I had heard that too.

What audience are they going after, exactly?

Sigh -

I'm beginning to wonder if we'll make it this year. The loss of our primary hotel is turning out to be a greater set-back than imagined. Right now it seems the only available places are going for $350 a night or more. A steep price for any accommodation, but these are for one and two star hotels.

I have a list of smaller accommodations not found on the major travel reservation systems, but that means spending a good chunk of time on the phone getting a place in the $200 a night price range with little foreknowledge of what exactly we're getting.

Another alternative is it seems a number of enterprising people have booked reservations for many of the available rooms and are selling the reservations on eBay. All hail the Capitalist market, but it irks me to bid $100 for the chance to get into a Motel 6.

For the same potential cost of going this year, we could go to Tokyo for a week. Not to mention the potential for trips to SF (Vivian Westwood) or NYC (Hi Steph) - not to mention the amount of CDs we could buy, or shows at the Troubadour and other venues. I love Coachella, love the variety of music, the scene - but I'm starting to wonder if maybe we should look into Glastonbury or some other Euro festival and make a real vacation of it.

I still have an email in to the Lautner to see if they might reopen in time, but I'm not holding my breath.

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Well, you could simply drive out for Friday, go home ... take Saturday off ... and drive back for Sunday.

Driving back and forth all three days might be too much travel with too little sleep. But the festival is less than a 3-hour drive, and I think doable as a commute for two of the 3 days, with a rest day in between. The gasoline shouldn't cost nearly as much as a hotel room.

Good point, iSm. The tickets are a sunk cost and alone are not worth sinking copious amounts of money into being able to stay for the whole thing - perhaps a drive or two to get some mileage out of the tickets would be worth it.

Since the festival sold out early it would be easy resell the tickets (and maybe even make a modest profit), so I don't see them as a sunk cost. I suppose driving is a possibility, but with the noon to midnight hours plus the usual horrendous traffic to get in and out (add another hour at least - unless we leave early), I'm not sure it'd be worth it.

Ahh, yes, I wasn't even thinking in terms of re-selling the tickets.

I'd say sell and do other things.

Well, the Reading Festival looks interesting this year... or of course there's Epcot's 25th birthday in October... and you know that Shiina Ringo will be announcing some dates soon...

And the EMP still has the Music of Disney exhibit.

Oooooh! I totally forgot that one.

And of course there's the Once Upon A Time Walt Disney exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.