"Ayabmuk, m'lord, ayabmuk", with everyone chanting and dancing around the pretty fire....
And then the hotel gives us the cheap rates, and the entire pool area for Prom.
Worth a shot.
Wesley: Hey. Hey, Gunn. Is something weird going on? … Charles, you just peed on my shoes. Gunn: I'll be damned. That's weird.
'Life of the Party'
F2F 3: Who's Bringing the Guacamole?
Plan what to do, what to wear (you can never go wrong with a corset), and get ready for the next BuffistaCon: San Francisco, May 19-21, 2006! Everything else, go here! Swag!
deborah grabien - Aug 08, 2005 3:21:45 pm PDT #4379 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
DebetEsse - Aug 09, 2005 5:04:00 pm PDT #4380 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Hey, NYC-istas.
I'm gonna be in town this weekend.
I was thinking it would be nice to do a get-together-for-food-type-thing on Sunday.
However I don't know where or when.
Aims - Aug 11, 2005 7:00:19 am PDT #4381 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
So, we've been turned down by:
LV Hilton
Mandalay Bay
Tropicana
MGM/Mirage
Treasure Island
Bellagio
The ONE - as in SINGULAR - hotel that has responded is......
...wait for it.....
...watch Deb's head explode....
FREAKING EXCALIBUR!
::headdeskheaddeskheaddesk::
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 11, 2005 7:06:28 am PDT #4382 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Have you tried the Aladdin and the Venetian Aimée? (I hesitate to ask about Luxor, as reservations have been voiced about the gaudyness.)
Aims - Aug 11, 2005 7:07:54 am PDT #4383 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
What I did was give our IFB to the Las Vegas Convention Minions and they, in turn, give it to all the Convention Arrangers at the hotels.
Aims - Aug 11, 2005 7:09:33 am PDT #4384 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
And to be fair....
We didn't get turned down by Mandalay. I dismissed them. They wanted 199.95/259.95/279.95 Thurs - Fri, respectively. No discounts offered for anything.
Nora Deirdre - Aug 11, 2005 7:31:24 am PDT #4385 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I'm pimping for San Francisco because it's the only place I'd be able to go; JavaOne is in SF the previous week, so Tom will be travelling for free, and I'm hopefully going to be meeting up with him to play in SF, and so I'm crossing fingers that the Buffistas will be overrunning the town, instead of the ones that already live there being somewhere else!
So there you go!
Aims - Aug 11, 2005 7:34:14 am PDT #4386 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
weighs hands
Love for Nora, Love for Vegas....
Love for Nora, Love for Vegas....
Vegas always there, Nora ususally in Boston....
Nora Deirdre - Aug 11, 2005 7:48:38 am PDT #4387 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
yes! what I want to on this thread do is make everyone Prove Their Love For Me!
deborah grabien - Aug 11, 2005 7:51:13 am PDT #4388 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I did the meeting with Khaled Amr, who is the very sweet events guy at the Ramada. I also brought the HICC bid - the full official package, complete with all the numbers - for him to see.
Result is, they knocked the room price back ten bucks a night, to $109. Not as good as the HICC's $99, and remember that all rooms still have that tax attached to them. The hotel has a few pluses; we'd have our choice of rooms that would be suitable for the hospitality suite, they'd bring a small fridge in, and we could either go with their TV/DVD suppliers (for a cost) or bring in our own without any resentment on their part.
The big plus for the Ramada is the space for Prom. It's HUGE, beautiful, big glass double doors into the hote lobby (and if we went with the lobby hospitality suite, it's literally twenty feet away from the ballroom), and it has a gallery. Their catering manager, Marcello, sat down with me, and we had the conversation about wanting the room comped with a minimum catering/bartending met.
So, Khaled's putting their revised bid together, and I should be getting it in email early next week. Since I'm in San Diego this weekend, I told him there was no huge rush to get it down this week.