From: Annie (annie@geekbabe.com)
Date: Sun Sep 22 2002 - 00:10:15 CDT
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Org List
Tropicana and San Remo Discussion
CGT Day Move
On a buttered bun
Multimedia
Badges
Hotels
Shows and such
Getting together
Nominated hotels
Summary Schedule of Activities (updated)
Administrivia
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Tropicana and San Remo Discussion:
Tina writes:
>>I'm going to take this as a nomination for the San Remo and the
>>Tropicana for consideration as suggested hotels. I'll add them to the
>>I personally can't see anything wrong with either. Although I've never
[bobbitt]
>I stayed at the Tropicana twice in the early 90s with family and I can
>attest that it survives earthquakes nicely. We were in a tower and
>felt the building swaying from the effects of a California earthquake
>back in 92 (IIRC, it was called the Big Bear quake). We freaked,
>grabbed the kids and raced down many flights of stairs, to arrive
>outside and find several other families (all with kids) who did the
>same thing. Nobody else batted an eye and they certainly never stopped
>gambling. We stood around for awhile, nobody from the hotel ever came
>out to talk to us, the building didn't fall on us, so we all eventually
>gave up and went back inside. We were scheduled to leave that morning
>anyway, and had just taken off when the pilot announced that there was
>a 2nd quake in progress. Since the Trop was still there in 2001 when
>DLV went to the Folies show, I guess it survived that one too. :-)
>I was in and out of the Trop a lot in 2001 arranging tickets and looked
>inside several of the rooms while they were open for cleaning and ate a
>couple of meals there. Nice rooms, typical buffets, great showgirls.
>A really spread out floor plan. Lots of walking from your room to
>anything. When I was there in the daytime, I had to park way out in
>the North 40. At night, I used valet park.
Thanks for the report. I think this may be a viable option. Tropicana
is indeed less expensive than most of the others in that neighborhood
and does not have as many kids as the others as well.
>The San Remo is a more intriguing option. Not too big, good location.
>T-friendly. Easy access. Could be a good base of operations.
>I've seen Showgirls of Magic twice: Once in boy-mode 3 or 4 years ago
>and then in girl-mode last year. My experiences were roughly the same.
>Fairly easy to park, casino wasn't crowded, cute show. Last year, I
>took a wrong turn walking in and walked (passed a pool??) through their
>hotel area. Kind of reminded me of Best Western motels from the 60s in
>architectural style (lots of concrete and sandstone colors, not meant as
>a bad comment).
>Walking from hotel to casino/theater appears to be very easy. The San
>Remo casino is small, so walking away from potential troublemakers
>isn't much of an option. Truthfully, it reminds me a lot of the
>Boardwalk in terms of size and level of customer it seems to be
>appealing to. Their staff certainly passed the t-friendly test at the
>ticket office, at the showroom, and at the cocktail bar. I played
>slots for at least 1/2 hour before we lined up to purchase our show
>tickets with only my usual level of trepidation. We stayed at the bar
>for quite awhile after the show without any trouble.
>San Remo location is fairly convenient for some major activities
>(Goodtimes in particular). Easy to get out of their parking lot onto
>Tropicana heading toward airport (which is also conveniently the way I
>start towards the Triangle district).
>Annie: please ask Tiny about the San Remo hotel parking options for
>hotel guests.
I'll sure ask Tiny on my next note, but I'm sure it's free-for-all with
hotel parking in the various lot areas around the property. I remember
parking for the casino/show was very easy. I'm sure they have valet at
the main door.
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CGT Day Move:
>>>Las Vegas ClubGirltalk is moving to a new place and time. ...
<snip>
>>>new venue for CGT is Flex Lounge,
<snip>
>>Floor is now open to discuss the remaining Wednesday activities. Do we
>>wanna keep Sasha's for Wed.? Do we want to schedule CGT for Thursday?
></Tina wakes up>
>Was that page for me?
Yes!
And for Aiko, Monique, Cat, Densie, Leah ...
#include </usr/majordomo/lists/dlvorg>
>IMHO, we should list CGT as a 2nd track activity on whatever night
>(currently Thursday) it lands on.
Ok, I'll put CGT on the schedule for Thursday, with the understanding
that it does not preclude any other plans for that evening.
