[UK-CONTEST] Convention Contest Forum

[Stewart Rolfe]

I paid £114.50 for the 1 night package. For this I got a small but high quality room, entrance to the convention itself on both days, the Gala dinner on Saturday evening and taxi transfers from and to Milton Keynes rail station which would have cost me £20 each way. Oh, and I enjoyed an hour in the pool while waiting to be taken to the station on Sunday afternoon.

Pretty good value I'd say......

73,

Stewart, GW0ETF



--- On Wed, 17/10/12, Roger Western <g3sxw at btinternet.com> wrote:

> From: Roger Western <g3sxw at btinternet.com>
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Convention Contest Forum
> To: "Contest Reflector UK" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
> Date: Wednesday, 17 October, 2012, 19:49
> We are assured that RSGB makes no
> profit from these Conventions. But this 
> still leaves RSGB Events and the venue to fleece us! Surely
> the core problem 
> (not cameras nor lunches) is that we need a reasonably
> priced bigger venue. 
> Hotel rooms are available to individuals all over the
> country for under £50 
> but we are charged half as much again by RSGB Events, even
> with a block 
> booking of 100+ rooms. We know from the experience at
> Wyboston Lakes that 
> those rooms are purveyed to individuals at substantially
> lower prices than 
> we have to pay. It seems to need some serious hard
> bargaining or maybe we 
> move the Convention to Mallorca: it would be cheaper!
> 73 de Roger/G3SXW.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Peter Hobbs
> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 5:08 PM
> To: Peter Bowyer
> Cc: UK Contest Reflector
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Convention Contest Forum
> 
> One problem is that RSGB now subcontracts finding the venue
> and handling
> the tickets to an outside outfit.  I suspect that any
> facility which
> "could" reduce numbers attending is unlikely to be high on
> the agenda.
> I was particularly disenchanted with the lunch arrangements
> this year,
> which had moved from a 3 course buffet to a single plate
> served by
> patently inadequate staff (same price!).  In other
> words, conference
> seems to have moved from an event for the benefit of members
> to a
> straight profit-making exercise.
> 
> If they put the whole thing out to competition with a
> proper
> specification, things could be different, but of course you
> can't please
> . . .
> 
> 73, Peter G3LET
> 
> Peter Bowyer wrote: