RE: Possible "Alterna-conference" locations?

["Gilger.John" <JGilger -at- acresgaming -dot- com>]

UNLV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) is close to the strip and has <10,000
hotel/motel rooms and the airport all within a five-mile radius. The prices
range from less than $20/night at a "No-Tell Motel" to something on the
order of $7K/night in the Presidential Suite at the Four Seasons Hotel.

If, as Andrew originally proposed, the event is held at a "trashy" hotel,
Fitzgerald's on Freemont would fill the bill. Another organization that I am
active in has meetings there and the facilities are perfectly adequate for
our needs and the price is low -- free in our case because their facilities
director is a member of our organization. There would be no problem with a
summer-time booking and the room rates at Fitzgerald's and the neighboring
hotels are well below $100 per night and you can step out of the hotel into
the heart of the Freemont Street Experience -- a grand swindle of Las Vegas'
taxpayers in an attempt to lure meetings and tourists downtown.

John Gilger
Senior Technical Writer
Acres Gaming, Inc.
702.914.5585



-----Original Message-----
From: Karen Walakavage [mailto:walakavage -at- yahoo -dot- com]
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 08:23 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Possible "Alterna-conference" locations?


Kimberley Nolder said:
University of South Florida (Tampa, FL)!

Kay Ethier has suggested a university site for an
alternative conference, and I agree a school setting
may well be the best place for a conference like this.
However, we have addressed this question previously on
this thread and came up with the problem of sharing
rooms -- and more importantly bathrooms -- for this
solution to work. We have greater logisitics than just
TW interpersonal relations to work this one, however,
it may pay off in the long run to go with an academic
setting. I'll think in writing here. 

Benefits of an academic setting, in general:
-> Numerous classrooms available in various sizes
(theoretically)
-> AV, PC and MAC equipment available and onsite,
probably through the "conference administrator" for
our purpose --> BUT with their oversight.
-> Student housing: Bonus (see above) or boon (see
following)
-> In "off-season," rates can be enticing. HOWEVR,
that said, many universities don't have an off-season,
and keep a load of students in town and in the dorms
all year round.
-> To rebut that, small colleges beg to have their
facilities used in the summer off-season.
-> Many universities are near centers of travel -- ah,
yes, getting all those conference attendees to the
site itself. Airports, highways, trains and overflow
hotels must all be considered. 

Because I feel that many universities are on a
year-round schedule, I don't think that UNIVERSITIES,
per se, are the way to go. Couldn't we find a small
college with air, rail, bus, and taxi service
available to attendees?

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