johnewil wrote:
Everybody talking about shuttles knows that there is a shuttle service already in place, right? It's been there for a few years now. While it isn't the best with their new (as of last year) setup of having to reserve your travel times in advance, there is exactly what you are requesting in place for a nominal fee.
Admittedly, this is hearsay, but I have heard that the company that ran the shuttle service last year (and the year before that?) is not doing it this year.
There were problems with the shuttle the last two years. In 2014, a lot of people were at their hotels waiting for the next shuttle, only to be told, "Sorry, but the earlier stops on the route filled the bus; you'll have to get the next one (an hour from now)," and it's possible the same thing happened with the shuttles leaving the convention center, which was not good if you were left off of the last shuttle of the night. They tried to fix this in 2015 by making it a reservation-only service, but (a) the buses that left the convention left only at two-hour intervals (5 PM, 7 PM, 9 PM, 11 PM, and I think there was a 1 AM shuttle on Saturday night), and (b) you had to know in advance when your last event of the night ended.
Besides, the new calls are for a service that runs every 30 minutes, and runs all day (and possibly all night as well) (last year's shuttles stopped running from the hotels at noon, except on Saturday, and they didn't start running from the convention until 5 PM).
