Bob Mehew
Well-known member
The real problem re what flights run to which airports is that the choice is beyond being able to summarise! The likes of Easy Jet, Ryan Air, Jet2.com and so on offer so much that I almost can't believe it.
I think that people from abroad should be advised to work out the easiest flight from where ever they are to the UK (including Heathrow & Scotland), then decide if they want hire car or public transport (please note many of the activities are on site, obviously the caves are not), and then if appropriate, point to train or coach / bus alternatives.
Suggestions like take a taxi to Shippley make me shiver. Given I can't speak any other language, the thought of asking at some foreign small town location in a foreign language not understood by the locals, what is the next train to where ever seems a recipe for a right warm welcome. (Clapham Junction, London verses Clapham, Yorkshire any one?) Sorry Kay, I can't see that as a sensible suggestion to people like me from another land. Keep it simple (for the) stupid (like me) seems to be the guiding principle to me.
As I intimated, the organisers will need to sort out and make clear what transport arrangements are going to be. There is not only the question of getting to & from Dalesbridge at the start and end but also what about going and getting shopping and so. I think we also need to be guarded on ukCaving as to what might be achieved so as to not over blow what the average person with limited english can undertake in our insular isle.
I also gather it is anticipated a fair proportion of attendees will not stop on site but take hotels / B&Bs off site. Where do you find a few hundred local B&Bs? And then do you organise transport or what?
I think that people from abroad should be advised to work out the easiest flight from where ever they are to the UK (including Heathrow & Scotland), then decide if they want hire car or public transport (please note many of the activities are on site, obviously the caves are not), and then if appropriate, point to train or coach / bus alternatives.
Suggestions like take a taxi to Shippley make me shiver. Given I can't speak any other language, the thought of asking at some foreign small town location in a foreign language not understood by the locals, what is the next train to where ever seems a recipe for a right warm welcome. (Clapham Junction, London verses Clapham, Yorkshire any one?) Sorry Kay, I can't see that as a sensible suggestion to people like me from another land. Keep it simple (for the) stupid (like me) seems to be the guiding principle to me.
As I intimated, the organisers will need to sort out and make clear what transport arrangements are going to be. There is not only the question of getting to & from Dalesbridge at the start and end but also what about going and getting shopping and so. I think we also need to be guarded on ukCaving as to what might be achieved so as to not over blow what the average person with limited english can undertake in our insular isle.
I also gather it is anticipated a fair proportion of attendees will not stop on site but take hotels / B&Bs off site. Where do you find a few hundred local B&Bs? And then do you organise transport or what?
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