Picking up your badge

15 JULY 2013

Just as a reminder, here’s where and when you can pick up your badges.

Four Day Badges with Preview Night: You can pick these up at the convention center at any point in the Con, during normal Con hours, beginning at 3:00 pm on Wednesday. You cannot pick them up at the Town & Country on Wednesday.

Four Day Badges without Preview Night: You can pick these up in advance on Wednesday at the Town & Country Hotel from 3 pm - 8 pm; or you can pick these up at the convention center at any point in the Con, during normal Con hours, beginning at 8:30 am on Thursday.

Thursday Single Day Badge: You can pick these up in advance on Wednesday at the Town & Country Hotel from 3 pm - 8 pm; or you can pick these up at the convention center on Thursday, beginning at 8:30 am.

Friday Single Day Badge: You can pick these up at the convention center on Friday, beginning at 8:30 am.

Saturday Single Day Badge: You can pick these up at the convention center on Saturday, beginning at 8:30 am.

Sunday Single Day Badge: You can pick these up at the convention center on Sunday, beginning at 8:30 am.

Multiple Single Day Badges: You can pick these up at the convention center, beginning at 8:30 am, on your earliest badge day. You can pick all of your badges up at that time. If you have four single-day badges, they will automatically convert to a four-day badge without preview night.

Now. Several people have asked a very valid question. Given that you can pick up all of your single day badges on your first badged day – and given that you can pick up your Thursday badge at the Town and Country on Wednesday night – can you pick up all of your single day badges at the Town and Country Wednesday if you have a Thursday badge? We're not talking about people with four single day badges - we know those convert to a 4-day badge. We're talking about people with a Thursday and a Saturday badge, say.

I’ve asked CCI twice and been ignored twice.

According to this language – If you purchased multiple 1-day badges, you may pick up all of your badges at the location designated for your earliest daily badge indicated above - you would assume so, since that's Town & Country.

But according to this language - The only badge holders available at the Town & Country Hotel are 4-day and Thursday holders. For other daily badge holders (Friday-Sunday) you will need to visit the Attendee Badge Holder Pick-up Desk at the San Diego Convention Center - it sounds like you can’t. Of course, this is a paragraph that uses the term “badge holders” (that’s us) interchangeably with “badges” (the things we’re picking up) so it’s hard to know how reliable it is. But right now, I’m guessing you can’t pick up your Thursday and your Friday badge at the Town and Country – just your Thursday.

I know no one wants to wait in two separate badge lines, so hopefully CCI will get back to me. In the meantime, if anyone has a solid answer, please respond. Did anyone experience this last year?


ETA: No, you can't pick up other single day badges at the Town and Country. This is straight from CCI's mouth. Sorry.