On 8/16/05, VampWillow wiki@vampwillow.com wrote:
talking to today. They said the only place that could handle 400-500 delegates is the Reynolds Building, which is on Sackville Street, not
They did also suggest that Fallowfield Road is a possibility, although it was described to me as "being a bit run-down" :-). I'm consulting
FYI, I've been to one conference using the Reynolds building - annual OUSA conference - and we used accommodation a very short walk away. Good facilities generally, although quality of the food in their refectory left something to be desired I felt!
I've also used the student halls at Fallowfield twice for a convention (last year and in 2000, iirc). Good on the rooms and break-out facilities (and, tbh, it isn't as bad as "run-down" suggests) though I don't recall any space large enough for 400-500 at a time, but that might just be because we only needed a space for 200 or so. Fallowfield could easily accomodate any number who might turn up though and both those uses were rooms for seven days at the flat rate
Alison
I live in Manchester so i could drop by these places - although not before I finish this <expletive deleted> dissertation. But thanks for the feedback VampWillow - it's good to hear back from actual past conferences :-)
And back to Dan, I don't understand there not being a sizeable hall on Oxford Road - there's plenty listed on that link I gave you, including the Roscoe theatre (~500) and the Whitworth hall (~650) with a few combinations of different rooms/spaces. Or is everything already booked? I'd be surprised if so. I mentioned somewhere that my lecturers used to organise an annual conference in the University of Manchester, so I'll have to pick their brains about this..
Cormac