And KC is full of museums and cool touristy stuff to do (Negro Baseball League Hall of Fame, Jazz Museum at 18th and Vine, Science Museum at restored Union Station, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, and a fantastic zoo and hey - more fountains than Rome - seriously). It's also pretty cheap food and hotel wise here.
IIRC, Kansas City has the more fountains than any other city in the world. Also, when mentioning the Nelson, one cannot forget to tell people that it has ten-foot shuttlecocks on the lawn. Seriously.
Here I'm acting like I've been to the Nelson more than once in my life.
The Arabia Steamboat Museum in KC is pretty amazing.
I contacted the Cleveland Visitor's and Convention Bureau to see what help they could give us on average prices, things to do, stuff like that, and they said they'd have some pretty solid hotel pricing for me by next Friday.
That will be good information to have. Don't go too overboard on getting all kinds of pricing on cities. We'll get our four top choices nailed down and then send out all the information to those cities with our RFP and get bids back. Ballpark prices are good at this point.
Jumping in towards the end, so the discussion right now is based around the following cities?
Austin
New Orleans
Nashville
Lawrence
KC
Minneapolis
Toronto
Cleveland
Is this correct?
ChiKat,
I think Lawrence was going on a line with KC. But apart from that, that's the list of proposed locations.
Memphis, and Atlanta have also come up, as has Denver.
Also, yes, we are treating Lawrence/KC as one entry.
I think all of the proposals should have theme songs.
Atlanta AND Toronto count as middle of the country? We're not going to have any East Coast cities left for 2007!
