On-street parking is all permit controlled in the city; there are lots of car parks but generally expensive. You would have to park a long way out and take the bus (same as the park & ride), for example around Brighton Uni.
Alternatively, park at PeteC's and catch the train from Burgess Hill! Not quite as bonkers as it sounds, not sure how the train fair compares to Brighton parking charges (probably favourably!).
Feel free to bring a robot and transmitter, we might be glad of reinforcements!
Park & Ride buses are every 15 mins, trains are probably every 20 mins or so.
Don't bother trying to park around Hove, Preston Park or London Road stations.
You should be able to park for free fairly close to Portslade Station, don't really know about Hassocks, Burgess Hill etc.
Also, just to add to the fun, the Brighton Speed Trials are taking place in Madeira Drive so the city will be even busier than usual! (And consequently there is no parking on Madeira Drive!)
I'll be there in Saturday. Do you still need any help running the stand? I may be able to help out, but not a definite answer yet. Also do you want any antweights to display? I can't get them running, they're plaing up a bit.
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I'll be there tomorrow in the afternoon hopefully with a demo bot to help out.
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Managed to throw my train ticket in the bin and keep the receipt instead... however problem now resolved and I'll be there nice and early.
May also have a spot in the Brighton Argus for our stand, as the result of a spare 5 minutes for my PR guy yesterday...
Was a good event, there were definitley lots of interested people and we managed to keep several robots in the arena all day thanks to everyone who came to help/ dropped off robots for display.
Pete W, i've got combatant's blade covers(found them in the display case when tidying up. I'll bring them to Coventry unless you want them before then let us know and I'll stick them in the post.
There was also a pack of duracell AA batteries left on the table which I think are either Dave's or Ceri's...
Josh, That happens to a lot of people. I, right have a National rail reservation coupon & left the train ticket in Mr Weston's car. Still got through the barrier.