Well, to be fair, you are dealing with the parents of 7 year old cheerleaders.

Was it the Overlook Hotel?

I'm not sure what would be worse: a hotel filled with furries or a hotel filled with cheerleader moms.

"The kind of room that you never, ever want to walk into because of the items left in the room."

Whoops, she found the tail.

So now we greenlight TripAdvisor reviews? I can't wait to see the Yelp review greenlight for the Burger King in Bumfark, Montana -- I hear that it actually has someone's day ruined simply by having other people eating, the horror!

There's only one way to deal with a hotel full of furries:

One tip for this mother:

Don't go to Pittsburgh in June (or whenever they hold that convention)

baka-san: I'm not sure what would be worse: a hotel filled with furries or a hotel filled with cheerleader moms.

I'm going to agree.  I've been around cheerleader moms in person, and they all seemed so fake, always going on about the benefits they were hosting and other crap, with this frightening undertone of a complete lack of will, like everything they did was because something outside them was compelling them to do it.

The furries I've encountered, admittedly only on-line, seem to be fairly genuine, with a sense of humour about themselves, and if they get into angry shouting matches half as much in real life as they do in person - hey. dinner AND a show!

Happened to us in CT in Sept. It was great! The older people I was travelling with had no idea what was.going on. They were nice enough and it was entertaining to watch them.

FTA:  A Furry Rave included more lude and lascivious behavior,

I wondered if this was a joke, and then I saw the spelling and knew it was real.

Hi!  Stop using words you can't spell.

/it's LEWD, not LUDE
/if it was the latter you'd be enjoying it
//furries + cheerleader moms (both living vicariously through others) = LET ME BLOW THE PLACE UP

I once had to go to Dallas for work and ended up in a hotel that was also hosting a cheer convention. Have to say, from the kids to the mothers, some of the worst people in the world.

Marisyana: Hi!  Stop using words you can't spell.

/it's LEWD, not LUDE
/if it was the latter you'd be enjoying it
//furries + cheerleader moms (both living vicariously through others) = LET ME BLOW THE PLACE UP

Unless it's an obsequious reference to horses and horse tranquilizers.

She doubted the furries' commitment to Sparkle Motion.

Chibi Shinigami: Nice try, subby. The review was from a cheer DAD...named Tony.

How do you know it was a man. Women use the name Tony also.

Wow, reading through these comments it's clear that Fark has LOTS of furries and furry apologists. Yikes. As if most of you weren't pathetic enough already.

I know it can be annoying to be staying at a hotel at the same time as a convention.

When I was a kid, we took a family vacation to Gatlinburg.  Apparently the hotel was having some kind of motorcycle convention that weekend.  We heard the sounds of revving motorcycles and loud partying all weekend.

What is worse is when the hotel decides to sabotage the convention because they don't like it.

Apparently, in the mid '90's, FOX decided it wanted a sci-fi space action/adventure TV series.  Dirk Benedict had been shopping around to build support for a Battlestar Galactica revival.  (Note, this is almost a decade before the new BSG reboot), and would be a continuation of the late 70's series (and ignoring the Galactica 1980 spinoff).

FOX was interested in the idea, partly in the idea it had a ready-built fanbase they could use.  Name recognition and existing fanbase they thought would be good for ratings.  What it would take to seal the deal would be actually showing the network execs just how much fandom existed and how much support was out there.  Again, the early days of the web, so it was hard to just point to a big online community.

So, there was going to be a big convention for Battlestar Galactica.  A 15th anniversary deal as I recall, circa 1994.  The execs just had to see it was big and they'd sign for a new series.

They had booked a hotel for the convention, and had lots of attendees booked for the convention and most of the surviving cast were going to be there as guests.  The problem was that some exec at the hotel chain was getting married that weekend, and he was doing it at one of his hotels.  That one.  He didn't want a bunch of fanboys running around mucking up his wedding.

So, the desk staff started "losing" reservations.  Basically whenever fans showed up to check in and it was clear they were there for the convention, their reservation was "lost" and they wouldn't have any rooms available.  Lots of fans were turned away, and a good number of the invited guests were refused as well.

Dirk Benedict himself was apparently turned away, told they had no idea about any convention going on.  He was walking out of the hotel when he spotted a fan in the lobby in costume as a Colonial pilot, which got him to stay around.  Don't know about where he roomed since they said they didn't have space for him.

Obviously, the convention was a disaster, with only a tiny fraction of the attendance they had pre-registered and most of the guests not there.  When the network execs showed up, instead of the thriving display of fandom they were promised, it was an anemic, pathetic little get-together.

The Galactica revival was scrapped, FOX filled their interest in a space-actions series with Space: Above and Beyond.

. . .all because a hotel exec didn't want his wedding at the same place as a convention.

Heh... I'm going to that hotel this afternoon to meet a pair of webcomic artists.  But I promise you I've never worn a fursuit or yiffed a day in my life.

GIS for "furry rave" brought up this:



How could cheer mom protest that?

ongbok: How do you know it was a man. Women use the name Tony also.

Only the pre-op ones.

Kids be damned, I find furries annoying as fark.

I actually preferred the next review:

When I stay at a 3 star and above hotel I EXPECT a HDTV
 I reported that the drink machine was broke on the 4 th floor and that it took my money. Nobody investigated it!
 I spent 30 minutes trying to find the Green Bay vs. Minnesota game Sunday.
If you do go to this hotel do not buy anything from the gift shop if chubby indian girl is working the register
I had to call the front desk with my cell phone however I got transfered to reservations then put on infinite hold

...And now, someone is going to go see who got married that weekend in that city, cross reference it to known hotel executives, then go to their house and poop on the lawn or something.  A really rancid, watery, "my god what did I eat that my body created such a horror" poop the likes of which the world has not seen before or since.