Annual Meet 2025 - 20th-21st Sept - Snowdonia and Colwyn Bay

[DrewR3]

List updated:

15 confirmed total cars (14 Rx8 + 1 Mx5)

20 Potential total cars (19 Rx8 + 1 Mx5)

25 confirmed food (16 paid/partner + 9 family/friends)

34 Potential food (21 paid/partner + 13 family/friends)

Still plenty of time to express your interest or confirmation. Should be a very good weekend.

[Ollie]

Please remove me from the list as I won't be able to attend. Hope you all enjoy yourselves.

[DrewR3]

OK everyone. So we have the prices confirmed and the hotel has managed to provide only a slight increase in price given the Govs new NI tax to employers and inflation, it is not a bad deal at all. So the full price before club subsidy for the food as usual is:

£234 Single Occupancy with Dinner, Bed and Breakfast.

£279 Double Occupancy (Either twin or Dbl) with Dinner, Bed and Breakfast

My assumption then is that about 35-40 will be the meal price based on the extra for double occupancy (there will be an additional breakfast in there too) so if we go worst case scenario of £35 paid by the club for the 3 course meal (potentially more contributed) the amount to pay by members for Bed and Breakfast the hotel would be:

£199 sgl Occupancy for a full member

£209 dbl Occupancy for x2 full member/paid partner

£244 db Occupancy for x1 full member plus a non club guest

Which i think given the prestige of the hotel is a pretty could deal in this climate.

I will need to submit the list to the hotel this week please of how many rooms we need. Please can those on the list to come confirm, or of course if you wish to come along please let us know.

[Fab66]

Can you move us to potential please.

Ta

Mark


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[DrewR3]

Can you move us to potential please.

Ta

Mark


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No problems Mark

[Ouzify]

I’m gonna have to drop out of this one I’m afraid
Can’t make it anymore

[SeanP]

Joe's away to a festival for a few days - but I know he's keen... Assuming I can get my car fixed - we'll discuss and probably start booking next week...

OR invest in some good ear defenders if we decide to take his MX-5 only!

[MightyCondor]

Still planning to be there, so a single room is required.

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[willberry70]

Me and Camilla are keen

[Fab66]

Surely there are a few more people that want to come along on an epic drive, and of course to be some of the first to witness the ridiculousness of Flos' latest makeover in person

[DrewR3]

Quick update. Unfortunately due to admin reasons and lack of confirmation from those who expressed interest, the club could not risk booking the 15 rooms initially wanted and as such, we will now be running a book your own accommodation scenario. The Quay should still have vacancies, and is available at still similar pricing for just B+B without the food package (which as a paid member is not needed anyway). Or you can find yourself alternative accommodation at a greater or cheaper rate of your choosing, from the ample local selection. The area is Deganwy or Conwy FYI for those looking for alternate local.

The rest of the weekend will stay the same, and it is still encouraged for ease to stay at the Quay, you just have to book yourself online via the power of Google. Food will be covered by the club as usual for paid and partner members.

We look forward to welcoming you.

[DrewR3]

Update on page one, post one, end of post.

Also, Eva is working away on the Raffle prizes. This should be a great day out and evening if people wish to join us.

Also, this is now my farewell trip from club duties, as I step down from the Chairman position, this will be the last time I host you all. I would be grateful to see the many faces I've met and enjoyed past events with if you can spare the time. Thanks

[willberry70]

The end of an era Drew but we'll see you out with a bang

[MightyCondor]

Booked my room. Better rates to be had in the Google search results for the date.

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[DrewR3]

Anyone else confirming, wanting to come, booked a hotel etc?

[R3d]

interested, a few things I need to wait to resolve before committing though. hopefully by next week I'll know one way or the other.

[BinaryJava]

If myself and my partner wanted food, we would only need to book a room with no food? I'm a paid member but she is not.

[DrewR3]

If myself and my partner wanted food, we would only need to book a room with no food? I'm a paid member but she is not.

A quick change to accom booking, just book yourself for you and partner through google etc for a room/B&B you want either at this hotel or another to suit your budget to allow this to be open to everyone.

Do not buy a food package though, we will cover that separately by the club. But yes you will just need to pay for your partners food on the night.

Everyone so far has used the Quay still, and via google/trivago I think it was is coming in at about 200 B+B. However if you really wanted or if others would like a cheaper or more expensive option then there is campsites from £10 per pitch for a tent local or penthouses at £600 a night. Open and accessible to all.

Let me know when you've booked and confirmed on here. Then I can add to confirmed and accom list so know how many to book a table for food

[BinaryJava]

Hotel is booked 20-21st. Was cheaper through booking.com, B+B was £210

If myself and my partner wanted food, we would only need to book a room with no food? I'm a paid member but she is not.

A quick change to accom booking, just book yourself for you and partner through google etc for a room/B&B you want either at this hotel or another to suit your budget to allow this to be open to everyone.

Do not buy a food package though, we will cover that separately by the club. But yes you will just need to pay for your partners food on the night.

