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Bad news Wolf, looks like my Monaco Grand Prix vacation plan now includes winning some sort of lottery,
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Can Monaco market its lure of gilded revelry to a planet in fear of going broke?
"Here we call it a challenging economy," says Michel Bouquier, director of the Monaco Tourism and Convention Board. "Monaco is actually doing pretty well. The recent Monte Carlo Rolex Masters tennis tournament sold 8,000 additional seats over last year. That is a very, very good sign."
For this year's Grand Prix on May 24, there's a marked change in booking patterns for luxury hotels, yachts, villas, etc. "People are booking later and later," says Bouquier. "But we are adapting. We have to be competitive."
But make no mistake � competitive doesn't translate into a fire sale. "We will never promote a discount Monaco," says Bouquier. Companies may offer added amenities, but the only formal plan to address the global economic downturn is to maintain 2008 prices for 2009.
Luca Virgilio, general manager of Hotel Metropole, agrees. "People this year are waiting to commit, hoping that they'll get a last-minute deal. But for Formula One we're always going to be very, very busy. Once we decide on the price, it's going to stay the same."
It's corporate bookings that have changed dramatically, everyone agrees. Robert Shepherd, Edminston Yacht Co.'s director of charter for the Americas, says: "In the past, companies chartered a yacht for the Monaco Grand Prix. But a corporation isn't so quick to spend that kind of money after it's laid off dozens of people."
Yet, prices during the Grand Prix are still astronomical. For instance, local residents and businesses often rent out their balconies overlooking the Grand Prix city track for around $100,000, says Virgilio. Virgilio's terrace hotel restaurants sell A Day at the Races package for E1,800 ($2,408), can hold more than 250 people � and are almost sold out.
A place like top nightclub Jimmy'z is known to raise the price for a beer to $90 for the Grand Prix, and people don't see that changing.
"Just last week, when I went to lunch with some friends in Monte Carlo, the bill was something like e500 ($688) per person for a table of 10 � a lot of money for ordinary food," says Jon*Acevski, who owns luxury rental property Chateau Saint Jeannet near Nice
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07-04-09 03:03 PM - LOL! I know your like the king of dis-appearance! I'm gonna call you Hodini from now on!I'm sorry Shells, I was at work earlier, so I always do that, lol, then again in the evenings if I'm tired and fall asleep on the couch. Hahaha, if it's after 8 and I suddenly "go away" odds are I am sound asleep,
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Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com07-04-09 03:07 PM - I don't either, but when it updates itself it restarts automatically. Most of the time I put it into standby; that way it isn't completely off and the program doesn't close.Lol, that's a different way to do it
I could do that 
I never shut my computer off anyhow, it's always in sleep.
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