6 replies to this topic

[gazza01]

Hi all.

As the title says. I shall be joining the run and travelling to Brighton without a ticket.
At this point I suppose I should make the obligatory excuse for not purchasing said item before they ran out.
'Yeah, well I didn't think the car would be ready in time'
or ' I was told I only had 2 weeks to live, but now they've told me it was all a huge mistake and really I'm fine. Typical!! The Bast@@ds!!

But the truth is I have been a very lazy simple minded witless cretinous oaf, who didn't get his
now misshapen backside in gear fast enough, and who shall feel the pain of travelling as the underclass, the unwashed. The lost sheep.

I shall have to travel along with all those other lovely minis. Fearless pilots at the wheel, many of whom will realise they may never make it back. (especially if it rains)

They will toot and wave and smile at me. The excitement will reach fever pitch as the smell of the salt air hits the nostrils,(even over the fumes pumping through my boot space)

Then at last, the SEA!!! We're almost there. Oh the wonderment! Oh the joy!! It's really happening! minis everywhere!!!!!! Everywhere I tell you!!

'Right then, I must go and find a public car park. I do hope it's safe. I shall be worrying all afternoon'

BUGGER!

Edited by gazza01, 07 May 2013 - 10:37 PM.

[Alex_B]

I was another one of the great unwashed without a ticket (bought one since) but there are plenty of multistory car parks very happy to rip you off, but I  was planning to get there early and park above madeira drive 

[dean]

If you plan to tag along with the run

Park around the corner at crystal palace ,leave when you want ( earlier the better) . ,parking at the top of Merida drive will be hard to find also up and down the roads around there. Lots of pernit parking area pay and display. Best to park in the harbour parking area it's free( from what I remember) and then jump on the small train that runs down to the pier along the beach. So you don't have a big walk. Plus you also saved yourself £30.

Edited by dean, 07 May 2013 - 11:00 PM.

[jamesmpi]

There is a lower car park at crystal palace where you can park and walk up a grass banking to where the rest of the runners park.

[AVV IT]

At the Brighton end you can park in the Marina next door, I believe that it's free for the first 4 hours. It's then just a short walk through the passage way to the end of Madeira drive, where all the official run entrants park. I've parked there each year for a few years now, along with an awful lot of other classic mini owners!! http://www.brightonm...ut/parking.aspx

 

Admittedly you then have to walk the entire length of Madeira drive to get to the main part of the show, but then that also means that you get to look at over 2,000 parked up mini's on the way!! ..... If that's not your thing, then you can always jump on the Volks Electric Railway for £3.50 (return) instead, as suggested above, but then if that's not your thing then why on earth are you going to a mini show? 

Edited by AVV IT, 08 May 2013 - 02:51 PM.

[smev]

I have heard from a few people about having to park in the marina or pot luck even if you do have a ticket!

I'm hoping to get to registration early and out in time to get a space on Madiera. I went to Brighton this weekend as it happens, there was some run on then, and without the Drive open for parking (which I think makes up for quite a bit of the town's parking) it was a nightmare!

 

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Edited by smev, 08 May 2013 - 03:19 PM.

[The Principal]

Last year I arrived late with a ticket into Crystal Palace and joined the back of the queue, departed the park around 08.30 travelling down the A23 with a cuppa enroute. When I arrived at Maderia Drive the organisers were backfilling the available spaces I pulled a result parking up near the trade stands. So the early bird doesnt always catch the worm.