X Marks Convention

[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.

[Pour1Malt]

weel... ai'll no be makin it tae 'merica oint time soon...

but ai trust ya will a' toast a muckle dram o' single malt fur ma!

[davedove]

Room rates tend to be less through the week, unless you happen to pick a week where there is a big event happening. As far as reserving a block of rooms, most hotels will do that, but you often have to guarantee that a certain percentage of those rooms will be booked, since you're preventing others from booking. If the percentage is not met (80% is a common figure) the group involved has to make up the difference.

Sometime in 2007 or later would be best for me. Of course, you know my vote is for the Hooters Hotel and Casino.

I stayed at the Flamingo the only trip I've made to Vegas. It's a pretty nice hotel and has been said before, it's right in the middle of the strip.

I do like the idea of a rabble of kilties descending on Vegas.

[Kilted KT]

Of course, you know my vote is for the Hooters Hotel and Casino.

I do like the idea of a rabble of kilties descending on Vegas.

Based on my experience with Kilts in Hooters, I think it would be hard for any of the rabble to even leave the hotel!

[Retro Red]

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

I like Ron's idea of coinciding an "X Marks" convention with the Las Vegas Highland Games.

While the LVCS website doesn't mention the date for the 2007 games, yet. It does say that the 2006 games were held a week earlier than usual because of Easter this year. So, we can deduce that they normally hold their games on the third weekend of April (at least that's when they held the first one in 2005). That means the 2007 games will probably be held on 21-22 April. (Elementary, my dear Watson.)

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[John M.]

We just might be in for an early 2007 trip to Vegas.

As has been said already, Mon. thru Thurs. is a bunch cheaper for hotel rooms unless some big event is taking place mid week.

I've been to Vegas six times but all before I turned 21. So now that I'm 37 I haven't seen at least half the casino's ext. that are there now & my better half has never been there.
Therefore, while the golf addicts are doing their thing we could (do the drunken stumble) go sight seeing on the strip.