Glasgow Do - Saturday 25th April 2020, Merchant City *Postponed*
 

Hi All

Inspired by others who have hosted do's in Gibraltar , Leeds, London, Phoenix and other far flung locations I have decided with the help of JCM9000 and a few others to set up a do here in my hometown of Glasgow.


Venue

Venue has been confirmed!!

Bar Square in Glasgow Merchant Square
5 Bell St, Glasgow G1 1NU

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Venue is a large courtyard style bar with good beer, gin & spirits selection and for those looking for bubbles they also have Moet & Bollinger BUT more importantly all at Glasgow prices :-)

Merchant Square is an excellent central location and an excellent starting point with lots of other food and drink options nearby, the bar itself also has a decent food selection

Venue has been booked and look forward to seeing you all there :-)



Transport

For those flying up there is plenty of flights from LHR, LGW and if you fly the night before LCY also.
Edinburgh airport is also an hour by a very frequent bus service from door to Glasgow City Centre if it helps with availability.

• There is no train from Glasgow Airport to the city centre however there is a bus every 10 minutes which takes 15 minutes into the city centre at a cost of £14 open return,
• For those not flying Glasgow Central and Glasgow Queen Street are the closest train stations and are quite well served.
• Airport Taxi is £25 from an airport Taxi Rank
• Private Hire is £13 from the pickup point at the airport
• Uber is available
• Anyone wanting to try something different the Caledonia Sleeper train runs into Glasgow from London Euston Friday into Saturday and home Sunday into Monday.

Hotels:

There are various Hilton Hotels (Hilton Glasgow, Hilton Grosvenor, Hilton Garden Inn, Hilton Hampton Inn, Hilton DoubleTree). Marriott, Moxy, Radisson Blu, Raddison Red, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn etc to cater for all tastes and loyalty programs.

Another DO? Hell yes.

I'm in and booked up from LHR :D

I'm booked too, up on Sat morning, back Sun afternoon.

Blast, this was a Do I would have loved to attend, sadly I’ll be working 6,000 miles away ... enjoy ^

Ya dancer! Ah can get pure oot mah nut! Mrs telt ahm gaun.

Booked
Sat - BA1482
Sun - BA1487

Booked - up Sat back Sunday - BA1482 and BA1487!

aks120

I'm ignoring the word "proposed", that's terribly English you know.

I have already messaged a mod to remove such words lol

And this is one of the reasons I wanted to attend this one, I knew you would be there! :D

Done ^

Please feel free to post a link to this thread in the CommunityBuzz forum

Oh drat, I return from a European trip the following day. have a great time

The transport museum is worth a visit, if people fancied some cultural diversions!

Sounds fun? Tentative yes from me

Booked. Departing from LHR at 12.00 and returning to LCY at 14.10

I'm in. The question is.... can you get more than GIB?

Ach, sounds great, but alas friends have selfishly chosen that day to get married!

A friend and I are booked! :)

Outbound 16:15 and return 14:10!

Booked.

On BA1482 LHR-GLA 1200d Saturday, and Sunday BA1487 GLA-LHR 1415d connecting on to MAN. Staying at the Hilton Glasgow on Saturday night.

Thank you for organising cgtechuk ^

Having gone to do’s in Phoenix & Gib it would be mad not to go to this one as it’s on my doorstep, even though there’ll be no tier points on this one, I’ll be there!

Count me in too, good to see something close to home

GLA/LHR/GLA?

Count myself & Mrs BLHD in!

Oh!! I tend to try and get back in April. I am definitely interested in this one. If I can get the time off, I’ll most definitely be trying to get to this!

Knew you’d choose that date, always when I’m flying back or back in Kingdom!

Barring being forced to work somewhere I'll be there. Any location useful for me because I'm a "Wendy".

I'll even polish my glass eye.

Accidentally, of course... ;)

I'm in too.
Saturday LBA - LHR - GLA on the 1488
On Sunday I'm going to take a look around Glasgow during the day, leaving at 20.35 on the 1497, overnight at LHR then the 1344 back to LBA.
Hotel wise - looking at the IHG Indigo and the IHG Grand Central, both available on points. Anybody got any views on which one to choose? I'm so indecisive when it comes to hotels. And food. And most things, come to think of it.
Thanks for organising cgtechuk

I can’t make it because I’ll be in Sydney :(

(Shall we have a Sydney mini-do instead nancypants ?)

I’d expect nothing less of you.

I'm in,

Thanks for organising, cgtechukhttps://www.flyertalk.com/forum/imag...s/thumbsup.gif

Yeah

SYD mini do I'm arriving to syd on 3 April ;)
And leaving MEL on 18 but I will be back in Londo late on 25 April...so no Glasgow do for me

Dunfermline?

18 confirmed and 2 tentative, Numbers are picking up nicely

Wiki has been updated to Post #32 :-)

For the first time in actually in the city that is hosting the DO!

Unfortunately the reason I'm there that night is a family members birthday dinner.

Hope you all have a lovely night and fingers crossed for another time.

I’m sure it will start earlier and finish later. Can always join in before or after. :D

I think I can drag myself all the way over to the west coast so count me in.
I'll be on the X24 bus on Saturday, returning home the next.

Damn, home do and I’m away (got tickets for Liverpool v Burnley). If the date of the match changes I’ll come.

Luckily will be in GLA that weekend - I’d be interested too. Flying up from LGW.

Another Damn here! Leaving for the USA on the Monday. :(

Another damn here - shame I can't make it. Flying back from Canada that weekend. Hope you all have fun in Glasgow and see you at another do!