Southern Webmaster Gathgering

[FanTC]

For anybody not familiar with the Mississippi Coast other than that we were ground zero for Katrina and all but wiped off the face of the planet, the rebuilding is going strong and fast. We have 13 world class casinos back open from Bay St. Louis to Biloxi including Beau Rivage, IP, Treasure Bay, Biloxi Grand, the brand spanking new Hard Rock(opened last week), and Island View in Gulfport. Island View is the home of Emeril's new Gulf Coast Fish House.
We have 26 miles of public beach, some of the best deep sea fishing anywhere, about a dozen great golf courses for golfers, and the best seafood to be found anywhere.
Accomodations are fair priced, ranging from economy inn and standard hotels at about 39 a night to the casino suites going for upwards of 5k.
There's a new airline that started service last month with routes to and from Vegas and Orlando with $89 flights.
I believe groundbreaking began last week in Biloxi on the world's first and only Margaritaville Casino Resort. It's due for opening in 2010, along with the cumulative total of 35 casinos in Biloxi.
If anybody needs any info on the area or anything, just give me a yell and I'll point you in the right direction.

[Jace]

Originally Posted by FanTC

For anybody not familiar with the Mississippi Coast other than that we were ground zero for Katrina and all but wiped off the face of the planet, the rebuilding is going strong and fast. We have 13 world class casinos back open from Bay St. Louis to Biloxi including Beau Rivage, IP, Treasure Bay, Biloxi Grand, the brand spanking new Hard Rock(opened last week), and Island View in Gulfport. Island View is the home of Emeril's new Gulf Coast Fish House.
We have 26 miles of public beach, some of the best deep sea fishing anywhere, about a dozen great golf courses for golfers, and the best seafood to be found anywhere.
Accomodations are fair priced, ranging from economy inn and standard hotels at about 39 a night to the casino suites going for upwards of 5k.
There's a new airline that started service last month with routes to and from Vegas and Orlando with $89 flights.
I believe groundbreaking began last week in Biloxi on the world's first and only Margaritaville Casino Resort. It's due for opening in 2010, along with the cumulative total of 35 casinos in Biloxi.
If anybody needs any info on the area or anything, just give me a yell and I'll point you in the right direction.

you just turned me away 100% from that area...hahaha

i hate golf, I don't eat seafood, I don't fish and I don't gamble

[Licker4U]

Originally Posted by Jace

you just turned me away 100% from that area...hahaha

i hate golf, I don't eat seafood, I don't fish and I don't gamble

Then come to meet other webmasters over drinks (and if you don't drink liquor I'm sure they can find you a soda, coffee or tea) Can't hurt networking with others in the industry, making new friends and getting to know one another.

[Jace]

Originally Posted by Licker4U

Then come to meet other webmasters over drinks (and if you don't drink liquor I'm sure they can find you a soda, coffee or tea) Can't hurt networking with others in the industry, making new friends and getting to know one another.

oh, i was referring to your "selling" of the area

like I said previously, we will be driving to new orleans right before then, no way we will be heading back down there again a week later....if it was another time, then definitely

[Hell Puppy]

Depends on the exact dates. October is actually pretty booked for me as well. And like Jace, I hate to fly in from one thing and head right back out to another. Need some heal up time.

But a gathering on the gulf coast is definitely something that would normally appeal to me.

[LAJ]

Please add Connor Young and myself from YNOT to the "maybe" list.

If this happens in Biloxi the weekend of Oct 26-28, it might just have "road trip" written all over it for us.

[iamkathi]

I went back and re-read this a couple of times. Is there a "host" hotel where most folks will be staying? It will be difficult to get together with as spread out as things are there without a central location. Now, I haven't been there since January and other than the casinos there wasn't much to do.

I am interested. I have lots of family in that area.

Oh...and Gulfport/Biloxi International Airport is about the size of my apartment building..so no getting lost.