Curious as to :
How many days do you attend meet for
What days you attend
If you stay over night what town do you usually stay at
I for one attend two days, Thursday and Friday and stay in Hanover
Steve
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Right there with you in Hanover. Stay only Thursday night.
We get there on Sunday night after a 550 mile drive. We stay at the Holiday Inn & conference center about a mile from the fairgrounds. We leave to go home after breakfast at Round the Clock Diner on Saturday at 9am. We get home about 6:30pm.
When the Flea Markets were good I went Tues to Sat. I stay at a friends about 40 min away just off 83N. Now I just stay Thus and Fri. If we did not play Poker Fri eve I would go home at 4pm. But it is nice to have a Free place to stay.
My wife and I arrive Wednesday afternoon/evening for the DCS meeting and stay at the Sheraton Four Points right behind the Round the Clock Diner. We stay usually until right before the Halls close on Saturday. With the smaller crowds, Saturday is the day I like to check out the manufacturer's displays and look around for anything I may have missed from the previous days.
After we leave on Saturday we stop at Latucca's on Main Street for a good cheesesteak.
I arrive Wednesday late morning, get a round of golf in, stay at the Marriott in York, attend the show Thursday and leave Friday morning. Sometimes I stop at the show Friday morning on the way out, sometimes I just wave it goodbye on the way back home.
I head up early Thursday am to setup a member table and stay thru Saturday. My wife and son usually drive up separately on Friday and spend the night. If our friends that live in Hersey are around, we stay with them on Saturday night.
Back in the 1980's I used to scramble to get rooms, sometimes camping then, and
sometimes moving from motel to motel, when attending York. With the booming
open shows, it seems like there were more people attending then than now. Also,
in the last few years there have been a few more motels built.
I just wonder if attendance is really down, crowd smaller, and is it easier to get a room there than it used to be in the boom years? I'd guess first timers would still
have to scramble....
Several new hotels have been built just since I have been going the past 10 years.
I used to be at York Tuesday through Saturday. Nowadays I drive over on Wednesday morning (five-hour drive) and drive home very early on Saturday morning while most everyone else is still asleep.
Anyone who is considering going should have no problem these days making a hotel reservation somewhere in the immediate York area. Hotels are kind of overbuilt there now and York Meet attendance (plus the decline/absence of the major bandit meets) has made it fairly easy to get a room even at the last minute.
Allan, You haven't been to the Holiday Inn or the firehouse lately have you.?
Originally Posted by coloradohirailer:
Back in the 1980's I used to scramble to get rooms, sometimes camping then, and
sometimes moving from motel to motel, when attending York. With the booming
open shows, it seems like there were more people attending then than now. Also,
in the last few years there have been a few more motels built.
I just wonder if attendance is really down, crowd smaller, and is it easier to get a room there than it used to be in the boom years? I'd guess first timers would still
have to scramble....
I don't stay right in York, but I made reservations probably 2 weeks ago without an issue. I'm willing to do a small commute(~ 20-25 mins) to get the better rate on the hotel.
-Dave
Originally Posted by eddie g:
Allan, You haven't been to the Holiday Inn or the firehouse lately have you.?
Yep! Mere shells of their former selves. 
