CES 2008 Master Thread
 

So I am curious when everyone is getting here, where everyone is staying and when everyone is leaving. MrpAlert, the other Vegas FTers and I would love to meet some of you for drinks, dinners and other fun times.

The offical CES convention runs Monday 1/7 until Thursday 1/11.

So I'll propose everyone fill out the proper forms:
Date Arriving:
Date Leaving:
Hotel Staying At:
Dates Avaliable for meetings with other FTers:
Anything you specifically want to do:

As for me, I Monday night is the NCAA National Championship game and as OSU alum I will be wanting to watch that. Any other OSU alum that are going to be in town I would love to watch the game with.

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Hey Trekwars2000,

Date Arriving: 1/3
Date Leaving: 1/11
Hotel Staying At: Planet Hollywood
Dates Avaliable for meetings with other FTers: All except, 1/9
Anything you specifically want to do: I'll have dinners with co-workers and friend on several nights however I'm up for trying to get together with other FT members if their plans are more interesting.

Thanks!

Hi CES conference-goers,

I'll be in town the whole week (and most weeks, since I live here :D) so whenever anybody wants to get together, I'm game. And if you have a spare pass, I'd love to see some of them thar electronic doodads one of the days.

Date Arriving: 1/9
Date Leaving: 1/11
Hotel Staying At: Bill's (nice lower rate just popped up)
Dates Avaliable for meetings with other FTers: 1/9-1/11
Anything you specifically want to do: Go to CES, of course

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My wife and I will be there...

Date Arriving: Jan 7th
Date Leaving: Jan 10th
Hotel Staying At: Rio
Dates Avaliable for meetings with other FTers:
Evenings (post show) on the 7th, 8th and 9th

Thanks for the help. Things have been a little hectic around the Mrp Alert world lately which has minimized FT time. Hopefully this will change in the new year.

Anyone else coming to town?

There has to be a lot more... I'm guessing this thread isn't getting too much face time.

I have been sick as a dog the last few days and on top of it I've been packing the fiancee at SNA for her move up to LAS (Friday), so I'll be out of comission this weekend. I hope to put together the master thread tomorrow afternoon though to try to get some structure to this (short) thread.

Woo hoo, just found this. Sorry I'm a bit late to the party.

In 1/6
Out 1/10
Staying at Planet Hollywood
Don't know when I'm free but certainly can meet for a drink at a club late night. We pretty much have a table reserved at every nightclub :D

Sunday night Chuck D (of Public Enemy) and DMC (of Run DMC) are performing together for the first time at the Hard Rock. My close friend is performing with them so I'll be there.

YOU HAD ME SCARED!-the 11th is friday according to my calended :confused:
Flying in for another event on the 11th-out the 14th.
Statying at Planet Hollywood(on a fantastic rate thanks to some great FT'ers)
Planet H'wood is going to be FT central it looks like.:D

Looks like I will be missing most of CES as I am driving up to Saint George, Utah Monday evening and returning Thursday morning. If anyone would like to have dinner Monday or Thursday, shoot me a PM.

Driving :confused:. Unheard of.

Kidding :D

Gotta do something with the 3 overlapping rental car reservations from different car companies that I had/have. It's mileage running with cars and RDMs instead of airplanes. ~1.0 cpm and no wear and tear on my car. Fuel economy isn't as good as my Civic Hybrid, but its a sacrifice I can live with.
Repeating this every weekend in January - not kidding ;)

Heading in on 1/13 for the night, if SBY doesnt work Ill be in town from 11pm gtill 7am.

Yep grabed that great $79 rate at the PH, but from the looks of things I doubt anything decent roomwise will be left over. Was goona stay at the BW by the airport for $45 ai, but for $86 and 2x stay credit and 1k-2k-3k bonus pts PH it is.

Will be in RDU on 1/14 and back to PH for 1/15 , then back to NY on 1/16. Repeat it all again 1/27-1/29. 1/27 $89 rate after that no more bonuses or cheap rates so no 2nd night back in LAS after RDU.

Guess with a match play of $25 for the tables and $10 with 20 in on the slots Ill stop by the casino before grabbing a shower and some ZZs. Will be in town for 24 1/15-1/16 but I land at 11pm.

ugh. wish me luck as I have an early flight tomorrow. I forgot to check the convention schedule before booking this trip. :mad:

If you are really early(before 8 am)you should be fine.
Mid day-when I arrive-will be a mess,and it might be a mess all weekend long

Hmm, I'm in MSP waiting for a flight to LAS right now. I thought CES was finishing up, is this weekend gonna be busy? I figured it would be slow, given my 3 comped nights. :D

Sitting at LAS right now...at 4 PM today, there was zero wait for security into the D gates. CES seems to have been somewhat less of a deal this year.

Certainly there were no "cool" new technologies or show-stoppers this year.

you were right. Used F security line and had no problems at the D gates. Flights were packed and requests for volunteers frequent.