2014 DWcon Manchester - The Grand Exhibition!

[Jan Van Quirm]

Just had confirmation on my room booking

Me too - have blown £500 on this already (metaphorically anyway) Bookings always tend to start to ease off after the 1st release but I think with this being a smaller hotel than usual people have been twitchy about getting their bookings in early so there's bound to be drop off soon I should think as I recognise a load of regular names in there and there's only so many die-hard convention fans after all.

Ridiculously excited already

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Just checked DWCon in the first half of the day and now over 500 memberships sold, that will be half of the limit if we go by the last one before cutoff.

posted this on my phone so I've edited it.

 

[Bouncy Castle]

He's a bit popular, this Terry bloke, innit?

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Just a bit mush.

 

[Square12]

Next thing you know there'll be whole forums dedicated to him.

 

[Bouncy Castle]

Nah. Can't see that happening.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

I would not be too sure though.

 

[Jan Van Quirm]

I think with the Palace and and Holiday Inn Express there's going to be a combined room capacity similar to the Hilton - and there's tons of other places to stay in central Manchester that people on a tight budget can opt for, so perhaps they're going to allow more than the usual 1000 registrations (although that's the max capacity in the biggest event room at the Palace, so maybe that's the limit anyway?)

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

I remember them saying at one of the cons it came down to heath & safety regs and the amount of people in one place.

 

[The Mad Collector]

I doubt they will go beyond 1,000, last year was a bit less than 900 if I remember correctly. I also have my room at the Palace confirmed and may well go for a re-appearance of the vampire outfit as a frock coat and hat would fit a Victorian look although you can never go wrong with a wizard outfit and it was rather good to be worn only once. :think:

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Mad, there were quite a few people left without a ticket that wanted one, they closed the waiting list because they could not fulfill the ticket demands.

edited to add: the total memberships sold was 950.
8th 2012 24–27 August Birmingham, UK The Eighnnnnnnn Discworld Convention Sir Terry Pratchett Colin Smythe, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Rob Wilkins, Lionel Fanthorpe, Stephen Baxter, Bernard Pearson, Jaqueline Simpson, Stephen Briggs, Ian Mitchell 950
editing the edit: they have sold more in two days the 2012 sold in a month, some more stats below.

http://2012.dwcon.org/blog/2012/03/19/playing-numbers

 

[Molokov]

We've grabbed a supporting membership (and a hotel room at the Holiday Inn) but aren't sure if we can make the trek from Oz across just yet. Now it's just a matter of saving up money and holiday time so we can afford to go

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Good Idea because you will be able to convert. :handgestures-thumbup:

 

[Bouncy Castle]

To what? Offlerism?

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

That 2

 

[Jan Van Quirm]

Supporting registration is basically a membership ticket reservation deal, pegged to the date of purchase so you get the discount (if any) that applies if you do decide you'll be able to go

Supporting membership includes subscription to all electronic or paper updates prior to the event, but not attendance at the event. Supporting membership may be converted to full membership at any time, at the applicable rate (full or concessionary) on the initial date of purchase. Think of it as a means of reserving a place if you are not sure if you will be able to attend.

They've thought of everything!

 

[Molokov]

That is our cunning plan. Although the fact that this morning's email says you can't book a hotel room on a supporting membership may put a crimp in it somewhat...

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

There are plenty of hotels around that area within walking distance Molokov, you may have seen the Palace hotel has now sold out.

 

[Jan Van Quirm]

Link to the news page re the Palace hotel bookings - http://dwcon.org/news/2013/05/08/palace ... y-assigned

I don't whether it was a good thing or not that they didn't say how many rooms were available to book there - it looks like it's made people v. twitchy about getting in early and I see the memberlist is already on A600 (A membership runs from A101 numerically) but G/C1-100 are guests and the committee and that goes up to 58, so that's almost 600 people already signed up... This one's going to be pretty well supported by the looks.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Jan I believe they have the full hotel apart from airline staff bookings.