/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

So folks, con season is starting up in Florida once again. There have been a few cons so far but those were just stragglers that filled the time in between the end and the beginning of con season. When March hits it's we're going back to the over saturation of cons that Florida is known for. OmniExpo is coming up in it's new venue at the Florida Hotel by the Mall, which I think is a terrible space for it. Omni in general has always been really disorganized though.

Here's some stuff from what I heard.

>The convention space is really small so it's expect it to be really busy.
>Parking at the Mall can be bad as it is so that weekend is just going .
>Every contest had their deadlines pushed back because of lack of applicants. The dance competition apparently only got like 3-4 applications total.

Has anyone actually been inside the Florida Hotel to comment about it?

And to keep the discussion going I ask this. What does you look forward to every con season? Do like meeting up with friends, talking shit about people (I do), staying at the hotel and partying? After seeing how some cons changed their policies last year regarding checkpoints (Mega/Metro), or moving the Artist Alley inside at Metro, what do you think of the direction that cons are even going in? To me it feels like their slowly dying out because of bad management.

Though Metro did add a 3 Day Pass option after the shitstorm that happened last year with those.