Urgent call - urgent call - do you read me? Germany Meet-Up Group?

[Alex_B]

OMG, I did not book my flight yet either!



... so I might have to come by car after all ...

 

[Antarctican]

Okay, I'm booked. I'll be coming to Lauenbrück on Saturday from Hamburg, where I'll be visiting some relatives beforehand. My flight out on the 31st has 2 stops, so I may end up changing it to hang around northern Germany, or hit Denmark briefly or something.

 

[LaFoto]

Well, I've done some counting, and some realistic DIS-counting, and have come to the conclusion that we'll only be a much smaller group than I initially thought, consisting of

Hertz
Antactican
Jeff Canes
doenoe
Alex_B
Chris of Arabia
wife of Chris of Arabia
Unimaxium

(I discounted Ferny and girlfriend as well as Ravikiran since they said they weren't going to make it, and I also discounted photojazz since he's only been an active member briefly and has never come back. I ask him in e-mail if he'll come and he'll e-mail back "of course", but I can't really believe this)

As to Iron_Flatline ... I really don't know.

And with regards to Tempra ... he didn't know if his funds would stretch this far after their trip to Zambia.

I would have expected some more Europeans to be interested, like people from Copenhagen, for example, but ... seems like it's going to be these 9 and no more.

My question is: if there's only 9 people, do we really need both houses (for the apartments are in two houses, right next to each other). Or should I phone the lady and tell her we only need the big house with the community room?

 

[Hertz van Rental]

I think just the one big house with the community room. It wouldn't be fair on the owners to reserve rooms for people who won't turn up.
If others turn up on spec they will just have to find their own accommodation.
I may throw my tent in the back of the car.

 

[Antarctican]

I didn't realize they were two houses...I thought it was just 3 floors of one building. So, I agree with Hertz, just the one big house should do it. Assuming the big house has places for 8-9 people (there are 8 on your list. I can't tell if you're including Iron Flatline, although I think you said he might stay in a different hotel anyway).

 

[LaFoto]

OK, I'll call her and tell her the second house is open again for that week. And yes, when I said "9", I may well have thought about Iron_Flatline, but he indicated he was more "the hotel type" anyway.

 

[Chris of Arabia]

Corinna,

Anne-Marie and I are planning on finding a hotel too - thought I'd mentioned it earlier, but perhaps it got missed in amongst all the earlier stuff. Hope that doesn't mess with the planning too much.

 

[LaFoto]

http://www.landkrug-trau.de/

Ask if you can get a room with them then. This is the hotel I recommended to Iron_Flatline, too.

And with only 6 persons left, we might not even get the house with the big room any more... It just isn't necessary.

 

[Chris of Arabia]

Boy do I need some help with the translation on that one...

 

[Chris of Arabia]

...especially when the dates on the booking form only go up to 2007. :scratch:

 

[LaFoto]

Oh. Erm... I don't do their website for them ... Shall I phone them in your name? Talk to them in German? You can give me the necessary data in a PM. If they need some credit card numbers for a downpayment, I'll let you know later. Would that work, you reckon?

 

[Chris of Arabia]

Corinna, that would be extremely sweet of you if you could do that. I've trying using their email address to and at the moment, Outlook is flatly refusing to send it anywhere. We need 7 nights, arriving on 24 May, departing on the morning of 31 May.

 

[LaFoto]

The those six of you who you are still going to spend the week in Ole Hoop ... while at first I had reserved all three apartments for "us", I now felt it was high time to let Britta know we no longer NEED all three apartments.

She immediately suggested we then take Apartment 1 and Apartment 2, and not Apartment 3 with the Community Room.

I must call her again tomorrow to let her know which of the apartments we're finally going to use.

Go into www.ole-hoop.de and there into "Wohnungen". You will get to see floor plans of the apartments, and when you hover the mouse arrow above the rooms, you will also get to see little photos of the room. Mark that Apartment 3 (with the community room) mostly offers double beds --- and at the beginning of the meet-up sexywink: ) at least, there are no couples arriving any more who will stay in Ole Hoop.

Hence I'm not sure you'd be ever so very happy with double beds. Anty's the only female in the apartments...

You either let me know if Apartment 1 and 2 are ok for you or I will just decide in your stead and let Britta know we take those two. (To take both gives each and everyone a bit more privacy, for to squeeze into Apartment 2 only would mean that two have to sleep in bunk beds and one on a couch. Like that, 6 persons could be fit in there, but taking two apartments would guarantee you all get a proper bed... think about it.)

 

[Antarctican]

Anty's the only female in the apartments...

Wooooohooooo!

Ummm, I mean, the doors have locks, right?








(For the protection of the menfolk) :lmao:

 

[Antarctican]

Okay, to get serious for a moment, I agree we shouldn't squish ourselves up into just Apartment 2. Especially since it is so affordable to begin with. Taking Apartment 1 as well means we get an extra bathroom.

From the floorplans/pictures, it looks like several of the sleeping places are couches in rooms that may not have closets etc., so those who get rooms should agree they'll let people store bags/hanging clothes etc as necessary. Am I reading the diagrams right, Corinna? You've seen the inside of the apartments?