I spent a lot of time in the Green Room simply because everything was so far away. Net result was that Leigh and I didn’t even try to get to the ConSuite or other events in the hotels and we used cabs to get back and forth to our hotel. Less than ten bucks each way.

Given that it cost us $200 each to attend, I do think the committee should have been just a little more sensitive to these issues. We could have done more had we not been so damn tired from walking those endless Hallways.
At Seaworld these things rent for $35 a day. I would have paid it cheerfully to save Leigh the pain she endured. I can appreciate that the Con needed space for audience members and that programming was full, but, given the so called “graying of FanDom”, the comittee might of have been a little more heads up. The scale of that place to so large that the security and maintenance people use Segways to get around quickly. Renting Segways might have been another option.