>It will probably always be a good activity for DLV girls. Even if we
>have something else major that night, not everyone may go and CGT
>represents a nice low-cost social alternative.
>Flex is certainly a good venue choice for them, but CGT could easily
>move 2 or 3 more times before next April.
Very good point.
>Meanwhile, we should certainly try to keep Sasha's somewhere in the
>schedule (where it's at on Wednesday still looks fine to me),
>particularly for dining and drinks on a slower night when parking is
>not such a hassle.
>If they get their parking problems sorted out, then I'm sure that our
>people will gravitate there late-night on weekends for their shows and
>such, even if they're not on the formal schedule, just because they're
>in the Triangle and right across the street from Gipsy.
It might be a good idea to avoid the Triangle district for any feature
activities for Friday and Saturday due to parking.
I'm sure you will want to do the dance thing on Friday. We'll mention,
as we did before, that parking may be a challenge, although, IIRC, Gipsy
does have valet parking.
>Meanwhile, we do have these major activity holes on Wednesday and
>Thursday, where someone will hopefully suggest some dynamite NEW show
>to go see that has the type of glitz and glamour that DLV is famous for.
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On a buttered bun:
>>>Yeah, but where else can you get rubber chicken on a bun ?
>>On a bun?
>We got you the platter instead.
I know. :)
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Multimedia:
Vickie writes:
>I finally finished a little multimedia slide show using some photos
>from the last DLV. I tried to send it over to you but it is very large
>(even though I tried to make it small it just grew and grew, had a mind
>of its own I guess).
There's nothing here preventing you from sending a multi megabyte file
attach via mail to the annie@annie.net (or annie@ivgate.omahug.org)
address. Any of the DLV list addresses will mangle (truncate) binary
files beyond recovery. After last DLV some people sent as many as 20
megabytes in a single attach.
>Now I am looking for a site to how this slide show. I remember you
>mentioned putting it on the server you use, whats that address again?
We can put it here on the DLV site, assuming it is within somewhat sane
limits. We'll announce the URL to this list first to get feedback before
opening it up to the general public. If it looks like it's gonna cause
a bandwidth issue, we may have to move it.
If you send it in, I'll get it on line and announce it to the list.
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Badges:
Jena writes:
>I would be happy to help Monique with the badges, etc., in fact how do
>they get made? I would be willing to do that also if needed.
We'll put you down to help. Thanks. (You won't get out of it now. :)
I have a source of a large amount (not inexhaustable, but sufficient)
of the badge holders. I actually recycled a good portion of what I took
back into this supply, and it should be available this coming year.
I did the actual badges on a Deskjet printer. Standard card stock. One
pass in color for the DLV logo, another in black for the names from a
text file from the registration info. I did most of them a week in
advance and shipped them out in a box of all kinds of stuff, and I did a
late run right before I left for the airport to catch those who
registered late.
The most tedious part of this process is the stuffing of the cards into
the badge holders.
If you wanna take over any or all of this, I'm not gonna fight you for
it. :)
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Hotels:
Leah writes:
>I think the hotel situation is pretty much covered already..... I might
>suggest listing a ranking of them as to where the most girls stay etc.
>(which is already guesstimated I am sure) and posting that for the
>newbies who are not aware and may want to know where there will be the
>most Diva people.
I've been doing a lot of thinking about this hotel thing, too much,
probably. :)
Specifically I was thinking about Yvonne's proposal of just suggesting
all which have been nominated, and rate/rank/detail all.
I was thinking it might be appropriate to call for a vote on Yvonne's
plan separately, ahead of a vote for the various properties, when I
realized that part of her plan, that being detail and ranking, would be
a good thing no matter which way we go. I then realized that Yvonne's
proposal could then be covered by the existing vote plan, and that is
those who want to see all hotels listed as suggestions, vote yes for
all of them.
One round of voting can cover many issues in one shot, such as
concentration vs dispersion, open listings, any special interests,
etc. For example:
1. Those who think we should concentrate more vote for one and only one
property.
2. Those who thing we should steer the group to one certain geographic
location, vote for those hotels in that area.
3. Those who favor Yvonne's plan, vote for all of them.
4. Those who have litmus-test issues (like political connections) with
properties, don't vote for them.
