INVASION!

Get a Room! Same Hotel, Different Year

We will be returning to the Holiday Inn Select for 2009. The room rates will be $89 + tax for a regular room and $109 + tax for suites. Parties will be grouped together on the 13th floor, close to the Con Suite and Krushenko’s. Smoking parties will be on 12th floor.

To reserve a sleeping room, call 952.854.9000 or 1.800.HOLIDAY, and make sure to mention “MarsCon” in order to get the reduced rate. Tip: Try calling the 952 first during regular business hours, and please let us know if you have any trouble getting the MarsCon rate so we can help. Taking a room at the hotel is a wonderful way to enhance your convention experience. It gives you a home base, a place to park your stuff, entertain friends, and land whenever you finish with partying throughout the convention weekend… not to mention it makes the host hotel very happy with MarsCon.

Hotel Guest Advisory
Please make sure you are being charged the correct MarsCon rates when you check into your rooms. If you made your reservations on or before February 19th and mentioned “MarsCon”, the room rates are $89 + tax for a regular room and $109 + tax for suites…No exceptions. If you have any problems receiving these rates, please see Ops at the convention (Executive Conference Room, 2nd floor).

Map to the Holiday Inn Hotel Amenities: The Holiday Inn Select offers free high-speed Internet access in all guest rooms and a full-service health club with a whirlpool spa. There is a Junior Olympic sized pool on site with a video arcade, ping pong, and another whirlpool spa next to it. For your dining enjoyment, the Harvest Cafe and Greenhouse Lounge are located on the first floor of the hotel. Harvest Cafe offers daily breakfast buffets. Kids 12 and under eat free. Greenhouse Lounge features a full service lunch and dinner menu, Happy Hour specials, 5 TVs and a pool table. Complimentary shuttles are available to transport you to or from the hotel, the mall, and the airport throughout the convention weekend.

For drivers, free parking is available at the hotel. The ramp has low clearance, but there is an open air lot immediately adjacent to it where you may park your over-sized land speeders. Tip: MarsCon attendees are welcome to park in the unmarked underground parking spaces. There are 2-3 levels of underground parking hidden in the bowels of that parking ramp – lots of spaces that go virtually empty each year. So don’t be intimidated by the “hotel parking on top level only” signs. Keep your car free of snow and avoid the crowds by daring to venture below ground.

For folks planning to use LRT to travel to MarsCon, the Hiawatha Line Hiawatha Line (Route 55) goes right by the Holiday Inn Select. Bloomington Central Station is about a block-and-a-half walk to or from the hotel. Bus and train fares will be up a bit from last year: $1.75 or $2.25 depending on time of day. Seniors, youth, Medicare card holders, and people with disabilities qualify for reduced fares during non-rush hours. FFI: 1.800.NEW.RIDER or MetroTransit.org.

If you or your group would like to host a party please see our Parties Page.

MARSCON 2009
March 6-8
Holiday Inn Select
Bloomington, MN

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