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Ideas for venues?

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Ragear:
can we gently swing back into english for the politeness to other furs?

The gist of the previous posts was that adapting (spell: downsizing) the requirements for a possible EF venue may help for one year, will piss some furs of due to lack of capacity, and will fall back bitterly another year later.

So for now: Ideas still welcome, don't push too hard, staff has the kindness to take notice and reply, but let's not stress it too much :-) 3 days before EF officially starts.

One requirement must also be taken into calculation (literally): the aspiring new venue should be affordable, too. I do not think we can solve this problem by throwing cash at it...

cu @ EF

Ragear

VulpesRex:
Considering the space requirements, accommodation for many, with rooms for panels, an auditorium for performances, a large balroom-like space for dances...and it has to be cheap affordable...

It sounds like what is needed is an abandoned Air Base!

Ragear:
um, in terms of space an aircraft maintenance hangar is unbeatable :-) but amenities like having your bed made up everyday by housemaidens and clean bathrooms have their pro's to be honest. The haggle to find an abandoned airfield in Germany and the expenditure to have it set up for some 1500+ party people plus catering is probably way too much. But the idea is fascinating, though. I could land with my private aircraft right in front of the dances :-))

Ragear

ANTIcarrot:
Going by the conbook map, the Fursuit Lounge went into the third largest room in the hotel, and also the only other large room on the ground floor. I assume the second is most important, but how is that part of Eurofurence growing? Since Bonn had curtains, I ssume you didn't put it there for size reasons? Not that I want to make things worse, but does this need to be a sperate requirement on the list?

In practice people coming to EF already stay at three seperate hotels. If we could find two hotels close together, and both meet half your requirements, and both were available, would you consider that arrangement?

Mystifur:
Having function rooms spread over several venues is something we'd also like to avoid.
Every year we can see this happen at Anthrocon, where you, if you will forgive my exageration, have to walk for a mile to get to the dealers den, and then back a mile to the next panel, and then again switch location to meet your friends at the bar. It is obviously unavoidable at AC, but no one is happy about this.

And you figured correctly, that the fursuit lounge is also a key-"big-room". If need be, size can be slightly reduced. Magdeburg just happens to be the ideal lounge-venue sizevize.

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