Re: DB2 Tech Conf in Vegas

Well, COMDEX has basically been replaced with consumer electronics show,
which is the first weekend in Jan 2005, and I can still get good rooms for
under $120/n for that weekend and if I tried I bet I could find good rooms
for under $80/n....and if I had planned ahead and booked in March, I could
have gotten a really sweet deal...:)

It's all in planning ahead...:)



On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Good point.  The person who gets the $39 room might not have been out
> there during COMDEX.  My sister used to work reservations and said that
> getting a room out there during that time was next to impossible.
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> COMMON  also  did Reno, back in the S/38 days.  A conference fit
> within  Ballys and  was  very enjoyable and affordable.  They even
> arranged  for the  post conference weekend special rate of $75  for
> the  entire week end. I
> The other problem was since COMMON attendees were not casino people,
> the  hotels really jacked up the rates to  recover revenue.
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> COMDEX  had  horribly  high  hotel rates year  after year in Vegas.  And
> the city was one HUGE Traffic  jam.
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> Vegas is  a great  city  for a conference
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> At 04:54 PM 9/14/2004, Al Barsa wrote:
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> >I have been to two COMMONs in Las Vegas.  The first one was split between
> >two hotels diagonally across the strip from the other one, and you
> couldn't
> >move from hotel to hotel without someone trying to sell you a woman.  It
> >was novel on the first day, but was fairly grating by the end.
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> >So COMMON bitched to the Hotel Bureau, the they moved us to a split
> between
> >the famous Tailhook Hilton, and the close by convention center.  That's
> >where no one (figuratively speaking) was gambling, so the rumor is that
> we
> >were uninvited.
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> >Al
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> >Al Barsa, Jr.
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> >Our system's had more names than Elizabeth Taylor!
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> >Rick,
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> >As I understand it, COMMON had a great time in Vegas (Al, may correct me
> >here ), but the problem is that COMMON attendees are those that actually
> >ATTEND the sessions and don't waste their time in the damn casino's...and
> >Vegas is more interested in people spending thier time in the casino's
> >than having a good conference... :)
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> >Don in DC
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> >On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 rick.baird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> > > hey, a tech conference is a tech conference.  I don't care if it's for
> > > HP/3000 - if I get a free trip to vegas.
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> > > Why? did common have a bad time in vegas?
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> > > Rick,
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> > > this is a DB2 - *NOT* iSeries tech conf...
> > >
> > > And I think it'll be a cold day in hell before you see COMMON back in
> > > Vegas...
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> > > Don in DC
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