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Author Topic: Showest 2008 Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-27-2008 01:13 PM                     Who is attending Showest 2008 and where is everyone staying? We are trying to figure out the best way to still have the annual Film-Tech Drink and yet avoid the 135,000 ConExpo conventioneers that have sucked up all of the rooms in town.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-27-2008 04:49 PM                     Yep will be there. There is another really huge convention going on at the same time as Showorst. Its easily X10 the size of Showorst so getting rooms nearby may be very difficcult this year. We are staying quite a ways west of the strip. Mark  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-27-2008 05:22 PM                     I'm currently scheduled to be there. I'll be staying near ShoWest, as usual but Mark is right...the rooms are just about all gone in Vegas now and those rooms that are available are going for about double what they did last year for ShoWest. Forget about Bally's and Paris...those rooms are long gone. The last time I checked, the Flamingo had rooms but I suspect that they are now gone too. I will only be there for the days of the trade show (11-13). Steve  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 01-27-2008 05:29 PM                  The Monte Carlo Hotel and Casino Resort has great room prices on the top 5 floors...  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 01-27-2008 05:37 PM                     Monte Carlo will not work for us non smokers  |  IP: Logged Mike Spaeth Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1129 From: Marietta, GA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 01-27-2008 08:07 PM                        I'm staying at Rio.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 01-27-2008 08:53 PM                     I'll prob be doing Super8 behind Bally's (if my company can afford me to go this year) which isn't that bad of a walk up the street. Might bring the family with me this time so they can enjoy the lights, action and getting away from home.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-27-2008 11:34 PM                       As usual, I will not be there again. I've never been to it, and probably never will.  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-27-2008 11:51 PM                     Probably a negative for me as well this year - I'll try to go again in 09!  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 01-28-2008 02:02 AM                        I'll be there - even if I'm back in SoCal by then. But for now I'm still here. Shameless plug: Try Allegiant Travel for hotel/travel packages if you're having trouble finding accommodations. We're geared for vacation travellers, but... http://www.allegiantair.com  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 01-28-2008 02:37 AM                        quote: Mark Gulbrandsen Yep will be there. There is another really huge convention going on at the same time as Showorst. At one AMIA conference we were sharing the hotel with a prison officers' convention. Their registration desk was next to ours, and was giving out flyers for batons, tasers and all sorts of nasty stuff. I did wonder about trying to buy an electric chair in order to take care of irritating colleagues back home, but didn't like the thought of the excess baggage charges (or the prospect of trying to get it through customs)...  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-28-2008 02:43 AM                     Good find Monte!...When I was booking my room...I even looked at the more "price conscience" hotel/motels, having been a guest of the former Bourbon Street several years (the site of the first Film-Tech Drink too)..somehow I missed this one. Super-8 still seems to have reasonable prices and rooms though probably not their traditional Vegas prices...this year, things are TIGHT. Steve  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-28-2008 03:04 PM                     Steve, That Super-8 is Gawd Awful.... Noisy 24/7... I stayed there just once... I think that was my last stay ever at a Super-8. Mark  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 01-28-2008 03:21 PM                        Paul: Southwest usually blocks 750 rooms at Ballys for their "dream vacations." Louis  |  IP: Logged Dennis Benjamin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1445 From: Denton, MD Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-28-2008 03:24 PM                        You know what sux? The fact that I could probably stay in Vegas somewhere for free. I just can't afford the price of admission into Showest. I guess I should consider myself lucky for actually getting to go once. Although, I did live there when that happened. Anyways.... Did I mention that I miss Vegas sometimes?  |  IP: Logged

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