This weeks, Las Vegas is hosting the International Consumer Electronics Show and the Adult Entertainers Expo, or the Porn Star convention. Why am I not surprised that these two shows are not connected?
Information on the porn star convention: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/jan/05/porn-princesses-turn-out-xxx-force-annual-flesh-an/
Information on the Consumer Electronics Show: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/jan/05/ces-ready-open-years-hot-gadget/ The CES is not open to the public.
The porn star convention, unfortunately, is. I've seen some guys who have gone and it is kind of scary.
Of course, the strip Hotels and casinos are gouging the visitors. From the LVRJ: Stratosphere at $450 a night. Excalibur at $479. Hooters Hotel at $339.
Have some Strip hoteliers lost track of their decimal points?
In fact, those very unrecessionlike rates reflect a convention schedule that sees the huge International Consumer Electronics Show and the Adult Entertainment Expo both opening on Thursday, with many resorts sold out both then and Friday. Some 130,000 conventioneers are expected for the electronics show.
Even on Saturday, as both shows wind down, many room rates run higher than New Year's Day a week earlier.
Prices for those three hotels are tenfold or more higher than other days this month and might be considered unusually aggressive compared to their neighbors.
http://www.lvrj.com/business/electronics-show-supercharges-strip-room-rates-112924904.html
Whores, geeks and gougers: Oh my.
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