Perfect May Ball
Jun. 18th, 2006 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackI can't be bothered to describe Robinson, so I'll describe the perfect may ball instead. That is from my perspective, so there's little mention of some popular things.
* More room for dancing. We're always far too crowded, whenever we do anything like ceilidh or waltz rather than more normal shaking
* Food that can be simple, but very good.
* Gratuitously much of some cool gimicky food, eg. chocolate fountain
* But don't go overboard blowing your budget on caviar that no-one really likes and throws away
* Dodgems
* Fairgroundy rides, something different, fun and retro
* Different sorts of alchohol, preferably interesting, giving you the opportunity to sample lots of things
* A cinema for when you want to rest your feet for a few hours in the middle of the night
* Classical music outside in the early hours
* Little queuing
* No nonsense about requiring double tickets and draconian security precautions.
* Less faff with a survivors photo. I like the idea, and like having a defined end, but standing up for thirty minutes when you *feel* that it should be possible in one, and when your feet have finally started hurting and you finally want to sleep, and being given directions by a microphone that mumbles at high volume, with no indication of where is in the picture except the same microphone, for a picture on which you can barely see yourself, was something I enjoyed doing once and am now happy to skip.
* Taxis conveniently waiting outside to take you home and trade banter if you're awake enough for it.
Were any of the balls perfect? Trinity (£110 per person, less as a student) probably was the best ball in many ways, but I never really went with a group of friends, and had too great expectations so didn't enjoy it so much. Jesus (£90, less if you book early) was very nice, not perfect, but I think recommended. Robinson (£84) was nice, but felt a little half-hearted when they started running out of food and drink and breakfast. So it sounds like Jesus is a sweet spot, Trinity worth it if you can get tickets. But I've never been to any others (memo to self: be employed to massage[1] at one ball, crash another.)
* More room for dancing. We're always far too crowded, whenever we do anything like ceilidh or waltz rather than more normal shaking
* Food that can be simple, but very good.
* Gratuitously much of some cool gimicky food, eg. chocolate fountain
* But don't go overboard blowing your budget on caviar that no-one really likes and throws away
* Dodgems
* Fairgroundy rides, something different, fun and retro
* Different sorts of alchohol, preferably interesting, giving you the opportunity to sample lots of things
* A cinema for when you want to rest your feet for a few hours in the middle of the night
* Classical music outside in the early hours
* Little queuing
* No nonsense about requiring double tickets and draconian security precautions.
* Less faff with a survivors photo. I like the idea, and like having a defined end, but standing up for thirty minutes when you *feel* that it should be possible in one, and when your feet have finally started hurting and you finally want to sleep, and being given directions by a microphone that mumbles at high volume, with no indication of where is in the picture except the same microphone, for a picture on which you can barely see yourself, was something I enjoyed doing once and am now happy to skip.
* Taxis conveniently waiting outside to take you home and trade banter if you're awake enough for it.
Were any of the balls perfect? Trinity (£110 per person, less as a student) probably was the best ball in many ways, but I never really went with a group of friends, and had too great expectations so didn't enjoy it so much. Jesus (£90, less if you book early) was very nice, not perfect, but I think recommended. Robinson (£84) was nice, but felt a little half-hearted when they started running out of food and drink and breakfast. So it sounds like Jesus is a sweet spot, Trinity worth it if you can get tickets. But I've never been to any others (memo to self: be employed to massage[1] at one ball, crash another.)
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Date: 2006-06-18 09:22 pm (UTC)