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anyone found any deals at the Holiday Inn better than £59/night?

Stu Hopkin has a pretty big place - he dont charge that much

yeah but he is a tosser :D

Ty, ty one and all :)

I'll be reluctantly staying at my house. Unless anyone can come up with an excuse for SWMBO for getting a hotel room when DTD is ~7 miles away?

Best deal I can see on Laterooms is probably the Welbeck at 48/night. Decent hotel right in the center (well, next to Rock City anyway :)). Right side of the center for an easy taxi ride out to DTD.

3 spare rooms at my house.

Anybody needing somewhere cheap to stay might like to try the Holiday Inn.

Room for a girglemeister?

now 1 spare room left

Nah f**k that. I'll bung him in Ronnie's kennel.

Sigh


That will do!

I will take out my teeth and pay in kindness..


.ok i'll book the holiday Inn.

No I've got £59 for Friday and £68 for Saturday.

Anybody wanna top and tail with me in Ronnies Kennel?

 rotflmfao

well, in that case, I've got a spare room at my place ;).

rex, you'll have to borrow matt's white tshirt if you're going to get that sort of affection from maureen

Oh Gatso, you noticed too how nice he looked in it. I am surprised I must say.  ;)

Been holding off booking anywhere due to a) waiting for potential roomy to confirm and b) to see where the majority of people are planning on staying. Seems to be a serious lack of enthusiasm this time round though - come on people! Where are people planning on holing up? What time are we hitting the hotel bar Friday afternoon?

If everyone's dotted about the place I'll probs just book somewhere close to the train station and cab it around.

quite a few places already booked up as well :( Had to go for the Days Inn

hahaahahahahahahahahhahahaha

yeah the longer i hold off the more limited it's getting

I've booked Saturday and Sunday - did I do wrong??

errrr if u want Friday as well ? :)

so are peoples staying Fri/Sat & Sun?
or just Fri/Sat
or just Sat

wtf I'm a BB newbie

i am normally there friday to sunday

as are teh diehards and the serious drunkards

some are only there saturday

some are fri/sat some sat/sun

It depends... now I've been to 3, I've GOT to go Fri-Mon as its such a laugh!! Friday in Leeds was abs awesome.

helps ty

eck help me pls

ALWAYS Friday to Monday.  Anything other is just amateur hour imo

serously book the extra room if you want to party

if your just there for the £30 poker game and want to be in a good enough condition to play proper then just book the saturday only

very much this. sort it out BAM!

take me off the list please rich

See you Friday night

nah you have to play the comp and race to see if you can get get knocked out before me

i think i have the record for most out firsts in blonde bash history

sigh

I do hope you're not implying that you might not have always taken the main event deadly seriously......?

yes i take the "MAIN EVENT" seriously this years "MAIN EVENT" will be karoke in the beer garden again

Well I intend to announce every hand pre flop and my intentions...just for fun.  Then we can get on to the serious business of the beer garden

just out of interest.....

let's say I'm sat at Dawn's table and I'm unhappy with her blatant disregard for the rules of our beautiful game and make a complaint to the TD. what would be the likely outcome:

a) Dawn gets a time penalty
b) Dawn gets banned from the game
c) Dawn gets banned from DTD
d) everyone laughs at me, and we carry on

all 4 i think

would be handy to know in advance, just in case like

Ahhhhhhhhhh, but I will be discreet in my comments.  Will take ears of a bat to hear me at the table.  Know any bats?

some people might want to be blatant though - I'd like to know the risks :D

I will be arriving early Friday
I will be staying for 3 nights
I will play kinda loud
I will NOT be singing
I will find a lap dancing club (despite Matt's protestations)
I wll forget most of the weekend
I will be sober
I will be hanging out of taxi windows
I will find a vertically challenged person on a bike
I will be available for roshambo lessons
I will put stupid answers on the quiz
I will NOT be up at 10am so my room can be cleaned
I will NOT wear a dress for the football


Which of the above is untrue

This?

I will be sober.
I will remember all of the weekend.
I will not be available for roshambo lessons.
I will not put stupid answers on the quiz. Easy trophies, innit? ;) (It must be, I have one already!)
I will not be up for the football.
I will not have gone to bed by 10am. Breakfast, then bed, ldo.
I will not be singing.

Seriously though, I might not be there. And this also applies to Joobs. Sorry guys, but our darling landlord decided she didn't want a lodger any more, and gave us notice today. So we are probably going to need our money to pay deposits/rent etc. Happy birthday to me (well, in a week).

Bad beat -- GL

urgh - hope you get it sorted.

love Claire (proud owner of three very-hard-to-get blonde bash quiz trophies)

I've booked the Days Hotel. Lastminute are currently offering 30% off three night stays - £126 for Friday-Mon

Train fares: http://www.eastcoast.co.uk - £25 return so far from London...if people get confused, PM me and ill see what I can find.

