Good Afternoon all of you wonderful people!   It's finally here and I'm very excited to officially announce plans for our Second European trip and this time to Europa Park!   The date of the event is the Bank Holiday Weekend of Saturday 28th - Monday 30th May 2016! As voted by you.

 

As you can see it's set for 3 days! This is due to the extent of the trip and with the amount on offer at Europa Park its been recommended that you have 3 days on site so you're not rushing - I have provisionally set it for a bank holiday so the majority do not need to book work off. If you cannot do 3 days other alternatives will be arranged for you!  Please take note if you plan to stay with us overnight, it will be your responsibility to book your own rooms/ flights and unfortunately if your under 18 we cannot help you with this! If you were to come under no circumstances will TPM get involved and take responsibility with your stay, and if you did go you would also need written permission from a guardian just for the sake of border control! This trip has been set in mind as an over 18's event. I understand some of you may be disappointed about this but due to the meet being outside the country it complicates matters too much!

As this is the largest scale of a meet TPM has ever attempted some advanced planning for those who are interested and want to go will need to take place. I will help you as much as I can with groupings and questions and answers about the trip and I will go into much further detail on this with those who want to go. Depending on your circumstances some may have to pay some money up front to their 'group leader' so things can get booked. In total Flights, Accommodation, Park Tickets, Food & Spending Money for the whole trip I predict will be in the region of £300-450 (Depending on your spending money levels )

The Outline of the day/s will be as follows (Prices rough estimate of provisional date):

 

Please take note the outline for travelling and hotels is just a guide - things will be confirmed with those who are going. If you decide to come after we've made initial bookings I will tell you what to do to still be able to join us. As this is a guide it does not mean this is how you will travel as you may make your own arrangements! Friday Night Flight from Gatwick to Basel. We will then make our way to Rust where the majority of the accommodation near Europa Park is. Once we arrive we will enjoy our first night in Germany. Rough Flight Costs will be between £80-£100.

 

Tickets for Europa Park for 1 day in 2016 is 45 Euros and 84 for a 2 day ticket. 180 for a season ticket. 3 days will therefore be in-between that but will be no more than £100 for 3 day park ticket 

Meet At the entrance to Europa park at 08:30 am. This will give people a chance to sort out their tickets. We will ensure during the day for those who may want to sort out an annual pass that you will get the chance in the day as the rest can watch a show around the park. Please bear in mind we will leave without you if you are late as it’s not fair on time keepers! If by any chance you happen to miss this meet point due to travel arrangements or just plain lateness you can either phone or text so we can arrange to meet you. As members have found out! We will then go and enjoy our day in Europa Park. I know not everyone will want to do some of the rides/ shows at Europa. If you decide to not come on please be polite and wait for everyone to come off and chat to other members whilst you are waiting. Or go off and do another attraction as long as you’ll be back after the group has finished riding the attraction. Please respect other people’s wishes who wish to ride certain things that you yourself may not be too keen with. During the day, around half 1, we will stop for a bite to eat where you can go and eat where you like and we will arrange where to meet after everyone has finished eating. (Who knows we might all want to eat the same thing anyway   ) After lunch we will group together for the Official Group Photo for the day and continue going round the park until it closes at 6pm. After this you may head back to your hotels or join me by heading out for a bit of nightlife in the local area.

The Sunday & Monday we will meet at the same time and place as the Saturday but instead at 09:15 at the entrance of wodan (It will be at the entrance again at 8:45am but Ryan spotted a mistake - I need to respect that )  and basically continue what we were doing Saturday until people need to start leaving to make their flights or crossings.

I will be handing out my phone number for everyone who is attending the meet that day, should there be any problems. We aim to stay together as a group for the day, going from one activity to the next, enjoying getting to know people you share very similar interests with, the idea is to just go with the flow and enjoy the day with some awesome people. There will be many photo’s in the day being taken and the possibility of a few video clips. Whilst we cannot force you to stay with the group, it is the general purpose of these meets! You will have my number (and some of the senior teams) if you become split so by all means use it. The meets are a fantastic laugh and everyone is invited, even if you have never posted before or been to any kind of meet at all. If it's your first meet, I understand it can be nerve breaking - but we were all there at one point so know how it feels, please don't let this stop you from attending - Once there you'll be part of the group in no time! Just look at the past trips this year!

