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TAM 8 Roll Call!

Just registered for my first TAM (can you guess by my amazingly high number of posts :) Looking forward to it!
 
I'm on the fence.

What did y'all think about the facility?
 
Piggy, the South Point is great. Miles better than the other hotels. The convention area is short walk from rooms (with short cut too that means you don't have to go through casino). Nice restaurants, deli, ice cream place mean you don't have to go elsewhere for food. The bar area is big and we can all fit in it without being squeezed together. The bowling alley is cool, but I did not check out the pool or the movie theater. And we had the added benefit of a really amusing place to use as a meet up (let's meet by the horse's ass). Come, you will have fun.
 
Kochanski said:
Piggy, the South Point is great. Miles better than the other hotels. The convention area is short walk from rooms (with short cut too that means you don't have to go through casino). Nice restaurants, deli, ice cream place mean you don't have to go elsewhere for food. The bar area is big and we can all fit in it without being squeezed together. The bowling alley is cool, but I did not check out the pool or the movie theater. And we had the added benefit of a really amusing place to use as a meet up (let's meet by the horse's ass). Come, you will have fun.
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Anyone else check out the pool? I'm back swimming again, and it would be nice to keep training if they have a real pool.

Do they have a decent gym? If so, is it included or extra?

Not having to walk thru the casino would be nice. Although I would like to play a few hands of poker.
 
paperskater said:
Piggy, you have to come!!
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Oh, you say that now. But who knows, perhaps if you met me IRL you'd decide I'm a real jerk.

Oh, wait... I'm often a jerk on this forum, and you seem to like me well enough anyway. ;)
 
Piggy said:
Anyone else check out the pool? I'm back swimming again, and it would be nice to keep training if they have a real pool.

Do they have a decent gym? If so, is it included or extra?

Not having to walk thru the casino would be nice. Although I would like to play a few hands of poker.
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Paperskater went in the pool. Not sure about the gym. You can go into the casino and the bar we hang out in is definitely in the casino, but to get to the conference area you do not have to trudge twisting miles of casino or endless corridors from the room area.
 
Kochanski said:
Paperskater went in the pool. Not sure about the gym. You can go into the casino and the bar we hang out in is definitely in the casino, but to get to the conference area you do not have to trudge twisting miles of casino or endless corridors from the room area.
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Were your rooms quiet?

In '08 I slipped the desk clerk a twenty when I checked in, and got a free upgrade to a nice remodeled room just below the penthouse level with a great view and no street/casino noise. I'm an insomniac (if I go, I plan to get up at 4:00 and go to bed at 8:00 so I don't have to disrupt my schedule) so a quiet room is a must.
 
Piggy said:
Were your rooms quiet?

In '08 I slipped the desk clerk a twenty when I checked in, and got a free upgrade to a nice remodeled room just below the penthouse level with a great view and no street/casino noise. I'm an insomniac (if I go, I plan to get up at 4:00 and go to bed at 8:00 so I don't have to disrupt my schedule) so a quiet room is a must.
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Yes room was quiet, it is a newer hotel and seemed quite quiet to me. I had a view of the pool which looked very nice from my room. Additional benefit of newer hotel is that the non-smoking rooms have always been non-smoking so they do not have the smoked in smell.
 
Kochanski said:
Yes room was quiet, it is a newer hotel and seemed quite quiet to me. I had a view of the pool which looked very nice from my room. Additional benefit of newer hotel is that the non-smoking rooms have always been non-smoking so they do not have the smoked in smell.
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A little curvy splash-around pool, or a real pool?
 
Registered and excited! Last year was fun when I didn't know anybody...this year will be filled with folks I know. Too bad I don't know their forum names.
 
One thing to know about the pool is that they cool the water. While that might sound like a good thing, several people mentioned that they overdo it and that it's annoyingly cold, even during the heat the day.

My wife wanted to get in some real swimming, which is not possible to do during the day due to the crowds. She ventured out early in the morning and found the water temperature intolerable; the lack of sun and chilly air temp didn't help.

I guess the takeaway from this is that if you're down with cold water, go early before there are crowds. If you're not, well, this pool probably isn't your best bet.
 
Piggy said:
Were your rooms quiet?

In '08 I slipped the desk clerk a twenty when I checked in, and got a free upgrade to a nice remodeled room just below the penthouse level with a great view and no street/casino noise. I'm an insomniac (if I go, I plan to get up at 4:00 and go to bed at 8:00 so I don't have to disrupt my schedule) so a quiet room is a must.
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One thing that's nice about South Point is that it does not attract the frat-boy-on-holiday crowd, and they're usually the ones resposible for a lot of the noise at the other hotels. SP is definitely one of the quietest places we've stayed in Vegas.

This is a good point to toss out one of my favorite Vegas hotel tips: Always book a room that is at least one category up from the cheapest level. The aforementioned party boys almost always grab the cheapest rooms, and you really don't want them as your next-door neighbors (or even roaming your hallway). The extra $5-10/night is well worth being on a different floor and away from that crowd. Not so much an issue at South Point, but worth remembering for any places farther up the strip.
 
Piggy said:
I'm on the fence.
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Another reason for me to try harder to go!

Piggy said:
Anyone else check out the pool? I'm back swimming again, and it would be nice to keep training if they have a real pool.
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I'm hoping for a real, swimmable pool also.

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One thing to know about the pool is that they cool the water. While that might sound like a good thing, several people mentioned that they overdo it and that it's annoyingly cold, even during the heat the day.
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Yeah, that was a bizarre feature at a different hotel I stayed at. The air was suffocatingly hot, even at half past the crack of dawn, but the pool would've kept beer at a drinkable temperature.
 
Desktop Icon said:
One thing to know about the pool is that they cool the water. While that might sound like a good thing, several people mentioned that they overdo it and that it's annoyingly cold, even during the heat the day.

My wife wanted to get in some real swimming, which is not possible to do during the day due to the crowds. She ventured out early in the morning and found the water temperature intolerable; the lack of sun and chilly air temp didn't help.

I guess the takeaway from this is that if you're down with cold water, go early before there are crowds. If you're not, well, this pool probably isn't your best bet.
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Rats. I was hoping to swim early, like 6:00.

Oh well, one weekend off ain't so bad.
 
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