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OK, so now it's all over what did people think of the event. I think I was disappointed. Both with the venue the organisation. I know I'm a naturally negative person but even the most positive person must have seen something they thought could have been improved. I have a list.
1 space: I was turned away from at least five panels because they were full. The rooms were far too small and I suspect if you added up the total seats for attendees in all the rooms you would have found a massive discrepancy against the number of tickets sold for the event. I would hazard two seats for every three tickets sold.
2 organisation: nobody seemed to have a clue what was going on when. When i asked for information on quite a few occasions I was just told to get the on line app because that had the latest info. Quite apart from the fact some people don't do internet on their phone (with discrimination implications there too) when you did go on line the information wa not necessarily up to date. The critique event that I mentioned had two sessions and the program never reflected this. Several events had their start time altered and the room they were held in changed. Again reflecting the poor planning of the program.
3 Events: I know it can be difficult to predict what events will be popular at these things and fair enough some things will seem a good idea till people vote with their feet etc. But singalong a frozen???? I'm sorry this was an in the main an adult event not a Disney fans family do. That wouldn't have been so bad but when this event was on in the largest of the smaller venues on floor 2 people were being turned away from the Authur C Clark awards in the minutely small room next door. The singalong Frozen tracks were blasting out to an empty room.
4. There were some surprising events. We particularly enjoyed the juggling event. The chocolate event was interesting and informative, and everyone should look up any links from that event to the sites about the chocolate harvesting by slave 10 year old children. - quite shocking. The friendly atmosphere of attendees was excellent but that reflects more on the nature of Manchester folk than the organisers. Another interesting aspect on the venue though, was the option and access to alternative
restaurants in Manchester. Something that the NEC will find challenging next year not to mention what the situation for parking will be.
It has to be said that I thought the food available this year was dreadful. I know the prices were not too bad but the quality on the event menu was lacking IMO.
Having said all that we did manage to enjoy the four days . However, we will probably give Birmingham a miss and next year and go for the Harrogate trip in 2018 always assuming it all hasn't ended by then of course.
1 space: I was turned away from at least five panels because they were full. The rooms were far too small and I suspect if you added up the total seats for attendees in all the rooms you would have found a massive discrepancy against the number of tickets sold for the event. I would hazard two seats for every three tickets sold.
2 organisation: nobody seemed to have a clue what was going on when. When i asked for information on quite a few occasions I was just told to get the on line app because that had the latest info. Quite apart from the fact some people don't do internet on their phone (with discrimination implications there too) when you did go on line the information wa not necessarily up to date. The critique event that I mentioned had two sessions and the program never reflected this. Several events had their start time altered and the room they were held in changed. Again reflecting the poor planning of the program.
3 Events: I know it can be difficult to predict what events will be popular at these things and fair enough some things will seem a good idea till people vote with their feet etc. But singalong a frozen???? I'm sorry this was an in the main an adult event not a Disney fans family do. That wouldn't have been so bad but when this event was on in the largest of the smaller venues on floor 2 people were being turned away from the Authur C Clark awards in the minutely small room next door. The singalong Frozen tracks were blasting out to an empty room.
4. There were some surprising events. We particularly enjoyed the juggling event. The chocolate event was interesting and informative, and everyone should look up any links from that event to the sites about the chocolate harvesting by slave 10 year old children. - quite shocking. The friendly atmosphere of attendees was excellent but that reflects more on the nature of Manchester folk than the organisers. Another interesting aspect on the venue though, was the option and access to alternative
restaurants in Manchester. Something that the NEC will find challenging next year not to mention what the situation for parking will be.
It has to be said that I thought the food available this year was dreadful. I know the prices were not too bad but the quality on the event menu was lacking IMO.
Having said all that we did manage to enjoy the four days . However, we will probably give Birmingham a miss and next year and go for the Harrogate trip in 2018 always assuming it all hasn't ended by then of course.
