As far as the Walter E. Washington Convention Center goes, I thought it was a fairly nice venue inside. There seemed to be a lot of space because for the amount of people there, you could still move around; granted, you didn't have a lot of space, but there was some - enough. It had a strange layout - a lot of up-and-down on escalators, but that's fine.. unless you're in awkward armor. The location of the convention center was not in the least my favorite. It was smack-dab-center in D.C. and so, unless you wanted to walk, there wasn't much as far as photoshoot locations - aside from the small copse of trees and yard across the road. Parking was awful.. and traffic was worse. At least the commute from where I was staying wasn't a horrible ride to the parking garage. We had to park about half a mile from the venue and had to walk, which is fine - I don't mind walking - but it was either super hot or pouring out. We used Parking Panda to reserve a parking spot, and thank goodness we did because finding a spot to park was a nightmare. Most of the people who were working the convention - volunteers or convention workers, I don't know who was who - were pretty rude. I mean, I can understand it to some degree - you are one person trying to organize 20,000-30,000 people to ensure everyone's safety and what not, but sheesh - smile a bit. The cosplay was amazing, of course! I've come to the conclusion, though, that of the maybe 50 people that ask for a picture, maybe three will post them on some sort of attainable social media.. which is annoying. I suppose part of it is my fault because I always forget to give out my business cards. I can't comment on panels or anything because I never end up getting to go, but the dealers' room and artist alley were massive! They were almost overwhelming with how absolutely massive they were and I had a hard time focusing and finding a starting point. There was such an array of things in both rooms to pick from, and I especially liked the free Crunchyroll bags.
Overall, I had fun at Otakon and look forward to next year. I will definitely try to get a hotel close enough to walk to and from the con and I will only room with people that I know and want to hang with, because it's hard to coordinate a bunch of people traveling together when that's all you do.
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