Hey um so my dad and i are gonna go see Warren Buffet make his annual conference at the berkshire hathaway. Thing is, were from Scotland, and i have next to no idea about Omaha, Nebraska.

Few Questions if anyone would be so kind to answer them

1. Any thing to see/do there? (other than the obvious lol)
2. Whats some good hotels to stay in? Were not poor, but at the same time were not shelling out a couple of thousand just to stay a few nights.

Thanks a lot!
Has Anyone else been? Whats the best thing at the conference do you think??

You can actually call Berkshire Hathaway if you need help with hotels etc.

Ye, they've got a number to call if you live outside the US. Id figure id just give posting in here a shot before that. Maybe someone in heres got some good knowledge of good hotels, cos 35000+ ppl will be goin lol.

+ When i speak on the phone theyll constantly be saying "Whaaat" cos im from scotland
LOL

By the way: post a trip report. I've been thinking of going sometime too. I want to be there before Buffett dies so I have a story to tell.

Maybe next year.

Ye ill be def keeping a diary. Total once in a lifetime experience imo. Guys a complete leg.
Thanks for your input bro

I wonder how the B split will effect attendance from now on.

My guess is not much. If anything its going to be down this year "due to the economy". The A holders who attend will still attend. In the future though I suspect only local attendance would increase as local folk who weren't holders before are now holders so they'll get their little postcard in the mail.

I too would like to go before he kicks the bucket or loses his mind and isn't as funny/interesting as others say he is.

I thought they opened it up to non-shareholders several years ago, so the split is irrelevant.

Hm. Wasn't aware of that.

But nevertheless...it still does - and for the very reason I didn't realize it.

Now that they are shareholders they will get the post card asking about attendance.

But I don't know how many new long term holders there will actually be.

I wasnt aware of that they opened it up to non-shareholders aswell?
How good are your sources?

EDIT: Do you mean the whole '50-1 split' thing?

I was there a few weeks ago with my MBA class. He does a couple of days a year where he talks to MBA students. He said we were all invited to the shareholder meeting. I didn't realize it was already open to non shareholders, so thats pretty funny.

We stayed at the downtown Doubletree, which was nice. The market area downtown was cool, although it got down to -20F the night we were there, so we didn't do too much bar hopping. I did take a cab across the river to play poker at the Horseshoe, which has a pretty nice poker room.

I was there last year. I'd recommend staying at Embassy Suites downtown, it's very nice and not as expensive as you'd think.

Horseshoe is a good casino over the border in Iowa, and if you go across to Iowa and south there is a strip club in a barn called the playhouse with dirty dirty women, it's such a dive and we saw some crazy-ass stuff go down. Since they somehow got it zoned as "performance theater" rather than the "semen-filled cesspool" you can bring your own alcohol. We brought a keg in, they said if it fits through the door you can bring it in, I don't know if this is still the policy. Beats the **** out of spearmint rhino, $100 goes a really really long way.

I thought the dinner/bbq the night before the meeting pretty much sucked it was just way too crowded. They have a big jewelry store Berkshire owns called Borsheim's and if you're a shareholder you get a pretty good discount.

So I would say
1) Buy jewelry at Borsheims
2) Eat steak at this place called Mahogany's that's kinda out in a suburb but it wasn't too pricy and it was good prime beef
3) Go play at horseshoe and then hit the playhouse

Any other questions, PM me

Since people were scalping passes and they thought that was lame for the last few years Berkshire sells passes on eBay for like $10 apiece or something.

Damn. I've done the whole experience (Meeting, Omaha beef, Horseshoe), but not the playhouse...I may have to make another trip...

Oh thats right, I remember them talking about that after the 2008 conference now.. They made a big deal of people paying people to stand in line for them so they could rush into the theatre and get a good seat.

This is EXACTLY the kind of reply i was hoping for. thanks a lot mate, ill def write these things down.
I think Borsheims is where one of the conferences is being held. Or somethings being done there anyways, so ill be going there.

Since my dad HATES gambling, and HATES me doing it, i dont think we will be heading to any casinos LOL

Thank for that great info mate

EDIT: Is that one of the burgers from that place in No#2 in your avatar? LOL

Yeah Borsheim's is in Regency Square which is where they hold the BBQ. It's a nice little area but it's just ******ed crowded. Maybe this year they'll hold it somewhere else, I dunno.

And if you like burgers try Louie M's at 17th and Vinton, it's near the downtown area but more near ghetto-ness so don't get shot. This place is farther away but it's my favorite, they don't even serve you on plates: http://www.yelp.com/biz/stellas-hamburgers-bellevue ...it used to be such a dump I haven't been in years apparently they renovated it, which destroys part of the fun for me.

NH! you are doing it right

I'll be there this year and probably playing at the Horseshoe (low-stakes limit holdem) on at least one of the nights that weekend (just like every first weekend of May for the last 9 years of my life).

Good luck getting a hotel room this late in the process. I got mine a month ago or so, and I had to settle for some little dump in Council Bluffs. At least it's close to the Horseshoe.

Gorat's is the famous steakhouse that everyone goes to, but Casio's near downtown is the exact same thing minus the crowd. For fine dining options... in my opinion Passport is over-rated, and Flatiron is over-priced... so this year I'm going to try the Boiler Room.

That kind of sucks for the foreigners, but is understandable. With 35k people last year...you have to imagine that at least a few thousand are from non-US soil.