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[KiltedCodeWarrior]

Vegas can handle ANYTHING, if the price is right! I would actually throw a vote for the Green Valley Ranch, it is a very nice place a little off the strip, but they have an authentic Irish Pub, the cason is nice, and the rooms were also very nice. Of course, given a choice, I am very partial to the Venetian. Bellagio is nice, but the Venetian is just not to be missed.

[CameronTaylor]

I'd be down for that, Green Valley or NYNY, there's even a new Auld Dubliner there so we have two pubs (not couniting the tourist trap "Nine drunken Irishmen" at NYNY as a pub by any measure).
Rabble in Vegas, what else ???


CT -

[Panache]

KiltedCodeWarrior wrote:

...I am very partial to the Venetian. Bellagio is nice, but the Venetian is just not to be missed.

I think we would want a place nice enough to make the trip worthwhile for everyone, but not so expensive that people would be put off by it being too nice ($$$)

Cheers

[mkmound]

KiltedCodeWarrior wrote:

...I am very partial to the Venetian. Bellagio is nice, but the Venetian is just not to be missed.

I think we would want a place nice enough to make the trip worthwhile for everyone, but not so expensive that people would be put off by it being too nice ($$$)

Cheers

True . . . I like the Venetian, too, especially when the company is paying for it!

However for a frugal, Scottish-linked group like this, the standard suite-rooms are huge -- the whole company could fit in one with sleeping bags!!! :rolleyes:

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

...However for a frugal, Scottish-linked group like this, the standard suite-rooms are huge -- the whole company could fit in one with sleeping bags!!! :rolleyes:

Mark, you have been there then! The only Vegas hotel I have stayed in that has a multi-level room! We could definitely get 6-8 people per room, and that is without sleeping bags!

[mkmound]

Mark, you have been there then! The only Vegas hotel I have stayed in that has a multi-level room! We could definitely get 6-8 people per room, and that is without sleeping bags!

Yep!! And you're right, the multi-level rooms are easily twice the size of a normal hotel, maybe 3x! You need a map and compas!!

Yep, I've gotten to go there for an internal sales conference the last few years . . . a chance to spend a week (of 12-hour days) in luxury hotels with 18,000 of my closest associates . . . The only redeeming factor was the hotel rooms.

[Tattoo Bradley]

Well, I'm still a FNG. BUT, I'd definately be interested in something like this. I've never really had any reason to go to Vegas before. I don't drink, or gamble. Believe that?? Scots and Irish both in my blood and I don't drink?? haha. Not even the malt I tell ya!

But yeah, I think a trip to Vegas would be in order for a good rabble 'o kilties!!

[Joe Gondek]

Sounds like a good idea to me
but lets do it early spring
its A whole lot cooler

[Mr. Kilt]

Sounds like a great idea! My wife and I will be in Vegas sometime around April, 2007 to celebrate our 10th anniversary. Won't know the exact week until vacation sign-up in February, though. However, I can always book a week off without pay if need be.

[ronstew]

Green Valley Ranch sounds interesting. Is it new?

My favorite Vegas site, www.cheapovegas.com gives the hotel a good review but is unimpressed by the casino. That's okay by me, since I don't gamble.