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hotel booking, parking and local food INFORMATION

All Super MAGFest activities take place at the Gaylord National Hotel in National Harbor, MD. This page is your source for everything Super 2025 Hotel reservations related.

PROCESS OVERVIEW:

MAGFest works with partner hotels in and around National Harbor to provide rooms for MAGFest attendees. Due to high demand, we work with a partner organization (Maritz) to conduct a lottery process for allocating these rooms to our attendees.

More detailed information will be available closer to the event, but some important preliminary information:

  1. Access to the hotel room lottery process requires a completed attendee preregistration with a unique e-mail address per entry prior to the lottery deadline (Preregistration is not live yet, but will be sufficiently in advance of the Lottery).

  2. At an announced day and time, we will open our hotel reservation site, and everyone who pre-registered by the initial deadline will receive a link to the hotel reservation site. All attendees waiting to reserve will be randomized upon entering the system and you’ll get a notice of your place in line. You can then have access to reserve your hotel room.

  3. The MAGFest Venue Team can only assist attendees who have booked rooms through this process. We cannot assist with rooms booked outside of this process, even if at the same hotels we have contracts at.

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 and deadlines!

parking information - FROM 2024 BUT LIKELY SIMILAR

There are three options for parking in National Harbor, where Super MAGFest 2024 takes place:

Parking at the Gaylord National

If you arrive at the Gaylord between 9:00 AM and 10:00 PM on Wednesday, January 17 or Thursday, January 18, you will be required to pre-pay at the MAGFest rate of $19/day for the days for which you expect to park. Please have your credit card in hand and be prepared to tell the parking staff how many days you will be staying. You will be given a receipt by the gate staff that allows parking and gives you in-and-out privileges for the days for which you have paid. When you exit show the receipt to the booth attendant. No refunds will be given for unused parking, even if it is due to the Gaylord parking being full.

The Gaylord parking garage may be limited at times to only those who are staying at the Gaylord and those who pre-paid for parking. Please follow appropriate signage and directions by the staff for any changes to parking flows.

If you pre-pay for any day you are good for that day until 11:59 PM.

If you arrive outside the above pre-payment hours you may take a ticket and park, either charging the parking to your room or paying when you exit. You can also purchase a discount parking voucher from the Parking Desk in Hall E (where you pick up your MAGFest badge).

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.

If you are a MAGFest participant, panelist, etc. and MAGFest has already agreed to cover your parking costs, you will receive a flyer to display to the gate staff when you enter which will allow you to enter without paying. This flyer can be printed or displayed on your cell phone.

Reserved Parking within National Harbor

How to buy reserved parking at the two National Harbor open lots:

  • You must purchase each day you wish to park separately. Parking starts runs from 12:00a and ends at 11:59p the same day, so if you're intending on parking overnight, please keep that in mind when purchasing. Both of these parking lots have in-out privileges.

  • After clicking on the link below, scroll down the left side menu and click the menu button VIEW ALL EVENTS. This will lead you to where you can choose the days of parking you wish to purchase, each day purchased separately.

  1. Plateau Lot - $22/day. SOLD OUT FOR ADVANCE BOOKING. Drive-up available until capacity reached. As of Friday morning, there are 700 parking spot available for drive-ups. This lot is diagonally across from the Gaylord National, across the street from the Hampton Inn. You can either scan your pass to enter the lot at the gate, or print them and display them on your dashboard.

  2. Southpointe Lot - $20/day. SOLD OUT FOR ADVANCE BOOKING. This lot is behind the Gaylord. If you reserve in this parking lot, please print your parking passes and display them on your dashboard. Note: You MUST have your reservation on you at the time of parking, either as a printout or on your phone.

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.

Food information - FROM 2024 BUT LIKELY SIMILAR

The Gaylord National has new food options, and the details are in this link. 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

2023/07/19 - updated to initial 2025 information