This is an interesting thread, even if Sean backed-out. I concur on the comfy shoe plan. I am sure that on a given NAB show floor day you probably clock 10+ miles. My plan, because it is budget minded like Sean is: Stay at the Riviera, sure there are nicer hotels, but you can’t beat the rates! And it’s walking distance to the LVCC. (although the trip home at the end of the day can be brutal) But they usually have shuttle buses if you can’t bear to hike anymore. I don’t obsess over the hotel that much because I spend so little of my time there anyway. Classes, seminars, demos, the show floor, and the after hours get-togethers and parties, I spend maybe 5 hours a day in the hotel room and I sleep 4.5 of those. I do the PPW conference track classes on Saturday and Sunday, then spread my time between classes I care about and the show floor for the next three days. And I always plan on at least 1 or 2 dinners at world class restraunts, because it’s Vegas!
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