OK, <deep breath> if I organise it....Is anyone up for a Christmas meet-up in a hotel where we can drink, eat, dance and hear each other. It will require approx. a tenner (non-returnable if you drop out) in advance?

[Bubble99]

I'm thinking...

Function room in central London hotel (easy for everyone to get to, with rooms at hopefully a good rate, on-site)

Some food, some wine (or whatever) and a DJ.

London again

No, Because:-

(a) I live too far away and
(b) I'd have to be nice to everyone
(c)

Function room in a hotel

sounds a bit Alan Partridge

function room?????

You will be mistaken for the Rotarian Ladies' Circle.

well said moondog

(has your pmt gone?! )

But, CD, it's either that or a bar where, yes, we can dance on banquettes but we can't hear each other.

PMT??

Gah,no such thing.

Have been to an energetic step session tonight.

Fightinmg fit, me.

How's about somewhere more central than London for a change?

i think its a great idea.

i think the londoners wat sommat swanky.

thing is your not going to please everyone

thats why democracy just doesn't work int hese situations

so how about upstairs in a pub
loads have rooms

just purleeese not a function room in a hotel

We could just go the whole hog and go to a travellodge on the swindon ring road or something, razor blades free of charge.

Oh fuck off, all of you.

Shall I get this thread pulled and try again with a different phrase?

I think you should

twinkle i do believe there is a midlands one - and you can always organise one at a location of your choice whenever you want

bubble have you seen the other thread?? I promised to look at city bars/pubs as they are dead at weekend and do private hire (therefore we can set volumes) only I have been too busy.

Piss about with the trouser presses once you've got a bit tiddly on the pre-mixed G&Ts from the min bar.

Sound s like a hoot.

I'm in!

I don't want swanky

I prefer a bit scummy tbh

But a sodding hotel room with horrible burgundy carpet with fleur de lys in it and fecking shite dj and sausage rolls....

count me out!

I don't want swanky

I prefer a bit scummy tbh

But a sodding hotel room with horrible burgundy carpet with fleur de lys in it and fecking shite dj and sausage rolls....

count me out!

well a travelodge on the swindon ring road would be AWFULLY convenient for me
and I could invite certain choice mumsnetters to come and stay at peahead towers and we'd be the palazzo clique

oh yes go on go on go on

I once went to a school reunion in a Travelodge in Burnley.

Unsurprisingly it was dreadful

We even ate dinner there.

Oh I know. It's just the "official" meet-ups are always in bloody London (like the rest of us are second class Mumsnetters or something )

City good yes
The Samuel Pepys is fantastic venue

beautiful views of the Globe and the Tate modern

food ok, lovely lighting etc

Twinkle I think the general consensus for the past few years is if there are people waning one based elsewhere in the country the onus is on them to organise one (I think there may have been a Birmingham one last year)

oh minty, minty

Ocado gave me a free book about you today

Oh you London-centric lot you. Our postnatal club is being democratic and non-London centric and meeting in Warwick. I still can't go mind, but it's the principle of it.