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The Vegas Box - what happens in Vegas can finally stay in Vegas
If you are a regular visitor to Las Vegas, you'll probably have a list of items you pack, unpack and repack every time you visit.The Vegas Box is a new product designed to store those products and keep them in safe storage at a local climate controlled facility. The process is simple - you sign up for $99 and will get your Vegas Box delivered to your hotel. Then, when you are ready to leave, you arrange for the box to be picked up, packed full of all the items you don't want to carry home.
Then, next time you return to Vegas, you contact the folks behind the service and have them deliver your box back to your hotel. Less stuff in your bags means less bulky luggage and no excess or checked bag fees.
At first the service seemed quite insane - but the more I think about it, the more brilliant it seems. Sadly, I don't get to visit Vegas quite enough, and I'm not enough of a high roller for the Casino Manager to store my stuff for me, but I know several people that make monthly trips to Vegas who could really benefit from this.
The box costs $99/year with 2 deliveries. Additional deliveries are $20 (which includes a pickup as well). To learn more about the service, or to sign up for your own Vegas Box, check out their web site.
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charles sisto malatesta Mar 21st 2011 6:29PM
Charles sisto malatesta 3/21/11
LOVE VEGAS!
TheInfamousJ Mar 21st 2011 7:44PM
I went to a conference where they had a Rent a Box. For $10, you got a medium-sized shipping box that stayed in a manned booth area and you could drop by throughout the conference and toss stuff in to it. Then, on the last day of the conference, they had UPS on site to tape up and ship the boxes wherever you needed them to go.
Useful for sending literature, handouts, and other goodies back to the office rather than having to lug pounds and pounds of paper on the plane.
Vegas Box seems to be in a similar vein.
Though given the cost of storage units around where I live, wouldn't it be cheaper to rent a storage closet than a box? Seems like you are paying a premium for such a small container.
Patricia Mar 22nd 2011 10:01AM
That's brilliant! I just got back from a conference and spent the night before leaving going through all my swag and such and left a bunch of stuff I would have loved to bring home but didn't want to pay excess baggage charges. As it was I filled my laptop case with so many books and literature (in addition to two computers) I could barely lift it but it was allowed on as carry on :-)
Stolen Mar 21st 2011 10:20PM
Brilliant! I already have a Vegas box.
Village Idiot Mar 21st 2011 10:48PM
For people who go frequently, this is brilliant. Especially if one likes to have a few beverages in the room - store a couple of bottles of booze and you have your own minibar for $20/stay. Not to mention the couples who would rather leave certain "items" away from the potential stumbling upon by precocious children or nosy in-laws.
kyliean uthnoa Mar 22nd 2011 1:11AM
you picked a good fight to go too, unfortunately I am routing for Jose Luis Castillo to beat Hatton in an entertaining fight.
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Tim Burke Mar 22nd 2011 3:33PM
What I'd really like to know- what isn't allowed in the box? I poked around the website and saw no mention of prohibited items. Cash? Drugs? Booze? Mutilated hooker parts?
I'd like to see a concrete privacy policy and more, this just screams trouble to me....