Dream Conventions
 

I was talking with some women at our Officer Academy the other weekend about where would be a fabulous place to have convention. A place that both alumnae and actives would get into. So if you could have convention anywhere, what city or hotel would you go to?

Thanks for the input!

I did a search and couldn't find anything, so if there is a thread on this, I can look at that too...

Atlantis in the Bahamas. :)

I've always thought that a convention on board a cruise ship would be fabulous. But its probably not practical. you'd have to share the ship and deal with sea sickness.

I have attended 13 (will be 14 next week) National Conventions for Alpha Xi Delta. The best by far was at the Breakers Hotel in West Palm Beach.

San Antonio !!!
 

I've always been wishing for San Antonio, Texas. I visited there for an Alamo Bowl game. What a great city to visit ! Soooo many things within walking distance of the Riverwalk area.

Hotel ? Any along the Riverwalk would do. There are 2 large Marriott properties attached to the Riverwalk. One of them is attached to the convention center itself (which is also situated along the Riverwalk).

The city has alot to see and do. Tons of shopping, tons of eateries and drinking establishments, alot of live entertainment, and oh yeah.. there's some history stuff there too.... the Alamo !!! And some other history sites are nearby like the governor's mansion. I took a short bus tour trip, a few hours long, that took us to the Mission de San Antonio, which is a mission, like the Alamo, but still has a working church inside its walls. And the tour went through a residential area with colorful houses. There's a neat observation tower next to the convention center.

Yes, during the summer months, when conventions typically occur, it would be rather hot and humid, but I attended one in Chicago last summer and it was just as hot and humid. Besides, if you're attending the convention on sorority/fraternity businees, you're supposed to be inside most of the time, attending the events, meetings, workshops, meals, etc.

San Antonio gets my 1st vote. My 2nd vote would be Orlando. But going to a convention there would kill me, because I would be dying to go to Walt Disney World instead of convention functions !!!

The stabilizers of the ship are very good for dealing with the rocking of the ship. You wouldn't have to worry about that, so much.

I called Royal Caribbean to see if it was an option (i'm a Convention Coordinator for AST) and they sadly said that there has to be someone who is at least 25 in every room that has someone under 21 in it. So it would be immensely difficult to ensure we had that. It was an insurance thing I guess. I have to admit I was totally heart broken...:(

ahhhh well ... another bubble burst ... thanks for sharing that information ...

Walt Disney World...AOII did this a few years ago...PLEASE go back!!!
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I hardly get a chance to leave the hotel during Conventions so it could be Timbuktu for all I care. Detroit would be ideal for me, so I wouldn't have to deal with travel :) I've been to 3 conventions, two of them in Chicago. Both Chicago conventions, I had a half day to sight see. In Atlanta, I didn't leave the hotel except to go back to the airport! When I'm 70, I look forward to going to a Convention with no responsibility attached!

Dee

Re: San Antonio !!!
 

I go to San Antonio at least once a year for a trade show my company attends. The Riverwalk is ok but it does get old after a while. I suppose it would be fun with lots of sisters, though.

Our convention is in Orlando next year, and I am REALLY looking forward to that!

Orlando!

Atlantis would be heaven, but I'm sure the costs would be prohibitive!

Ditto WDW. I've only heard good things about that Convention site so I'd love for us to return. Of course, I'd have to add extra days on to indulge my WDW obsession!!!

Our Karnea (International Convention) was here in Denver last time.

There's a ton of stuff to do in the city -- plus all of the stuff that's within easy travel distance.

If it were downtown, it's within walking distance of a lot of tourist stuff, an amusement park, any of the sports venues and tons of bars/clubs, etc. (For those over 21, of course...)

Then, of course, there are the mountains.

Pretty much any of the big "chain" hotels would be fine.

Beta Sigma Phi does a cruise ship convention/getaway every year. (We have state/regional conventions, but no national convention).

San Antonio 2006!
 

Glad to hear good things about San Antonio.
Kappa Alpha Theta is headed there for our 2006 convention. Lucky us! But I have to say, Atlantis sounds pretty awsome, as long as we are dreaming ...

Hilton Hawaiian Village,
Honolulu, Hawai`i...home of Waikiki's best beach.

'Nuff said!

The Fairmont in San Francisco :) The hotel is GORGEOUS and I wouldn't have to travel far. Orlando would be cool, I don't know there'd be cool things about almost any major city, so anywhere I haven't been before is cool with me.

I have to second that this would be a great place too... But I am slightly biased since that is where I got married...

hi, this is my first post here, but i've been reading for awhile now..

i am actually looking foward to our convention next summer, which will be in Washington D.C. on july 5th. D.C. is an awesome city (if confusing to drive in) and it should be really cool to celebrate the 4th of july in our nation's capitol!

Thank you! It seems a shame to me that we haven't done a Convention in Hawai'i yet seeing as how we have active collegiate and alumnae chapters there. A girl can dream! :)

Vegas Baby!!!

ditto! Or somehwere in the Miami/Ft.Lauderdale/West Palm Beach area.

Oh -- good call!

Vegas would be fun....though you would have to be 21 to have fun while attending I know Phi SIgma Kappas convention is in Vegas this summer

BOSTON....The city is great lots of stuff to do for people of all ages

I know, it has risk-mgmt nightmare written all over it. I'm over 21 so that wouldn't be a problem for me - but for all the collegiates . . .

Of course they do have OTHER things to do than gamble there (of course since I ususally just gamble I'm not sure what :D ) and the hotels have some great pools - which is where I've found most of the women want to be.

I've been to our last four - but alas can't go this time :(

IIRC, Alpha Phi held one of their more recent conventions in Puerto Rico. I have been there several times and it is very nice. I do have to say that when my company held its annual seminar there one year, it was the first time in 30+ years that representatives from all 15 states were present. Go figure! :rolleyes:

What she said! I am all about Las Vegas

I sincerely co-sign !!! :D

What's the drinking age in Puerto Rico?

I'm still bummed about cruise line rules...

I want to say 21 because it is a US commonwealth but I could certainly be wrong.

I think it's 18.