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Manx GP 2023

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royhall:
Well the Manx GP is off to a shitty start. Our sailing tomorrow is cancelled due to bad weather. They cant give us an actual re-booking until next Thursday nearly a week later. They advised us to go on stand by and turn up at Heysham or Liverpool early for the next sailing. If there's room they will take standbys on a first come first serve basis. So tomorrow afternoon it's a 150 mile round trip to Liverpool, if we don't get on then we can try again on Sunday from Heysham. And I suppose we keep trying until we either get on or the world runs out of petrol. What a terrible way to treat your customers, no apologies or compensation, just indifference. I was already considering making this my last time and this has not helped.

Spitfire:
I used to go to the TT and Manx every year from 1970 to 1978, and it was pretty simple and cheap, in the early years it was just throw the tent and sleeping bag on the back of the bike and off we went, usually camping at Bray Hill.
If the weather was iffy or we got fed up it was easy to swap to a B&B in Douglas, then later the camping was given up and it was B&B's all the way, none of it was too expensive or hard to organise.
The last time we went was 1978, our honeymoon and we were on the 750F1, it was changing then, starting to get very commercialisedwith lots of "biker" entertainment, instead of making our own fun.
When I read about it now I am horrified at the expense and need to book so early.

Cheers

Dennis

royhall:
There's pretty much no B&Bs in Douglas now. We moved to Peel about 10 years ago.

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philward:
I done the TT early 70's to early 80's - great times but I was more tolerant of weather and accomadation back then. If you could guarantee the weather, I'd be there but otherwise it would just encourage my grumpyness!

royhall:
It's turned into an utter fiasco now, they have also cancelled this mornings boat from Liverpool. First opportunity is now tomorrow morning from Heysham. It is impossible to get information out of Steam Packet it's all a big secret. I have been told by a group of VMCC guys that they are now at Liverpool docks (Saturday morning) because they were on their way before the sailing was cancelled. They say about half the people due to sail have turned up (no choice if your travelling a distance) and there are at least 70 to 90 people in the standby line already, with more expected from the Heysham boat. They too have had nothing but indifference from the company. Steam Packet are a shower of shit, this is defo the last time.

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