Glasgow 2024’s accommodation booking service will open to all members from Monday, January 22. Booking for hotel blocks will be through their accommodation partner, the Glasgow Convention Bureau.
The con has 800 rooms reserved across 7 on-site hotels and a further 1,000 rooms reserved at 26 further hotels, ranging from budget price to 5-stars in the City Centre (within 2 miles of SEC). These have been selected from no less than 9,500 hotel bedrooms located within 2 miles of the SEC site. Members wishing to make alternative arrangements can also choose from 2,000 AirBnB rooms and 1,200 Guesthouse/Bed & Breakfast rooms in the city.
Information on accommodation options and booking process can be found on their website. They will also be sending information to convention members by email prior to the booking service opening.
The booking service will only be available to convention members with a WSFS membership (all physically attending adults and young adults, plus WSFS members) to ensure that our preferential room rates can only be taken up by Glasgow 2024 attendees. Rooms will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. The Glasgow Convention Bureau will be able to help with extending stays for members who intend to take longer to enjoy Glasgow and the surrounding area. The Bureau can also liaise with the hotels for any specific requirements or questions.
The hotel blocks include an amount of accessible accommodation: rooms set aside for members with accessibility needs. These rooms are being allocated through separate booking arrangements with the support of our accessibility team, who can be contacted at [email protected].
For queries relating to specific bookings, please contact the Glasgow Convention Bureau at [email protected].
For general information or to contact the convention’s facilities team, please contact [email protected].
[Based on a press release.]
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I’m not exactly sure what previous Worldcons have offered in the way of reserved rooms, but at a first glance 800 rooms seems to be a bit on the lite side. But I could be wrong.
I agree. I will get on the page to find out when they actually start. It could easily be very early in the morning or late the day before depending on my time zone
August is Fringe Festival in Edinburgh so no hotel rooms available anywhere there, FYI, if you’re thinking of taking the (40 minute) train from there to Glasgow.
As of this morning, the hotel reservation setup was a little confusing for me. If I logged into my membership outside the hotel page, it was username/password and I couldn’t find any hotel info. When I went from the link on the accommodations page, it was username/member number, which sent my email a link to click and log in. That led to a page that did have the hotel reservations link on it, and everything worked fine from there.
TL;DR – if you’re already authenticated on the Glasgow site and can’t get a hotel reservations link, you might have to log out and reauthenticate from the accommodations page.