Earthtone, I will help.
2007 Las Vegas Apostafest
by earthtone 38 Replies latest members meetups
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LennyinBluemont
Oh yeah,
Vegas, Baby!
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sammielee24
The Tropicana is older but mid strip and has good pools if you are going in August. This year there were 'pool parties' most weekends as well if you like that sort of stuff. The Mirage has been under construction for a while so I'm not sure how far it has come along but I think you can get cheap rooms at the Flamingo and Tropicana if you keep your eyes peeled. They are at least center strip. If you like the carnivale type theme, the Rio has a high energy vibe. Most of the off strip hotels are fine and have shuttles so depending what you want to do as a group or a whole, you might check those out. My personal choice is the Palace Station. You can often get rooms for 35.00 bucks or so, the casino is fine and there is a shuttle over to the strip and back till midnight. If you want to take a cab, it is about 10.00 one way which is still fine if you are sharing a cab and splitting the cost.
If you enjoy Phantom of the Opera, the production now at the Venetian is phenomenal. Blue Man Group isn't too shabby either. sammieswife.
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earthtone
Lenny had a great time! lol
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collegegirl21
Does that mean we are on standby til November?
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earthtone
Yes College girl unless everyone wants to pick an earlier date.
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LennyinBluemont
Yes, Earthtone, I had a really great time! To show how fraudulent the picture is, my wife took it! I thought if I could combine gambling, smoking and sex into one photo, it would be a nice illustration of my "awakening" from being an elder and in the Borg for 30 years. I thought about sending it to the elders with my letter. If they thought that gave them evidence of anything, I could say, "The cigar's not lit, I'm not gambling, and she's just a cocktail waitress. What scripture have I violated?"
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LennyinBluemont
Back to business. Should we compile a list of questions to ask each hotel and create a spreadsheet of information to make comparison easy? Such as:
Rate for the days we ask for.
Conference room available one hour/day and cost
On the strip
Payment arrangements
Any proffers if we book 10, 20, 30 rooms (discount on rooms, free conference room, discounts on buffet, etc.)
If there's enough of us, we should let them bid for our business.
Everyone reading this thread that is seriously interested, PLEASE let Earthtone know, so that she knows what kind of bargaining power we can use to approach these hotels. I know we don't have dates yet, but assuming the dates are compatible with your schedule (excuse me English people, I should have said "shed jewel"), and we can get room rates of say $130 - $150 per night ($65 - $75 pp/double occupancy), and you have at least eight months to save for it, will you come? Let's be decisive. We can't wheel and deal until we know what kind of numbers we're dealing with. And we really need to know NOW. Obviously, if the date preferred by the majority doesn't work out for you, it's understood you must bow out.
It would be wonderful if everyone that wanted to come, could. So I think it's best to make this democratic, majority rules. Earthtone, you can put my wife and me down as a definite, and we would want to stay five days. Our schedule is very flexible, and we are more than willing to move things around to accomodate this, but there are a few appointments we cannot change.
HEY, LET'S GET PSYCHED ABOUT THIS FOLKS!
I'M EXCITED!!!!
By the way, for any coming in from overseas, if you can coordinate your flight to leave Dulles International for Vegas with us, and you fly into Dulles, we can put up two couples in our home for one night, so you can break the trip up a little if you want. We're about 30 minutes from Dulles.
Let's all pull together and make this happen! Let's make it big!
Lenny
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uwishufish
I will know more and be able to give a definite answer late Jan. I love Vegas and is one of the best places I have lived.
If necessary I might have to book outside of the group if the group has locked in there reservations by the time I can give a definite answer.
I'll will keep up with the threads and contact the approprate people.
UWUF
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joannadandy
I know when there was a fest before in Vegas - I was pricing things out and the Stratosphere Hotel always seemed to have really reasonable rates at all the travel sites...