Hotels: See Claw's post. Travelodge Riverside is £150 for 3 nights if you book 3 separate nights through their £19 promo. Will post others I find.

Driving: If you have a drivers licence but no car/insurance and fancy it, http://www.enterprise.co.uk have a weekend deal where you hire a car from Fri to Mon and get it pretty cheap - £35 for the smallest car for 3 days plus if you want it Thursday to Tuesday, they take a little bit more off the standard rate. All they do for cover is take £200 off you which gets refunded when you return the car provided there's no damage.

Flying: Obv airport is EMA.

i'm going to sort trains out soon - anyone else travelling up from london who fancies a pre-train drink or 4 give me a shout and we'll co-ordinate

As I understand it Friday is the pre blonde bash drinking session and there is sufficient time to drinky drinky that nobody is inhibited in the having of a good time by any lack of intoxication. You want to have some pre pre drinks? Are you sure this is a good idea?

Aee you really envisaging a scenario where you are gigging it up in some Nottingham nightclub in the early hours of Saturday morning rueing your relative sobriety and cursing all the gods of the parthenon that you didn't have half a bottle of gin before you got on the train?

I'm always inhibited by lack of intoxication. But there's no such thing as pre pre drinks...its an all day session.

Pre-drinking drinks are a MUST!  Just sayin.......

Fair enough, I'm an amateur here. Just wonderin like

It's ok.  We'll be gentle with the amateurs...mostly.   rotflmfao

I've given up trying to think of a detailed reply to this. I'm going to just settle with.....



shush

 :D

I'm just jealous tbh

And you're not gonna be there because?

factors

may I refer you to the link I posted earlier (possibly in another thread, cba to look) reporting on the last pre bash friday in nottingham

I believe the first paragraph (again cba to check) refers to pre drink drinks and that ended in a somewhat marv weekend so nerrrr

I might just get a train down to London just to join in the pre blonde bash drinks!

Will see you in the pub at St Pancras again then, I presume?

not me I'm afraid. think I'm gonna fly into luton the day before and either fly or train it from there, won't be going near london

oh year, forgot you'd buggered off again. Not seriously considering flying from Luton to East Mids though, surely?!

not really put much thought into it tbh. train is probably favourite

No flights direct to EMA?

not that I know of. coming from kiev and think the choice is london or luton

sharplee can you find me some flights or trains pls

from aberdeen or inverness

flights from aberdeen are on one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAe_Jetstream_41 - direct and cost £180.

trains are cheaper, but longer (7-8hrs including changes), how much time do you need for changes?

There's nothing flight wise from Inverness without a change or 2.

they cant take me on the jetstream

train changes only need a few minutes depending on distance between platforms

trying to work out the best way to fly into brum or luton

Iron Il come and pick u up in my van!

it would be cheaper and quicker by train than to pay for all that petrol fck sake 1000+ miles of petrol would kill the enviorment aswell

just booked my train tickets - £20.25 was cheapest I could get.  Anyone else training it up from London deffo use the eastcoast website - worked out quite a few quid cheaper than the trainline.

Yah, I added a bit more to cover tube. Those tickets dont cover tube i think.

Are you sure that's a good idea? I refer to your birthday!

Oh, and I've booked the holiday inn, Friday-Monday.

as long as I refrain from mixing red wine and vodka and shots and jaegerbombs and champagne I should be ok ;D

FML - she hasn't even had a drink yet and she's already repeating herself.

TUT....this is awful not being able to book anywhere...

lol - when I tried to make the post last night it didn't appear, so I tried to make it again, and it didn't appear. Then blonde crashed.  Guess they got lost on the server or something.  Now I'm sure I just tried to post this a few minutes ago but it's not appeared again, so if this comes up twice it's not my fault :D

You talking about a hotel Mo?  I booked Hol Inn an hour ago, rooms still avail there

no i meant dare not book till we know op date...

gawd yeah, soz Mo, forgot about that. Fingers crossed for you x

np ..xx

Have I got the right hotel, is it Castle Marina? If it is then it looks like its fully booked. Any other suggestions?

