Well, yeah, but the point I'm making is, why be "scared" about the fate of one weekender anyway? I mean, there about 52 of them on each year already, it's not like 2002 or anything.
But yes, change is often good, and I'm sure there are loads of other venues who will happily take £250K of business, several times a year, if asked.
Hypothetically of course if we were talking about Southport it could be 3 weekenders
I’m sorry if it’s sad that some of us have kind of got use to it being around over the years, heaven forbid even look forward to it
Yes life would go on there would be other weekenders/venues but like an old woolly sock it would be sad to see it go
Given most of your reviews about Southport are given when your not there, im sure you wouldn’t miss it so much, hypothetically of course
That's not sad. There's nothing wrong with looking forward to things, even I do that on occasion.
But working yourself up into a tizz and being scared about a rumour of a possible change, based on a change in the owning business; that's sad.
And creating 200 different threads about every single minute of every single day of each event, is, to my mind, verging on the sad. Although I suspect I may be in a minority with that opinion.
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Yup ... but as someone who has spent far too many wasted weekends trying to find venues with large enough dancefloors .... I assure you that venues that can take 1000+ MJers are very few and far between ... ok, to be more precise ... affordable venues.
I'm not sure that there are any venues outside the Pontins/Butlins concept that could work. Like many others, I'm hoping that the money that the new owners make on the dance weekenders are enough to persuade them to continue.
It is very hard to find the dance floor capacity, and the accomadation.
So Gus, are there dance floors that can take 1500 + MJ people, apart from Pontins or Butlins? - If money was not the issue?
The only thing I could think of is things like Exibition centres, with huge areas - but would that be a dance floor?
What other places would take 1500+ dancers?
No local hotels I know of.
Maybe not.
In which case, we'll have to live with either pricier venues or smaller ones. Neither of which would be the end of the world. I suspect most people don't interact with 1,500 dancers over the weekend, somehow...
Mmmm.
If I were a hard-headed business person, I'd take a serious look at the revenue gaps from an MJ weekend (no games played, few facilities used (pool, track, etc.), few alcoholic drinks bought, possibly less food bought), and I'd wonder whether they were competitive compared to other possibilities.
Well, you'd have to think that few facilities used, would be good, as they wouldn't have to pay staff to man them....
It's true that we buy less drinks than the normal punters who go to Pontins weekenders (least, I imagine, since I've never been on one except for dancing). On the other hand, how full are Pontins going to get these weekenders at the time of year that we book them - out of the school holidays, and mostly at the cold and wet times of the year (apart from Southports).
I guess that possibly the main consideration for Pontins is whether or not they can get in another 'speciality' weekend event that would attract more paying and drinking customers than a dance weekend would. And if they can, surely they'd have done that by now.
So, here's fingers crossed....
Not the games - I bet that family vacationers spend masses (or the kids do - pester power) on games. I'd also guess that most of the other activities are profit-making, or could be. Basically, if stuff's not being used, it's not making money, but it's still costing money to maintain.
Not my problem
My point is, any business review would consider these factors, that's all.
Given that most weekenders are run are off season, a lot of the time Pontins depend on people coming on special voucher offers at these times, and a lot of the people who go to Pontins on such offers probably don't have a lot of money to spend on eating in the Queen Vic every day, and kids spending loads on games etc. I would reckon that they probably make more out of an organisation taking over the whole site for a weekend, than they would out of the cut price holiday brigade TBH. I would think that the lack of info coming forward is more due to the time it's taking for the new owners to do a business review. It won't do them any favours leaving people hanging on too long, as they risk losing potential guaranteed custom.
Didnt someone say a 70s weekender , the bar takings would be 10 times higher then a dance weekender ?
Im sure their number crunching
I have no idea if a dance weekender could be replaced with a 'bikers weekender' or a 'I failed at AA weekender', easily or what the average spend is for different types of weekenders. I would assume it wouldn't be massive and lets face for a bikers weekender your going to need more security
However if they want me to put lime in my soda water im up for that I always shop on site and gamble wrecklessly in the arcades so I do my bit
Well not really i would think quite high. As by the sounds of it, they are always vomiting so would have to keep replacing the booze....
I do my bit on a weekender.. I take my own food and booze then drink the fountain water when im dancing... perfect weekend as far as im concerned..... mind you thats when im not drinking..... Snow white is always pushing whisky down my neck and wine.... mind you so is Rosie... honestly the things i have to put up with.
I suppose Pontins like us sensible dancers who leave the chalets in tact and don't smash the place up.
I've been to plenty of Soul Weekenders at Pontins and leaving on Monday morning, you would think the camp had been involved in some form of civil war! We might not spend much at the bar, but we don't wreck the place either...it's all relative.
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