2012 Meets

Essential requirements:
a) close to main railway station, with direct/easy access from as many areas as possible

Nezza - have you looked at the sticky thread regarding "Meet Location Criteria" ? A fair few of those locations don't really fit in to those requirements.

I will draw everyone's attention to:

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Essential requirements:
a) close to main railway station, with direct/easy access from as many areas as possible

A fair few of the locations listed don't really fulfil that requirement. Travelling time from all corners of the UK (and airports for some SimSiggers) should be taken into account.

For example, Guildford is really only for those in the South East and the West (via Reading), and is a bit useless for those much further North whereas Birmingham is good for transport links to all over the country. By this logic, I consider Southampton to be an insane option. I don't think it's fair to pick a location that would limit the number of attendees due to travelling distance, time and cost.

This may sound dodgey and funny but here goes:
At a very Quick 3 min walk from the station is macdonalds - has wifi- has a large room for things like this upstairs i think, If not there is a resturant called Jaydees at a 4-5 mins walk away from the station - it is next to a wilko's haha. That also has a venue room.

All items that are suggested are from SimSiggers especially for the south as it is believed they are forgotten about

Hull really isn't suitable, although there are some nice places to go, stay and eat, you can only get there from Doncaster/Leeds/York, so those 3 would be far better suggestions.

Hull really isn't suitable, although there are some nice places to go, stay and eat, you can only get there from Doncaster/Leeds/York, so those 3 would be far better suggestions.

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Sheffield Tap should be considered if they get the permission to expand as it would be impractical in its current setup, but I am sure there are other places just as good.

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Sheffield Tap should be considered if they get the permission to expand as it would be impractical in its current setup, but I am sure there are other places just as good.

I am sure we could find something else in Sheffield and still use Tap just to get drunk

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Sheffield Tap should be considered if they get the permission to expand as it would be impractical in its current setup, but I am sure there are other places just as good.

I am sure we could find something else in Sheffield and still use Tap just to get drunk

how about "the howard"? nice pub decent size function room and its opposite the station?

hull services:

xx18 arrival from Manchester via leeds (2 hours journey time)
xx21 arrival from sheffield via doncaster
xx 56 from doncaster/shefield (doncaster 1 hour, sheff 1 and half)
Direct services every hour from york journey time approx. 1 hour
hull trains arrivals approx. every 2 hours
half hourly service from bridlington
90 mins approx. service from scarbrough
hourly bus service taking approx. 1 hour from scunthorpe/ humberside airport
direct national express bus services from glasgow and wales

Definitely agree that meet location needs to be accessible for as many as possible. When I heard locations such as Eastleigh and Guildford mentioned I actually objected to those locations due to access for people from the north, generally involving a cross-London transfer which probably isn't ideal for anyone say north of say Peterborough unless they're making a weekend of it. I'm thinking locations should ideally be north or west of London as they're surely accessible for more people than anywhere south or east of London is.

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Hull really isn't suitable, although there are some nice places to go, stay and eat, you can only get there from Doncaster/Leeds/York, so those 3 would be far better suggestions.

Someone forgetting First Hull Trains? OK they may be having (or have had) a few troubles lately, but they do run KingsX - Hull....