If you're headed to ASW, here're a few tips:
1) Vegas Throat: on account of being in the desert, the air is really dry and most coming from out-of-state might lose their voice after a day or so, especially if you're shouting at each other to be heard in the clubs.
Lozenges are great for this, and drink lots of water.
2) Sneakers or sports shoes are great, cos you'll be walking around the hall a lot, epecially if you're not going for many of the seminar sessions.
3) take the bus shuttle outside the terminal, i think it's $7 per trip and goes to all the hotels, compared to about $20 for a taxi ride for a tour of the city.
4) there's a coupon book you can buy online which gives you meal discounts, show discounts if you like. google for it online, although a number of people have bought it, i haven't myself...
5) i think it'll be still chilly next week, so you might like to bring a light jacket, especially if you're walking around at night.
6) there's a new shopping mall, old town square shopping mall which opened in december, so if you'd like to do some shopping (especially for those travelling in from outside the US, you can get some retail therapy there).
Else, you could go order your overstock, amazon, buy.com, bizrate stuff and just send it all to the hotel (dropping them a friendly email saying you've got a couple of containers of stuff coming in....)
7) go for an afternoon snooze, especially if you might be staying up till 4am for the parties...
8) make sure you've got enough space to carry all your schwag back. an extra foldable bag might be useful. I usually don't carry all the t-shirts myself (unless there's a WF one out - assuming it's not coming out on christmas) and just take the electronic toys, flash drives and cool stuff instead.
9) if it helps, you can sleep 10-12 hours on fri/sat, and not sleep at all the entire time you're in vegas, or maybe 2-3 hours a day while you're there...
10) even if you have merchants and networks bringing you out to dinner and afterhours entertainment, you might want to bring an extra couple hundred bucks more than what you intended....vegas has a tendency to swallow up all your spare change...
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i think that about covers it...
1) Vegas Throat: on account of being in the desert, the air is really dry and most coming from out-of-state might lose their voice after a day or so, especially if you're shouting at each other to be heard in the clubs.
Lozenges are great for this, and drink lots of water.
2) Sneakers or sports shoes are great, cos you'll be walking around the hall a lot, epecially if you're not going for many of the seminar sessions.
3) take the bus shuttle outside the terminal, i think it's $7 per trip and goes to all the hotels, compared to about $20 for a taxi ride for a tour of the city.
4) there's a coupon book you can buy online which gives you meal discounts, show discounts if you like. google for it online, although a number of people have bought it, i haven't myself...
5) i think it'll be still chilly next week, so you might like to bring a light jacket, especially if you're walking around at night.
6) there's a new shopping mall, old town square shopping mall which opened in december, so if you'd like to do some shopping (especially for those travelling in from outside the US, you can get some retail therapy there).
Else, you could go order your overstock, amazon, buy.com, bizrate stuff and just send it all to the hotel (dropping them a friendly email saying you've got a couple of containers of stuff coming in....)
7) go for an afternoon snooze, especially if you might be staying up till 4am for the parties...
8) make sure you've got enough space to carry all your schwag back. an extra foldable bag might be useful. I usually don't carry all the t-shirts myself (unless there's a WF one out - assuming it's not coming out on christmas) and just take the electronic toys, flash drives and cool stuff instead.
9) if it helps, you can sleep 10-12 hours on fri/sat, and not sleep at all the entire time you're in vegas, or maybe 2-3 hours a day while you're there...
10) even if you have merchants and networks bringing you out to dinner and afterhours entertainment, you might want to bring an extra couple hundred bucks more than what you intended....vegas has a tendency to swallow up all your spare change...
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i think that about covers it...