Everyone so far has used the Quay still, and via google/trivago I think it was is coming in at about 200 B+B. However if you really wanted or if others would like a cheaper or more expensive option then there is campsites from £10 per pitch for a tent local or penthouses at £600 a night. Open and accessible to all.

Let me know when you've booked and confirmed on here. Then I can add to confirmed and accom list so know how many to book a table for food

[Fab66]

To confirm that we can no longer attend this as it’s one of Rachel’s treatment weeks/cycle, we are both gutted as we were looking forward to it, maybe something similar next year we hope

Ta

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[DrewR3]

To confirm that we can no longer attend this as it’s one of Rachel’s treatment weeks/cycle, we are both gutted as we were looking forward to it, maybe something similar next year we hope

Ta

Mark


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Thanks Mark. I hope everything goes well for her. I will likely run a snowdon event again next year anyway, and of course your always more than welcome.

As for the AM next year, that will be for someone else to assist and plan........I think a Scottish movie qoute by Mel Gibson could be added here........

[DrewR3]

Bump for this, as stated prior, we have cancelled the group booking and instead its find your own accommodation. This would now make it the cheapest AM in memory if wanted, there is pitch a tent camp sites for £10 and a half a tank of fuel for the drive or go lavish with penthouse sea views. As always the evening meal for paid members will be subsidised and a free raffle for all members of some great prizes. Due to not having to book accom for people, the sign up will remain open until the week before when I will need to book us somewhere for food with final numbers.

[Red & Black]

Too costly, too far! The annual meet should have been central to country, Yakushi 2023 was proof of that. I've organised a meet and drive on the Suffolk Coast this weekend, I don't see any interest from the west side of the country?

[DrewR3]

Too costly, too far! The annual meet should have been central to country, Yakushi 2023 was proof of that. I've organised a meet and drive on the Suffolk Coast this weekend, I don't see any interest from the west side of the country?

It is not those for everyone and once again i am fed up with people tainting the AM because of their own negative views and opionions. Which is why i will no longer be Chairman of this club. It has been adapted to suit all budgets, unfortunately i cannot change the distance from personal locations. It was actually democratically voted upon, unlike every other AM. The AM is vastly different to a generic meet. Yakushi was actually a flop this year with 3 or 4 people, so your arguement of centrality is flawed. The AM has always moved around the country to keep variety, from up near Hull for a trackday, to south coast for Beulieu to central for yakushi and camping for the last 3 to name a few.

The key to an AM is variety of event, the key to club longevity is variety. Not everything can be on the doorstep of the few who expect everything to be conducted on the m4 or m40 corridor for their convenience. I have to travel a 600 mile round-trip for nearly every show (Beaulieu and goodwood were 700 miles each this year), yet do not complain to Beulieu they need to move the show, nor do I hear rhetoric like this from the Scottish members, the northern Yorkshire members or the far eastern members who travel nearly all the time large distances for everything.

The Snowdon trip is primarily a well attended road trip, with one year having over 20 members plus partners in attendance which in its own right is close or beyond normal AM numbers. It was voted on and a popular road trip. I will say I wont be running it again for the OC, so if anyone does wish to experience this, they may wish to sign up. The accommodation has changed to suit your own budget and there is no cost to take part other than fuel. In comparison to other AMs from the past 20 years, there is no £100 plus track day cost, there is no specific hotel at £200 plus now specified as per the last ones which were more costly than this hotel as they were in the south, there is no £50 plus entry cost into a show. So actual, this is not a "costly" option. It is actually likely the cheapest option for both members and the club.

Perhaps the next chairman will be south easterly and this club can become the southern RX8 OC that it is currently looking destined to become, while it excludes every other member from around the country, which will result in the clubs demise with such narrow mindedness to not think of others that are not all located in the south. (Yakushi is also not central to the UK. It is south near Oxford). We actually attempted to make an event in a truly central position to the country earlier this year as an AM.....that went well and had no uptake. Actually alot less the the current AMs interest from club members.

If people do not wish to attend this AM, then simply do not. Do not try and taint it for others. It was set to be well attended, but unfortunately there has been significant health or personal situations which have resulted in members directly contacting me with their apologies for removal. Or are we now going to target people for serious illness and road traffic accidents? It remains open and the committee remain conducting their duties to promote it.

Also the chairman nominations are open, if anyone wishes to be nominated as I will not be continuing for reasons like above, then ensure you get nominations in please. The club fundamentally and constitutionally require a Chairman and treasurer to exist. Otherwise it will cease as per the constitution. I look forward to seeing the direction this club is to be taken in. Thank you.

[Dr. FrankenRex]

The attendance at events this year has been terrible with the sole exception of the Bicester Heritage event.

Myself included in the terrible attendance.

Not one for this thread specifically, but perhaps a discussion thread discussing why may be of benefit...?

Distance is certainly a challenge with the snowdon run, sure, but attendance to other meets etc. have been down the whole year...