GUESS WHO'S GOING TO VEGASCON!

[Shari]

That's RIGHT. And I'm dragging the hubby. I'm so stoked.


So yeah, everyone else needs to come now too.

[Sean of the Thread]

How does your hubby feel about a fingercuffs session?

[Satira]

YAY so many people are going it is going to rock socks.

[Kuyuk]

Someone should grab her titty and get a pic.


K.

[Jolena]

How does your hubby feel about a fingercuffs session?

Damn, I wish I still had the qoute from Shari about her husband enjoying her having toys..

[Back]

I don’t even play that much and now I want to go.

[Satira]

You should go. Everyone should go. Tons of awesome people are attending.

[Back]

Nah, you really don’t want me there. Serious. lol.

[SpunGirl]

www.vegascon.com

FTW!

<3 K

[AestheticDeath]

Hey, not going, but since I followed the vegascon link, i went to check out the frontier place.. The website lists rooms at $45 per night rather than $110 like your VC site says.

edit: And they will match any lower price you can find/prove.

[JohnDoe]

Did a quick check and it says "Rooms as low as $44.95 per night". This generally means that you can get a room during the slower part of the week (the middle) for cheaper than you can during the weekend. When I checked a Friday to Saturday stay, the cheapest room was $155.

[AestheticDeath]

ah

[JohnDoe]

How many people generally go to this?

[Ilvane]

Looks like this year is going to be pretty big, if everyone who goes who says they are.:)

Fun, fun.

Angela

[SpunGirl]

Last year we had about 85, the biggest year I've attended there have been about 110-120ish people there.

To further clarify your question, Aesthetic Death, February/March is probably one of the most expensive times to be in Las Vegas. The weather is extremely mild and people just got their tax refunds, so they're ready to spend money. Lots of conventions book this time a year (I'm not talking about small-time cons like ours, I'm talking about 5,000+ attendees), which puts hotel space at a premium. Add the Nascar events in and it's not exactly the time everyone is steering clear.

If Simutronics continues to dismiss Simucon (as they did in '06 and appear to be doing for '07), I plan to try and gradually shove the Vegascon date closer to the summer. This will result in fairly cheaper room rates and more pool time.

Below is a cut-and-paste of the post I made on the officials regarding the search for an appropriate hotel (this will be Year 4 at the Frontier).

Dates will be Feb 28 - March 4. Feb 28th is a Wednesday, but we had such a good early turnout last year I figured I'd just stick that in there. The "official" con stuff won't start until Thursday, but we WILL have the same hospitality suite this year as we did last year. That means it's at The Frontier again. I know The Frontier isn't the most posh place in town, but I looked (I really did!) a lot of other places to see what our options were. Here's a breakdown of what I found:

Tropicana: $129/night, no hospitality suite, required to book meeting space.
Imperial Palace: $129/night, no hospitality suite, required to book meeting space.
Treasure Island: $145/night, no hospitality suite, no meeting space available.
Gold Coast: $100/night, no hospitality suite, booking meeting space at $500/8-hour block.
The Palms: $229/night, hospitality suite at $1000/night.

I don't know what the deal is with other places playing dumb on the hospitality suite. My conversations went something like this:

Me: "We need a hospitality suite as part of our room block for a place to gather and socialize."
Them: "What are you going to do in there?"
Me: "Socialize, play cards, talk."
Them: "Well, our biggest suite can only accomodate 10, maybe 15 people. You definitely can't have 60 people in there."
Me: "We don't all want to sleep there, we just need a place to gather."
Them: "No, you can't do that. Security will come kick you out."

Of course, The Palms has suites specifically for these activities, which is why I talked to them. Aside from the room rate being ridiculously high, and the rate for the suite being out of reach, the lady advised me that we would NOT be allowed to bring in any of our own stuff. So instead of buying kegs from Leon at $150-ish apiece, I'd have to buy them from The Palms for $500 apiece. Prohibitive! The same rules applied for any place that we'd book meeting space - if we use their room, we have to use their food/bev.

