Hey. I'm buying plane tickets tonight to either go to tampa or gainesville on Thursday of the Fest. Which is better?

I'm also debating if it would be worth it to rent a car. I'm trying to keep costs low but if I have to splurge I'm going to. I hate travelling with a fiery passion but I'm not going to miss this because of lack of foresight.

Where could I stay on short notice? I wasn't aware I'd have to book hotels in February or March or whenever this shit opened. Seems a tad rediculous to me but I'm not very good at planning these sorts of things.

I found a decent room at the red roof inn. It was around 50 dollars a night. It is 4 miles from the check inn hotel.

always hard to speak general , also don't know if tehre is a price difference between the flights... from what I heard a cab from the gainesville airport is like 15$, so defintily way less than what you would pinch for gas for a ride from tampa, if you find a free seat (which is normally not the problem to find one) tampa: pre-fest is a lot of fun, also there are some nice ones in G'ville as well...

at the Fest you normally don't need a car when your drinking... you probably walk downtown anyway (or ride with some fellow festers) and leave the car at the hotel.. in case your not drinking and staying at one of the motels a little off downtown, its of course more relaxing riving wth the car downtown, so you on't have to worry as well for a ride to possible house shows and can store merch and otrehr stuff easiyl in teh car.

I heard the american best value inn is booked, check days inn thats acorss the street or call the rush lake motel... rush lake doesn't have an online reservation, so a lot of interantaionals probably just book the other two instead of calling

econolodge is right across from the paramount. its like 55 a night or so... dont think its all booked up yet. its a decent spot. good neighborhood. easy walk to venues. Roughly a half hour. so probably about a mile and a half or so from holiday inn.

I'm flying into Tampa on the 27th with 2 other people. Our flight gets there at 11:40pm, if anyone else is flying into tampa I'd be down to split cab or rent a car, whatever it takes.

I will be driving from Tampa to Gainesville on Friday morning after the prefest show in Tampa on Thursday night. I have room for 3 people. Text me at 925-956-8666 -Rob