I will soon be posting up a separate post on possible accommodation locations which you can use to help you decide where to sleep (If your staying for the night.) If however you know where your going already by all means book it up when we confirm the dates this time next week. I know for example I will be staying at Gastehaus Metropolitan which is 5 mins walk from the park. Rough cost of accommodation is £80-£100 per person for 3 nights.

Once again, everyone will have my phone number so please use it on the day   If anyone has any issues or concerns or even nervous about coming, feel free to post here, or PM myself and I will get back to you as soon as possible. If you feel like my response is taking too long another member of the team will be more than happy to help. We will all try and help you out as much as we can.

Please PM me or post here to say if you’re attending. If you are bringing a mate along with you, please also include who they are so they are not known as ‘Plus 1.’ The events with TPM have been fantastic this year and this one will be no different!

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Finally! 

 

But gah, that is literally a day before my first exam so I defintely won't be able to make the provisional date. 

Hi, I have never been to a meet up yet as I'm fairly new to TPM. I am 18 so obviously a bit nervous but I done DLP in December, I have always lovd to go to EP just had no one to go with so I am very intereseted in this Trip.. I am just a bit nervous.

 we will meet by the tower of terror in the studios park 

 

You can meet there but I'll be at Wodan myself

Literally buzzing for this! Definitely count me in.

might do another day at the park (date pending) if anyone's interested.

If its the 30th I would of had a 5 day rest then be jetting back up there I will hopefully make it so put me as a maybe.

Realistically, I could only do August-time, but even then, I'm not sure I'd be able to make it due to the cost of it and other plans.  So a wait and see.

Yeah I think that provisional date will clash with a lot of peoples exams so I dont know how successful a meet will be on that date. I'm very interested though

That's why there is a vote

Do we all get the same flight and if so where from?

We will try our best and going to guess from Gatwick. However we will get dates sorted first and then those really interested I'll be talking to those on a more informative detail to sort out the finer things etc

Definitely going to try and come to this one!

If possible if timed right we could go during there summer period with a acrobats show show at one of there Hotels free entry http://www.europapark.de/en/park/events/imperio 

Promise you'll do this meet again in 3 years as I'll be 18 and not having to force signatures everywhere.

Make that 4 years please. ^

Do it again in 2020 to sum up why me and the guy with the same first name as me said (my first name is also Charlie).

I thought your name was equoaster!

It was a username that I came up with in a few seconds when creating a YouTube channel (link in profile) by combining 'equestrian' (as I used to do horse riding) and 'coaster'.

In my profile and a post I made in 'Which park got you into rides?' page 2 you'll see why Europa Park had a life changing impact on me.

Please can my vote be changed to saturday 28th May - Monday 30th May 2016

Tricky one for me as I can't do any of the May dates and I am not sure whether or not I will be working across the summer or not yet.

Nevertheless, I would hate to miss out on it so providing it's not May or early June, I should be up for going.

Might be able to do this, definitely interested. However depends on my university exam timetable which I havnt had through yet

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Please can my vote be changed to saturday 28th May - Monday 30th May 2016

 

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I am 110% up for this meet, only issue is that I will be working this season and I might have uni exams, so hopefully I will have the days free.

Definitely up for this, would be a killer first meet if I can't make any of the earlier ones!

Right the weekend Europa Park will be taking place is  the Bank Holiday Weekend of Saturday 28th - Monday 30th May 2016! This weekend and the August bank holiday weekend and other dates in August have tied but as a member wanted to change their vote it puts the winning weekend up to 9 votes. 

So we can take advantage of cheaper flights I will be contacting all those who have shown interest very soon to start getting the arrangements for this sorted.