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)no subject
Date: 2006-06-18 09:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-18 09:43 pm (UTC)I've had fortune with drunk people (including myself) this weekend; all very polite.
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Date: 2006-06-18 09:45 pm (UTC)While I was in the queue to pick up Pembroke tickets there were two tall and well-bred looking young men behind me (well bred in the way that horses are) saying "We can just push in if we elbow these little people down the stairs haw haw haw". I thought, hmm, wish I could get refunds.
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Date: 2006-06-19 12:39 am (UTC)Well, I always enjoy it, anyway.