The room rates at The Frontier will fall at $110/night, and as we all know, they have no problem letting us haul in our own booze, kegs, jello shots, aardvarks... not to mention how cool they were with the 2am hottub party last year. Signups will be open on the website soon, and will be $45 until the cutoff date (not determined yet) and double the price thereafter.

Returning activities will be the jello shot party, the pub crawl, the pizza party, the raffle, and an IMPROVED and HARDER scavenger hunt (I guess I went too easy on you guys last time!)

-K

[Satira]

It seems like even more people are going this year. Oh man I can't wait!

[SpunGirl]

Edits to above (since it was a cut and paste)... signups ARE open on the website and will close February 8th. If you don't sign up either on the website or via paypal with me by then, the signup price doubles. No exceptions, and everyone is required to register. Kthx!

-K (AIM Jojobabee with questions)

[Sean of the Thread]

!CRASH CRASH CRASH CRASH CRASH!

[Shari]

There will be security on the premises, yes?

[Sean of the Thread]

There will be security on the premises, yes?

Your point?

[Satira]

It's a casino, of course there will be.

[Shari]

Your point?

Guess.

[Artha]

Wrong side of the country >:E

[SpunGirl]

I'd like to think I have an extremely good handle on how casino security works, and which buttons to push to get what I want. If anyone becomes a problem or attempts to make things difficult, I'll have no problem having them tossed. It's really ridiculously easy to get yourself thrown out of a casino.

-K

[Sean of the Thread]

Obviously the !crash crash crash! was a joke..so you guys can turn down the knob on the bitch meter. Who the fuck crashes a player con?

[Latrinsorm]

Wrong side of the country >:EROADTRIP

[Sean of the Thread]

ROADTRIP

TOOFAR!

It is however a very reasonable plane trip :)

[Satira]

My bitch meter is permanently set to HOLYFUCKWHATARAGINGBITCH, I don't have settings?!?!?

[SpunGirl]

Obviously the !crash crash crash! was a joke..so you guys can turn down the knob on the bitch meter. Who the fuck crashes a player con?

I've seen it happen a few times. I am, however, glad to see that you're too cool to pull such a stunt:)

-K

[Artha]

My bitch meter is permanently send to HOLYFUCKWHATARAGINGBITCH, I don't have settings?!?!?

"But this one goes to eleven."

http://gfx.dagbladet.no/pub/artikkel/4/46/462/462565/SpinalTap_Edith_503.jpg

[Seran]

Meh, coincides with my own pre-planned trip, this might be a do-r simply to say that I too have been to a GS-Con.

[Mikare]

Missed last year, probably going this year...

Mikare

[Reyek]

sorry if this is double posted somewhere...


Anyone going?
Just asking cause I live in Vegas.

[Asha]

I could use the holiday. But frankly the general Con types give me the creeps.
I did promise myself one Con though.
Hmm.

[Sean of the Thread]

I may sign up.. it's fucking hard to schedule around kids.

[TheEschaton]

Take 'em with you. Nothing like Vegas to make your kids either love you forever, or hate you for slightly longer.

-TheE-

[Shari]

Heh, my dad took my brother and I on a rafting trip down the Colorado river with a stop at Vegas when I was 16. I LOVED it.

[Artha]

Vegas was pretty tight, even though I can't gamble/drink/buy hookers.

[Stanley Burrell]

"But this one goes to eleven."

http://gfx.dagbladet.no/pub/artikkel/4/46/462/462565/SpinalTap_Edith_503.jpg

lol

[Stanley Burrell]

I may sign up.. it's fucking hard to schedule around kids.

HOW THE FUCK DO YOU SCHEDULE THIS SHIT WITHOUT KIDS!?!?

People, come to my decrepit shanty.

Or schedule something northeasternishly... They have casinos and lobsters up here an' shit. Bah.