/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>10822565
>Actual con center is somehow larger and yet feels more cramped
>Outlying areas are all a mess of sit-down restaurants so you need to commit to dining rather than being able to just grab fast-food on the quick and keep moving
>Hotels are extremely strict with noise complaints and try desperately to shut down anything that even resembles a room party from occurring
>Vagrants and homeless and other annoying outsiders constantly threading through the con, making the space feel far more penetrated by randoms than most other cons
>Most scenic locations are stuffed with tourists so many opportunities to take good beach/port shots are made exceedingly difficult
>Organizers were nazis last year and excessive policing of places people were sitting, mask adherence, and even trying to section off ribbon trading areas wound up making a lot of the environment feel more sterile than it had any right being
>The amount of major businesses in the immediate area means that there's an excess of rent-a-cops and security so you can't do anything wacky in public or they start pretending like they're going to report you to the police
>In the opposite direction, the rest of dogshit-assed Long Beach is full of crackheads and homeless and the "city" is filthy like most of the rest of LA

It should really be stressed that as shit of a decision as it was to bring this con to Long Beach, the fact that tons of people had a fun time shows that the enduring ALA spirit presses on and can survive even with a boot pressed against its neck. My only dark prayer at this point is that the next ALA location is placed somewhere even more remote and sleepy than Ontario.