LAN thoughts

[smilodon]

The LAN venue we charge at £15 per person for the whole weekend.
Other costs: Food and drink - this depends on you. Personally I eat my meals (Fri lunch through to Sunday lunch) in the hotel's fine restaurant, I have a bottle of wine with each meal and my food and drink bill usually comes to about £160 for the weekend. Others buy sandwiches, get burgers etc, stick to beer not wine etc and and their bill runs to maybe £50-60 for the weekend depending on what and how much they eat & drink.

Please be aware that this does NOT include bread rolls which considering the  baked goods orgy at the last LAN would increase the amount mentioned from £160 to £260 if they were actually paid for.

[BigFatCat]

That's only Pen, so he can leer at the waiting staff's arses. Sometimes even the female ones.

[Penfold]

Children, children.

Bread and games (panem et circensis)....... that's all you need in life. Kept the Roman Empire going for a good few hundred years.  :narnar:

PEN

[BigFatCat]

So, apart from bread rolls,what have the Romans done for us?

[DuVeL]

Well, I liked the series.
 
And sewersystems and some other technical stuff...

[delankster]

ok , apart from bread rolls, roads, sewer systems and "other technical stuff" what have the romans ever done for us ?

[DuVeL]

ok , apart from bread rolls, roads, sewer systems and "other technical stuff" what have the romans ever done for us ?

You'll like this;
Monty Python; Life of Brian - What have the Romans done. :flirty:

[Gone_Away]

This Is Sparta!!!

[BigFatCat]

No, I'm Spartacus:ranting2:

[Doorman]

No, I'm Spartacus:ranting2:

That's right. He's Spartacus Mr. Centurion. :norty: Me? I love Romans

[Jabbs]

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"Veni, Vidi, Vici"

"I came, I saw, I conquered"

That was Pen and the waiting staff last LAN - come to your own conclusions what that means :narnar:

[delanvital]

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"Veni, Vidi, Vici"

"I came, I saw, I conquered"That was Pen and the waiting staff last LAN - come to your own conclusions what that means :narnar:

  I saw, I conquered, I came? :wink:

[Jabbs]

I saw, I conquered, I came? :wink:

Ah yeah you're right Delan - I got it the wrong way round! :roflmao:

[GhostMjr]

Back on topic, how about cheaper steaks than last year .

[Penfold]

There is a problem here.

We have a cracking deal for the hotel which includes:

1. Pretty much half price room rates
2. FREE use of the Conference room for 3 days (Should be £500+ per day)
3. FREE extended bar opening hours.

If we lose this venue, then the cost of the LAN will double, triple or more to cover the extra costs.

The £15 is totally given over to support LAN server funds. Look at any other LAN and look at the prices. Think about the fact that 100% of those £15's go on equipment for YOUR community.

We NEED the hotel get sufficient income or else they will just pull the plug. It's not even debatable.

Dinner aside, many people can't even be bothered to buy anything from the bar and bring in their own beer by the case. They're not stupid, they come into the room and pick up the glasses. The see it happening and they let it go. How many venues can you think would let you do that?

Financial constraints or not - people take the **** and it is left to a core of people to subsidise their behaviour. That's way you'll see the same people eating in the restaurants both nights. That's why our bar bills are normally £130+. We have to cover those people who don't contribute to the bar or the hotel to make it acceptable to them.

Why don't we do it another way and say the LAN is £40 and you get a free dinner on the Friday night? Why don't we ban people bringing in their own beer? We want people to come and have fun but they, in turn, have got to contribute back.

If we have to move venues because of the people whinging about the dinner and not buying at the bar then the costs will dramtaically increase. We get a cracking deal and frankly I don't think it's too much to ask people to contribute.

Yes, I know people have different budgets and I know people have expensive travel costs and yes I know it's not a cheap weekend. It's a helluva lot cheaper than the alternatives.

The LAN admin committee have some decisions to make because we can't continue in the same vein. If people aren't prepared to make it a success for both us and the hotel we will just lost the venue - plain and simple.

They don't need our business. Booking months and months in advance, we struggle to find dates to book the LAN (hence the Halloween weekend). Since Rob took over, they've upped their game and are more and more successful. They don't take bookings for the restuarant on the Friday night and Lunch in the Conference room because of us - that's a lot of covers to lose.

We're not particularly profitable and we NEED people to eat in the restaurant on the Friday night.

You're intelligent - you do the math.

PEN