Internext/AEE passes anyone :) - AVN SUCKS!!!!!

[Ramster]

Agreed on what Linkster said.

If AVN REALLY wanted to have the show after the AEE & CSS they would.

My room is booked at $320 a night, I'm flying from Canada so more expensive and the badge is $250 (about). So it is costing me and my wife to go roughly $3000 before I eat and drink.

$3000+ is insane! A normal webmaster making a decent living probably cannot afford to go and if they can is it justifiable to go? Maybe...maybe not.

If this show was afterwards and the bades were still $125 then rooms at TI and Harrahs and other places would be $50-99 a night. Drawing in waaaaaaaay more regular webmasters.

[docholly]

I was at the CEA (advisory board) a few weeks ago and raised the question about CES running the same time as the Adult shows and the president of CEA told me they plan it that way on purpose because they get at least 1/2 day extra out of the attendees before they run to see the pornstars which ups their numbers every year and provides relatively 'free' entertainment for the attendees.

This week was SEMA, an equally sized show and directly across the street at the Rivera was Adultcon which was just a huge room of girls 99% naked, signing autographs for 20.00 and the line was out the door into the street.

****a bit of a tip**** it's a bit farther from the Venetian, but the strip has added 50 new double decker buses and the Stardust has fairly good rooms. Also if you want to stay "off strip" even cheaper, there will be transportation from the Rio for CES to the Sands.. so you could stay at the Rio (mildly expensive) Palms (mildly expensive) or the Gold Coast (cheap)

Edit: One thing if you are coming, you might want to do is register for CES. It's free you just have to say you are in purchasing or something. But it's a great show to see the latest technology and several new platforms that will eventually be in need of content delivery.