Good question. Probably overkill in my case (the venue is closer than the airport!) but for anyone travelling from out of town, you should definitely be thinking about it! I see some of the cheapest fares are already sold out.

kjb wrote:

Probably overkill in my case (the venue is closer than the airport!)

Unless you decided to have the entire ConCom + Guests lowered into the Opening Ceremony by Helicopter, yes.

It'd be spectacular though, if the budget stretches that far?

The hotel might be reluctant to have us back if we cut a hole in the roof, though.

Hmmmm, ... As you say, that would be problematic; It's a nice hotel.

Approaching the subject from the other direction, if we're going to get banned we may as well go out with a bang: set the place on fire.

No no no, merely setting fire to the place would be quite inadequate; actually blowing it up would be the least we could do, and stealing the entire structure and depositing it on the moon would be preferable. That is a rather large if, though! Not getting banned is most definitely the ideal option.

We've just booked ours from Chch, still a few grabaseat seats left.

@crazyscot - getting fewer.  I've got mine from Gizzy. Should be enough of us to justify Craig's helicopter