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UPDATED opening post due to 'rona developments and stuff; original post and preamble below.
On Friday March 3rd there will be a Distant Worlds concert in Amsterdam: https://ffdistantworlds.com/concert/dw35-amsterdam/
This is a great opportunity to organize a meetup, lie the 2017 TLS Weekender.
We'll pool our resources and get ourselves group accomodation and transport; outside of the Friday night event, we can do various activities like sit at home and play video games, do alcohol and drugs and eat filth. Or we can do other touristy shit, I guess, hmph.
just kidding.
Some other activities we can do during the weekender are tours of e.g. Amsterdam, and there's a national video game museum that could be a great day's out.
Accommodation, I'm hoping we can get a decent group together so we can get a group accommodation to ourselves (like a chalet); personally I've grown out of sharing bunk beds and accommodations with strangers so something with smaller rooms and privacy and shit would be ideal. There are plenty of bungalow / chalet parks around for example, and other group accommodations like that. That said, I don't expect to actually stay in Amsterdam itself, it would be a bit gash imo. Organizing your own accommodations is also an option, of course. I'll set up a sign-up again at some point soonish to get a rough gaugue how many people we need to book something for, ideally we get something with a bit of flexibility.
Travel wise, it's probably best to arrive on Thursday 2nd; arriving on the day itself can also work, but then it's best to arrive early. Departure then on the Sunday or Monday; personally I'd lean to monday because maximizing time, and I'm fairly sure travel is cheaper on mondays. But please let me know your own preference.
Anyway that would be accommodation for four nights.
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ORIGINAL POAST:
In2018 2017, Mage organized the TLS Weekender; we managed to get a good amount of people together for a fun, casual weekend, catching up and hanging out and drinking all the things and all that.
We'd like to organize an event like that again. This time around, I'd like to organize it in the Netherlands (given that that's where we live now, lol). I've googled around a while ago and there's plenty of accommodations that could host a group of any size, and at a wide range of cost as well.
One uncertainty is that probably by the end of this month, the UK will leave the EU; at this point it's uncertain what traveling from the UK to NL will be like. Personally I expect it shouldn't be a problem, but still.
You'll also likely need a passport and all that to travel here.
We do plan on hiring a van again like last time, so transport from within NL or within the airport shouldn't be a problem, or from our accommodations to any activities.
Re: activities, there's a billion options there; feel free to spew ideas here. I mean we can go to Amsterdam if you really want to, personally I think it's a bit naff but hey. We've got a wide range of locations to go, activities to do, at all price points.
I don't know yet where exactly we'll end up, it depends on a number of factors including but not limited to: number of participants, available budgets, requested anemities, etc etc etc. I'll look up a list of accommodations once I've got more information on participants and budgets etc.
On budgets, I think we can come to an arrangement where we can share some of the financial burdens; if anything you won't have to worry about not being fed or getting about in the country.
I've made a poll to gauge interest and get some information; please only fill it in if you have the intention of coming. I'll do another more definitive signup later on.
Please fill in the form at https://forms.gle/ThrG2rd2p6pBggU6A. Feel free to ask questions or put in suggestions and / or wishes in this thread as well!
UPDATED opening post due to 'rona developments and stuff; original post and preamble below.
On Friday March 3rd there will be a Distant Worlds concert in Amsterdam: https://ffdistantworlds.com/concert/dw35-amsterdam/
This is a great opportunity to organize a meetup, lie the 2017 TLS Weekender.
We'll pool our resources and get ourselves group accomodation and transport; outside of the Friday night event, we can do various activities like sit at home and play video games, do alcohol and drugs and eat filth. Or we can do other touristy shit, I guess, hmph.
just kidding.Some other activities we can do during the weekender are tours of e.g. Amsterdam, and there's a national video game museum that could be a great day's out.
Accommodation, I'm hoping we can get a decent group together so we can get a group accommodation to ourselves (like a chalet); personally I've grown out of sharing bunk beds and accommodations with strangers so something with smaller rooms and privacy and shit would be ideal. There are plenty of bungalow / chalet parks around for example, and other group accommodations like that. That said, I don't expect to actually stay in Amsterdam itself, it would be a bit gash imo. Organizing your own accommodations is also an option, of course. I'll set up a sign-up again at some point soonish to get a rough gaugue how many people we need to book something for, ideally we get something with a bit of flexibility.
Travel wise, it's probably best to arrive on Thursday 2nd; arriving on the day itself can also work, but then it's best to arrive early. Departure then on the Sunday or Monday; personally I'd lean to monday because maximizing time, and I'm fairly sure travel is cheaper on mondays. But please let me know your own preference.
Anyway that would be accommodation for four nights.
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ORIGINAL POAST:
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We'd like to organize an event like that again. This time around, I'd like to organize it in the Netherlands (given that that's where we live now, lol). I've googled around a while ago and there's plenty of accommodations that could host a group of any size, and at a wide range of cost as well.
One uncertainty is that probably by the end of this month, the UK will leave the EU; at this point it's uncertain what traveling from the UK to NL will be like. Personally I expect it shouldn't be a problem, but still.
You'll also likely need a passport and all that to travel here.
We do plan on hiring a van again like last time, so transport from within NL or within the airport shouldn't be a problem, or from our accommodations to any activities.
Re: activities, there's a billion options there; feel free to spew ideas here. I mean we can go to Amsterdam if you really want to, personally I think it's a bit naff but hey
. We've got a wide range of locations to go, activities to do, at all price points.I don't know yet where exactly we'll end up, it depends on a number of factors including but not limited to: number of participants, available budgets, requested anemities, etc etc etc. I'll look up a list of accommodations once I've got more information on participants and budgets etc.
On budgets, I think we can come to an arrangement where we can share some of the financial burdens; if anything you won't have to worry about not being fed or getting about in the country.
I've made a poll to gauge interest and get some information; please only fill it in if you have the intention of coming. I'll do another more definitive signup later on.
Please fill in the form at https://forms.gle/ThrG2rd2p6pBggU6A. Feel free to ask questions or put in suggestions and / or wishes in this thread as well!
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. 3 votes for late May and summer holidays though. IDK what to do with this, lol 
