Return of the Ring and Barrow-Downs Mega-moot - Celebrating Tolkien in 2012

[Bêthberry]

Legate, day tickets are I think available for RotR. I've posted the programme on the FB Downs page, so I think you can tell what is available each day.

When do you fly out of London? Is it via Heathrow?

I have the great delight of spending three hours in Terminal 3 waiting for my 6 pm flight home on Monday. Any chance you andLommy will be in that terminal at that time?

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Bêthberry

Legate, day tickets are I think available for RotR. I've posted the programme on the FB Downs page, so I think you can tell what is available each day.

Somehow I didn't seem to find anything on FB. But we've been checking the preliminary programs on the RotR's website, and that was what we have based our plans on. But since they were not very elaborate, if there is anything more elaborate elsewhere, I'd be happy to see it...

When do you fly out of London? Is it via Heathrow?

I have the great delight of spending three hours in Terminal 3 waiting for my 6 pm flight home on Monday. Any chance you andLommy will be in that terminal at that time?

Alas! We are both leaving (unless I am mistaken in Lommy's case) via Gatwick. It is around 6PM, but apparently wrong airport

[Bêthberry]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

Alas! We are both leaving (unless I am mistaken in Lommy's case) via Gatwick. It is around 6PM, but apparently wrong airport

Darn! It's such a small little island you'd think it would be easy to connect. My train leaves Loughborough at, I think, 11:45, arriving at St. Pancreas. Poison Ivy has my ticket so I can't check the time yet.

Here's the third progress report for an update on activities.

Progress Report 3, Return of the Ring

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Bêthberry

Darn! It's such a small little island you'd think it would be easy to connect. My train leaves Loughborough at, I think, 11:45, arriving at St. Pancreas. Poison Ivy has my ticket so I can't check the time yet.

Here's the third progress report for an update on activities.

Progress Report 3, Return of the Ring

Ah yes, so this is the same one we saw. But anyway - even though we are not going to leave from the same airport, if there is still time to meet somewhere else, I think that would be really nice. Like I said, we are still in the stage of arranging our timetables and especially transports inside Britain, so we can take all of this into account... especially once you know your time of arrival... and all that (I think we can keep in PM-contact or something and figure things out, but it is not like *we* are going to proceed very fast with it, I think ).

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Bêthberry

Darn! It's such a small little island you'd think it would be easy to connect. My train leaves Loughborough at, I think, 11:45, arriving at St. Pancreas. Poison Ivy has my ticket so I can't check the time yet.

11.42 arriving just after one at St Pancras. Gatwick - Heathrow is a pain in the whatsit. Just because they are nominally London Airports doesn't mean they are close together!

[Kath]

That said, trains and tubes to Heathrow and Gatwick both leave from most London train stations. So you could meet near a train station that will take you to both airports (Victoria definitely links to both) for a drink.

[Lalwendë]

Don't underestimate the chaos that the Olympic period will bring to travel plans, and make sure to use this resource to see if stations and routes will be closed or subject to delays!

http://www.london2012.com/spectators/travel/

I can't stress that enough. We've been through weeks of planning for the events at work.

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Kath

That said, trains and tubes to Heathrow and Gatwick both leave from most London train stations. So you could meet near a train station that will take you to both airports (Victoria definitely links to both) for a drink.

Maybe better to meet at ROTR. There isn't a huge amount of leeway - that was the latest train compatible with being reasonably confident of BB making her check in and even though the Olympics will have finished over a week earlier there can be problems on the tube in the normal run of things.

[Guinevere]

Originally Posted by Bêthberry

Darn! It's such a small little island you'd think it would be easy to connect. My train leaves Loughborough at, I think, 11:45, arriving at St. Pancreas. Poison Ivy has my ticket so I can't check the time yet.

Darn!!My train from Loughborough leaves 11:20 - it's the same direction as yours, Bêthberrybut I can't take the 11:45 train because apparently that one doesn't stop at Luton Airport! (my flight from Luton leaves at 14:50)

I could tear my hair out in frustration that I booked my flight so early!! Had I known there was a Birmingham tour on Monday, and that Esty would arrive & leave from Birmingham airport I could have flown to Birmingham as well (though it would be much more expensive) Grrr!

[Mithalwen]

That is a shame but the Loughborough trains arrive in London only four minutes apart so there was no material advantage to go for the earlier train for BB and PI. It is a shame that they announced the trip at a time when most overseas visitors would have already booked flights

[Bêthberry]

I am as frustrated as Guinevere about the Birmingham tour. Had I known of it just three weeks prior, I would have bought my ticket for a day later in order to accommodate the tour.

Planning has been difficult. But I am glad at least of seeing Guinevere at RotR and hopefully also Legate and Lommy. It would have been fun to have a "Downs" train party after leaving RotR.