While I'm on a crusade....
Fans feel nice when you stand in front of them, but unless they're bringing in new air, they're actually heating the room up and using lots of electricity in doing it. Venues should keep their doors open and have openable roofs.
Local residents might have something to say about that
Brilliant idea. Also how about placing inside the water bottle a copy of the directions for getting back to the motorway from the venue. That would have been very handy for me after the last weekender when I got lost and probably added on an extra 60 enronmentally unfriendly miles.
Although we live near Camber we have to travel to every venue we wish to dance at, all ceroc classes and freestyles are a minimun of 45 mins away. (bit quicker with Lee driving !) We always try and invite local dancers so that we can car share.
I understand that having extra places for local women could be unfair to dancers who are more central, but just felt really sorry for this one particular lady who lives in our road and has been unable to attend Ceroc Camber since it started.
Instead she will be trecking 300 miles to Southport !
I don't quite get this.
1 Female single person chalets are usually available for a while, and are still available for the next Ceroc Camber at least 3 weeks after booking has opened.
With Ceroc Southport (CerocPort) the booking isn't any different than for Camber, and the events are only separated by a little over a month.
Well the cheap Share-with-a-stranger places always seem to be sold out for women - I've never seen these available. There are more expensive single female spaces available at twice the price though, and I guess if you include travel costs it may still be cheaper to take one of these than to travel for hundreds of miles.
Love dance, will travel
These were available for early Ceroc weekenders, but it seems fairly evident that ladies single and sharing places are heavily restricted, and probably only sold in nominal numbers.
It does make an awful lot of sense for Ceroc to do this.
Having a single and sharing option for both sexes probably increasingly had an adverse effect on early booking gender balancing (and though that on overall numbers booking).
Ladies could take the one way bet of booking immediately (the place could always be easily sold - no need to co-ordinate a group), less need to co-opt men.
Men on the other hand could wait longer to book as it was no longer necessary to co-ordinate.
However once you start to restrict ladies single and sharing places, the option starts to make a significant positive contribution to achieving gender balancing.
Ceroc could use other tools such as charging different prices by gender, but understandably have avoided that.
Time to flagellate yourself, you get through many plastic cups, but could do what Lynn suggests below...
and then
So there you have it... She simply needs to book early.
In summary, your friend is not well organised, did not contact the event organisers in advance and check dates of bookings, missed out and now... Let's blame someone ...
Organisers listen to the punters, try to do the right thing. Someone did not get what they want so sad, deal with it, and get it right next time.
It is making me a bit cross, that you blame organisers for not being environmentally friendly, but are unwilling to see, it is not them, it is about the person booking up.
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