Hotel reservations at the Marriott Los Angeles Airport Hotel for our 2026 convention, The 36 Legends of Gallifrey One, will open up on Friday, May 9, 2025 at 12:00pm (noon) Pacific Time (3:00pm Eastern / 8:00pm UK), including both our convention discount block as well as general reservations for standard rate rooms. Until May 9, all Marriott rooms during our weekend are blocked out and unavailable for reservation.
How To Stay at the Marriott LAX
Reservations at the Marriott LAX are the one competitive holdover from our earlier days when the convention sold out quickly, though tickets are still widely available and we expect to sell them throughout the year. Rooms at the Marriott sell out immediately on May 9, so we encourage you to be prepared.
There are two types of rooms at the Marriott LAX available on May 9: convention discount block rooms that are reduced in price, and rack rate rooms (standard Marriott hotel rates). Both types of rooms go on sale at the same time.
Gallifrey One Discount Room Block
We are able to offer the vast majority of the rooms in the Marriott LAX at the Gallifrey One convention discount room block. Only standard sleeping rooms are available on the block (all of the suites for our weekend are reserved for our guests and are unavailable to the public.)
Rooms on the convention discount block are $170.00 per night, plus applicable state and local taxes. Additionally, a surcharge (approximately $11-12 per night) is charged to comply with the the City of Los Angeles Hotel Workers’ Rights Ordinance, a legal statute assessed on hotel properties in the city “to ensure their workers’ safety and fair compensation.”
Each room also receives an overnight parking rate of $20.00 for one car only. When making your reservation on the discount block, it won’t show the new parking rate but rather the full daily overnight rate; your reservation will be updated to include the discount parking rate when you check into the room.
You MUST have a convention ticket in your name in order to take advantage of the convention discount block. Proof of your registration is not required during the hotel event; instead, we work with the Marriott LAX to compare their reservations list and our ticket list within a few days after the hotel reservations sale. If you haven’t purchased a ticket, your reservation is subject to cancellation. If the person booking the room is not on our ticket list, contact us and let us know who will be using the room.
In order to be fair to all interested parties — and because our website can crash and X/Bluesky feeds do not propagate for everyone at the same time — we will once again post the link to the convention discount block reservation page in one place on May 9, the Gallifrey One Facebook page. Note that this is the MAIN page, NOT our 2026 event page that you can mark yourself as attending. You do not need to be logged into Facebook to see posts on the page, and this is the only time we use a social media service exclusively for an important part of the convention. The difference between getting a room and missing out can be seconds, so you will need to be on time. Bookmark the following page on May 9 and keep refreshing it shortly before noon Pacific time that day:
We recommend following this advice to maximize your chances of getting into our hotel block:
- Be at the ready. Hundreds of Gallifrey One attendees have been doing this for a very long time; the ones who want into the Marriott know they need to be online at the exact date & time we specify.
- Use a web browser on your desktop or laptop computer. Do not use your cellphone or tablet. Mobile devices almost always have problems with reservation confirmations, especially within the Marriott Bonvoy app; we do not recommend using that.
- Have the Gallifrey One Facebook page open and ready so that you can click the link directly as soon as it’s posted. When it is a few minutes to noon on May 9, refresh the page continuously to see it as soon as it goes live; we post it at precisely noon when the online time clocks (like NIST and time.gov) say it’s noon.
- If you don’t get your entire itinerary, change the dates. The number of Thursday and Sunday night rooms available on our convention discount block is always lower than the number of rooms available Friday and Saturday nights. If you are staying more than just Friday & Saturday night and your reservation does not go through, we encourage you to resubmit by changing your dates, and then book a standard room for the shoulder nights on either side of the weekend separately. Marriott Reservations may be able to help with this by phone after you book your discount room.
- Check back frequently! Many miss out when reservations go live but are able to get rooms on the discount block later in the day due to diligence. Incomplete reservations time out after ten minutes, and so this happens periodically throughout the initial hours the rooms are available. Some of our attendees also band together on reservation day to see who can get a room the fastest; as a result, the ones who don’t may give up mid-reservation, and it takes a little time for those canceled transactions to release the room back to the Marriott online reservation system. We strongly encourage you to check back repeatedly on Friday, or throughout the weekend, at regular intervals to see if any rooms have come available. We also encourage you to keep checking throughout the year to see if any of these rooms have opened up; the discount code will remain the same, subject to availability, and will be posted on our website.
Gallifrey One provides the discount block rate as a courtesy only. There are a finite number of rooms. They are all made available at the same time. No one is given priority, no blocks are reserved for resale, etc. MANY people people are able to book hotel rooms on this block, and others miss out… but one of the most important keys to success is that you come prepared. Additionally, Gallifrey One cannot extend discount rooms to you that you don’t book through the website, nor can we help you get the discount rate for the night(s) you are unable to book a discount block room. All reservations questions should be referred to the Marriott.
