Subject:
|
Re: Frank's big BricksWest adventure
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.events
|
Date:
|
Sun, 24 Feb 2002 18:06:24 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
401 times
|
| |
|
|
"Christopher Weeks" <clweeks@eclipse.net> writes:
> Many national events are held in the Midwest because it's so cheap
> to organize accomodations. I'll be at a ten day event with >200
> people in April in Columbus and our rooms are $79 per night. That
> beats the snot out of $150.
>
> I'd love to see an event in Chicago or St. Louis. Those locations
> are so central (the geographic center of the US is ~50 miles SW of
> STL) that it's easy for most people (in North America) to travel
> there.
A midwest convention is going to involve a lot of people flying in
from the coasts, since it seems that most of the active AFOLs on
Lugnet are on either the east or west coast. So I think proximity to
major airports should be a very high priority, and they don't get more
major than Chicago. You can get a cheap nonstop to Chicago from just
about anywhere. (Nonstops are important, because when transporting
LEGO models, the less time your bags spend at the mercy of baggage
handlers, the better.)
For reasons of weather and spreading the events around the calendar,
autumn is probably the best time of year for a midwest convention.
> But I guess the largest consideration is someone local to be the
> driving force that makes it happen.
Exactly... That's the biggest thing.
--Bill.
--
William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Frank's big BricksWest adventure
|
| (...) That stuff gets carryon. Give your clothes to the baggage handlers. I'm not keen on Chicago because hotel space is pricey. I'd stump for CVG or MSP or DTW (all midwest hubs) before ORD as space is less expensive in Cincinnati, Minneapolis or (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.events)
|
12 Messages in This Thread:
  
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