Don't know if days inn still has availability Suz - details of deal earlier in the thread

Days Inn is full too. Ok I will just find somewhere near the train station.

does anyone know where I booked? I paid for a room but have no idea where

lmfao

 rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao ;applause; ;tightend;

Im surprised at ths Suz, I only booked yesterday and there was a choice of rooms avail.  You sure yr calling the right place?  Call straight through to reception and ask if Jo is working, she'll sort you out.

make your mind up Mich - you were at Holiday Inn a page ago ;D

Shirley at the Holiday Inn just booked me in from Friday to Monday no hassle.  Get on the phone to them. 

and ty Ger!  xx

And flights just booked too.  It's official kids.  No turning back now.  Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!

cheers, pm sent. this really is a helpful forum

LOL, Days and Holiday look completely different yet I still read it as Holiday Inn ... eye test due methinks

im half way into building a cheap hotel site, once its finished i will post the site address and hope you all book your hotels with me

few deals i have found are

Comfort Hotel Nottingham £34  http://www.hotelscombined.com/Hotel/Comfort_Hotel_Nottingham.htm?a_aid=20228

Nottingham Gateway Hotel £34  http://www.hotelscombined.com/Hotel/Nottingham_Gateway_Hotel.htm?a_aid=20228

i have stayed at the Gateway with work and its a really nice hotel and not to far from DTD

Have changed my booking from Castle Marina to Gateway as it was a lot cheaper and Dunk's not going anymore to room with the muppet.Anyone else staying there ? The saving will come in handy since I've just paid out for a new PC plus a holiday and then the spending money for this.

odd definition of 'really nice' imo

GREAT!!!!!

They've already took payment as it was on a deal for early payment does this mean I can't cancel in advance it doesn't say this is the case but seems strange they've already took payment,is it bad Claire ? Not that fussy as it's just a bed and I'll be mortal for the whole time I spend in the room but still if it's dirty then I don't want to stay there.

no it's not awful mond - fine for somewhere to kip - but it's not 'really nice' either.  just looked very tired from what i can remember from the one time i stayed there.

just looked it up on trip advisor - mixed reviews - http://www.tripadvisor.com/Search?q=gateway+nottingham&geo=&returnTo=__2F__&hid=244802&verbose=&hur=&o=10&ssrc=u&exc=n

Yeah I checked out trip advisor just there.Meh wtf I'll probably end up asleep in some field anyway so will just leave it and see.

Theres a space in the back of my van ;)

Never stopped there but the restaurant and function rooms are okay, cant imagine the rooms being bad.

Cheer,will be adequate for me I'd reckon

Did Gatso ever figure out where he's booked in?

maybe we should have a competition to see who can find out first? 

sigh don't spoil my plans to get a free room!!

a competition would be good, it'll save me having to figure it out. whoever gets it right can have my blonde baseball cap when tighty sends me it

go on girgles - we'll let you ring round first so you can nab the free baseball cap

baseball cap?

Er, right. Will you accept a pint in lieu?

july will be the 4th anniversary of me being owed that baseball cap so I doubt you're directly responsible for it

might have to rethink the prize now I'm being offerred a pint. I can't give that away

lol snoops was in charge of hats.

I think I have two (one is a pre logo colllectors item) although I won about four.

yeah, that's how I know when the anniversary is, I've still got the pm from snoops about the hat

If anyone is looking for a bargain this looks like a good deal. Apartments, 2 bed with lounge, 4 people can stay for £106.50 each in total for 3 nights. You can also get 1 bed places too. http://www.citybaseapartments.com/uk/nottingham/premier-apartments-nottingham.php

Holiday Inn is full.
Can anyone suggest another nearby hotel plz?
Thanks, Drainy.

Have you rang them direct sometimes the website says full but the desk can help.

Drainful, the website said full on Thursday but there were rooms available over the phone

Laterooms have a few rooms in various hotels in the city centre as well - Britannia is the one off the top of my head.

www.travelsupermarket.com - loads of nearby hotels still available

Fairhaven Guest House £60.00 inc brekkie Twin Room 2 miles from DTD.................

I don't have a twin :(

www.booking.com were good today. Booked Best Western for £90 for 2 nights inc breakfast.

Don't suppose any female needs a someone to share with do they?

Girgy would probably share with you Soph :)

Confirmed!

Female!

do my moobs count?

No :) I've found somewhere now anyway

I reraise a pair of sunglasses I was promised errrrrr a long time ago for knocking out some Irish player called Dan? LOL

The sunglasses existed and couldn't be given away!  :D

me and john are staying at there, the westminster?? is that right?? hope its ok there, anyone know?

i've stayed there before - it's fine

Bit of a rush job for me this and it seems most places are booked up, was looking at Wellbeck hotel for Saturday night and wondered if anybody has any info as to suitabilty ie. close to DTD

Thanks 

I_LIIIIKE

It's in the centre of town so good for nights out. DTD about 5 minute taxi away.

Thank you very kindly, hotel booked see you saturday and good luck all who play :-)

Long shot but has anyone got a twin room booked in the Holiday inn CM Sat/Sun and would swap for a double,hotel says it's chocka.

Just sleep top and tail.

0 hotels rooms left for saturday night ffs now im 11 miles away

Im just driving down sat mate and not staying over!

Just booked Nottingham Riverside Travelodge at 11am Saturday - still rooms available!