Rack-Rate Rooms (Not in the Discount Block)
Approximately 15% of the remaining rooms at the Marriott for our weekend also become available at the same time as the discount block or thereafter, but at standard (“rack”) rates determined by the Marriott; these usually start at $225 or even higher. Some of these rooms go on sale immediately, so you’ll be able to reserve them as of noon on May 9 at the higher rates if you’re unable to get the discount rate. The rest are held by the Marriott per their contracts with several airlines (as they provide crew accommodation throughout the year) and are released into the reservations system much closer to our weekend if the airlines do not need them.
Gallifrey One cannot extend the discounted parking benefit to anyone with a rack rate room, sorry.
Although the prices for rack rate rooms are considerably higher, if it is important for you to stay at the Marriott LAX during the convention, we encourage you to book one of these rooms and find someone to share with you. Our Facebook 2026 event page can also be used by attendees to find roommates throughout the year!
Other Important Information
Wi-Fi: The Marriott LAX now provides free in-room wi-fi to everyone as a courtesy to members of Marriott Bonvoy, their free rewards program. We encourage you to sign up for Bonvoy prior to your arrival, but you can also sign up on site.
Credit Card/Debit Card: You must guarantee your reservation with a valid credit card at the time of reservation. Your card will not be charged until arrival. When checking in, your card will be hit with a deposit hold (noted as a pending charge); this will be released from your card within two weeks after the convention. We recommend that you do not use a debit card to book your room unless absolutely necessary, as the deposit/hold will impact your balance until it is released.
Cancellation Policy: Should you have to cancel your room for any reason (including if the convention is postponed due to the ongoing pandemic), the Marriott LAX allows cancellation up to 48 hours prior to arrival for the discount block rooms. You will need to check to see what the cancellation policy is on your room if you do NOT get into the discount block (“special event rate” is not the convention block). If you are unable to make the convention for any reason, we ask that you cancel your room as soon as possible and not keep the reservation throughout the year, because that prevents other people from being able to reserve a room, and ultimately impacts Gallifrey One’s hotel room commitments to the Marriott.
When should I arrive? If you are getting a hotel room in the area, we encourage you to check into your hotel room on Thursday if possible (or before, if you are coming earlier; there are fans in the lobby usually as early as late Wednesday afternoon.) Pre-convention events will take place in the evening Thursday, with official events starting at 8:00pm but our social mixer in the hotel lobby (affectionately referred to as ‘lobby con’ by attendees) usually getting into full swing by 6-7pm; the convention proper begins Friday morning at 10am. Badge pickup for attendees will run Thursday 3pm-6pm and limited pickups from 8pm until the desk goes quiet, and resumes Friday morning at 9am. We’d encourage you to travel earlier rather than later to enjoy the full experience.
How To Stay Near Gallifrey One
Hotels Beyond the Marriott
Don’t be discouraged if you don’t get into the Marriott, as there are many hotels in the area of Los Angeles International Airport. There are plenty of places to stay, many of which are within a short 5-minute walk from the Marriott – very close by and easily accessed after a long day at the convention. Here’s a quick guide to available options in the immediate area, all of which should have rooms to let for the weekend of our convention.
Hotels within a 5-10 minute walk:
- Hilton Los Angeles Airport , to the east, across the Marriott LAX parking lot and beyond the airport parking (see note below)
- Four Points Sheraton LAX, immediately north of the Marriott, next to the Renaissance Hotel
- Renaissance LAX, north of the Marriott and just past the Sheraton
- Sonesta Hotel LAX, formerly the Crowne Plaza LAX, across Airport Blvd., to the west on Century
- Embassy Suites North – LAX, across Airport Blvd. and 1/2 block north
- Residence Inn LAX Century Blvd., across Airport Blvd. and around the corner
IMPORTANT Hilton LAX note: As Gallifrey One 2026 is not on Presidents Day Weekend, we will not be operating at the same time as the OrcCon/Strategicon gaming event at the Hilton LAX. However, there may be another group or groups booking rooms in that hotel (if the hotel’s function space is being used.) If you are making reservations at the Hilton LAX, make absolutely certain you are not booking your room using any other group’s reservation code, as they are well within their rights to have your reservation canceled.
Hotels at 10 or more minutes walking distance, or easily accessed via taxi or rideshare:
- Sheraton Gateway LAX, H Hotel LAX Curio Collection, Homewood Suites by Hilton LAX, Courtyard by Marriott LAX, all to the west on Century Blvd. past the Sonesta
- Westin Hotel LAX, Holiday Inn LAX, La Quinta Inn LAX, Wingate by Wyndham LAX, Motel 6 LAX, Best Western Plus Suites LAX, Quality Inn LAX, all to the east, near or next to the 405 freeway
There are many other local hotels in the LAX area as well, including south of the airport and in neighboring cities, especially in El Segundo to the immediate south of the airport. All of these hotels are easily accessible with taxis, Uber or Lyft… we’d encourage you to look at the online map sites and travel sites and choose your best option.
Local Transportation
If you’re in the local area, getting to the Marriott LAX is easy… taxis, Uber and Lyft all serve the local area. Parking for the convention can be a bit of a challenge; although the Marriott lot fills up very quickly, there are other parking options in the area (our Directions & Parking page on this site has the most recent parking information.)
Good luck!