Yeah, exactly. For the hotel, this is an event like any other. I sure hope the organizers aren't putting it about that they're being discriminated against for being fandom nerds or whatever. If so, they are underestimating the requests and strangeness that goes on at other conventions.

I've been in hotels where conventions of religious people (the kind that want to bless you in the elevator and sing A LOT) are happening, and hotel staff was polite and professional - same with the convention of bikers that was taking place at a hotel I stayed at in DC. I'm friendly with the staff at the convention center and the hotel that hosts Anime Boston and they just get the job done. If this hotel comes down on DashCon, it's not because the staff are a bunch of meanies or *normals* who are prejudiced against people in funny costumes. It's because this is a business transaction for the hotel and they expect con organizers to treat it as such.