Re: DB2 Tech Conf in Vegas

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

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.

Rob Berendt
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Al
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.

COMDEX  had  horribly  high  hotel rates year  after year in Vegas.  And 
the city was one HUGE Traffic  jam.

Vegas is  a great  city  for a conference

At 04:54 PM 9/14/2004, Al Barsa wrote:

>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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>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...
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> > And I think it'll be a cold day in hell before you see COMMON back in
> > Vegas...
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