Ah, but if you are paying for every other facet of the conference with the $80 a room kickback < bg >
I know we have always been able to negotiate a very good room rate for VFE devcon in Vegas - should never run more than $80 a night and for a conference the size of Advisor Devcon (even at today's adjusted sizes) you could get a better rate than that at Paris or Mirage which are both easily capable of handling big conferences.
And having a hotel ten miles off the strip really defeats the whole purpose of having the conference in Las Vegas.
>Hi Jon.
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>$239 is *foolish* in Vegas -- what is Advisor thinking?>>
>>Evan,
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>>FYI, Ken clarified earlier in the thread that $239 would not be the conference attendee rate. It would be $159.
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>Even that is ridiculous for LV. I was at Comdex last week and paid $79 a night for the Luxor hotel, which was very nice. One of the benefits for having a conference in LV is that it's cheaper than other resorts, yet this rate is pretty much what we've been paying for years in places like Palm Springs and Ft. Lauderdale.
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>Doug
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