RE: Pyramid hotel at Collaborate

You are all correct. The rooms in the Luxor are nice, clean, and roomy and the price is significantly better. Mandalay Bay is marginally nicer, but the walking distance shouldn’t be a big deal unless you have to have meetings in your room and get back and forth to sessions in a hurry. Mapping your walk from the casino to the part of the convention center you need to be in is a bigger deal than the extra distance from the Luxor anyway.  

I don’t believe it is in the design interest of the property to make it obvious what the fastest, most direct route to and fro from points A and B is. (Other than there is always an obvious path to the nearest randomized donation to the casino machine.)  

The third hotel, the Delano, is a luxury hotel in my book. There are a lot of reasons business and otherwise that you might justify such a room. Or not. If you’re staying there, be aware that cutting 20 yards across the parking garage (all under cover) saves a couple hundred yards over following the signs to the convention center that route you through an extra couple hundred winding yards through casino.  

You can use that same parking lot entrance from the Luxor if you escape out the front and walk outdoors, but I haven’t figured out whether going through the mall is faster (it may be cooler).  

In a lot of cases it comes down to whose nickel you are spending. When we had multiple employees attending, Jerry and I shelled out for the “good” hotel just because we always wanted to reward them in every way we could and every single one of them deserved it. They have all moved on to (delighted) customers and/or stopped travelling so that is in the rear view mirror for me.  

I look forward to seeing you all real soon now. There is still time to register. Be on the lookout for the Oaktable day agenda.  

mwf  

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To: j_at_gennick.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: Re: Pyramid hotel at Collaborate  

Last time I stayed at the Luxor, it wasn’t that good compared to the better hotels, but you are also getting a big break. There’s also a free tram/monorail from the luxor to manadaly bay if you don’t want to walk.

On Mar 12, 2017, at 8:04 PM, Tim Gorman <tim.evdbt_at_gmail.com> wrote:  

It's called the Luxor. Yes, the rooms are nice and clean and roomy. A perfectly nice hotel, no different in quality from any other hotel on the Strip.

The price difference is due to the fact that the Mandalay Bay is where the Collaborate conference is located, and the Luxor is the hotel next door. In Vegas, that means about a kilometer away. As a result, people staying in the Luxor have about 15-20 minutes longer to walk back and forth between the conference and their hotel room. It's not like you'll find yourself outside (no such luck!) on this "commute"; it is all entirely indoors, two casinos connected by a shopping mall.

Is walking further enough reason to warrant paying twice as much in a nightly room rate?

In Vegas, the land of immediate gratification, apparently so...

On 3/12/17 17:28, Jonathan Gennick wrote:

Has anyone stayed recently at that pyramid hotel near the Collaborate venue?  

How was it? Are the rooms decent enough?  

Jonathan Gennick

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