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Is there a
reason that people are going for university facilities
and not
hotels? Science Fiction Conventions tend to be hotel based.
Do Sci Fi conventions generally have talks aimed at groups of 500
people? I don't think hotels can accommodate such large
conferences.
This year's Easter Science Fiction convention was at the Radisson
Edwardian Heathrow which has two conference suites that could be built to
that size.
http://www.radissonedwardian.com/rad/edw/PDFs/c&bbrochure08.pdf
Next years is at the Cedar Court Bradford
http://www.cedarcourthotels.co.uk/page.asp?pageID=46. Then it's back to
the Radisson.
Recent Easter SF cons have been at hotels in Chester, Hinckley, Glasgow,
Liverpool (but shall I say that I was not surprised that one of the MOD
missing computers was stolen from a room in the Liverpool Adelphi). The
Brighton Metropole had a big conferencing area in the rear, but the
management and the SF community fell out in the late 80s and we haven't
been back since.
There's an association of conferencing facilities (or there was in the
1980s who you could write to with your specs and they would put your
details in a circular to members.)