<![CDATA[Blackpool Meetup: Summer 2016]]>Yo,

A bunch of us were discussing the idea of a meetup in Blackpool in 2016.

Blackpool has always traditionally been a popular venue to go to, has plenty to do, and is cheap. There is a small possibility that we would attempt to run a variant of the Midnight Hunt one evening. However, we're looking into how practical this would be to do it safely in Blackpool.

Last time we did a Blackpool meetup, the cost was about 26 GBP per person per night, including breakfast. We'd aim to stay two nights.

Not yet sure of an exact date, hence the early call for participation. Any interest? Any particular dates that are preferred? Not preferred?

]]>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/2803/blackpool-meetup-summer-2016RSS for NodeSun, 13 Sep 2026 04:36:24 GMTMon, 21 Sep 2015 07:27:50 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Blackpool Meetup: Summer 2016 on Sun, 22 May 2016 13:06:21 GMT]]>Okay, a thread for the event has been created here:

http://www.knightmare.com/forum/38/6070

Sign up there if interested.

]]>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49380https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49380Sun, 22 May 2016 13:06:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blackpool Meetup: Summer 2016 on Mon, 16 May 2016 07:15:47 GMT]]>It's looking like we have some fairly reasonable consensus for mid-August.

If not, speak now or forever hold your silence.

]]>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49367https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49367Mon, 16 May 2016 07:15:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blackpool Meetup: Summer 2016 on Sun, 15 May 2016 22:04:19 GMT]]>The dates I can't do in July are the 16th and between 23rd July - 1st August.

Myatt

]]>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49366https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49366Sun, 15 May 2016 22:04:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blackpool Meetup: Summer 2016 on Sat, 14 May 2016 21:20:18 GMT]]>I am going to play it safe and pull out. If I can make it, I will, but for now, please assume I am not attending.

]]>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49365https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49365Sat, 14 May 2016 21:20:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blackpool Meetup: Summer 2016 on Sat, 14 May 2016 13:54:15 GMT]]>I won't be able to do mid July but mid August could be ok..

I was happy with the original early July option, but with people not be available around those dates, I suppose it should be ok as long the dates don't keep changing again. Not around in September as I'm on holiday then.

I await further news on this subject, anyhows...

Amy

Back to square one, again!

]]>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49364https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49364Sat, 14 May 2016 13:54:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blackpool Meetup: Summer 2016 on Fri, 13 May 2016 21:26:26 GMT]]>

Nobody seems to have mentioned August yet, except Forester who's said he's mostly free then.

Would mid-August work for people?

Yep.

]]>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49362https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49362Fri, 13 May 2016 21:26:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blackpool Meetup: Summer 2016 on Thu, 12 May 2016 19:15:37 GMT]]>Mid July sounds good here but may well be ok for mid August too.

]]>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49361https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49361Thu, 12 May 2016 19:15:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blackpool Meetup: Summer 2016 on Thu, 12 May 2016 07:18:06 GMT]]>Nobody seems to have mentioned August yet, except Forester who's said he's mostly free then.

Would mid-August work for people?

Or alternatively, mid July?

]]>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49359https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49359Thu, 12 May 2016 07:18:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blackpool Meetup: Summer 2016 on Sat, 07 May 2016 13:20:32 GMT]]>I can do start of July so it should be OK for me. I'll let you know otherwise if anything crops up nearer the time. Thank you.

Amy

]]>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49346https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49346Sat, 07 May 2016 13:20:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blackpool Meetup: Summer 2016 on Thu, 05 May 2016 21:22:59 GMT]]>Well, I start on the 9th, so hopefully I'll find out by the end if the week.

I guess it's a small price for saying "up yours" to the rat race and doing what I always wanted to do since I was a nipper

]]>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49339https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49339Thu, 05 May 2016 21:22:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blackpool Meetup: Summer 2016 on Thu, 05 May 2016 19:23:44 GMT]]>What sort of timescale are we looking at, for that?

