hi all
Ive got a couple of questions

1, What day is everyone thinking of setting off (so i can book my holidays with work)
2, Is everyone meeting up at the same ferry port so we can drive there as a convoy. If so what ferry port ?
3, Does anyone know what camp site there thinking of staying at ?

last year we stayed at a travelodge the night before the ferry from dover, various people convoying from around the country - then friday ferry about 8am all together

convoy through france and belgium (until they shook me off ) and arrive Spa

then drink all day and night, same again, then drive home...

Marco if you want to have a go in the beast you just have to ask .... And of course i would drive it better than Mario haha

1. Petep
2. Mario
3. Marco (Yes i will come, yes i will turn up, yes i will be there.)
4. Countrycruising
5. MrsCC
6. Knight7660
7. Chalky
8. Patch234 + family
9. Purplue monster proccy
10. Kayjey, Joke and Lene
11. Hovedan (please don't make me commit to a particular +1 now!)
12. Taffy
13. niff
14. Insy
15. cowboy
16. Theresa + passenger.
17. MCMike
18. david02
19. Magooagain + Gill
20. Coupedummy
21. mattB
22. TrevM
23. PaulH
24. Porkypaul
25. Darlo_Nick
26. Limited-edition
27. Marcouzze
28. GuyT20+
29. nost20gt28
30. Carlito
31. Johnnybravoturbo
32. MiniMetaller + Dad
33. Jeffrey2309 + Martijn
34. Smetn.be
35. ShinyShoes (i will make it this year head gasket or no head gasket!)
36. Potenza - AFL
37. Freerider
38. Regis T20
39. Pascal 20vt
40. MP750
41 Lot20
42. Olivier20vt
43. SEB20VT
44. Katre
45. Carlo + Passenger (mariocirillo cousin - Lancia Evo1)
46. Howardmagoo + passenger
47. Jimboulle T20
48. Nono02
49. Ed-bracame
50. Stefano Cirillo (mariocirillo brother - Alfa Brera)
51. Choco T20
52. Guiguitouch Seicento Turbo
53. TDPRS
54. Mayzon

when must the full payment be made by latest? (have paid deposit)

I will publish the final date as soon as I have details of the additional open sessions from the organisers which participants may wish to purchase through the club.

I'm not expecting to have those until Feb/March, so I expect the payment deadline will be around the beginning to middle of April.

It may have been already said on this thread. But be warned folk's that the Spa weekend fall's on a bank holiday (ascension). The French forum are saying that alot of hotels are fully booked already. They have found one with 20 double room's free for the Saturday night.
I think the idea is to find another hotel also.So using two hotels this time.
The first hotel is already posted up on the French forum and i imagine it will be put up here any day now.
In my opinion the hotel issue is becoming very important.
For what it's worth i will be camping and i understand it's not everyone's cup of tea,but i just think the hotel booking need's to be addressed asap.
I will put up a post on the French hotel thread also.

Thanks Joe,

We are almost ready to put it up here too, we still have to work out the payment details as 50% has to be paid up front.

It is an expensive 4 star hotel, double rooms will be 140€ per night and single 125€ per night, so we are also looking for 1 or 2 cheaper hotels.
Some rooms are available for Friday and Sunday nights too.

It is proving difficult because of the Ascension day holiday, and hotels in the area tend to be quite small, but we are still working on it.

When we have more details either Marcouzze or I will put them up.

This is the website of the first hotel.

http://www.hotel-de-la-source.com/en/hotel/presentation

That's definately expensive. Might have to look at alternatives.

We are.

Me and mrs marco20vt found hotels for €60 single rooms and €80 for a twin room! Over all ther are some nice hotels for good money!

Not with enough available rooms Marco. It's a little different when you try to find enough rooms for about 80 people over a public holiday.

And there are some awful crap ones too. I hope you have not booked with the Racing Hotel in Francorchamps.(unless you enjoy finding someone else's pubic hair in your bed as did one french lad 3 years ago)

I think you have sold it to him

petep Thank you for your explanation

Hotels for this period have increased their rates, so no choice, I find hotels around 100 euros per night for 2 people but there are only 10 rooms, this year there are more English than French in spa it's hard to find a hotel for everyone.

For your memory there are 60 cars and 100 people to sleep and spa area is very small and there is no more than 3 hotels to welcome us all together and they are all complete.

I work for a solution but it is not easy.

Thank you

Malmédy is not too far away, they have some not-too-small hotels.

I try to Find and no lucky

i send a mail to 11 hotels and answer was same

yes!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the discotheque!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

vive google translation

tu m'ettones!!!

translation: You amaze me!!!

whats wrong with the hotel we were at last time apart from the lift.

they remember you

Nothing except they do not have any rooms available. As above it is a public holiday weekend there.

You sure it wasn't the purple jumper ?

hotel "sol cress" is full, 0 rooms aviable

1. Petep
2. Mario
3. Marco (Yes i will come, yes i will turn up, yes i will be there.)
4. Countrycruising
5. MrsCC
6. Knight7660
7. Chalky
8. Patch234 + family
9. Purplue monster proccy
10. Kayjey, Joke and Lene
11. Hovedan (please don't make me commit to a particular +1 now!)
12. Taffy
13. niff
14. Insy
15. cowboy
16. Theresa + passenger.
17. MCMike
18. david02
19. Magooagain + Gill
20. Coupedummy
21. mattB
22. TrevM
23. PaulH
24. Porkypaul
25. Darlo_Nick
26. Limited-edition
27. Marcouzze
28. GuyT20+
29. nost20gt28
30. Carlito
31. Johnnybravoturbo
32. MiniMetaller + Dad
33. Jeffrey2309 + Martijn
34. Smetn.be
35. ShinyShoes (i will make it this year head gasket or no head gasket!)
36. Potenza - AFL
37. Freerider
38. Regis T20
39. Pascal 20vt
40. MP750
41 Lot20
42. Olivier20vt
43. SEB20VT
44. Katre
45. Carlo + Passenger (mariocirillo cousin - Lancia Evo1)
46. Howardmagoo + passenger
47. Jimboulle T20
48. Nono02
49. Ed-bracame
50. Stefano Cirillo (mariocirillo brother - Alfa Brera)
51. Choco T20
52. Guiguitouch Seicento Turbo
53. TDPRS
54. Mayzon
55. Wontsellmycoupe

so the poll we had for tunnel/vs ferry show a 9 v 5 in favour of the tunnel - are we saying we should go ahead with this option, and maybe book for mid-morning on the friday? if we do that, would people still want the night in dover the evening before?

I probably would yes, as it's a fair trek for me to do all in one hit.

My journey is about + 2 hours on top of what yours is. Cowboys is about + 3.5.

I think mattB had something like a 12 hour journey to get to Ashford last year

I say stop in ashford again.

i'm with you then - tell me when you book and i will