h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I don't think I can make it but if I can get transportation a passport a visa ect. I'll come

It depends on the date for me, I only have a small window in October now, first weekend and last weekend are out, family stuff RL.

I'd do another Hull meet anytime (I can drive there)

GB

I'd come, but they are always inconvenient dates for me. I probably couldn't manage anywhere but London (Scotland excepting and still I never manage the official meets!), unless kids and dogs were welcome (like the Dartmoor meet last year) and it fell in a school holiday.

See? Already too many issues to work round for me, and I'm sure lots of other mums.

"we could have the meet in somewhere like Cambridge"

For anyone who isn't in the immediate vicinity of Cambridge, that would be worse than having it in London, because we'd have to travel to London and then onwards to Cambridge.

Except for the people who live north or west of Cambridge.

I think Scotland is north of Cambridge.

we could have a london meet in manchester but that just doesn't sound right.- does it?

i agree with queen. london is easier for most of us outlandish hitchhiker types

but i wouldn't mind going to hull as such

There speaks someone who has never been to Hull.

B

Anyone can, and often do hold a meet anywhere, of late I vaguely remember Hull, Manchester, Birmingham, Burton, and probably some other places too serviging as meet locations.
The idea was, or is, with the 'main' meet, if indeed one can still call it that, was taht it would be a meet anyone could get to. London is useful to this end for the main reason that whatever anyone thinks of the distance to London from where they are, which clearly varys depending on where you live, there will always pretty-much be a fairly direct way to get to London. And, this is true for the greatest number of people from the greatest number of starting locations; weather flying in by big metal birdy thing from somewhere else in the UK, flying in from Europe, or flying in from futher afield, to gett the train or bus/coah within the UK itself to get there.
London also has had the advantage that we've been there before for meets, have venues we already know to use, plus it has the best internal transport system (whatever people might think), or any UK City, weather rail, bus, tube or cab (and the cabs in London now seem to strangely be cheaper than anywhere else I've been to or lived of late in the UK).
Similiarly in general, because of the size of London it has extremly cheap accomidation, the last time I had to use a hotel for a meet outside London (I think the birmingham meet, or err somewhere I forget), it was three times more than a hotel in London.
Non of which is to say we can't, or want to discourage having meets elsewhere, quite from it some of us will travel some distance for beer.
But for the main london meet, its prety much going to be London.
(As much as I clearly think Cambridge is a far better choice for self-serving reasons of my living there, but it just wouldn't make much sense in terms of transport especially as the main lines into Cambridge from Kings Cross and liverpool Street in London have not worked at the weekends for at least a decade in any kind of remotely consistant way; fine for me on me tod to be disrupted coming into London for a meet, but pretty pointless to make everyone* else suffer the inconviances of a bus from the middle of beyond nowhere village back to Cambridge because the train refuses to go past Stevenage or Royston)

I've always found accommodation in London to be much dearer, 2Legs. For example, the Premier Inns in Cornwall and in Hull both charge about £50 a night while the ones in London are closer to £100.

Last time I used a hotel in London, only a couple of years back, it cost me £26 for a single room, not the smartest hotel in the world, I'd ahve called it a bording house really, but five mins walk on foot from Kings Cross station, clean and tidy inside and such like can't remember what it was called now

I'll agree London has easily the best public transport of anywhere in the UK. However whenever I've been staying north of watford gap or even in the west country, I've always found Brum easier to get to. After all it's the main rail hub for the UK, has a large coach station, and an international airport.

what about york? 365 pubs. one for every day in the year

I don't know why I'm contributing, as I won't be able to go, but yeah, york's good. Liverpool's got a fair few pubs too.

The people who want to go to London, come to the London meet. Anyone who wants to go somewhere else, don't go to London, and organise one somewhere else.

Simple.

London is easily accessible by Sail and Rail from Dublin or Dun Laoighre via Holyhead. And I have relatives in Chatham, Bedford, and Brighton, each of which are also fairly accessible by train from the capital. (You can even get a special cheep ticket on the Bedford-London-Brighton First Capital Connect trains.)

Actually, Holyhead itself is a nice village, though hardly central. If you're looking for a good interconnected place, there's always Crewe!

TRiG.

mina is right. let's focus on a london meet. all right?

you want a different meet there is room enough for different threads, right?

Nodnol's fine by me. I want to come to my first h2g2 meet! Whenever, wherever! I'll be there. (Can we have it here? No? Okay then, London it is.)

TRiG.

Right.. finally... London it is... as err it was going to be... AS people say other meets elsewhere happen, they don't even take that much organisation ... October? November? December? January? setember tis probably a bit too not far away

Once again I will have to miss the festivities. I have an obligation in the US which is taking my vacation time and money for this year. I'll be thinking about you and wishing I was there.

However, I will absolutely, positively be spending my birthday in England next spring. It is rather a milestone birthday, so there is going to be a party to which h2g2 folks will be invited. Probably in London, but that hasn't been firmly decided yet.