Yonex All-England Championships - 2006
By JamesThe Yonex All-England Open Badminton Championships are happening at the National Indoor Arena (NIA), Birmingham, from 18th - 22nd January 2006. This is earlier than usual to accommodate the Commonwealth games, which take place next year.
The Social Committee are organising a trip to see the Semi-finals and Finals days (Saturday and Sunday, 21st and 22nd). This will be the second year the club have been to the finals, and the last event (March this year) was a great weekend, lots of great badminton, fairly obviously, and lots of eating and drinking and just general arsing around, also fairly obviously. See some pics from the mental hotel we used over here…
Anyway, if anyone’s interested, you’ll need to let us know fairly quickly as we need to book tickets for the venue (which are selling out fast) and also book hotel rooms.
Costs are likely to be around £20 a day for the tickets and one nights hotel accommodation and whatever we spend on booze, food and thunder sticks. Transport will be through car sharing, most likely, and splitting the fuel costs. So the biggest variable is the hotel accommodation, and how this splits out will depend on who comes and how we’re able to arrange room sharing, but a twin room will typically be around £50 - £70, hopefully split 2 ways. You know, it’s probably going to be a total of about £100 to get there, stay there and see the badminton, and then meals and drinks on top of that. Not a really expensive weekend, to be honest, but then again I couldn’t do it every week…
Let us know, pronto. Come and see me (James) or Stuart Allan, or email the usual address.