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Sis and I could fetch him from Hanover airport (she said).

I'm not fussed either way. Mannheim is much closer to me and will cost less.

Symmetrically:

I'm not fussed either way. Hanover is much closer to me and will cost less

What toybox said. But I won't vote, since I don't know where I'll be then.

My horrorscope said I would travel east anyway .. so .. I won't vote either

Until which date should we set the destination in stone? We wouldn't want to miss some participants because they couldn't book tickets for want of a target airport.

If you travel east for long enough you'll come back west anyway

Shall we say Sunday, 24th January? If we go for Hannover, I'll have to try to book cheap train tickets well in advance, too.

I think Toybox meant how long is voting open...

Yes, and I suggested until Sunday, 24th

Ah, sorry, I misread that as you repeating the 24th April date for the meet

That would have been Saturday.

No vote from my side - either place seems nice, Hannover has a slight advantage (perhaps, since I don't know yet if I can stay there overnight)

er, what days are the hangover chaos days?

Er, 42?

.. ok .. Hangover, the 42nd I'll plan a trip

Just for, er, for the record:

German Spring Meet - Saturday 24th April - Mannheim or Hanover (votes are open till Sunday)

Closest airport connections:
for Mannheim, Frankfurt
for Hanover, Hanover

*waits patiently *

Blimey, do they still have the Chaos days in Hannover? I thought all that stopped in the late 80s.
(got caught up in it once with my suedehead/doc-wearing boyfriend - not very nice at all)

I'd prefer Hannover - for the simple fact that I like the northern part of Germany and never seem to get there enough. But it's probably as easy for me to get to Mannheim or Hannover so I'm not really too bothered.

Although if you're all counting... I'll vote for Hannover with the proviso that if the people flying in all prefer to go the southern route, I'll go for that because I'm more keen to see them than I am to relive countless CeBIT experiences... oh wait - does anyone know when CeBIT is this year? (ah - March. Good)

Ah... fly in the ointment for Hannover - up to 23rd April it's the Hannover Industriemesse. That means that hotel rooms will be at a premium (probably most people will go home direcly on 23rd - but it may be that they stay the extra night - certainly the people who have to close down their stands might still all be there at the weekend. It also means that anyone who wants to fly/drive/train into Hannover on 23rd might have a diffiult time getting a good price.

Since people are adding conditions to their vote, I'll make my vote more specific. I'll go to Mannheim if I can get a flight. I will not go to Hannover. But I'm quite happy if you all pick Hannover - it's your meet.

OK - if I am to evaluate the votes by the weekend and people are saying they'd do both but they'd prefer the one or the other, can I ask you to vote with a percentage?

For example: 80% MA, 20% H

(In fact that would probably be my vote.)

On the basis of his last post, Gnomon's vote would be:

100% MA, 0% H.

That gives me numbers to work on, and each of us can take into consideration the accessibility from their point of view, the price of hotels etc.

Sunday is the deadline (well, early Monday will do, too), and I will tot up the numbers on Monday lunchtime, after which everyone can starting booking flights, rooms etc.

1. The two figures should add up to 100
2. One vote each
3. Deadline : Monday morning European time (Final decision: Monday Lunchtime.)