ORLANDO | GayDayS, Inc. may have just wrapped up the June 2022 events but it is already looking ahead to 2023.
During the organization’s 2022 expo at the Avanti Palms Resort, GayDayS, Inc announced that it would be returning to the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Orlando at SeaWorld for its June 2023 events.
“Going through this transition of taking over the company, Thomas and I were looking at what are the things we wanted to accomplish and one of those items were going back to the DoubleTree,” says Joseph Clark, new owner of GayDayS, Inc. “A lot of the people that had worked with the DoubleTree when we were there are back so we’ve been working on the contract for that event. We are very happy to be heading home.”
GayDayS, Inc. had held its annual events at the DoubleTree by SeaWorld for many years before moving location and dates in 2019 after not being able to book the hotel. Clark says they have secured the DoubleTree for 2023 and are finalizing the details to keep it at the DoubleTree for the next five years but says “I don’t foresee any changing once we are back there.”
The theme for next year’s events is “Homecoming: Class of ’23” and will take place May 31-June 5, 2023.
“DoubleTree isn’t the first property I attended GayDayS as a guest but when I started to work with GayDayS, that’s where we started out at,” Clark recalls, “so it has the feeling of home; it feels that way with the staff, the whole deal when you step onto that property, that’s where home is.”
While few details are available this soon after the 2022 events, Clark says the team has started working on the logistics of the event and has already begun talks with their longtime vendors.
“We are bringing the expo back to the ballroom area as our guests know it and that whole space has been remodeled since the last time we were there so it will look great,” Clark says. “Several events we know are coming back — Mr. Leather, Taste [of GayDayS], Miss [GayDayS] — but as we are always trying to keep things fresh, there may be some changes to the way we do things for those. That outdoor space they have now after they eliminated one of the pools hasn’t really been used by us before, so we will be looking at some fun stuff to do out there.”
GayDayS opened reservations to this year’s guests first, selling more than 100 rooms in the first day at its onsite information center. GayDayS in currently working on getting all the rooms online to start reservations through its website. In a message posted to Facebook June 7, GayDayS stated it plans to have the rooms online by the end of the June 12 weekend.
For more information, go to GayDayS.com.
