IOM the flights tend to be more expensive than going to Vegas.
Leadscon is a good show, but I won't be going this year, other things to be keeping me busy. I'm doing adtech SF the following month and that west coast back and forth is starting to hit, must be me getting older.
March is reasonably free for me, just need to know where and when.
In respect of hotels, I have a hotel booking web site, if people book through that why don't I just put the commish behind the bar for some drinks. Or if someone else has higher rate commish (i.e. does more in hotels) then they can take care of it instead. Seems like a non-brainer. If you work on the basis of even say 10 people in single rooms costing £80 a night that is £800 and at say 8% commish that runs to £65 of booze, not a huge amount I know, but might be two rounds for the 10.