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Re: Transitmania 13

Postby Mr RVM » Sat Apr 16, 2022 9:31 pm

Steve_Martin1612 wrote:£25 per person per day :shock: what're they trying to pull? Camping included - wow in a palace I hope, that so much more expensive than many of the other events that Pod puts on.


Not that expensive when you consider that the same money is around 2 hours pay and would only get you 50 fags these days......or a round of drinks for 4.....or 3.5 gallons of fuel.......or a part worn tyre for your van.....
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Re: Transitmania 13

Postby KING OF ENGLAND » Sun Apr 17, 2022 8:48 am

I just think it’s something I enjoy so I’m going
She has her nails done every week £25
Her hair every month £70
So it’s a cheap weekend for me and I can’t wait
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Re: Transitmania 13

Postby blue estate » Sun Apr 17, 2022 11:03 am

Steve_Martin1612 wrote:£25 per person per day :shock: what're they trying to pull? Camping included - wow in a palace I hope, that so much more expensive than many of the other events that Pod puts on.

I’ve just paid £30 for the whole weekend at Devon truck show and that allows 2 peeps camping included :mrgreen: Though I won’t be in a tent when I’ve got a sleeper cab
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Re: Transitmania 13

Postby Steve_Martin1612 » Tue Apr 19, 2022 8:24 pm

Mr RVM wrote:
Steve_Martin1612 wrote:£25 per person per day :shock: what're they trying to pull? Camping included - wow in a palace I hope, that so much more expensive than many of the other events that Pod puts on.


Not that expensive when you consider that the same money is around 2 hours pay and would only get you 50 fags these days......or a round of drinks for 4.....or 3.5 gallons of fuel.......or a part worn tyre for your van.....


Santa Pod holds a lot of events throughout the year, £25 to camp in a field is really frickin expensive especially compared with the price of some of the other events too, and what does your £25 actually get you in Pod?
I pay £34 pp for Cosford Air Show but this gives me soo much more than just the air show, we also get free access to the museum (its normally free btw).
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Re: Transitmania 13

Postby MinorMatt » Wed Apr 20, 2022 9:46 am

Steve_Martin1612 wrote:Santa Pod holds a lot of events throughout the year, £25 to camp in a field is really frickin expensive


I hate to say it... £25 a night to camp isn't much more expensive than other places. What you are actually buying is entrance to the event and getting camping thrown in. There aren't many places in the country where you can go to a drag strip, car show, night club (depending if the VW guys have put up their party marquee :lol: ), fun fair and camp?

Billing Aquadrome is £90 for 2 Adults over the same weekend for a tent.
Wigrams camp site near Warwick (which is a field with a loo block) is £16 a night
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Re: Transitmania 13

Postby Steve_Martin1612 » Wed Apr 20, 2022 6:41 pm

MinorMatt wrote:I hate to say it... £25 a night to camp isn't much more expensive than other places. What you are actually buying is entrance to the event and getting camping thrown in. There aren't many places in the country where you can go to a drag strip, car show, night club (depending if the VW guys have put up their party marquee :lol: ), fun fair and camp?

Billing Aquadrome is £90 for 2 Adults over the same weekend for a tent.
Wigrams camp site near Warwick (which is a field with a loo block) is £16 a night


So let me get this straight, you go to a FORD Transit event, but hope that the VOLKSWAGON guys provide the evening entertainment, and not in the form of trumps when discussing how much they spent on their new parts compared to Transit which 50%+ cheaper... :lol:

Wouldn't catch me in Billing Sewage-drome - smelling bad when the wind changes after the Eastern district have had a curry :D £90 and they're not even on a hill to see you coming (Cogenhoe on the other hand IS on a hill).
Camping in Bracelands in the middle of the Forest of Dean is £17.50 per night for a campervan, and the Air Tattoo camping is just £15 per night for example.

It just seems to me a bit expensive for what it is, and I wonder where the funds go for all the events that are held nearly every weekend for most of the year, it certainly doesn't appear to go into infrastructure.
I feel for campers of Pod as it just seems to be a raw deal: Pod would really benefit from solid brick buildings, at least this way you would have an actual soundproofed nightclub where the music can stay loud beyond 10pm: beyond Pod, loud music can be heard all around and it does get really annoying when nearly every weekend there is a new event playing loud.
I suppose its easy for me, you can see my avatar location says "Pod", in truth I live under 4 miles from the start-line of the drag strip so I can enter and leave when it pleases me, and go home to a nice warm bed!
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Re: Transitmania 13

Postby Mr RVM » Thu Apr 21, 2022 3:42 am

Steve_Martin1612 wrote:
MinorMatt wrote:I hate to say it... £25 a night to camp isn't much more expensive than other places. What you are actually buying is entrance to the event and getting camping thrown in. There aren't many places in the country where you can go to a drag strip, car show, night club (depending if the VW guys have put up their party marquee :lol: ), fun fair and camp?

