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GATHERING OF THE CLANS 2008
The UKGSer Gathering of the Clans 2008 event will be held over the weekend of Friday 20th and Saturday 21st June, 2008 at the Glen Clova Hotel, Angus.
Glen Clova Hotel
I've booked the entire hotel and Bunkhouse for the weekend which means that there are 8 x hotel rooms and 30 x bunkhouse beds available for Tossers. Availability is fairly restricted due to the limited bedspaces in this small complex.
I'm sure that anyone who attended the Gathering of the Clans 2007 will agree that the hotel and location are both first class and worthy of our return. The meals are also excellent and good value for money.
Bookings can only be made through me and will be on a first come/first served basis. The only exceptions being rooms/bunks already reserved for a few guys whom I've enlisted to help organise the event.
Please do NOT phone the hotel for bookings. Everything is booked in my name and the staff will not accept any other booking for these particular dates. Please post your booking request on this thread.
Prices are £40 pppn for a hotel room (bed and breakfast) and £11 pppn for a bunkhouse bed. Breakfast for "Bunkers" are around £7.50 (over and above the price of the B/H bed!)
There will also be camping in an nearby field with it's own toilet facilities. Camping is £6.50 pppn. A slight increase over last year but the camping fees are the only part of the accomodation prices that come to me and not the hotel. Last year, the camping fees did not cover the hire of the toilets.
Now the part that I regret asking for: In booking the hotel complex, I've had to pay a substantial deposit (10% of the total price) amounting to a good few quid and I'd prefer not to be out of pocket for this amount until next June. Happy campers do not require to pay any deposit just now. They can pay me in full at the event.
Could anyone booking a hotel room or Bunkhouse bed please pay me their 10% deposit within say 3 weeks of their booking and that way, they can deal directly with the Glen Clova Hotel in respect of the outstanding payment (obviously 90% of the total price) on the weekend of the event.
This also prevents me from greeting arriving Tossers with a clipboard asking for money and ticking names off It will also hopefully prevent me from chasing people up looking for money on the Sunday morning.
Hopefully, GOTC 2008 will be as successful as the first one was and we may even be blessed with better weather! It can't be any worse anyway...
There will again be road runs on the Saturday and I'll do my very best to try and organise at least some kind of off road route. In all likelihood, it'll be the same route for the road run in 2008. No one saw anything last year thanks to the rain and fog.
We're hopefull of having another Whisky Tasting (Blowzorn, are you reading this?) as last year's one proved really popular.
I'm looking forward to the 2008 Gathering already.
We hope to see you there for a dram or two (or three).
Slainte
Ronno
GATHERING OF THE CLANS 2008
The UKGSer Gathering of the Clans 2008 event will be held over the weekend of Friday 20th and Saturday 21st June, 2008 at the Glen Clova Hotel, Angus.
Glen Clova Hotel
I've booked the entire hotel and Bunkhouse for the weekend which means that there are 8 x hotel rooms and 30 x bunkhouse beds available for Tossers. Availability is fairly restricted due to the limited bedspaces in this small complex.
I'm sure that anyone who attended the Gathering of the Clans 2007 will agree that the hotel and location are both first class and worthy of our return. The meals are also excellent and good value for money.
Bookings can only be made through me and will be on a first come/first served basis. The only exceptions being rooms/bunks already reserved for a few guys whom I've enlisted to help organise the event.
Please do NOT phone the hotel for bookings. Everything is booked in my name and the staff will not accept any other booking for these particular dates. Please post your booking request on this thread.
Prices are £40 pppn for a hotel room (bed and breakfast) and £11 pppn for a bunkhouse bed. Breakfast for "Bunkers" are around £7.50 (over and above the price of the B/H bed!)
There will also be camping in an nearby field with it's own toilet facilities. Camping is £6.50 pppn. A slight increase over last year but the camping fees are the only part of the accomodation prices that come to me and not the hotel. Last year, the camping fees did not cover the hire of the toilets.
Now the part that I regret asking for: In booking the hotel complex, I've had to pay a substantial deposit (10% of the total price) amounting to a good few quid and I'd prefer not to be out of pocket for this amount until next June. Happy campers do not require to pay any deposit just now. They can pay me in full at the event.
Could anyone booking a hotel room or Bunkhouse bed please pay me their 10% deposit within say 3 weeks of their booking and that way, they can deal directly with the Glen Clova Hotel in respect of the outstanding payment (obviously 90% of the total price) on the weekend of the event.
This also prevents me from greeting arriving Tossers with a clipboard asking for money and ticking names off It will also hopefully prevent me from chasing people up looking for money on the Sunday morning.
Hopefully, GOTC 2008 will be as successful as the first one was and we may even be blessed with better weather! It can't be any worse anyway...
There will again be road runs on the Saturday and I'll do my very best to try and organise at least some kind of off road route. In all likelihood, it'll be the same route for the road run in 2008. No one saw anything last year thanks to the rain and fog.
We're hopefull of having another Whisky Tasting (Blowzorn, are you reading this?) as last year's one proved really popular.
I'm looking forward to the 2008 Gathering already.
We hope to see you there for a dram or two (or three).
Slainte
Ronno