ACO booking confirmation letters

[Lord Pig-Pen]

Bleu was ok back along when I camped there with my dad and his mates but that was about 10 years ago! Guess we will have to just see what happens aye...

[JDS]

Well, after being away and reading through the various camping threads running at the moment I decided to drop the ACO a mail yesterday regarding my KN tickets ...

Dear Sir,

We haven’t started to record the bookings, but you should receive your allocation letter around February.

Best regards,

Service Réservation / Booking Office
Circuit des 24 Heures
72019 Le Mans Cedex 2
FRANCE
Tel: (0033)(0)892 697 224 (0,34€/min)
Fax: (0033) (0)2 43 84 47 13

So looks like it's just the MB requests that are being dealt with at the moment ...

[Doris]

I ordered 20 as usual. Confirmation always came though a couple of weeks prior to Christmas and demanding payment within 14 days, I always took that as being a c*ntish French joke knowing that it would always send everybody into panic as all the cards etc are full at that time of year and you wouldn't be able to sort anything out. The one thing that you do have to remember that over all the years that we have all been going is that we all have to go through the same rigmarole every year... The f**k*ng Frogs have been changing the rules as long as I have been going and that started in '91, small fry compared to some of the older die hards but it still is a fact. Maybe it is their way of getting back at the the rest of us as the only time that they had a strong country was through theat Corisican Bonaparte and they now need to flex their muscles, most recently they have been known for 'running away' from any kind of conflict, and the only way that they claimed fame to Bonaparte and Corsica is that they bought it but decided not to let it be known. Hey, how many French have declared that they were members of the resistance ? Clearly all of them, the c**ts, why didn't they show that kind of resistance when the Germans drove through the Belgians woods bybassing the Magnot line, eh.
I'll leave it there for the moment.

Rusty  

9/10 

Very good anti-french rant Rusty, I could have written it myself. You lose a mark for failing to mention their ghastly restaurants, foul toilets, poisonous drinking water and the terrible smell.

And, I think, half a point deducted for not mentioning that famous French military victory "The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior"

I'm suprised that the bastards haven't declared the anniversary a public holiday

You had just had to go and piss me off by mentioning the Rainbow Warrior didn't you!  Bloody French Bastards blowing things up in New Zealand and then being 'punished' by living on an atoll in the middle of the Pacific!   

We got our own back though.  We turned the wreck into a dive site and now we make lots of tourist dollars out if it.   

Dx

[Paddy_NL]

We got our own back though.  We turned the wreck into a dive site and now we make lots of tourist dollars out if it.   

Wouldn't it be better to get French Euro$ out of that?

[mgmark]

I wonder if the confusion arose because of a misunderstanding that I had made a CA collective booking, whereas, as said above, all I did - or indeed ever offered to do - was hand all the forms in (as sent to me) at 09.00 on the day the bookings were first being accepted.

Your effort was really apreciated, Termie. It's definitely not your fault the booking didn't go as we anticipated. My struggle at the moment is to find a good spot to have both our encampment and be able to have the Friday Party without any problems.
Oh well, we live and learn...

Shame that minefields have been outlawed, as they would provide a certain satisfying level of security against undesirables..... After our incident last year, we're planning to use a few of these or something similar:

http://www.c-p-p.co.uk/product/asp/ProdID/2062/CtgID/1006/af/page.htm

As well as the normal precautions of keeping stuff locked up or on the person, when set with the alarm suitably hidden and the ripcord wired up (with something suitably invisible like fishing line) so that it pulls if doors, tent flaps or kit is moved, then a pretty instant warning is available that something is not as it should be.  Might help you in resolving the issue.

MG Mark

[Petra]

Ah, the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior.... finally something good those stupid French people did Let's face it: they did what most countries wanted to do but didn't have the guts for. At least give them credit for that.

I don't like Greenpeace. Without a doubt their intentions are good, but they lie and cheat to get their way AND they put other people's lives at risk. At least they do at sea. I don't like that. No matter how important you think your cause is, you DON'T have the right to put someone else at risk. My dad's been a sailor all his live (tug boats) and I've often enough heard him rant about Greenpeace. Not only about their actions, but also about the way they (mis)behave whenever they go on shore. Thinking of themselves as Truely Elite and not having the slightest respect for the people living in the harbour cities.

I totally agree with most of what they are trying to accomplish, but I just don't like them. It's way too far off topic to go any deeper into why I don't like them though.

That's my two cents

[jpchenet]

The plot thickens. I contacted the ACO to see if they could tell me whether I might be one of the lucky ones and they told me they are losing 400 places on MB. So I asked if maybe I could request a switch to Karting Nord and they have told me that KN will be reduced in size because of works as well!

More trackside corporate hospitality perhaps?

[JDS]

Urgh ... Just hoping I get mine (although have a few already brought through Just Tickets just to make sure) ... I suppose it won't be long until the dreaded 35m2 pitches arrive at KN too now then ...... 

[Piglet]

Other than it's a bit tricky for KK to take photo's - given the level of Motors coverage of the race last year, the idea of just taking the week off and living in the garden with a feed from the skybox is looking quite appealing 

The supermarkets are discounting beer enough that it could almost be France and I'm sure I can find horsemeat steaks if I look hard 

[jpchenet]

Other than it's a bit tricky for KK to take photo's - given the level of Motors coverage of the race last year, the idea of just taking the week off and living in the garden with a feed from the skybox is looking quite appealing 

I must admit to having sent a tongue in cheek email to Paddy suggesting we all just party at his work place and watch it on TV

[Petra]

Why 'tongue in cheek'? Sounds like a good idea to me

We'd even have the right sounds with the motorway being right there. Hell, the Audi's passing by there make more sound than those competing at LM

[Brian(Liverpool boys)]

Petra, I like it

MBLF: Maison Blanche Liberation Front