US Open 2015 Update #2 - Food! Rising Star! Staplers!
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This year's Open is going to be SPLENDIFEROUS!
Here is what's about to descend on LA. Check this out, fellow dancers:
- Rising Star - 21 couples!
- Classic - 28 couples!
- Showcase - 16 couples!
- ProAm - 25 couples!
- Cabaret - 13 routines!
West Coast Swing HEAVEN!
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Hotel room reservations are up 30% from last year! Do you have your room yet? Book it! Or scramble last minute to find floor space ...
Did you see the announcement about Friday's schedule change?
Showcase and Champion Strictly have switched times. (Showcase at 9:30pm; Strictly at 11:15pm). The 2015 US Open Website is continuously updated, so check there for the full schedule.
- Friday 2pm Competitors' Meeting!
- Friday 7pm Opening Ceremonies, Competitors' March and Flag Presentation!
- Full workshop schedule on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday ... and ... a Royston Intensive! Last chance to achieve last year's New Year's Resolution to become a Champion dancer in 2015 -- before the 2016 New Year!
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Do you like helping? Want to meet the people behind the scenes? Need to save a little on costs?
You can volunteer at the Open!
Volunteers are much needed! Get a partial/full event pass! Help set up the ballroom, lay floors, security, registration desk, gazillion tasks big and small, work as little or as much as you like!
Sign up to volunteer here
Or send an email to Michael Eads, Volunteer Coordinator: tiggerswing@gmail.com
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Eating During The Open
There’s a restaurant in the hotel - moderately priced, decent Menu, staff is friendly. Standard breakfast buffet $22. Restaurant closes at normal-human hours - not dancer hours.
Room service for food and alcohol is 6:30 am to 11 pm. (So at 7am, when you're finished dancing, you can order a glass of wine delivered to your room. To help you sleep for two hours ’till you have to go back down to the ballroom to compete.)
Bar and lounge are in the restaurant. And that is where we all meet on nights of the Open - Friday, Saturday, and Sunday after Awards! And what a scene it is!
The West Coast Swing Family Thanksgiving!
All home for the holidays! In the same room.
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Fast Food Close By
Right across the street (in the Burbank Airport lot) there’s a Denny’s, Panda Express, McDonalds, pizza joint, sushi place, sub shop – all closing at normal-human hours.
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Fancy Food For Foodies
Foodie Alert! If you have the time, Los Angeles is a food-lover’s heaven. Top restaurants and chefs in the world have flagship restaurants in LA.
Including:
- Providence
- Spago
- Animal
- Mozza
- Night + Market
- Guisados
- n/naka
- Baco Mercat
- Tsujita
- Hinoki and The Bird
- Rivera
- Shunji
- Lucques
- … and of course, the uber famous, uber hip, uber hard to find Trois Mec
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Groceries For Your Room
Ten Whole Foods within a 10-mile radius of the hotel! Including an enormous Whole Foods a five-minute drive away (331 N Glendale Avenue, Glendale, CA 91206) and a smaller crowded one even closer, in Sherman Oaks. Five Trader Joe’s within a five mile radius of the hotel.
Ralphs one mile from the hotel, open 6am – 1am.
Drugstore? Right next to Ralphs.
Alcohol run? It's California! Beer, wine, and liquor sold in grocery stores! And drug stores!
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Replacement Clothes, Stapler for Hemming Pants, New Phone, other Last-Minute Disaster Shopping:
Closest mall to the hotel — “The Empire Center” — Target, Macy’s, Best Buy, Nordstrom Rack, TJ Maxx, Michael’s, Office Depot, Lowe’s, Sports Authority, chain restaurants. Two miles from the hotel (North Victory Place & Empire Avenue, Burbank, CA 91503) so five minutes by car, 20 minute walk in beautiful LA sunshine.
Note: The hotel does not provide a shuttle to stores. The hotel does have a shuttle. Which only goes across the street. To the airport. Just to be annoying.
