AL Club London - 13th-16th Nov! Discussion & Hostel Stay

This meet is fully subject to the meetup rules found here.

Note: ALCL meets are in the future the ONLY meets we will do London hostel stays for. We no longer will do hostel stays for MCM Expos, since a lot have ALers have said they are bored of the same thing.

AL Club London @ Friday afternoon, 13th November till Monday morning, 16th

What is AL Club London? (aka ALCL)

On Saturday November 14th 2009 at the Slug & Lettuce American Square at Tower Gateway, London and with a capacity of 400 people, ALCL is London's little anime convention. It's just £5 for all day from midday to midnight. We have dealers, video gaming, anime screening, an Artist Alley, DDRing, roleplaying, card-gaming, along with many events such as a masquerade, pub-quiz, parties, special guests (Roppongi Street are announced with more to come!) and much more!

It costs £5 to get in, and you need to be 18 years or older.

You can read all about ALCL on it's official website here. A load of new announcements will be added once Alcon is done in September.

We're accepting to all anime fans, from ALers to non-ALers, to casual fans to otaku!

Where we are staying and price.

We will be staying at the Dover Castle Hostel. It is located at Borough station which is just three stops away from Tower Gateway. Total train time will be about 15 minutes to get there.

The price will be £35 for two nights (Fri/Sat), or £52 for all three nights. Payment will need to be sent to myself by the end of September. I will PM you with the address to send a cheque to after you signup in this topic!

Note - Visitors are NOT allowed to go up into the dorms. If you want to get into the dorms, you have to pay for a place.

Transport Information.

Getting the London in itself is not the end of transport costs. You will need to get a London Underground Day Travelpass on the Saturday at the least. This will cost £5.85. It will allow you to go anywhere in London all day via the underground.

Click here for a map of the London Underground.

I would recommend booking in ADVANCE by train or coach. You might get a discount.

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk is the site for booking and finding out train times nationwide.

IF you happen to live in or be close to a major city, then megabus might further reduce the cost of travelling.

http://www.megabus.co.uk/uk/

Similarly, National Express do a similar deal -

http://www.nationalexpress.co.uk

I got my return ticket from Cheltenham last convention from them for just over a fiver. It was less than a QUARTER of what it'd have cost me via train.

Friday Activities

We will all be meeting at Borough train station at 1pm to go onto the hostel. If you are arriving later, then we can arrange to meet you then.

The idea of the Friday is to have a day going around London enjoying ourselves. Possible places to go will include -

- The Troccadero
- Namco
- Some cool bars, etc

Got any other ideas of what we can do on the Friday? Put them here!

Saturday Activities

Those who stay overnight will be allowed to have early entry to ALCL at 11am. Normal entry is at midday. We will then be rolling until midnight, where everyone will return to the hostel (or go home/to their hotels!).

Lots to do throughout the day, including a tonne of events (timetable to be released mid-October), dealers (we will aim to have plenty of companies involved, so there will be plenty to buy, probably at prices lower than Expo events), Video Gaming, Artist Alley, anime screening and so forth.

Sunday Activities

You'll either go home on the Sunday, or spend the day chilling out with everyone. Largely will be winding down and doing whatever everyone feels like over the course of the day. May go for a drink or ten later on as well!

Costs.

You are advised to put aside a total of at about £100 for this convention, including Hotel costs, transport costs, food costs, and other costs. It could be done on less, but I'd not advise it if you wish to have a good time!

Signups

Fill this in to signup.

Quote:

Real Life Alias: State here the name IRL you'd like to go by at the convention.
Nights staying: State if you will be staying either the Friday and Saturday nights OR the Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. Note that we do not accept people who will stay just the Friday or Saturday nights - this is too confusing to keep track of for us.
Proof of ID that will be taken: If you do not have one, then state so, and we'll try to work around it.
Any issues with Prepay: If for some reason you can NOT manage to pre-pay, please state why here, and if it's a legitimate reason, I'll allow you to pay on the day.

