It is already hard to find hotel rooms near Moscone for WWDC
Today I booked my hotel room for WWDC. I had read on MacBidouille that this year hotel rooms would be harder to get due to a large unspecified convention taking place the same week as WWDC. I still thought that I was safe though, as I was making a reservation seven weeks in advance. Well, I was wrong. Hotels are indeed at full capacity near Moscone West. In the past I had no trouble making reservations at the San Francisco Hilton or the Park 55 hotel, but this year I had no luck, even after checking many other options in the same price range.
So, what this means for me is that this year WWDC will be unexpectedly expensive. For the first time, I will stay at the San Francisco W Hotel. Since I will arrive on my birthday, I will consider it like a very nice present. However, I swear that next year I will make reservations well in advance. There simply is no way I will pay those outrageous rates once more. On the bright side, I do not believe that this problem is only caused by the fact that another convention is taking place at the same time as WWDC. I am quite sure that attendance will be significantly up this year and that the event will be a lot of fun.