Got my approval as well, signed up, now need to go get my flight and hotel taken care of. My first WES, not to mention our companies first foray into Blackberry.

B

Good luck with the hotel. 5 out of the 7 WES hotels are sold out.
Courtyard Orlando Lake Buena Vista in Marriott Village
&
SpringHill Suites Orlando Lake Buena Vista in Marriot Village
still reporting rooms available.

Actually, found a room at the Radisson Hotel Lake Buena Vista for a good price, granted it isnt one of the WES hotels, but it is about the same distance as the Courtyard and Springhill, and I am getting a car while I am there, so I should be ok. Been to way to many conferences there at the OCCC.

B

Hi All,

Getting closer, I've been watching the OWC but it's still sold out but today rooms have been released for the following:

Doubletree Guest Suites
Buena Vista Palace
Renaissance Orlando Resort at Seaworld

I'm currently booked at the Renaissance, should I sit tight and possible the OWC opens up or is one of the downtown disney hotels a better bet? The Renaissance looks beautiful but seems so far away from everything.

Thoughts?

Keep trying for the Orlando World Center. It's nice to say at the host hotel. You don't have to schelp all your vendor swag around with you all day long. Plus it's nice to go up to your room between sessions and take break.

Keep trying for the OWC.

My trip has been cancelled. Hope you all have fun - say hello the Mickey and Minnie for me!

Oh no!!

Going to WES with one other person from work that is, how do I say….ummm….very social.
Looking forward to all the Blackberry info during the day, but a little worried about the nights.
I’m hoping to keep my cohort busy enough so as to not land in the local jail.
I think Wednesday will be no problem with the WES party.
But, the other evenings……
My first time in Orlando - Any suggestions of evening activities not to miss?

Oh crap....just saw my username. When I entered it, I was thinking of Canadian Crackberry and thought it was too long so I shortened it. Shud have left it alone

Oh well, at least I'll be memorable!

Evening activities not to miss... hmmm
Monday - Welcome Reception
Tuesday - WES Party (Not Wednesday as you stated above)
Wednesday - Carrier parties (Verizon is my first choice)
Thursday - On your own.

With this being your first time in Orlando, you might want to try and find time to visit Disney or Universal Studios. It's an experience like you've never had before.

And if your cohort is quite social and wants to visit the local jail, let him/her. Nothing says you have to jump off the same bridge they do!

Starting to plan my schedule and put this together .. hopefully someone else finds it useful, just delete and add. I assume you have to actually register on Monday / Tuesday for these events?? Also the schedule change pages lists a slew of vendor related events likely off it mini conference rooms?

Save and rename to .xls, saved it as 2003 format

Finally Official. Woohoo! Got airline tickets and all. Looking forward to the event. (luckily I had reserved a room at the Marriott long ago while waiting on official word).

Nah, the session are open door. Just walk right in at the designated place/time and grab a seat. If it's like last year, you'll want to save a seat next to you for people you meet at WES. Some people tend to attend the same sessions since they have the same interests.

Woooot!!! I'll be PIN-ing ya.

...and some people tend to be lagging behind because they drank too much the night/morning before and didn't get out of bed until 11:00am...

P.S. - I think I may join you in the non-alcohol group this year... I haven't had a sip of alcohol in nearly 2 months.

everything is pretty much finalized for the trip with my colleague. can't wait to meet up with the WES 2006 and 2007 Crews again. (i promise i'll be good this year )

xoxo, elizabeth

Woo Hoo!! I finally got my flight tickets today.

Who's in for a game of "Spot a 7290". Every time you see a 7290 you have to take a drink.

Just for that, I might have to bring a couple with me to torture everyone

What about if you spot a 5800 series..is that 5 drinks

I've got one kicking around I'll have to activate for comedy value (hmm now where did I put that RS232 port!!)

I finally got approval. I'll be there, but I'm not staying at the hotels since I live in O-town.

Jibi .. I was looking forward to having a drink or two with ya!

Sounds like we are going to have a good BBF showing so It should be a fun time, looking forward to my 1st time.

Shaping up to be a great year at WES again. Personally, I'm looking forward to info sessions on BES 5.0 and BES in Virtual Environment. I hope to also get something from the developer side.

I'm sure I can bring a host of BB antiques. I could even hide a few 957s around for a grand prize. I may have enough disgarded BBs to build a small home.

What the heck is wrong with you? Quitter!

We can show your friend a good how to have fun and not go to jail - seems to have worked well us

I'll be looking for you name tag so I can take you up on that offer.
Thanks!

"Oh yeah, let me hide my rocket launcher and grenades right quick." LOL!

After last year and the "burger" incident in Champions? I can see why jibi is not gonna drink!

LOL!! I think Jibi was actually laying low that night. Others were not

Unfortunately, there is not really an appropriate way to tell the story on the forums.........

ok...where's my crew....front and center if you are showing up....

k, hmm... i'm not recalling anything. what happened? perhaps PM if it was embarrassing.

Jibi - I think it was a carry over incident from the VZW party with possibly one of my more eccentric co-workers ;p

See? Jon remembers....

For those of you getting to Orlando early, the Bob Marley Reggae Fest at Universal CityWalk® on 5/10/ & 5/11.
New Year's Eve, Bob Marley Reggae Fest, CityWalk Events 2007 : Universal Orlando

Hey Darth, we meeting in the far back right again on Monday night? And are you planning any House of Mouse on Monday?

Yep yep. Same place in the Showcase if the room layout is the same.

House of Mouse is looking promising for Monday morning/afternoon. I wanna check with x14 to see what his preference is as well. Might do the park-hopper option to bounce around as much as we want. We'll be back for the reception Monday evening.

I'll be there Monday around noon and after checking in and registering will have time if anyone wants to connect for dinner / drinks.

Still trying to get into the host hotel, hopefully they open some rooms. If not I'm going to switch to the Hilton / DoubleTree to be closer.

PM coming your way.

I'm doing one of the training courses monday, but am free after that.

Also, this is my first WES, so I'm just curious about the dress code. I don't want to come over/under dressed for it. What should I be wearing?

Which course are you in? I'm taking Admin 2.

I've heard dresscode is Hawaiian shirt and sandals...

I'm taking Admin 2 as well.

I'm hoping that shorts go along with the shirt and sandals. A shirt and Sandals would be quite.......awkward.