Securing a hotel room for San Diego Comic-Con has been a notoriously difficult exercise for several years. It might be even tougher for next year's event.

The popular annual convention celebrating comic books, gaming, television and film has a new hotel reservation policy ahead of 2026, it announced this week .

In previous years , the general sale has been a randomized waiting room where, once selected, patrons would fill out a hotel reservation request form and rank their preferred choice of hotels. The hotels could vary in distance from the San Diego Convention Center, with nearby rooms in the Gaslamp Quarter being the most coveted.

While preferred hotels weren't guaranteed to those who filled out their lists, all deposits were refundable for a certain amount of time after placeme

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