Boat Show seating area

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There aren't any!
Thoroughly enjoyed the show where we spent two days. Lots of useful info, some bargains (not many) but I do think there should be a certain amount of FREE seating around where we oldies can take a rest, have a smoke, eat our sandwiches etc after all - we have paid twenty odd quid to get in!
The only seating areas are around the food outlets where you have to pay a fiver for two coffees if you want a sit down. I know that would be bad for business for Costalot coffee inc. but we're the punters who pay FGS!
PS no freebies on PBO stand - we couldn't even blag our way to a free pen.
 
From Swanwick/Moodys it's only £12.00 which includes parkjng and shuttle bus. There's nothing to stop you using the seats/tables I used them to work on whilst I was there. Didn't see any signs to say they were only for diners?
 
Steve Clayton said:
No problem resting your bones in the Holiday Inn for free or the large bar/food area on the western side of the complex - just pitch up and sit down.
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Or you could do what the majority do. Find a nice boat and sit on it for thirty minutes whilst spinning the poor salesman some yarn about your two year plan to buy of of them.:D
 
We were tempted to go and sit on one of the sofas on the Honda stand.
I wasn't sure what the stand was for, or if we were allowed to sit, also the pianist was very annoying.
 
ghostlymoron said:
There aren't any!
Thoroughly enjoyed the show where we spent two days. Lots of useful info, some bargains (not many) but I do think there should be a certain amount of FREE seating around where we oldies can take a rest, have a smoke, eat our sandwiches etc after all - we have paid twenty odd quid to get in!
The only seating areas are around the food outlets where you have to pay a fiver for two coffees if you want a sit down. I know that would be bad for business for Costalot coffee inc. but we're the punters who pay FGS!
PS no freebies on PBO stand - we couldn't even blag our way to a free pen.
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No free pen? you must be the only one of 10,000 so far who did not get one? they are / were there for the taking? the only thing you pay for on here (and its only two quid) is the mag.

Cheers
 
Mayflower cafe - coffee at £1.20 for a very large mug ;).

But yes, lack of seating and hardly any refuse bins to hand but a damper on our day on the first Sunday.
 
Just returned after a very tiring week. We stayed on a friends boat in Gosport and brought his heavily fouled dinghy home in the van. Can't imagine the smell will ever go away!

£4 for 330 ml of cider versus 75p for 440 ml from the supermarket.
Also £4 for a mean bacon butty.

I wonder how they solve the equation on price versus quantity.

We now have five customers who bought the MastaClimba who already had a Top Climber. Very gratifying! We also have four professional riggers who bought one. Their reason was that their harnesses cause dead legs or feet and being able to stand on something solid prevents the loss of circulation.

Not a bad week but as the stand allocation went awry, we ended up in the car park. Great on the final Sunday!
 
+ 1 and the same at the London show unless you're in the central corridor ... I went to the Cannes show a couple of weeks ago and there was nowhere to sit there either! Is it an international boat show plot? Seriously it is a problem for the old and infirm ... not so old and only a bit infirm but I walk with a stick these days and it would be nice to be able to sit down now and then.
 
ghostlymoron said:
There aren't any!
Thoroughly enjoyed the show where we spent two days. Lots of useful info, some bargains (not many) but I do think there should be a certain amount of FREE seating around where we oldies can take a rest, have a smoke, eat our sandwiches etc after all - we have paid twenty odd quid to get in!
The only seating areas are around the food outlets where you have to pay a fiver for two coffees if you want a sit down. I know that would be bad for business for Costalot coffee inc. but we're the punters who pay FGS!
PS no freebies on PBO stand - we couldn't even blag our way to a free pen.
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If my experience is anything to go by the food vendors will have paid heavily to be there. An ex motorcycle racing rival of mine runs a massive event in Northwich every May. He attracts upwards of 100,000 spectators to watch a 450 yard twisty sprint in the shopping centre car park. There is no entry fee-he makes his whole years earnings from the associated sideshows, motorcycle dealers, fun fair rides and food vendors who all pay strong money to be on site. There is nowhere to sit down either unless you get there at sparrowfart to get one of the few free grandstand seats.............
 
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