Ahh, the justification for squandering my money has never been so great.
Cool guests!

Here is the long awaited information on how to book your hotel room for Valhalla!

It is down to you, the attendee, to book the hotel yourself.

To do this you must ring the Reservations No 0161 234 6094 at the Jarvis Piccadilly Hotel, Manchester and QUOTE "Sector 14" to qualify for your discounted room rate.

Room rates are as follows:-

£69.00 per night per room Single Occupancy

£79.00 per night per room Double/Twin Occupancy

£95.00 per night per room Triple Occupancy

Room rates are inclusive of breakfast.

The hotel requires a credit card number at the time of booking in order to guarantee your room. Nothing will be charged to your card for the time being.

Please note should you need to cancel or amend your room booking (as we all know occupants can change) there is no charge up until 12.00 on the day of arrival.

Hope this helps!

Another Guest Announcement

Taken from the Sector 14 Mailing List:-

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Thus far we have announced:

DB Woodside (1st UK appearance)
Mark Metcalf (1st UK appearance)
Penny Johnson Jerald

We've just had confirmation of our fourth guest. I was asked early on if this was a Buffy con, a 24 con, or whatever. I said our intentions were to go largely Buffy, but if someone good from another show asked to come along, I wouldn't turn them away. That's what has just happened.

It is my great pleasure to announce CARLOS BERNARD, who plays Tony Almeida in 24. This will mark his first U.K. convention (I think it will be his first ever, but am not 100% certain of that).

I know 24 fans will be happy with this announcement. Buffy fans, never fear - we are still hoping to announce someone else from the Whedonverse.

Stuart

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Update from the Sector 14 Mailing list:-

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1) first : what are those early bird booking prices mentionned above ? Is it the £60 W-E ticket ?

Yes, that's the price of the "early bird tickets"

Then what will be the price after ?

Most likely either £65 or £70 depending on additional guest announcements (if we get a guest who costs a lot, but we think is worth getting, then we'll go £70)

And when is the deadline ?

Since we've only just announced Carlos, we extended the deadline to around the middle of next week. Around the 2nd of June, the price will raise (although we PROBABLY won't be hard nosed if a cheque arrives for the lesser amount on the 3rd, given the state of the British Post service.

2) I'm not new with the conventions but I am with those organized by sector 14, so how many guests can we expect? (more or less of course, I know it depends on ppportunities, work commitments and blablabla)

A lot depends on cost of guests - one big name can cost the same as two or three smaller names combined. We are hoping for at least one more. However we might go with more, if ticket sales are good enough - if people want to see more guests they need to support by booking early, so that we know we can afford to take a larger financial committment.

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So if you are thinking of booking at the lower price best get in there quick

Sent my form in yesterday 1st class

Hot off the Sector 14 Mailing List:-

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The worst thing about running an event at short notice is getting the word out to people, especially when you've been relatively inactive for a while. So after some discussion, the organisers of Valhalla have decided to offer a kind of incentive scheme to people attending, to get them to spread the word as far and wide as they can (but no posting to groups which don't allow such posts).

Refer a friend

Until the end of June 2004 we are running a "Refer a Friend" promotion. In order to participate you must have referred at least FOUR people to book a weekend adult ticket for Valhalla - from person number FOUR you get a £10 bonus - this can be used as either £10 back off your own registration fee or an autograph from the guests attending.

Example:-

Joe Bloggs refers Person 1 (Joe Bloggs him or herself), Person 2, Person 3 & Person 4. Joe Bloggs would then receive a £10 bonus for Person 4. But.... it will continue for Person 5, Person 6, Person 7 so in effect you the referrer will get a discount of £10 for each and every adult ticket booked from person 4 onwards......

This is a great way of either a) reducing the cost of your own ticket or b) getting extra autographs at the event for free......

Spread the word, refer your friends....

And if you've already booked, fear not - we will back date this for those who've already shown their support. If you've already booked two, three or four tickets when you called or wrote to us, then you have got that many referrals to your name.

You MUST say at the time of booking who referred you!

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[cheeky]Right so if my calculations are correct, to be interested in this I need at least 11 people to say hubby & I have referred them to breeze the £80 for 2 day tickets or 15 people so we do weekend tickets [/cheeky]

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by Samphirette
[cheeky]Right so if my calculations are correct, to be interested in this I need at least 11 people to say hubby & I have referred them to breeze the £80 for 2 day tickets or 15 people so we do weekend tickets [/cheeky]

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First off YOU have to book your registration in order to participate. You can't just refer people and not book yourself.

So to qualify for a refund on two weekend reg tickets you would need to do the following:-

From the fourth person that that says you have referred them you qualify for £10 bonus - therefore you need to find 15 people to book.

If you're looking at day tickets it'll be double that amount as we count day registrations as half a weekend ticket or something to that effect anyway - Stuart will be the one to best answer that one.

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by Jola
(quotes)First off YOU have to book your registration in order to participate. You can't just refer people and not book yourself.

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Aha, but *that* doesn't appear clear in the first bit as it makes it sound like you don't have to book for the offer(unless you already have)

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And if you've already booked, fear not - we will back date this for those who've already shown their support.

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So to qualify for a refund on two weekend reg tickets you would need to do the following:-From the fourth person that that says you have referred them you qualify for £10 bonus - therefore you need to find 15 people to book.

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Well my calculation works then

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If you're looking at day tickets it'll be double

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ummmm don't follow *that* calculation as days are £40 at the moment and weekend are £60 but it's all theoretical so I'll let you off

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by Samphirette
(quotes)ummmm don't follow *that* calculation as days are £40 at the moment and weekend are £60 but it's all theoretical so I'll let you off

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Ignore that idea - the promotion is only for adult weekend tickets as per the guidelines that have been agreed by the committee on the Sector 14 mailing mailing list. Don't shoot the messenger

I was only playing - but perhaps it should be clarified to people out there who make think they can use it on day tickets

It's on the Sector 14 Yahoo Group

The Fancy Dress Themes have been set as:-

Afterlife (eg - mummies, vampires, gods & goddesses etc)

Comic Book

Fairy Tale

Nothing set on any particular night yet - watch this space......

Not sure if it really helps anyone who's going, but Premier Lodge have a halfprice room offer on some of the lodges at the moment which covers through until the end of August (for Fri-Sun nights only)

It seems that Manchester is included in the deal (bringing some of the rooms down to £ 26 a night)

However, I'm not sure how close the City Centre and GMEX locations are, so I suspect a taxi/bus ride might be in order.

Premier Lodge Offer

Chhers Sam the Gmex1 looks pretty close and half the price for a single.

(Edited by JtB 08/06/2004 22:43)

Glad it helped, have fun

Don't forget about the refer a friend promotion - people have been actively referring people and spreading the word - in fact we already have one person who qualifies for a refund of their reg fee Only a couple more weeks to go before the offer ends.

From the mailing list:-

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Just a reminder to you all - if you require a room at the Jarvis Piccadilly in Manchester for the Valhalla event, you MUST book this directly yourself by 23rd June to qualify for the convention rate.

After this date, the hotel will release any rooms not booked. You can still book after this date, but there is no guarantee that you will receive the reduced rate provided by the hotel.

Remember, the hotel will not charge you until the weekend of the event itself.

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There'a competition running to win tickets for Valhalla in association with Blackstar (now Sendit). To be in with a chance of winning Click Here. The prize also includes two nights hotel stay.

Even if you have already bought your tickets you can still enter the competition. If you win you'll have your money refunded.

shhhhuuussssh stop telling everyone *crossing fingers*