After an amazing day on Saturday at the DMA event, I joined Ken on Sunday at the Eisenhower and All-Star in Gettysburg to work on planning for DCS 2008. We did a tour of the All-Star first. WOW this is a big building! The front of it is like a "chuck-e-cheese", there is a playground area for the kids with a slide and ball crawl (I was too big to fit), along with a full arcade including skee-ball. And for the pool sharks, there was a whole room of billiards. IIRC, 8 tables? Maybe more. They also had one of the Virtual Reality motion simulator machines. With this stuff alone, it would be hard to find nothing to do. THEN we walked through the small doors in the back, and WOW! A unobstructed 48,260 square foot area for us to set up the car show. Ken and I walked around with the guys from the Bricklin club discussing what to put where. No need to go in to details on this, because it is likely to change a dozen more times before the show. The point is, the room is VERY big and I have already been suggesting to Ken that we optimize this space to get the most number of cars inside as possible. This will be more practical, because for this show we plan on eating at another facility. Right outside the convention center are 2 go-kart tracks, mini-golf, batting cages, a large lake with boats and picnic areas. On the walk over, I could not help but notice that there was only one helicopter pad.. so those of you who will be arriving by air may need to schedule your usage of that facility. :) Over to the hotel, there is an indoor pool with retractable roof. Next to the pool is a lounge area with a grass-roof bar. This is where we plan to have the afternoon activities during check in on Thursday. The hotel is a mix of a number of building. Included are 2 dividable large rooms, one of which we plan on using for the dinners. The room had Televisions on the ceiling all over, so it will be easy for everyone to see what is going on. Between the 2 large (dividable) rooms in the hotel, and the dozen or so "breakout" rooms, we have plenty of space for every ting we want to do. Having worked with Ken in the past, this show is unique in the fact that we OWN the entire facility for the weekend. The flexibility and options that offers is amazing. We may make some of those rooms available to vendors or clubs that want to host special events. You can get an idea from the photos at: http://deloreancarshow.com/lodging.html If you want to get a better idea, you can even download the floor plans: http://www.eisenhower.com/ After the tour, we sat down and went over the current room reservations. With the event over a year away, 2/3 of the rooms are SOLD OUT! I know this has been said before, but even if you are thinking "maybe I will go", book the room NOW. They wont last long, and one of the things we discussed on Sunday was the possibility of setting a maximum limit on the number of people at the show. We also noticed that the majority of the people who begged for a room the week before DCS06 STILL HAVE NOT BOOKED A ROOM FOR DCS08. Did you not learn from last time? You may not be so lucky, no matter how much Ken likes you if the rooms are gone, they are gone. Is it June 2008 Yet? 415 days to go... http://www.deloreancarshow.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:dmcnews-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:dmcnews-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/