Comments on: SND Vegas travel tips can save you hundreds of dollars http://www.robbmontgomery.com/2008/01/snd-vegas-travel-tips-can-save-you-hundreds-of-dollars/ International Media Consultant Thu, 17 May 2012 10:50:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Robb Montgomery http://www.robbmontgomery.com/2008/01/snd-vegas-travel-tips-can-save-you-hundreds-of-dollars/#comment-29600 Robb Montgomery Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:37:41 +0000 http://www.robbmontgomery.com/?p=4911#comment-29600 Thanks for the update Bill, -- I am glad to hear the resort fee has been waived. -- I registered for the Congress through the SND Web site last week. -- Option 1 ('Get a roommate') is still the best way to roll. I have also posted a live RSS feed on the home page of Visual Editors that lists the best airfare deals to Las Vegas from wherever you will be arriving from. Thanks for the update Bill,

– I am glad to hear the resort fee has been waived.

– I registered for the Congress through the SND Web site last week.

– Option 1 (’Get a roommate’) is still the best way to roll.

I have also posted a live RSS feed on the home page of Visual Editors that lists the best airfare deals to Las Vegas from wherever you will be arriving from.

]]> By: Bill Gaspard http://www.robbmontgomery.com/2008/01/snd-vegas-travel-tips-can-save-you-hundreds-of-dollars/#comment-29599 Bill Gaspard Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:44:05 +0000 http://www.robbmontgomery.com/?p=4911#comment-29599 Robb is right that there are better deals out there than the Red Rock. I don't think we've ever promoted our conference rate as a "deal." However, Robb is wrong about the rate -- at least about the resort fee. Despite what the web site says when you reserve online, the fee is included in the room rate. We didn't want any surprise fees tacked on at check-in so we insisted Red Rock bake it into the publicized room rate. The hotel didn't/couldn't/wouldn't reprogram the site from it's boilerplate language just for us. So a four-night stay is $784.76 including tax. It's not a big difference from Robb's math above and we recognize that it's still expensive. But there are also benefits to being in the workshop hotel and we're exploring ways to cut costs in the hotel (there are ways to avoid a rental car expense, for instance) and we'll be listing alternate hotels on sndvegas.com later this week. We've already given hotel advice to many who have called in requiring a cheaper rate above all. If you're going to do the 40-45 minutes from Red Rock to Strip/Downtown (getting to your car at one end, getting to the room at the other) you could go retro-chic at a hotel a couple of our members are staying at for cheaper than anything listed above. Or there's a good alternative just 10 minutes away. It sounds like Robb plans to register with APME. The cost to register with either group is the same. But one of the benefits of this particular workshop is that regardless of who you register with, you can go to any session either group is putting on. There are exceptions, however. That exchange doesn't include any session/function where food & beverage are involved. APME attendees cannot attend SND's opening party, Monday keynote session (breakfast involved) or Monday night awards banquet (unless they buy a separate dinner ticket). Likewise SND attendees cannot attend APME's opening party or luncheon sessions on Tuesday or Wednesday. We realize this is a big investment. And we're encouraged by the response we've seen both in Red Rock and Workshop reservations. Again, please see sndvegas.com beginning Wednesday for tips on saving money. Or feel free to contact me directly at bill.gaspard@lasvegassun.com We'll see many of you in just a few short weeks. Robb is right that there are better deals out there than the Red Rock. I don’t think we’ve ever promoted our conference rate as a “deal.” However, Robb is wrong about the rate — at least about the resort fee. Despite what the web site says when you reserve online, the fee is included in the room rate. We didn’t want any surprise fees tacked on at check-in so we insisted Red Rock bake it into the publicized room rate. The hotel didn’t/couldn’t/wouldn’t reprogram the site from it’s boilerplate language just for us.

So a four-night stay is $784.76 including tax. It’s not a big difference from Robb’s math above and we recognize that it’s still expensive. But there are also benefits to being in the workshop hotel and we’re exploring ways to cut costs in the hotel (there are ways to avoid a rental car expense, for instance) and we’ll be listing alternate hotels on sndvegas.com later this week.

We’ve already given hotel advice to many who have called in requiring a cheaper rate above all. If you’re going to do the 40-45 minutes from Red Rock to Strip/Downtown (getting to your car at one end, getting to the room at the other) you could go retro-chic at a hotel a couple of our members are staying at for cheaper than anything listed above. Or there’s a good alternative just 10 minutes away.

It sounds like Robb plans to register with APME. The cost to register with either group is the same. But one of the benefits of this particular workshop is that regardless of who you register with, you can go to any session either group is putting on.

There are exceptions, however. That exchange doesn’t include any session/function where food & beverage are involved. APME attendees cannot attend SND’s opening party, Monday keynote session (breakfast involved) or Monday night awards banquet (unless they buy a separate dinner ticket). Likewise SND attendees cannot attend APME’s opening party or luncheon sessions on Tuesday or Wednesday.

We realize this is a big investment. And we’re encouraged by the response we’ve seen both in Red Rock and Workshop reservations. Again, please see sndvegas.com beginning Wednesday for tips on saving money. Or feel free to contact me directly at bill.gaspard@lasvegassun.com

We’ll see many of you in just a few short weeks.

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