Eastercon

[inulro]

I've just looked at the timetable for Eastercon. Shouldn't have done that. I'd really like to go.

I could probably rummage up the entrance fee, but as usual the hotel is the absolute bar to my attendance. Going up for days also not much of an option as the airport coaches don't do funfares. Train, again, absolutely out of my price range.

Why is accommodation in this country so damned expensive? With extra ripping-off in the vicinity of airports.

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[girfan.livejournal.com]

I didn't think the hotel was expensive, but J and I are in a double, which is cheaper than single rooms.

Can you go via National Express very early, then take the Tube (if you get off at Earls Court, the Picadilly Tube stops there) to the airport and pay for one night (like go early on Friday and stay until the evening on Saturday? That way you could be there for 2 days.

I'm sure it will be well worth it.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

It's a good price for a London hotel, but still completely out of my price range for something that I haven't budgeted for months in advance. If there were some cheap B&B options nearby it might be manageable.

[kekhmet.livejournal.com]

I'm planning going to and fro via buses and tubes. Spending money on a hotel room in the city I live in is just not on. Especially not when there is 24 hr public transport on offer: there's a nightbus that runs near to the hotel, although it won't take me all the way home sadly.

I shall simply have to make sure I have something with me that I really want to spend some time reading ;-)

I'm also going to try to manage to see my horse *and* go to a gig the Friday night without missing all of Saturday AM at Eastercon.
(I am clearly more than slightly mad, but we all knew that anyway ;-) )

We have crash space of a sort, but I don't know if it would suit? It's the couch in our front-room/kitchen so it's not the most comfy or private of crash spaces.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the offer - I'll think about it and maybe join you for a night.

[redcountess]

I'm in the same position, If I was well I could commute there and back every day, as it is I'm going to have to work out which day I really want to go to and try to manage for that day only.

[redcountess]

Having a look at the programme, there's nothing I really can be bothered commuting for, especially since NG will more than likely be doing events when the Graveyard Book comes out later in the year here. I really like the look of some of the smaller panels but they start early and would be hard to get up early enough to travel to. Grah!

[inulro.livejournal.com]

Neil Gaiman comes through Bristol and/or Bath most years when he's promoting a book so I won't travel just for him. There's a few other things I'd quite like to travel for.

[redcountess]

Yes, same here if I could afford a room.