As for detail and ranking, we do have a lot of comments and opinions on
most of these places, plus the satisfaction and comfort scores from our
survey. We also have pointers to independent opinions on all of the
properties, such as bigempire/cheapovegas, ratevegas.com and such.
>Other than that, I think all the returnees know where they prefer to
>stay.
True. Looking back at the survey, most of our people were indeed
satisfied with their hotels, so I suspect most of the returnees will
stay put at where they were last May.
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Shows and such:
Leah writes:
>The Weds and Thurs nite thing I am a bit confused about..... were we
>not planning on doing shows on Thurs and Sat again? Not sure.
Saturday is definite. Showgirls of Magic, San Remo. I don't think we
risk any major changes or closures here since they are expanding into
Reno as well.
As for Thursday ??????
>I am guessing that CGT and Sasha's were one in the same originally
>since that was the venue.... if we split those activities then we will
>be down to one show on Saturday?
Sasha's and CGT were originally one item, one evening at one place.
Wednesday and Thursday are still very much up in the air. We still have
the Improv thing at the Greek Isles scheduled (barring any changes or
closures, of course) and that would certainly count as a "show" but I am
hoping that one of us would indeed plan another show for Thursday.
>If that conflicts maybe Michelle would be willing to hold her event at
>Sasha's that night (Weds) instead of Thursday? I think we are running
>out of days. lol.
>Could we combine Michael Cagle and CGT?
What I would like to do WRT Club Girl Talk is keep it on the schedule,
whenever it is, wherever it is. As Tina said, it may move again in
day/time or in venue.
>Problem there would be the socializing time...... after Cagle's show
>they go into Ginger Grant's show and of course the audience is expected
>to be quiet during the performance.
>I think we need to lay out the parmeters and what will transpire
>timewise so we don't get involved with something that's not preferred
>by everyone. If we opt for CGT on Weds. will the magazine folk take
>offense to Cagle's show in the middle of it?
I would like to let Michelle and the CGT people be the ones to make any
decisions if and when/where to move CGT if they want to do so. I don't
know how many regulars they have and how much of a routine they have
established and how much disruption it would be.
I do think CGT and DLV can reinforce each other if the timing is right.
>Right now I see it as strictly Club Girl Talk only on Thurs.... no show
>that night.
As of this day, hour, minute, and second, that is very correct. However,
I'm hoping that one of us (>>HINT<<) will coordinate something like a
show that evening, which would seque quite well into the limo tour,
which is planned but not scheduled yet.
>Weds. is Cagle's show and dinner I suppose then on your own. Is this
>correct or did I overlook something?
Yes, the Improv at the Greek Isles. I see this as a possible two-track
option.
>Maybe early dinner and Cagle at Sasha's then off to the show from there
>on Wednesday? Cancel La Cage? Stay at Sasha's for the whole night?
I see remaining at Sasha's or going to the Greek Isles or (whatever) as
multi-track options.
>Bet you are sorry you put me on this list now, huh? lol
Nope, very glad to have you here. :)
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Getting together:
There's a good chance that I will be in Las Vegas on business during the
first part of the third week in December. I'll send out a note both here
and to the main list as this is firm and as the date approaches. I would
love it if we could get a group together for maybe dinner and drinks
some evening.
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Nominated hotels:
This will be an ongoing item until the vote in November.
(In order of nomination)
Sahara
Imperial Palace
Bellagio
San Remo
Tropicana
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Summary Schedule of Activities (updated):
Date Day Time Activity
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Apr 22 Tue
5:00pm Pre-DLV Happy Hour/dinner (Hamburger Mary's)
8:00pm Pre-DLV get-together
Apr 23 Wed
5:00pm Happy Hour (Sasha's)
6:30pm Dinner (Sasha's / Milano's)
???? Womens Improv (Greek Isles)
10:30pm Karaoke (Goodtimes)
Apr 24 Thu
Morn Air tours
Noonish Bellagio buffet lunch
Eve Club Girl Talk
Apr 25 Fri
Morn Air tours
Golf
5:00pm Happy Hour (Carluccio's)
6:00pm Carluccio's dinner
7:30pm Annual Mixer
after Dance Night
Apr 26 Sat
7:00pm Happy Hour (San Remo)
8:00pm Buffet dinner, San Remo
10:30pm Showgirls Of Magic
Apr 27 Sun
Aft High Tea
Eve Farewell Get-together
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