First is the Super Bowl, one of the greatest sports, cultural, and marketing spectacles ever.
Then there’s experiencing the Super Bowl in Vegas: sports betting to the moon, celebrities, whales, celebrity whales, best of the best getting down, awesome parties everywhere, prices through the roof.
Then there’s experiencing the Super Bowl, actually happening in Vegas, at Allegiant Stadium.
Crazy crazy crazy. Kind of like chugging three Red Bulls, smoking some legal weed, and marrying a stripper at the Little Chapel after winning the lottery.
Well, okay, maybe not quite like that.
Anyway, I’ve been working on my third Vegas corporate hosting event since the Villa/Lakeside success at Encore last year (see my first post) and my plan, starting last year, was simple: Get in early, spread around the Benjamins, and lock it down. And? So far, I’m good.
An owner’s suite at Stadium Swim for 25 people. Check. $20,000
Spreading the Benjamins around. Check.
Working my host contacts and hotels locked at a good rate. Check. Check.
Party and dinner spaces reserved. Working on it.
Spreading around more Benjamins. Check.
Now it’s your turn to run this drill. I know, I know, I should have told you all how this goes earlier. My bad.
But I made arrangements in January to be first in line to grab an owner’s suite at Stadium Swim Circa for the Super Bowl. That was 13 months before the game and I started planning for it last year.
I mean, we can’t afford to be at Allegiant for the game. Allegiant is the most expensive NFL stadium and I would need 25 tickets, so unless I had another $125K, at around $5K for each ticket, that wasn’t happening.
Nope. Stadium Swim’s giant 40-by-143-foot screen and a crowd of pumped-up super sports bettors and fans were the next best thing.
A suite for 25 for $20,000. Expensive? Nahhh. Working with my host, we got it for the same price as this year’s Super Bowl. The other owner’s suite went for $30,000 a week later. I saved my client $10K and we’re still six months from the game.
Now I’m dealing with securing rooms for 25 people. And that’s why I say book. The Super Bowl. Now.
That is, if you can even get a room rate. Many places aren’t even revealing them yet.
Work your host contacts. Not comped? Just getting a room at a reasonable rate would be great.
And buy your plane tickets now. Try to fly in Thursday, not Friday, and leave Tuesday, especially not Monday.
Folks, the Super Bowl in Vegas is legendary and this one is going in the history books. I’ll be there with my cadre of clients and friends. Will you?
We’ll try to keep it under $60,000 for 25. That might be tough … but yes, it’s another Bobby Vegas five-figure value play.
One last time: Book the Super Bowl now! Once the season starts, all bets are, well, on …
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Not even close to Bobby’s level, but I did go to one of the Super Bowl parties put on by the Las Vegas Hilton back in 2009, when the Steelers played the Cardinals. (Man, I miss the LV Hilton. Not near as good when it was the LVH or as it is now, the Westgate.) Went with my brother, who was a big Steelers fan. Got a comped room for Friday-Sunday, entry into a pre-party on Friday night, where I got to meet Jim Plunkett (big Raider fan here), and get his autograph. Free food and open bar.
Sunday, for the Big Game, they had a tremendous amount of big screen TVs all over one of the Convention Center showrooms, as well as a few Theater sized screens. Big bar in the middle, with 4 giant screens above it on each side, a dozen buffet style food tables and just as many beer booths set up along the walls of the showroom. All free. My brother and I tipped one of the waiters $20 to bring us food and drinks throughout the game, so we didn’t have to stand in line to get anything. Only time we got up was to go to the restroom. Tipped him another $20 near the end of the game.
They had more tables than I cared to count, decked out in either Steelers or Cardinals colors, with a themed bucket at the center of each one. We sat at a Steelers table, and my brother took the bucket when we left, to no one’s objection.
After the game we met up with some of the colorful characters we had come to know over the weekend, and partied into the early hours. Only things I paid for over the weekend were tips and gambling. Used comps for food on Saturday and Sunday morning.
niiiice Ed and I was a regular at the LVH for years. Even got a personal yout of where Elvis hung out before his shows thos were the days my friends thank you for sharing your story that is what makes Vegas VEGAS !!!!
Bobby