hotel booking, parking and local food INFORMATION
OVERVIEW:
Hotel rooms for Super MAGFest are managed via Maritz. Our initial wave of reservations took place on Wednesday, October 9. Any available rooms can be searched for by CLICKING HERE.
important information:
Key Reservation info:
All hotels in National Harbor require a three-night minimum to book (Thurs-Sun).
A credit card valid until February, 2025 will be required to secure all reservations made. The card will not be charged when you make your reservation. A one-night refundable deposit will be charged any time from December 1, 2024 through to when you check in. As long as you cancel outside your hotel’s cancellation timeframe, this deposit will be refunded to you. The remainder of your stay will be charged when you check in for your stay.
MAGFest can only assist with reservations that are booked through our official process. We can’t help with rooms booked at other unaffiliated hotels, or even booked at one of our official hotels if reserved directly with them through their website or by calling. Maritz Global Events Customer Service can be reached at magfest@maritz.com from the registered email address (or by calling 469-513-9379).
Informational note: if a hotel “overbooks” itself and they cannot honor your reservation when you arrive, generally it is their responsibility to find you another room at a nearby property and assist with the expenses of shifting you to the other property. For attendee awareness – the Club Wyndham in National Harbor is not a traditional hotel and does not have this obligation. If they cancel your reservation, they do not have any responsibility to assist you with finding alternate accommodations.
After receiving several reports about Super MAGFest 2025 reservations being made directly with the Gaylord National on October 9, we investigated the situation with them. Some of MAGFest’s block was accidentally accessible by the Marriott website and the call center. As these reservations were made outside of Super MAGFest’s official housing process, all of these reservations will be cancelled. The Gaylord system and Maritz system are not connected, so this situation did not impact the availability of Gaylord rooms within the lottery the evening of October 9.
ATTENDEE ROOM GROUPINGS:
The link to the form for requesting an attendee room grouping at the Gaylord National closed on September 25. A list of the requested groupings will be in a drop-down list in the Maritz system when you register. You can add yourself to a grouping anytime up until November 30 when we will send the list of people in the grouping to the group leader to ensure everyone in there is correct. We will then give the list to the Gaylord National and they will group the rooms as best they can, keeping with everyone’s room type requests.
LARGE SUITE ALLOCATION:
The form for requesting one of the larger suites at the Gaylord has closed. Requests are first-come, first-serve and we received about 10 times the requests as the number of suites that are available. On October 14, you will start receiving emails from our Hotel Department staff allocating suites and detailing the process - you can always decline getting a suite if your name comes up and you get an email from the Hotel Department with your options. Pricing of the suites were on the request form and will be included in your selection email if you get one.
ANYTHING ELSE FOR NOW?
If you still have a question about this process, please contact us, and at the bottom of that page, you can subscribe to MAGFest’s newsletter, which will keep you up-to-date with all this information!
parking information
There are three options for parking in National Harbor, where Super MAGFest 2025 takes place:
Parking at the Gaylord National
The Gaylord National has changed their parking system since our last event there. We’re finalizing the details and will have the information published here shortly.
Valet Parking is available in-front of the Gaylord at the main entrance for $64/day.
EV charging capabilities at the Gaylord are wall sockets near the elevators on each level. Gaylord does not have rapid charging facilities at this time.
Reserved Parking within National Harbor
There will be reserved parking at the various lots within the two National Harbor open lots. We are finalizing this information and will post it as soon as we can.
Standard Parking Lots within National Harbor:
There are three other parking lots within National Harbor, and the website with this information is linked here, including where there are EV charging spots.
DINING information
The Gaylord National has new food options, and the details will be coming shortly. During MAGFest, the Marketplace will be open 24 hours on Thursday-Friday-Saturday nights.
National Harbor has lots of food options, and you can access special discounts through their Show Your Badge program.
CHANGELOG
2024/11/01 - updated parking info to holding message while info finalized.
2024/10/03 - updated launch day information to focus attention
2024/09/27 - updated information post closing of Pre-Registered Advance Attendee Hotel Booking
2024/09/23 - updated pricing sheet to include executive suites
2024/09/18 - updated Housing Launch date to October 9
2024/09/17 - added link to pricing sheet
2024/09/11 - corrected deadline for hotel block request form
2024/09/11 - updated dates for 2025 process
2024/08/06 - more detailed process update
2024/07/19 - updated to initial 2025 information