It's spelled Luxury Yacht but it's pronouced "buffistas".

The one warning about the Kimpton hotels is that they really need to be aware that we are numerous and not silent; if they have a block of rooms on a lower floor (or maybe immediately over the restaurant) so we're not walking on someone else's ceiling that would be the absolute best. The hospitality suite got constant noise complaints from downstairs and across the hall, and IIRC the complaints continued even though everyone kept dialing down the noise further and further.

Why wouldn't this be something to mention to *any* hotel, vs. just Kimptons? (I'm not familiar with Kimpton hotels, so maybe there's something I don't know about them.)

I seem to have some memory of us having noise complaints at another hotel but I can't seem to remember which one.

Tep, the Kimptons are a little more upscale than past hotels, and from what juliana said it sounded like they had done groups before but didn't really have much experience with fannish groups of any sort. The other Safari Inn and Holiday Inn guests weren't expecting nights of hushed pristine silence (and the hotels were smart enough to stick us off in or own corners/wings where we couldn't bother anyone but each other), but the Kimpton guests were expecting something a wee bit more posh, so even after the noise level went down below that at past F2Fs other people were still griping.

Or we just had picky people, you know?

If staying at a Klimpton means risking a greater proponderance of picky people we should take that into consideration. I don't think we're obliged to share that with future hotels though. We didn't exactly go rock star on them.

I did absolutely mention that we are, um, enthusiastic. And tend to roam the halls in glitter, corsets, and varying states of giddiness. That is a good thing to mention to any possible host of the Buffistas.

Tiaras have been on the wane, as of late. I feel the Empress ought to spearhead a tiara comeback this F2F.

I feel the Empress ought to spearhead a tiara comeback this F2F.

I will organize a Tiara contest! Most Elaborate, Most Creative, things such as these!

But I have been quite remiss in my tiara wearing. I do not think I wore one at all in Madison.

I will make up for it this F2F, which for me, is going to be a Revenge of the Bridesmaids Dress prom. I'm getting some more wear of these things, dammit.

Didn't you get a very special tiara in New Orleans?

Did I? I probably did. I was very ... well, tired since Em was only 6 months old at the time.

Was that the penis tiara?