Billing Aquadrome is £90 for 2 Adults over the same weekend for a tent.
Wigrams camp site near Warwick (which is a field with a loo block) is £16 a night


So let me get this straight, you go to a FORD Transit event, but hope that the VOLKSWAGON guys provide the evening entertainment, and not in the form of trumps when discussing how much they spent on their new parts compared to Transit which 50%+ cheaper... :lol:

Wouldn't catch me in Billing Sewage-drome - smelling bad when the wind changes after the Eastern district have had a curry :D £90 and they're not even on a hill to see you coming (Cogenhoe on the other hand IS on a hill).
Camping in Bracelands in the middle of the Forest of Dean is £17.50 per night for a campervan, and the Air Tattoo camping is just £15 per night for example.

It just seems to me a bit expensive for what it is, and I wonder where the funds go for all the events that are held nearly every weekend for most of the year, it certainly doesn't appear to go into infrastructure.
I feel for campers of Pod as it just seems to be a raw deal: Pod would really benefit from solid brick buildings, at least this way you would have an actual soundproofed nightclub where the music can stay loud beyond 10pm: beyond Pod, loud music can be heard all around and it does get really annoying when nearly every weekend there is a new event playing loud.
I suppose its easy for me, you can see my avatar location says "Pod", in truth I live under 4 miles from the start-line of the drag strip so I can enter and leave when it pleases me, and go home to a nice warm bed!


I take it we won't be seeing you there then :roll:
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Re: Transitmania 13

Postby MinorMatt » Thu Apr 21, 2022 11:21 am

My geography might be slightly out... but I'm not sure how prices of camping in a totally different location are relevant? Billing is just down the road (and where we used to go) which is why I used it as an example.
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Re: Transitmania 13

Postby Steve_Martin1612 » Thu Apr 21, 2022 7:38 pm

MinorMatt wrote:My geography might be slightly out... but I'm not sure how prices of camping in a totally different location are relevant? Billing is just down the road (and where we used to go) which is why I used it as an example.

So why did you mention Wigrams campsite in Warwick then? Your geography would have to be properly off-kilter to imagine Warwick to be close to Pod :) Takes me an hour and fifteen to get from Pod to Warwick

Which is why I thought you'd mentioned Billing at £90 to validate the £25/£33 value of Transitmania; and so I gave you examples of other camping events that are cheaper than TM. But we're talking very subjective here: you guys are happy to come to Pod for a weekend jolly for £30 and why wouldn't you? Hang-out with friends, enjoy the ents provided by the VW guys - continue to laugh all the way, knowing they've paid for the entertainment tent, AND double the price they would've paid if they'd just got a Transit Custom, got a funfair and food.
Whereas I'm very happy to go to the Royal International Air Tattoo @ £45pp just for the day, where I can't drink as I'm driving home unless we camp in which case, I can make great use of the free bar in the club lounges...
I might still come to TM though, but would I be booed-out for turning-up on foot :D

But, going back to that point about Billing Stinky-drome, its more than 10 miles from Pod, so I wouldn't say Billing is just down the road and the only really great event they used to hold was the LRO, which is now held at the East of England Showground in Peterborough for the much more reasonable price of £55pp for the camping. But at least the Showground has great facilities - ok, so it doesn't have a fixed funfair like Billing - but it is close to loads of local amenities (and for me particularly as most of my family on my Dads side all live in Peterborough) and well its the LRO, say no more. Far better than spending £90 for Billing that smells just like day 4 of Glasto but without the pretty girls and good music :wink:

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Re: Transitmania 13

Postby Punto443 » Sun Apr 24, 2022 8:41 pm

FFS! Come or don't?

Cost me more in diesel getting there :roll:
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Re: Transitmania 13

Postby KING OF ENGLAND » Tue Apr 26, 2022 10:02 pm

Punto443 wrote:FFS! Come or don't?

Cost me more in diesel getting there :roll:

Exactly it’s once a year
But I’m not going in rounds down the beer tent it’s way to expensive
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Re: Transitmania 13

Postby Airthies » Sun May 01, 2022 11:31 pm

Anyone from round Gosport/Portsmouth area going to Mania?


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Re: Transitmania 13

Postby Punto443 » Mon May 09, 2022 9:22 pm

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Re: Transitmania 13

Postby Airthies » Tue May 10, 2022 12:29 am

Punto443 wrote:Blue Estate is gosport
All sorted a wee tag team effort in play with dirty dog and MinorMatt hopefully ending with a little set piece at Pod

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Re: Transitmania 13

Postby Punto443 » Mon May 23, 2022 12:16 pm

Great weekend as usual, had a right old laugh with the usual crowd :D

Topped of on the Sunday by a guest appearances from a Lancaster bomber, singing recovery driver and Ronnie f*** pickering :lol:
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