X Marks Convention

[mkmound]

KiltedCodeWarrior wrote:

...I am very partial to the Venetian. Bellagio is nice, but the Venetian is just not to be missed.

I think we would want a place nice enough to make the trip worthwhile for everyone, but not so expensive that people would be put off by it being too nice ($$$)

Cheers

True . . . I like the Venetian, too, especially when the company is paying for it!

However for a frugal, Scottish-linked group like this, the standard suite-rooms are huge -- the whole company could fit in one with sleeping bags!!! :rolleyes:

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

...However for a frugal, Scottish-linked group like this, the standard suite-rooms are huge -- the whole company could fit in one with sleeping bags!!! :rolleyes:

Mark, you have been there then! The only Vegas hotel I have stayed in that has a multi-level room! We could definitely get 6-8 people per room, and that is without sleeping bags!

[mkmound]

Mark, you have been there then! The only Vegas hotel I have stayed in that has a multi-level room! We could definitely get 6-8 people per room, and that is without sleeping bags!

Yep!! And you're right, the multi-level rooms are easily twice the size of a normal hotel, maybe 3x! You need a map and compas!!

Yep, I've gotten to go there for an internal sales conference the last few years . . . a chance to spend a week (of 12-hour days) in luxury hotels with 18,000 of my closest associates . . . The only redeeming factor was the hotel rooms.

[Tattoo Bradley]

Well, I'm still a FNG. BUT, I'd definately be interested in something like this. I've never really had any reason to go to Vegas before. I don't drink, or gamble. Believe that?? Scots and Irish both in my blood and I don't drink?? haha. Not even the malt I tell ya!

But yeah, I think a trip to Vegas would be in order for a good rabble 'o kilties!!

[Joe Gondek]

Sounds like a good idea to me
but lets do it early spring
its A whole lot cooler

[Mr. Kilt]

Sounds like a great idea! My wife and I will be in Vegas sometime around April, 2007 to celebrate our 10th anniversary. Won't know the exact week until vacation sign-up in February, though. However, I can always book a week off without pay if need be.

[Zardoz]

As long as it's in a cooler time of year, all the times I've been out there it's been hotternhell!

That Green Valley place sounds good too.

[motorman4life]

When is "off season" in Las Vegas? :confused:
It would be nice if we could do a 3 or 4 night, midweek event and try to block some rooms at a really good rate. Most hotels will set up a hosting agreement that they will give you a banquet hall or meeting room for free based upon a minimum occupancy, free continental breakfast, etc... Maybe we could get a hall and offer tables for vendors, do a kilt fashion show and maybe collect up some door prizes, etc...

I hope to have finished up my private pilot's license by then and fly down from San Francisco... I could host some fly-overs of the Vegas Strip and Grand Canyon for gas cost only.

[Riverkilt]

I'm drooling...all these X Marks kilts being sewn up..and I'm only five hours away.

Visions of a parade.

I love Las Vegas and get there a lot. Usually there for a conference and staying in the conference hotel. Rooms ain't that big of deal, only to sleep in and who cares then?

As far as gambling, its for folks who flunked math. I have had a standing offer for many year to pay fifty cents on the dollar for any money someone plans to go gambling with. We'll both win.

Used to stay at the San Remo, an aged well worn place just off the strip but think I heard its been bought out and is in the process of renovation with upgrades in room prices.

The Las Vegas Celtic Society has their games in mid April. Don't think a date has been set for 2007 yet.

http://www.lasvegascelticsociety.org/index.html

Imagine a Highland games inundated with X Marks kilts, t-shirts, pins, et.al.

For those willing to fly in from overseas and around the U.S. I "think' the air fares to Vegas are pretty cheap.

Ron

[ronstew]

For those willing to fly in from overseas and around the U.S. I "think' the air fares to Vegas are pretty cheap.

I don't know if they ever were cheap or whether that was an urban myth. Certainly, today Las Vegas is such a tourist and convention draw that the airlines can and do demand top dollar. For instance, Vancouver to Los Angeles or Vancouver to Las Vegas costs about $480 CDN per person, return, mid week, next month. Similar distances, so I'd call it fair.