]]>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49336https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49336Thu, 05 May 2016 19:23:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blackpool Meetup: Summer 2016 on Thu, 05 May 2016 19:22:17 GMT]]>I'm unable to confirm anything until my shift pattern has been assigned. It's a waiting game.

]]>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49335https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49335Thu, 05 May 2016 19:22:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blackpool Meetup: Summer 2016 on Thu, 05 May 2016 19:18:50 GMT]]>Anyone else care to weigh in here? Maybe mention your availability or something?

I will go with the date that supports the most people.

]]>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49334https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49334Thu, 05 May 2016 19:18:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blackpool Meetup: Summer 2016 on Wed, 04 May 2016 20:28:54 GMT]]>Weekend of July 2 no good for me sorry.

]]>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49331https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49331Wed, 04 May 2016 20:28:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blackpool Meetup: Summer 2016 on Wed, 04 May 2016 12:13:53 GMT]]>End of July is out for me, can do start July and most of August.

]]>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49329https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49329Wed, 04 May 2016 12:13:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blackpool Meetup: Summer 2016 on Sun, 01 May 2016 20:31:13 GMT]]>Ah, 'tis Scotland only.

]]>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49309https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49309Sun, 01 May 2016 20:31:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blackpool Meetup: Summer 2016 on Sun, 01 May 2016 20:29:15 GMT]]>Are you sure? The next official Bank Hol after the end of May is the end of August.[https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays]

Is this a secret one?

]]>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49308https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49308Sun, 01 May 2016 20:29:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blackpool Meetup: Summer 2016 on Thu, 28 Apr 2016 18:22:50 GMT]]>One thing that occurs to me is that the final weekend in July is a bank holiday weekend. It therefore might not be a good idea to go that weekend because transport will be more busier and expensive, hotels will be rarer (and more expensive), and pleasure beach itself will be much busier.

As a possible alternative, would the weekend of 2 July suit people?

]]>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49295https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49295Thu, 28 Apr 2016 18:22:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blackpool Meetup: Summer 2016 on Wed, 27 Apr 2016 19:05:53 GMT]]>End of July is good with me.

Thank you and no looking back now..

]]>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49293https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49293Wed, 27 Apr 2016 19:05:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blackpool Meetup: Summer 2016 on Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:44:33 GMT]]>End of July good here too!

Give your sister away huh, I couldn't even pay Gavin to take mine! I didn't lose a sister but gained a fantastic brother-in-law and now have a niece and nephew as spoils of war. Someone should have told him there in no turning back...

]]>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49292https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49292Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:44:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blackpool Meetup: Summer 2016 on Tue, 26 Apr 2016 11:30:55 GMT]]>Vote for the end of July here, if possible. I'm giving my sister away on Monday 8th August (at her wedding, not to smugglers), so I'd be probably be expected to get back to the North East by Saturday night. The dubious perils of being a brother and oft-time grown-up.

]]>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49291https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49291Tue, 26 Apr 2016 11:30:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blackpool Meetup: Summer 2016 on Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:54:26 GMT]]>I should say...

End of July or the first weekend in August.

]]>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49290https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49290Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:54:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blackpool Meetup: Summer 2016 on Mon, 25 Apr 2016 20:32:24 GMT]]>From a few conversations I've had with people, it's sounding as if the end of July is the optimal time for most people. Any particular objections to that kind of time frame?

]]>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49289https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49289Mon, 25 Apr 2016 20:32:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blackpool Meetup: Summer 2016 on Fri, 01 Apr 2016 22:24:06 GMT]]>I'm now not so sure I'll be able to make this meet. I've changed jobs and industry, and my leave hasn't yet been assigned (shift work, yay!), so put a huge question mark next to my name.

]]>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49187https://www.knightmare.com/forum/post/49187Fri, 01 Apr 2016 22:24:06 GMT