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Just 5 minutes walk from the Fishmarket is the Ibis Hotel in the Sol Central leisure complex. See here for more details. |
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NEWCON ACCOMODATION UPDATE
NEW & EVEN CLOSER HOTEL!
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Due to increasingly close relations with the management of the Fishmarket, and their existing good relations with the almost adjacent Park Inn hotel (who are happy to lend Newcon lots of useful things), we are designating the Park Inn as our main hotel, with the Ibis Hotel as back-up. However, we have a very limited number of rooms reserved at the Park Inn, so early booking is recommended.
The Park Inn (more info here) is just one minute on foot from the Fishmarket. Special rates for Newcon will be £55 per night single, £60 for 2 people in a room. This is £5, and £10, more than the Ibis, but parking is free at the well-named Park Inn and breakfast is included irrespective of how many nights you stay. Please proceed to book and pay on our Newcon site as at present, but we will allocate guests to the Park Inn preferentially. The smoking situation at the Park Inn still has to be clarified. The Park Inn is due to undergo some refurb, so by October it may have changed from its present vivid blue exterior to a demure magnolia. The Park Inn is in Silver Street. (Not to be confused with nearby Gold Street, along the length of which an RAF plane crash-landed during WW2.)
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NEWCON 4:
Accomodation
Ibis Northampton Centre
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Ibis Northampton Centre is just 5 minutes walk from the Newcon 4 venue, the Fishmarket and only 200m from the train station, the Ibis Northampton Center is located in Sol Central
(big leisure centre with cinema, casino, fitness club). Close to the M1 motorway, the hotel has 151 rooms, some with wireless
Internet access, including 8 accessible rooms. Amenities include LE CAFE restaurant, a bar offering snacks 24 hours and pay parking.
Golf and tennis facilities only a few kilometres from Northampton. Pets accepted. [map]
Drivers on the dual carriagway heading up the map should turn left immediately after the restaurants fronting the hotel
for the public indoor car park, which at the moment costs £10 per day. There’s an entrance directly into the Ibis from
first floor of the car park.
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Ibis - General Room
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So far we have reserved 20 twin rooms and 10 doubles for Friday 10th October,
32 twins and 68 doubles for Saturday 11th, and 20 twins plus 10 doubles for
Sunday 12th October. (The hotel has a maximum of 32 twins.) This is based on
the assumption that most people will turn up on the Saturday morning and depart
on Sunday late afternoon. If demand proves large enough, as of now (March 2008)
we can still reserve more rooms
Rooms cost £50 per night, whether twin or double or single occupancy of a double.
Continental breakfast costs £5.25 unless you stay 2 nights, in which case
breakfast is free.
To book a room in the Ibis: Please contact the Ibis direct on Tel : +44 (0)1604 608900 or visit the website here
Smokers please note: For the Friday and Sunday nights we have reserved 7
smoking rooms & 23 no-smoking rooms (although of course you aren’t obliged
to smoke in a room where smoking is permitted!) and for the Saturday we have
reserved the hotel’s total of 16 rooms where smoking is permitted, plus 84
no-smoking rooms. All smoking rooms are doubles, so if you indicate “Smoking”
on your room reservation you must also opt for a double room.
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Ibis - Cafe
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The pleasure of good food à la carte
Meal time throughout your stay means the chance to discover the culinary stops of the Ibis restaurants,
ready to receive you 7 days a week, 365 days a year, every night open at least 7:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
The Bar
A friendly place to get together at any time of day.
Click here to visit the Ibis Hotel website:
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| LATEST NEWS |
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Launch of official website |
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Membership Details
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Membership rates:
£40.00 weekend membership
(£35.00 for BSFA members)
£25.00 day membership.
£10.00 Supporting
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NEWCON:
Member list
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The member list is updated regularly, click here to see who is attending so far.
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DEALERS
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Dealer's tables cost £10 each for the weekend.
To reserve a Dealer's Table, please send a cheque made out to "Newcon" to our Treasurer Ian Pursey,
16 Albany Road, Northampton NN1 5LZ, indicating your name and number of tables required.
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Rennie Mackintosh masterpiece!
78 Derngate, Northampton
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Among the delights of Northampton, for fans of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, is the town house he designed at 78 Derngate “with stunning interiors to delight and surprise,†scarcely 10 minutes stroll from the Fishmarket.
Guided tours of 78 Derngate were a big hit with attendees at our previous Newcon3. Now it isn’t even necessary to book a guided tour in advance. If you wish, you can do so, but otherwise you can just turn up and show yourself around, any time between 10.00 am and 4.30pm (last admissions) on the Saturday or Sunday of Newcon4 (or on the Friday if you turn up early for the convention). £5.50 for adults, £4.50 concessions – see www.78derngate.org.ukfor many more details.
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Constitution: Cambridge
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Constitution is a roleplaying, science fiction and fantasy convention run by the fans responsible for Recombination, to be held at New Hall, Cambridge on 31st July-2 August 2009. See http://www.constitution-con.org.uk/ for more details.
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