Bobbin
Head Gardener
Ok, so I offered to organise the Bushmeet for this year, and I've been doing some looking around.
Before i can go much further there are some things that need to be decided on first.
Firstly, The weekend we have it on. There is only one more bank holiday left this year, which is in August, on the Reading/Leeds Festival weekend. Personally, I can't get that weekend off work, and I'm not willing to organise a meet for a weekend I can't go to, so sorry that weekend is out.
So what i propose is a Fri-Sun meet. It'll be a touch shorter than other meets, only giving us one full day together. So the choice is which weekend do we want to have it on? I propose either September or October. I have created another thread in this section with a poll of weekends on it.
Please i f you are interested in attending, or think that would might want to attend if it's at the right time for you, then vote on the poll. Hopefully one weekend will stand out above all the others, and we'll make it that one. If several are pretty equal, I'll have a chat with Azzer, and look at price differences and see if we can come to a conclusion. If you want to attend, but don't care about the weekend, then vote the poll too, as i want to use it to gauge interest.
Second thing we need to decide on is a location. During the IRC chat we decided that Manchestor or Reading would be best. Both locations have great transport links, as well as internation airports close for anyone who wishes to come from over-seas. I've created a poll for this one too.
Looking at average hotel prices, it looks to be about £50-60 for a room for two nights, based on two people sharing (which most people do - it's easy to find someone to share a room with). You can grab a room entirely to yourself of course too, but that will be around £100 for 2 nights. Don't forget you still need to be able to pay for food and any activities (bowling, laser quest, cinema, drinking, restaurants, whatever else people want to do)!
I'm also going to try and work out some prices for if people just want to come for one night as well, so that you don't have to pay the full price if you're only staying one night.. And ofc, Day visitors who want to just attend for the day and then go home, won't have to pay anything except their own transport!
All that would be charged for is the booking of the hotel rooms. All food and activities etc must be paid for under your own steam.
I think that's about it, obviously closer to the time, we'll have more details, but until then, please give it some thought and if you have any input then make it.
Date Poll: http://www.bushtarion.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=1408
Location Poll: http://www.bushtarion.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=1407
Summary:
Cost: £75 based on two sharing. £98 for a single. For both nights. Breakfast included.
Location: Reading.
Weekend: October 24th - 26th.
People Attending:
Azzer
Beaky
Bobbin
Bunion
Dematto
Dennis
JZS
Lukey
Martin
Maxi
Polo
Stevey
TheOmaga
Twigley
Before i can go much further there are some things that need to be decided on first.
Firstly, The weekend we have it on. There is only one more bank holiday left this year, which is in August, on the Reading/Leeds Festival weekend. Personally, I can't get that weekend off work, and I'm not willing to organise a meet for a weekend I can't go to, so sorry that weekend is out.
So what i propose is a Fri-Sun meet. It'll be a touch shorter than other meets, only giving us one full day together. So the choice is which weekend do we want to have it on? I propose either September or October. I have created another thread in this section with a poll of weekends on it.
Please i f you are interested in attending, or think that would might want to attend if it's at the right time for you, then vote on the poll. Hopefully one weekend will stand out above all the others, and we'll make it that one. If several are pretty equal, I'll have a chat with Azzer, and look at price differences and see if we can come to a conclusion. If you want to attend, but don't care about the weekend, then vote the poll too, as i want to use it to gauge interest.
Second thing we need to decide on is a location. During the IRC chat we decided that Manchestor or Reading would be best. Both locations have great transport links, as well as internation airports close for anyone who wishes to come from over-seas. I've created a poll for this one too.
Looking at average hotel prices, it looks to be about £50-60 for a room for two nights, based on two people sharing (which most people do - it's easy to find someone to share a room with). You can grab a room entirely to yourself of course too, but that will be around £100 for 2 nights. Don't forget you still need to be able to pay for food and any activities (bowling, laser quest, cinema, drinking, restaurants, whatever else people want to do)!
I'm also going to try and work out some prices for if people just want to come for one night as well, so that you don't have to pay the full price if you're only staying one night.. And ofc, Day visitors who want to just attend for the day and then go home, won't have to pay anything except their own transport!
All that would be charged for is the booking of the hotel rooms. All food and activities etc must be paid for under your own steam.
I think that's about it, obviously closer to the time, we'll have more details, but until then, please give it some thought and if you have any input then make it.
Date Poll: http://www.bushtarion.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=1408
Location Poll: http://www.bushtarion.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=1407
Summary:
Cost: £75 based on two sharing. £98 for a single. For both nights. Breakfast included.
Location: Reading.
Weekend: October 24th - 26th.
People Attending:
Azzer
Beaky
Bobbin
Bunion
Dematto
Dennis
JZS
Lukey
Martin
Maxi
Polo
Stevey
TheOmaga
Twigley
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