Does Gen Con have these services available?
Posted by lbxzero 7 years agoon 2/13/2017 at 3:37 PM

I am not downtown, so I have to ask a few questions.

1) Does Gen Con have areas established for napping?  I am a night shift worker, and due to my life schedule, I may need a nap in the middle of a day.  Since my hotel room is not in downtown, I can't just walk back to the room to nap.

2) Does Gen Con have a safe deposit box area to store items?  If not, I suggest you establish an area in coordination with a shipping company.  Use shipping boxes as drop off boxes to store people's stuff.  Assign the box to the owner's badge account and ensure address is shipping address.  Collect a fee for using service plus a deposit fee to cover packing material and shipping costs.  Left over deposit money is either added to badge's account or donated to charity.  The idea here is if the owner does not claim the box by Monday, they are packed and shipped.

I know there may be a problem with item 1, getting a lot of attendees who don't have housing that use the napping area to sleep, but I would consider this an opportunity for the local, state, and regional emergency management groups in testing emergency housing.  I am very certain there will be a lot of volunteers in Gen Con for testing out disaster housing, with a small fee for cleaning up damages.

Posted by marimaccadmin 7 years agoon 2/13/2017 at 3:42 PM

I'm sorry, but Gen Con does not provide either of those services, napping or storage.

We have in the past had a shipping partner onsite, but we did not have that last year, and I'm unaware of any plans for that this year, but it's possible.

Marian McBrine
Event Coordinator
Gen Con LLC

Posted by lbxzero 7 years agoon 2/13/2017 at 3:50 PM

Hopefully out of my disappointment, these can become suggestions for later years.  I would say both will greatly aid the housing situation in their own ways, if permitted.

Posted by ryanjamison 7 years agoon 2/13/2017 at 4:15 PM

The JW Marriott has a UPS store next to the Starbucks near the skybridge, though, if you need to have anything shipped home.

Posted by austicke 7 years agoon 2/13/2017 at 4:19 PM

Westin also has a FedEx store.

Posted by rhone1 7 years agoon 2/13/2017 at 9:40 PM

Napping area!  Best idea I've ever heard of ! :)

Posted by bushmaster 7 years agoon 2/13/2017 at 10:41 PM

For what ever it is worth, I saw lots of people using available floor space in the hallways next to windows and walls as napping spots.

Posted by ninthsphere 7 years agoon 2/14/2017 at 12:07 AM

Just lay down somewhere....BOOM!  napping area!  :P

 

Posted by knuteski 7 years agoon 2/14/2017 at 3:26 AM

The Hyatt Regency might have a few good spots in some of the less used banquet rooms to crash for a little while...a friend told me.

Posted by garhkal bushmaster 7 years agoon 2/14/2017 at 5:49 AM

bushmaster wrote:
For what ever it is worth, I saw lots of people using available floor space in the hallways next to windows and walls as napping spots.

I saw that a few times myself, but several times i could have sworn i saw staff/cops telling that person "sorry can't sleep here"..

Posted by austicke 7 years agoon 2/14/2017 at 5:53 AM

It's just not Gen Con until you spot someone napping.

Posted by mhayward1978 garhkal 7 years agoon 2/14/2017 at 6:24 AM

garhkal wrote:
bushmaster wrote:
For what ever it is worth, I saw lots of people using available floor space in the hallways next to windows and walls as napping spots.

I saw that a few times myself, but several times i could have sworn i saw staff/cops telling that person "sorry can't sleep here"..

Yup - no sleeping is allowed in ICC.  Especially not in the halls (fire hazard).

Posted by aldctjoc 7 years agoon 2/14/2017 at 6:23 PM

I can verify that the police don't allow you to sleep outdoors along the streets either.

... don't ask how I know this. 

Posted by aldctjoc 7 years agoon 2/14/2017 at 6:49 PM

Ok, jokes aside: I have nodded off while sitting in the ICC lobby chairs before waiting for people. And I was not ever disturbed. But at the same time, if it's against the convention center's rules, it's obviously something that shouldn't be done. 

It occurred to me that with one university and one small college somewhat nearby, someone pretending to be a student might get away with a nap at the respective libraries. I mean, who hasn't seen any college's common spaces littered by students catching some quick z's, right? Unfortunately, I found through a Google search (literally, "napping at IUPUI") that the large university has a specific written policy against that:

http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/about/policies/sleeping



  1. Excessive sleeping and camping in the IUPUI University Library are prohibited. For purposes of this policy, “camping” includes:

    • sleeping for an extended period of time (not including incidental napping), lying down and sleeping on a couch, bench, floor or other surface, with or without one’s belongings... 



It amuses me that they exempt "incidental napping, but at the same time it seems clear that the idea is to prevent people from making the library their personal their own personal flophouse. Regardless, the point is there's a policy against it.

As far as the small college: It's really small, as in single building. I don't know if someone would get away with slipping in and snoozing in whatever passes for their library.

So... nuthin', I'm afraid. :(

As an aside - The Indiana University April Fools Joke about "sleeping pods" was hilarious:
https://www.indiana.edu/campaigns/nap-pods.html

Yes, confirmed: That was a joke. But it had me going for a minute. :D

Sorry, I know none of this helps a person find a napping spot. I just thought I'd take a shot at what I could find out and discovered some mildly amusing stuff.

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