Confirmed Members for staying over at accomm 37/42

FreeSaiyan
Cap'n Shooby
Kanada
Tsunade
supergurl19
Speedlolita
World of Payne
Flandre Scarlet
Deriku
Sephona-Lionheart
Sabriel
Edges
Usa-chan
Eon II
OrangeLightning
pipothy
Latchman [Paid]
Garling [Paid]
Chado [Paid]
Twistedtomsky
AnsiStar
Fayt
Lizzie-may
TimmyDM
Madyamisam [Paid]
Hazard_Syndrome [Paid]
Shiro Neko
Angels-Tale
Ricey
SaiyanRump x2
Dave
Stripey
Twypsm
Quill
TheGrackle
Touchstone
Ehryn
spongbros
The Conqueror
ssj4sailormenz
Scorchgid
jesus is rippin
n00j

Guest Policy

Visitors are NOT allowed to go up into the dorms. Bar only - sorry guys. If you want to get into the dorms, you have to pay for a place.

awsome, sound likes alot been planned, but i cant guarantee attendance till after alcon and i see how easily i can come by money once im back at college >> /havingtoearnmoneywillbelame

I should be cool to go to this

If help is needed by me, don't hesitate to ask >3

If I go i'll be there all 3 nights I can assume

**Join:** 09 Jan 12:06 pm **Posts:** 2520 **Location:** **Credits:** 4290

I'm coming :3 Fri and Sat for me pleash

**Join:** 09 Mar 12:43 am **Posts:** 15697 **Location:** **Credits:** 2090

I'll be coming to this, signed up ages ago.

And I LOVE trocadero, would be nice to go there with some AL peeps.

Welcome aboard, guys.

We'll start doing some proper promotion of this when Alcon is done (ie: emails, posting on news-sites more etc). For now, I am keeping this to word of mouth so that we can get some momentum gradually established for this!

**Join:** 25 Nov 12:05 am **Posts:** 49 **Location:** **Credits:** 205

Real Life Alias: Alex "the brain" Payne

Nights staying: Friday and Saturday
Pay after ALcon

**Join:** 04 Aug 10:21 pm **Posts:** 16655 **Location:** **Credits:** 1890

Real Life Alias: Gary
Nights staying: Defiantly 2 possible 3.
Proof of ID that will be taken: Birth Cert/Passport

I should defiantly be able to go to this, only thing that could get in the way is if I actually manage to get a job but I'm sure I'll be able to get time off if it collides anyway.

Okay, added everyone!

Update! - MasakoX of Naruto Abridged and DBZ Abridged is confirmed as a guest.

Cosplay Fever and Toymation are now also confirmed as coming as well.

**Join:** 14 Aug 12:17 am **Posts:** 4557 **Location:** **Credits:** 2500

MAy be coming to this or EXPO donno yet gotta wait and see if i get into college. ^_^ Plus see who gonna be attending..

**Join:** 06 Jul 10:32 pm **Posts:** 1111 **Location:** **Credits:** 1220

i soo want to come!!!!
i need money but i should have money to come (:
we'll see
i'd have to find a freind to come with me tho... i dont fancy a train f=ride from machester to london on my own >.>

**Join:** 28 Jan 8:50 pm **Posts:** 142 **Location:** **Credits:** 690

Sounds cool I wanna go I'll see if i can get my friends to come.

i checked the site where u say register what does it mean by 'badge name' is that what u want your badge to say when u collect it?

do u cosplay for this like the expo?

KageKimasu wrote:

Sounds cool I wanna go I'll see if i can get my friends to come.

i checked the site where u say register what does it mean by 'badge name' is that what u want your badge to say when u collect it?

do u cosplay for this like the expo?

Yeah, that'd be what your badge says. Note that only people who register and pay beforehand get a badge. Everyone else just gets wrist-bands as proof of entry.

And yes, people do indeed cosplay!

**Join:** 25 Apr 10:49 am **Posts:** 152 **Location:** **Credits:** 675

Real Life Alias: Deriku, Dc or Smartie.. Whichever you like to call me.
Nights staying: Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights....I did offer to help out so it makes sense to stay the 3 nights XD
Proof of ID that will be taken: Driving License be ok?
Any issues with Prepay: Hmm well if anyone is going to the MCM expo in October I can hand over the money there but it depends really on how the prepay works, if it's by card I'll grab someone with a card and do it that way.