A bad rep?

[bellinghman]

The following headline is on the BBC web site today, in the 'North' section: Hotel rejects 'theft hotspot' tag

I didn't even need to look to know which particular establishment they were referring to. After all, how many such places can there be?

Crime figures from May 2005 to May 2006 show four out of five room burglaries in Liverpool hotels happened at the Adelphi in Ranelagh Place.

It's a shame, a real shame, but no surprise. We'll be there next Easter, but there's no way we're actually taking a room there - we've too many friends who have been stolen from, there.

(Edit: a single comma added.)

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And the chances of that are ...

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

... badly reduced by the perceived crime rate *particularly* if there's "inside" crime (current or ex-staff members with keys/access, who either commit the crime themselves or tip off a friend/accomplice to do the dirty).

I believe we need to get 400 rooms booked, and I don't know if they have any restrictions on how many of those can be "singles", but let's assume 25% of rooms are singles, so that's 700 people staying in the hotel. (300 doubles, 100 singles, I'm ignoring families/triples)

At the moment, Convoy's website shows 350 members (all categories) with 60 still at pre-supporting (which reminds me, I must convert), 10 supporters, 7 committee (including the email bot), 4 guests and the rest (I think) are kids (oh, and two toys). So, at best, around 280 warm bodies booked to be onsite. I really hope that membership picks up between now and Easter, but I think the chance of selling out the hotel is *extremely* small.

So we need to encourage people to come along and to book into the Adelphi (and we have to make sure that *our* security is as good as possible).

Re: And the chances of that are ...

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

In addition, I strongly suspect that not all attending members could be persuaded to stay there.

(This strong suspicion is reinforced by the fact that we are booked into a different hotel.)

This may be the make-or-break occasion for the Adelphi, so far as general UK fandom is concerned. If no problems occur, then the sceptics may be won back. But if the usual level does occur, then I think it'll be another decade before fandom could be persuaded to return.