European collector meeting: Eurocon 2005

[j_eits]

Will take place in the lovely town of Bochum in the centre of the Ruhrvalley September 30th to October 2nd 2005.

Check out: http://www.gamereset.de/eurocon2005 for more informations!

[lurpak]

nice choice of carts for your intro page.

please can you send me details for exibiting ?

[anagrama]

Hmm, might be worth a look. I got banned from the CGE-UK forum purely for asking if they were linked to the real CGE, so certainly won't be bothering with them.

[Speedy_NES]

Hmm, might be worth a look. I got banned from the CGE-UK forum purely for asking if they were linked to the real CGE, so certainly won't be bothering with them.

I just saw that post of yours on their forum, that is really pathetic that they ban you for that.

As for Eurocon 2005, I'm also considering going. I live relatively close to that part of Germany, so that's an added benefit

I'll probably know in a week or two whether or not I will be able to go.

-Speedy

[anagrama]

Yeah, they edited the post aswell - it originally also said "or did you just steal the name?". Anyway, I don't want to side-track this thread so I'll leave that.

Any idea if there are budget airlines that fly to anywhere near Eurocon?

[j_eits]

nice choice of carts for your intro page.
please can you send me details for exibiting ?

In general EuroCon is more a meeting than an exhibition. If you want to join EuroCon it'll cost you 20 Euro for the three days. The 20 Euro include money for the meeting-room, entrence fee for the trading session, some food on Friday, coffee and water for the weekend and prizes for the competitions,... If you have something special for exhibiting, you're very welcome to bring it with you and show it to the other attendees.

You can book the hotel through us for 32 Euro per night in a double-room incl. breakfest or search a hotel on your own.

Last year's EuroCon was in Scheveningen (NL) and you can also check out that homepage to get more infos about what EuroCon is like: http://www.eurocon.info

If anybody is interested in joining EuroCon use the contact section on our homepage: http://www.gamereset.de/eurocon2005

Hope to see you all!

[j_eits]

Any idea if there are budget airlines that fly to anywhere near Eurocon?

Bochum has no airport, but there are several airports within a 100 km range.

Ryanair flies to Weeze but they call it Dusseldorf. It takes about 1 1/2 h to go from Weeze to Bochum by train. I couldn't find any infos how far the airport is away from the train station.

The other airports are Dortmund, Cologne, Dusseldorf (the one in Dusseldorf) and Munster.

[AtariBuff]

Man, I would love to come this year (was there in The Hague last year with my austrian buddies) but someone else booked the weekend

I wish you all to have a good time

BTW we make a small "AustroCon" at my home in August so I have a bit of a con this year

[anagrama]

Hmm, just had a quick look and Hapag-Lloyd Express fly from Newcastle-Cologne. Might be worth looking into...

[Speedy_NES]

Any idea if there are budget airlines that fly to anywhere near Eurocon?

Easyjet flies from Luton to Dortmund (http://www.easyjet.com/EN/Planning/D...ion/index.html), which is really close to Bochum. You can use www.map24.de to find out how to get to Bochum from Dortmund.

-Speedy

[Speedy_NES]

In general EuroCon is more a meeting than an exhibition. If you want to join EuroCon it'll cost you 20 Euro for the three days. The 20 Euro include money for the meeting-room, entrence fee for the trading session, some food on Friday, coffee and water for the weekend and prizes for the competitions,... If you have something special for exhibiting, you're very welcome to bring it with you and show it to the other attendees.

Do you have a more detailed program/agenda for Eurocon 2005 that I could take a look at?

You can book the hotel through us for 32 Euro per night in a double-room incl. breakfest or search a hotel on your own.

Is this 32 euro per person or per 2-person room?

Thanks,

-Speedy

[j_eits]

Do you have a more detailed program/agenda for Eurocon 2005 that I could take a look at?

Unfortunately not now. We had some trouble finding a cheap hotel with a good room for the meeting and are behind our schedule right now. But expect somthing like the program for Eurocon 2004. (I've posted the link above.)

We formed a local organisation group and we'll meet next Wednesday and will decide about the detailed program. If you want to join EuroCon and want to see a special event happen there, just let us know.

Is this 32 euro per person or per 2-person room?

It's per person. We are also working on a single room option, but that'll take a while.

By the way, I've searched my links and found two pages with nice pics from last years EuroCon:
http://www.mr-atari.com/eurocon2004.htm
http://www.mayhem64.co.uk/euro2k4/euro2k4.htm

[NESaholic]

Damn i wish i had a car, i live in Leiden and have to go by train IF i want to go.
If anyone could pick me up near the boarder i would go,anyone?

[j_eits]

Damn i wish i had a car, i live in Leiden and have to go by train IF i want to go.
If anyone could pick me up near the boarder i would go,anyone?

Some people from The Netherlands already signed for EuroCon. I can ask in the next mail if someone can pick you up near the boarder or somewhere else.

How can they contact you if so?

[NESaholic]

Damn i wish i had a car, i live in Leiden and have to go by train IF i want to go.
If anyone could pick me up near the boarder i would go,anyone?

Some people from The Netherlands already signed for EuroCon. I can ask in the next mail if someone can pick you up near the boarder or somewhere else.

How can they contact you if so?

Cool thanx man,i sent you a pm.

[j_eits]

We've added a very first version of the program for EuroCon 2005 to our homepage. You can now also find some more travelling informations and links to the regional airports there.

Jens

[NESaholic]

Looks great,i am still waiting on some people to gimme a yes.A friend of mine who has his own gameshop would love to go but just got married and is on honeymoon at the moment and he won't be back till end of july.There's still Speedy_NES but i have to see if he goes.

Edit:I told a good friend about this event and he's joining me, now i won't have to travel by myself so that problems out of the way!

[Mayhem]

Finally uploaded some pics from the event

http://www.mayhem64.co.uk/euro2k5/euro2k5.htm

[slapdash]

I knew Steve was tall, but how tall? It's hard for me to judge how high that doorway might be...

[Mayhem]

He's 7'2" btw (the door frame I believe was 6'6").