Palm Springs

Air Museum in da Vinci Mode!  Leonardo da Vinci will spend the season in Palm Springs.  Working models of 61 of the most futuristic designs produced by the Renaissance artist, designer, architect, and scientist will make their North American debut at the Palm Springs Air Museum beginning in November and will run through February, 2007.  The machines in the exhibit are organized around three themes:  transportation, mechanics, and military.  Each model has been built according to da Vinci’s notes and with the materials available in 15th-century Italy.  Eleven machines are full-sized and 25 are interactive.  Each replica is displayed with the relevant Leonardo drawing.  The drawings, called the Codex, weren’t just written in Latin by the artist who painted “The Last Supper” 500 years ago in the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy.  They were also written backwards, so they could only be read in a mirror.  (Let’s try that trick on our menus for the evening, with special mirrors shared at each guest table!)

The Palm Springs team at ACCESS  Destination Services is anxious to put their creativity to work for you on either a daytime excursion to the Palm Springs Air Museum or for an exciting “Flyin’ High” evening at this very special 67,000 square foot venue which is dedicated to the restoration, preservation, and operation of America’s legendary fighters, bombers and trainers. 

We invite you on a secret mission that will test the wits of your guests at every turn.  Start the evening with clever instructions written backwards (or not) that invite guests to expect the unexpected. The master code-breakers at ACCESS  Destination Services, together with formulas for success, will create an evening not soon forgotten by your very special guests and one that would make Leonardo proud.

For your next recognition event or corporate function, contact the Palm Springs Office of ACCESS Destination Services.

San Diego

An America’s Cup Experience Awaits You!  Fort Lauderdale bid fond adieu to the schooner America as she recently claimed San Diego as her new home.  With her immaculately varnished timber, gleaming black hull, polished brass, stainless fittings, and crisp white sails, America cuts quite a figure as she glides through the sparkling waters of San Diego Bay.

In sailing circles, she is known as USA1 – the vessel that, in 1851, was responsible for the genesis of the most elite sailboat race in the world – the America’s Cup, the race that was symbolic of the shifting fortunes of the world’s leading nations at the time.  Sadly, the original America was destroyed in a snowstorm in 1941.  The contemporary America was commissioned in 1995 and built in New York by an America’s Cup enthusiast as a replica of the original yacht.

Join the crew of ACCESS  Destination Services in an America’s Cup Sailing Regatta.  The possibilities are limitless.  Configurations can include America as the proud spectator vessel in a hands-on regatta of 6-passenger sailing yachts, or combine America (USA1) with the modern America’s Cup racing vessels, Stars & Stripes (USA34) and Abracadabra (USA54) for an America’s Cup Sailing Regatta for 100+ passengers, complete with historic Cup trivia teasers.  Perhaps a relaxing flotilla with the three USA vessels gracefully cruising the sights and sounds of San Diego Bay is more to your liking.  Let ACCESS  custom-design your own private regatta where your guests will experience first-hand the feelings of freedom that are uniquely felt when they race the wind. 

Contact the San Diego office of ACCESS Destination Services for next your team building event. 

Note: ACCESS  is growing! Effective May 1, 2006, our San Diego office will be located at 3515 Hancock Street, Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92110. Phone and fax numbers remain the same.

Special note: The San Diego Office of ACCESS congratulates General Manager, Jennifer Miller, for achieving her DMCP designation.

Las Vegas

Seeing Red!  Hit the tables at Las Vegas’s newest casino resort, Red Rock Casino, Resort and Spa, and perhaps you may squeeze in a hike or two in between hands.  Nestled near the entrance to a scenic national conservation area, Las Vegas’s newest property, just opened mid-April, is the first billion-dollar resort to be built off the Las Vegas Strip.  Located 10 miles from the Strip and 15 minutes from McCarran International Airport, this Station Casinos property offers a true resort experience with nine restaurants, an ultra-modern 35,000 square foot spa, a three-acre pool “backyard” with fountain and wading pools, all emphasizing the warmth of the great outdoors at Red Rock Canyon, home to horses, wild burros, bighorn sheep and a host of desert plant life.

In the evening hit the Strip, or visit the property’s showcase casino, richly appointed with exotic woods, honey and red onyx, Venetian plaster and custom chandeliers featuring nearly one million Swarovski crystals.  Night owls will enjoy the Resort’s Cherry Nightclub, owned by club magnate Rande Gerber, husband to Supermodel Cindy Crawford.

The 400+ room resort (which will expand to 850 rooms by early 2007) provides 94,000 square feet of meeting and convention space, many rooms with large windows and views of the mountains.  The shapes, colors and designs throughout mimic the surrounding rocky, desert landscape.  Also notable is a separate hotel entrance allowing guests to access their rooms without crossing the casino floor, a feature that sets apart Red Rock Casino, Resort and Spa from other luxury resorts in Las Vegas.

For those of you with tight activity schedules within your programs, this Red Rock location is ideal.  Your ACCESS  Las Vegas team will be happy to acquaint you with all of the activity possibilities in the area including hiking, biking, horseback riding, hummer and jeep tours.

Contact the Las Vegas office of ACCESS  Destination Services for your next site inspection or to discuss destination management needs on your next Las Vegas program.