Due to circumstances beyond our control, we have been forced to relocate the final Tour events of the season (Bracknell in September and Newport in October respectively) - both events will now take place at the superb Hilton Gatwick, West Sussex.
The Committee have worked tirelessly over the past three weeks or so to find a suitable venue at relative
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y short notice exploring all the possible alternatives, and our thanks go to Martin Thornhill, the Head of Hilton Sport for his assistance in this matter.
September and October are notoriously difficult times to get the room space required for an IPA event due to the ‘conference season’, but thankfully we have found a fantastic alternative venue which we are eager to experience.
We hope that this does not cause you too much inconvenience and are confident that your IPA experience will continue to be to the highest standards, and as always we will take note of any comments you may have, positive or negative. Players will all be contacted individually but we wanted to make everyone aware as quickly as we were able

Kind Regards
The IPA Committee

also, is it definitely inclusive parking this time?

On hotel site it says parking is £24.
Don't know if that is per day or per stay.

Hmmmm, maybe the venues are not big enough to put up enough tables????

If that is the case I would have thought when MD initally arranged them with Hilton that would have been one of the first considerations.....

Cracking news though Gatwick is alot closer travelling for this country boy..Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

still trying to iron out a few details such as this but we anticipate an approximate 75percent discount on parking which would then equate to around £6 per 24hrs

Have you seen them then? Because they are not as far from small as you think, and unfortunatly they are not big enough

We need a minimum of 16 tables, and newport could only hold 8-10 with no viewing area and bracknell could only hold 10-12 with no sitting area or top table area.

I can assure you the last thing we wanted to do was change venues and have to find an alternative which has not been easy

Haha, there was no conflict at the start - just a need to get a tour up and running with 3 weeks notice. And the chairman was on holiday :D

I've stayed at the Newport one, the main function room didn't look particularly small. I thought that Hiltons had a minimum square footage for ballrooms in order to call them that.

i have no interest in pointing fingers, and you will notice the actual reason was left out of my original post.

As for the newport hotel, its not even close

You need to lighten up Macca, read who I was quoting.

Interesting. I'm staying there next weekend, I'll sneak a peek. I genuinely thought that Hiltons internal rules meant a ballroom must be at least X square feet.

There are obviously other venues, but they are not available. In searching for new venues we started as close as we could to the originally proposed ones and worked our way out.