Maison Blanche tickets for 2009

[Paddy_NL]

As most of you know it has been a real hassle this year to get preferred tickets. There is an agency in Holland (Ticket & Travel) who sells tickets for a reasonable price, for example: this year's Maison Blanche tickets were sold for €90,- which is only slightly above face value, and without the obligation to buy GAs and tickets you never use anyway. Both Knetter and I have been working on this, and as it is the first day after free practise at Le Mans, we are allowed to order tickets again for the following year.

With all this in mind, I rang the travel agency today and ordered 80 Maison Blanche tickets. It is not known to the agency if they can get this amount off the ACO, but they will let me know as soon as they get the word from France. Of course, the idea behind this is we can have a bulk of tickets, and we can have some sort of CA/DfH village at Maison Blanche next year. The only downer on this, is the tickets will have to be paid for by November.

Please do not order tickets with me yet. I do not know if the agency can get this amount off especially for us - and if they do, I want to wait untill we're back from this year's edition anyway. I will let you know as soon as I get that phone call.

Fingers crossed everyone!! Well, those who'd like to be on Maison Blanche...

[Andy]

Its good when you have a nice lead come in your direction. Its something we have had on the wish list for a couple of years now. I've got my balls crossed for this to evolve.

[Dirk3D_NL]

excellent

[Bas]

That's 10% of Maison Blanche 

Very ambitious but I hope you pull it off, desperate times call for desperate measures.

[Piglet]

Hope it works out for you Paddy, we shall be staying home and watching on the telly next year 

[Paddy_NL]

That's sad to hear, Anita

[Queen Vic of the Melans]

i'll need to confirm with melans but i'm sure that we'll be back next year and will need at least a couple of tickets 

[Lazy B'stard]

I'll have 2 off you Paddy, too much riff raff on Bleu Sud this year!
 S

[knetter]

No orders yet, we will open a topic later after we get back. The situation they told me with the agents is that they order their tickets in august, that is after we put in our requests with the ACO, however, the agents still get first pick allocations. I asked him for 60 for next year, but Paddy did not think it was enough. Fingers crossed. By the way, still go forward putting in your requests with the ACO, as a precaution if this falls through.

[redstu]

great , hope it comes off.

[mike(liverpool boys)]

Sounds like a cracking idea. Camp CA would be an amazing place 

[Martini...LB]

Sounds like a cracking idea. Camp CA would be an amazing place 

I think you mean Camp DFH /CA

>Martini...

[mike(liverpool boys)]

Sounds like a cracking idea. Camp CA would be an amazing place 

I think you mean Camp DFH /CA

>Martini...

Sounds even better 

[LangTall]

We're just as much CA member as DfH member Martini, so camp CA does cover it quite well.

Allthough I think the DfH group is one of the biggest ones on CA.

[Rusty]

Ahem