LAN XII Dates

[Dr Sadako]

Me and Delan are looking into the possibility to drive all the way to UK. It is a 13 hour drive from south Sweden through Denmark. Anyone know how easy/difficult it is to take the car across from France to UK?
 
Driving enables us to bring our own rigs to the LAN. It is 2600 km return trip which makes it economically ok as well.

[Eternaluk]

Anyone know how easy/difficult it is to take the car across from France to UK?

It's pretty easy, just catch a ferry to London, or something. I can't remember excatly where the ferry comes/goes from/to France though.

[BigFatCat]

Dover-Calais/Dunkirk is the most obvious, or Rotterdam/Zeebrugge-Hull? Always the Chunnel too. Fancy Esbjerg-Harwich or Stavanger-Newcastle?

[Dr Sadako]

Dover-Calais/Dunkirk is the most obvious, or Rotterdam/Zeebrugge-Hull? Always the Chunnel too. Fancy Esbjerg-Harwich or Stavanger-Newcastle?

We are not going Esbjerg-Harwich because the ticket will be 500 Euros per person if we select cabin. Sleeping on the floor will be much cheaper of course. Ferrys in general seems quite pricey. Dover-Calais or the tunnel seem to be the best choice.

[Bob]

I can inform you all that I have now ordered my tickets for the lan, so no turning back now - I'm coming, whether you like it or not :norty:

Due to SAS's prices being outrageous for a flight at a time that would make me get to the lan in time on Friday, and Norwegian not having any flights on Fridays, I had to order a flight on Thursday on the way over there. I've been assured from several people that housing me from Thursday to Friday won't be a problem, but we can look at the details for that when we're getting a bit closer to the lan

Thursday 8th of November
NORWEGIAN
Trondheim - London/Stansted (DY1328)
10:20 - 11:45

Sunday 11th of November
SAS
London/Heathrow - Oslo (SK810)
17:30 - 20:40
Oslo - Trondheim (SK384)
22:30 - 23:25

For those foreigners that might be interested in something to compare with, I ended up with a total of NOK 1995,- (GBP 169,-). That is about the same as I payed las time (perhaps a bit cheaper, but not much), so I'm pretty happy.
The price with SAS for the rebound was actually NOK 376,- (GBP 31,-) just 5 days ago, so those suckers definitely change their prices quite fast :ranting2:

[TeaLeaf]

You can kip at my place if nothing closer turns up Bob.  If anyone is closer to Stansted and wants to volunteer then please post here!

TL.

[DuVeL]

I know DA lives pretty close by, maybe dropping him a PM would help?
 
Still nothing on EasyJet but I'm checking everyday.

[sheepy]

as i said on TS the other nite bob.

ur fine to crash at mine on the Thursday night m8.

I live no more than 40 mins from stanstard.

[Gorion]

sorry peeps, was planning to come but the price scared me off..
 
254 gpb :S

[Penfold]

Shame Gorion, Would have been great ot meet you:crying:

PEN

[Doorman]

sorry peeps, was planning to come but the price scared me off..
 
254 gpb :S

It's barely the price of a cheap graphics card! C'mon, you know it makes sense.

[sheepy]

cheep grafix card!!!!

Ive never spend 1/3 of that on a grafix card!

[delanvital]

cheep grafix card!!!!

Ive never spend 1/3 of that on a grafix card!

Last time was for a Voodoo2 card from Orchid Righteous. Will never spend that much again.

So instead of wasting your money on gfx you better go get a ticket to 254gbp anyway mate! The LAN is memories for life (disclaimer: unless you get too drunk or get permanent amnesia.  Contact your local doctor before consuming).

[DuVeL]

Also checking out several sites for cheapest flights can be really rewarding although I don't know alot of Malta (probably there's like Malta-Airways or such).
Don't forget hotelcosts and such btw.

[sheepy]

for some reason flights from malta to uk are more expensive than uk to malta