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Free tickets now available using code SOCIAL
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Sat 27-04-24 21:17; edited 2 times in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Thanks! Myself and the better/shorter half are booked in!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Is the Birmingham one wound up now?
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Half the pitches at the last one in Birmingham seemed to be for charities that were pretty pushy to get annual subscriptions, or others whose relevance to snowsports was non-existent. Put me off going again to be honest. I've got a couple of freebie tickets to the London show, but will be keeping an eye on which exhibitors are going to have stalls there.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Yes last couple were really bad but back in the old daily mail show days we had no internet pricing and it was worth having your own skis and bags etc, guess it's just outdated now.
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Free tickets now available using code SOCIAL
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Thanks, tickets booked.
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@Timc, cheers, tickets booked for myself and daughters, fortunately it is a relatively easy journey on the "lizzie line" for me into the excel centre.
worth it for us just for the several free lift passes from Hemel to use up before end of December, you can garner, presuming they are there this year i suppose.
it does look like they have changed their booking policy, as it is only two tickets per booking, and with each ticket needed to be assigned to an attendee, whereas last year i could just book 8 weekend entry tickets without any problem.
i can understand the rationale behind it, as i suppose the potential exhibitors will want to know an approximate number of attendees before committing to the event. as i presume the majority of the applicants this time round will attend if you have to assign tickets, whereas previously you could just book several tickets in case you could find people who may be interested.
or they are trying to make it look more selective than before 
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Is the Birmingham one wound up now?
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Yes  The one in 2021 was good; 2022 was decent; but 2023 was (as described by @MajorQ) very poor. Half the size of the previous year and it felt like hardly any snowsports-related stands at all. The talks on the main stage were good though.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Hopefully this time they will bring back the proper practice slope rather than the rotating one which massively limited the number of people who could use it. Boys wanted to try out snowboarding but the queue was large and very slow moving.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Great. Thanks.
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Revised code OFFER until 30/4.
No doubt fourther offers will follow. 
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You know it makes sense.
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There will be plenty of freebie codes.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Thought about attending, but the logistics of getting there are just ridiculous.
Silly prices for trains, or alternative of parking miles away and long tube journeys.
Quite frankly, I doubt it would be worth the expense of a tank of petrol, let alone the 5-6 hours traveling.
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Poster: A snowHead
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It's even less worth it from the North East, at least with the NEC it was only a few hours driving with parking onsite.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| RichardB wrote: |
| It's even less worth it from the North East, at least with the NEC it was only a few hours driving with parking onsite. |
Also less worth it for me in the East Midlands. I'd rather put the money saved by not going towards an extra day on the slopes..... 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Yeah we have tickets but still not sure if we will bother. I presume they think that the number of people in London that wouldn't bother going to the NEC but will go locally is much more than all around the rest of the country that won't go now.
Last time it driving it only cost us around £30 between parking + electric but to get to London by train its £120 - Can save a bit by faffing about and driving to London and then getting the above ground in etc but its a pain.
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Half the size of the previous year and it felt like hardly any snowsports-related stands at all.
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I bought a new pair of skis and a holiday at healthy discounts. Does ice climbing count as snowsport?
The excel centre is probably a lot less expensive than the NEC for the organisors, but like a lot of people here I will not be going. Thinking about it it probably costs less to visit an exhibition in the Palexo in Geneva than going to London. The last time I flew to Geneva it cost £70 return. The last time on the train to London it was £155.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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before it moved to the excel last year, i had done it the other way round for a couple of years, and made a weekend of it in B'rum for me and my two daughters, to be honest i wouldn't have gone back if it was still at the NEC.
obviously, being in London makes it more south east centric, just a shame for anyone further north that it seems like it is not viable to have an additional venue
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| johnE wrote: |
| The last time I flew to Geneva it cost £70 return. The last time on the train to London it was £155. |
Another reason they’ll need to give tickets away.
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You can also use the code 'SKIPODCAST' for free tickets to the London Ski Show 
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