Hello I'm Rich Brown and this is my personal website and blog. I'm just your simple, average, down to earth, professional, out gay man and aspiring circuit boy, living in Phoenix, Arizona with a few things to say while trying to find my place among all the scary, conservative, religious nuts in this sick and twisted world.
Friday, May 05, 2006
White Party 2006 Part 7: Insider Information
Just as the weekended started off with our arrival on Friday it ended with the Closing Party on Monday morning. We managed to drag ourselves to all 9 parties on the schedule, and let me tell you it was quite a feat.
FRIDAY 12PM-06PM Friday Pool Party (Wyndham Hotel) 10PM-04AM The Inferno (Wyndham Hotel Ballroom) 03AM-08AM Inferno After Hours (Heaven Night Club) SATURDAY 09AM-06PM Saturday Pool Party (Wyndham Hotel) 09PM-05AM White Party (Palm Springs Convention Center) 04AM-10AM Climax After Hours (Wyndham Hotel Ballroom) SUNDAY 10AM-04PM Sunday Pool Party (Wyndham Hotel) 03PM-10PM Sunset T-Dance (White Party Park) 09PM-08AM Closing Party (Wyndham Hotel Ballroom)
VIP tickets are sold in advance, but if you don't want to spend the $390 on the VIP pass ($320 in advance), you can buy tickets to the individual events at the hotel. While this may seem like a good idea, it's usually not because when you're at the party you get caught up in the moment and end up going to almost everything anyway, so it then turns into a more costly event then if you would have just gotten the VIP pass in the first place. If you plan on attending three or more of the events, it's simply worth it to just get the VIP pass.
The White Party VIP Pass, a photo of mine below, comes complete with VIP card, VIP gift bag, separate VIP entrances with no-waiting express entry to all the parties, and in/out privileges to most of the parties. In my opinion it's the only way to go.
Once you get to the party, the WP staff will take your VIP Pass, punch a hole in the spot for that particular party, and then band you with a wrist band. This keeps you from handing your pass to someone else and allows you to be able to come in and out from the parties.
While it was a lot of fun to get very little sleep and dance our asses off all weekend, I'm not sure I would do all the parties again. We made it a point to hit everything up this year so that we'd know exactly what everything was about, and for that I'm glad. Next year we'll still get the VIP pass, but I think we'll skip the Friday and Saturday after hours to get a few additional hours of shut-eye.
