viva las vegas - rockabilly weekend

just wondering if anyone is going to this, or have gone in the past, seems like an expensive show but MAY be worth it!!

www.vivalasvegas.net

march, 24-27, 2005, $65.00 per person, for the whole weekend

 

expensive??
I was there -- No1 and No2 -- the flight, the rental car,the room -- well that's expensive -- but it was worth!! - but don't know how it is now -- for sure more cars then a few years back

 

I go every year and all I can say is WOW....already got my room booked!
Brandy

 

thanks for the heads up!! i want to go missed out 3 years in a row now (money wise)since i discovered it, but damn i would have, (with me and the wife) $425.00 invested in the whole thing!! no cheap hotels left, any "contacts" for cheap sleeping, waking distance to hotel parking lot where it is all happening???

 

If you want cheap sleeping for you and the wife, within walking distance of the Gold Coast all I can say is stay with somebody and share the cost of their room! Otherwise you wont find a room anywhere in Vegas within a 10 mile radius! They say it's one of the biggest weekends Vegas has all year...other weekend is transves***es---dont ask how I know
Brandy

 

now that you said "don't ask"... i gotta ask!! just kiddin' my best friends wife works in a **** store, and i see all the "freaks come out at night" so actually i know what you mean!!ANYWAY i have been trying to get reservations since august with NO luck, and just found out about HAMB 4 days ago, so ....if any of you are going and are trying to save on some costs with room and car rental p/m me and maybe something will work out, for all involved, as we really want to go!!!

 

Im goin, I just found out about it like right after the last one so it will be my first one, anybody know when the shows are?

 

i put a link to the site in my first post on the subject.

 

Whoops, checked, thanx (now if only they had a smiley that was hitting its head.)

 

the car show is free the rest like the bulesque show and conserts are what you are paying for. the shifters car show is on sunday but its a party on the top of the garage the whole weekend. i drove my car last year for the first time not very far but it was a blast since most vegas car shows are billet rods not many traditonal or rat rods around these here parts.

 

well more people know about this than i thought!! K O O L !! so are there other places for me to look for rooms and airfare, other than the links they have attached to the site??? i am computer STUPID so A N Y guidance would be greatly appreciated.. well, um, i, AM pretty good at finding free **** though!!!

 

thats what a computer is for...
right????

i would look up las vegas hotels onlie and do a search

 

Save ya money and go to Hemsby uk in may is my 2c.Ok you can't always guess the weather but it's the original and the best musically and atmospherically with loads of cars and normally an unofficial beach gathering.Combine it with a holiday and you off it's great,get outa the country a while why not.........Marq

 

i'm gonna try to make it up there, not to sure if i'm takin my truck or not but i hope i can, and for a room i'm sleepin in my ride hehe

 

Been to all but the first, over 500 cars last year. The show is however officially on Saturday. Really starts as soon as enough cars show up which is generally Wed evening or Thurs morning.

For a room try TERRIBLES, it's also on Flamingo Blvd but on the other side of the strip. Not sure I'd call it walking distance unless that is another hobby. ......JW.

 

They just started the tram so I think if you get something near it's route you can jump it for free

 

uhhh, the tram.

it was shut down for months and just reopened on friday.

an employee opened a door on it when it was full of people and it wasn't at the 'station', nobody fell out. then one of the wheels fell off, again, nobody hurt. can't wait to see what's next...


tred.

 

try calling travelocity or another travel agency. they always have rooms set aside for the late travelers and you can get them at a cheap price usually. The NFR usually sells out Vegas during December and there always seems to be extra rooms that pop up. There are alot of little motels off the strip that will definatley have rooms. Beleive me there are plenty of rooms in Vegas just not enough parking. It you aint got a room booked dont worry you will definatley get one when you get there. Gold Coast is great place to gamble but it is definatley one of the lower end hotels.

 

The Gold Coast is always booked a year in adavanced though.The show is Saturday until about 4pm, but there is always cars there from Wednesday til Monday, so you can walk around and check them out. Last year the Shifters said if it didnt look traditional it didnt get in. I parked my car when I got to Vegas last year and left it there all weekend. I'm staying at the Orleans, they offer a free ride to and fro. Hemsby is a good show, I went in October (promised May will be better), but it's a bucket load of money! If you want to see the bands I suggest you buy your bracelets early...****s paying $90 a person! There is always something happening on the top of the parking garage as well, bands playing, people cruising up and down and such is my luck, piling as many people as you can onto a ******* Chev while singing at the top of your lungs

 

You can stay cheap at Wild Wild West (with the toothless ho's) on Tropicana, or there is also a Budget Suites on Trop too... you can cram lots of folks into one of those rooms. From the Budget Suites you can walk a block to the Orleans then take their shuttle to the Gold Coast, or just grab a cab.

 

damn all, thanks for the info, i am trying those cheap flight online sites that you informed me about. didn't realize all that was there!!! D U H!! so i am busting *** to find out some flt. arrangements, and as far as that tram goes, is there a place to check out a route to see about getting"any" hotel in its path?? a broken wheel or 2 won't bother me!!! thanks again...ken

 

I will be there if I can talk the wife into it. As far as a room. You dont sleep in vegas baby.

 

Just booked the flights today.

Got friends from home (UK) cutting a Hawaiian vacation short to come to VLV

Dave

 

Booked the flights last summer, even got a room at the GC for the first time. Bring it on!

 

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I never heard of sleeping in vegas, I thought the room was for showers and , and , and you know what I,m thinking !!!!

 

we should get a hamb meeting together this year.

 

deffinatley with how many of us seem to be going

 

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We did it last year... Of course Axle was a bit busy so he didn't stop by... I'm game...

 

Bottomline worth the expense!

 

no motorsickles? That's kinda gay