my bloody valentine ny sept 19-21 ATP Fest

Holy shit holy shit holy shit…


But the price…holy shit holy shit holy shit…
wow, thanks for the heads-up about the dumpy on-site accommodations.

from their FAQ:
"The first batch of three day festival passes are on sale Friday April 25th @ 10AM EST at http://www.atpfestival.com with and without accommodation. More tickets will be on-sale shortly after with accommodations in a nearby hotel. Shuttle buses will run between the second hotel and Kutshers."

i wonder what the deal is with the offsite nearby hotel. based on those reviews, they can't be any worse… then again, as one reviewer mused, "how much time do you spend in your room anyways?"

EDIT: just made myself a reservation at the Super8 in Monticello. cheaper ($300 for the weekend instead of $450), and while not fancy at least you know it'll be clean. they don't charge your credit card to hold the reservation and you can cancel until the day before - i'd suggest grabbing a reservation as a back-up. google maps indicated there is an Econo Lodge, Travel Inn, and other cheap options in town.
are you sure that is not called the Overlook Hotel?
HAH!


Originally posted by lomein:
those hotel reviews remind me of the Shining.
aw shit i changed it to make a more obscure reference but you quoted me too soon.
Tickets up now.


And I currently sadly don't have the cash.
snagged 3 tix. $237.00 each with fees.

took a while to get going, tho, at first the URL was throwing a 404.
almost all hotel rooms are sold out.
didn't get anything :(
Originally posted by Got Haggis?:
almost all hotel rooms are sold out.
those are the on-site hotels. once they're gone, they'll be selling off-site hotels - here's an e-mail I received from the organizers:

From: sweetcell
To: ATP Feedback
Subject: ATP Site: Feedback from sweetcell
Hello ATP! I have a quick question about the ATP NY festival, specifically your quote from the FAQ: "More tickets will be on-sale shortly after with accommodations in a nearby hotel. Shuttle buses will run between the second hotel and Kutshers." I'd like to stay off-site at this nearby hotel. Do you have any idea how long after the initial on-site offering is sold out, that the second off-site accommodations will be available? Are we talking minutes, or hours?
reply:
more like days…. or longer!
so despair not, teepo. there will be more tickets for sale at some point. keep checking the site or download a website monitor that will check it automatically for you.

as noted above, there are cleaner and cheaper hotel options in montecello. they'll have a shuttle between their offsite hotel and the venue, i'm hoping to catch that. otherwise, it's 3.5 miles from town to the venue, a quick drive.
3-day Event Only tix now sold out.
ah thats not bad at all. still debating on if i am going to buy tickets to this or not…so tempting, huge mbv fan. but tres tres $$ , not to mention needing to take a day off of work

well guess not now that its sold out. also, i thought tix were $225..but now I see a pound symbol in front of the price….fuck that.
Line up has good bands, but they're all a little slow. IMO, Low and Tortoise are great to listen to at home, but live it's a ZZZFest.
Originally posted by Got Haggis?:
also, i thought tix were $225..but now I see a pound symbol in front of the price….fuck that.
Sweetcell said they were $237 with fees.

However, I just noticed this from the ATP site:

Please note that prices, (though they appear in USD), will be processed in GBP, so there may be a very slight fluctuation in final price due to exchange rate differences, though we are doing out utmost to minimise this.
So they'll convert the $237 into pounds.

That's all that means.
Originally posted by Got Haggis?:
well guess not now that its sold out. also, i thought tix were $225..but now I see a pound symbol in front of the price….fuck that.
more tickets will be available at some point.

tickets are definitely $237 each, dollars not pounds. a few minutes after i placed my order, i got a call from my CC company asking me to confirm a $711.00 purchase from a UK ticketing company ($237 X 3).
Yup, just pointing out that the exchange rate will be involved.
buying the room for 6 is very tempting. anyone interested in sharing accommodations?
Read my link above before you do that.


You're welcome. ;)