Flights have changed...

On Monday 21st March I received a e-mail from easyJet saying that the flight have been changed. The original flight was on 10th May at 16:40 this has been changed to 10th May at 16:45 this has only changed by 5 minutes so this doesn’t mess up any plans which we have already made.

18th February Meeting Four...

We all had a fourth meeting on Friday 18th February. Everyone has now all handed in their passports, EHIC and EV 4 forms. All the medical tables have been completed so Justine knows who to contact in case of an emergency.  

We have to produce a pre departure booklet which Kaleigh is  putting this together we all had to send her pieces of the booklet where we had to write about the climate, flight details, contact numbers, where Prague is and the population as well as the local currency and phrases.

All transfers in the UK have been sorted. Steph D-C’s mum is going to take us to the airport in the college minibus. Our flight from Stansted departs at 16:40 which means we will meet at the college at 13:45 and leave at 14:00 and we will arrive at London Stansted airport for 15:00 we don’t need to check in and this will save time. The inbound flight lands at 20:55 which means we will arrive back at college around 22:30.

Transfers have also all been sorted out the hostel which we booked with provide transfers and we have booked with them. Kaleigh sorted this out and all the payments as she contacted the hostel about the accommodation however me and Kristy wrote the final e-mail to confirm everything.  This will cost about £11 per person.

As a group we all have to present a PowerPoint to our parents this will be on 3^rd May and I will be putting the PowerPoint presentation together. In our groups we will all have a slide about what we are doing in Prague, how much it will costs, the accommodation we are staying in and when we are going to Prague. The parents will then all be given a pre departure booklet so they know what is happening and where we are going.

Steph DC and Gemma are organising the activities which we are going to do whilst in Prague. We all want to go on a Segway tour. Steph has sent the company e-mails asking them about how much it will cost and if we can do it however they haven’t replied we found a UK phone number and Steph is going to phone them. This costs £52 person and lasts 3 hours. As well as do the Segway tour we all want to visit Prague’s castle which costs £5 per person and go on a jazz river cruise. This cruise costs £28 pound including food.

We are all doing a fundraising event and we are doing a cake sale. Steph B, Blaise and Hayley  are going to approach supermarkets to see if they will make a donation to our cake sale. Steph B will be going to Tesco’s, Blaise to Sainsbury’s and Hayley to Asda. The team also decided that they needed to get napkins, plates and rubber gloves with Steph DC said she would be able to get. Blaise said she would bring in the table cloths to make the stall look appealing. However money pots and change need to be found. 

We have decided that we will do a car wash on 6^th May as we had to change it due to the royal wedding.

Lorna has put together a budget table to find out how much we have spent and to see how much it costs. We are waiting for the Segway tour costing so that Kaleigh can put it into the pre departure booklet.

Thats all for now!

Speak to you later! :D xx

January 21st Meeting three....

Today we had another meeting, and everyone needed to bring in their passports, EHIC cards and EV4 forms most people have brought these in however some people still need to hand these in. These all needed to be photocopied. We also had to sign a roles and responsibilities form this shows us the allocated jobs which we must do in our groups. We all got a copy of these so nobody could forget what they were doing. We all then had to fill in a medical sheet, which had our emergency contact details down incase anything happened whilst we were in Prague!

 

We have now booked out hostel!! We had a choice of two hostels to stay in when we went to prague, we looked at the reviews of the hotel, locaion and the photos of the hotel. As a groups we all decided that wanted to stay in Sir Tobys!! (It has a cute dog!!)

The rooming arrangements are one dorm for 10 girls with shared shower facilities, 1 twin wirh private shower facilities this will be for Ross and Marcello and 1 single room for justine which also has private shower facilities. The total cost to stay in Sir Tobys is €837 which works out £713 we then got a 10% discount the price after this is €713 which works out as £642 and a price of £58.40 per person and £19.50 per night.

The hostel looks really nice and clean and also has a bar downstairs which is always good!! These are the pictures, so nice!! Sir Tobys also does breakfasts however there is a small charge from £1 - £4 this is for a buffet breakfast and we get to choose the style of breakfast we want. The hostel also offers transfers to and from the airport and this costs roughly £8 per person. This means we won't have to worry about finding out hostel!!

 

We booked the accommodation and were all excited about going to Prague, the next thing we need to decided on is the attractions which we want to see. That the next topic in our meeting! We are hopefully going to hold another fund raising event on 1st april and will be a cake sale!!

Thats all for now x

14th January 2011...

Today we did not have a meeting instead we had to put together a pre departure booklet for Prague, in our separate groups we had to find out different things to put into the booklet. Kaleigh is putting the booklet together and mine and Kristy’s role is to find what the climate is like in Prague using diagrams. Whilst we were researching the climate we found out that, Weather in Prague can change depending on the weather patterns. Prague has a continental weather climate with hot summers and cold winter. The best time to visit Prague is between May – September as this is usually when the weather is controllable, as its not too hot and not too cold, and the city is not overcrowded. During the summer period temperatures can usually reach 35C and in the winter can reach -15C. Spring and summer are usually he months to have the sunniest hours. Snow is rare in Prague during winter and rainfall is pretty much regular throughout the year, all seasons in Prague are beautiful, no matter what the weather is like.

As well as find out what the climate is like in Prague we also had to send Kaleigh the details of the flight details to add to the pre departure booklet the flight details are:

Flight Details

Flight 3065

London Standard to Prague 10^th May 2011 16:40

Dep:  10^th May 2011 1640

Arr: 10^th May 2011 19:30

Flight 3066

Prague to London Stansted 13^th May 2011 20:00

Dep:  13^th May2011 20:00

Arr:  13^th May 2011 20:55

Hand baggage

1 piece per passenger

Checked baggage

0 checked bags between all passengers combined up to a total combined weight of 0kg.

As we are travelling with hang luggage only we can pre-print our boarding pass before we go online and go straight to security at the airport.

Total cost of flights £759.56 being £69.05 per person.

Booking Reference: EHF1H9B

Booking the Flights!...

Monday 10^th January

On Monday Kristy and I booked the flights to Prague, this was because easyJet had a sale on a flights booked and this ended Tuesday. Me and Kristy booked the flights together as we are the Transport team and this is one of the jobs which we had to do. When you book the flights you must take everyone name down so we had do write everyone’s name making sure that they were spelt correctly. The flights were cheap compared to when we last looked at them. We have decided as a group that we would only be taking hand luggage which means that we will save time and check-in online and this saves us time at the airport. We are travelling to Prague on 10^th May 2011 – 13^th May 2011. We are flying from London Stansted airport, we have to be at the airport 2 hours before departure the flight is due to take off at 16:40 and land in Prague at 19:30. We fly back from Prague on 13^th May and out flight departure time is at 20:00 and we are due to land at London Stansted at 20:55. The total price for the flights was £759.56 and this is for 13 people to travel to Prague This works out as £69 per person.

First Fundraiser....

We did our first Fundraiser on Friday 17^th December, and we raised money for NSPCC this is a charity for children, and the event went really well and some of the money raised went towards our trip to Prague! We went round our college for about an hour to see if we can raise any money. We split up in groups to go around the college and these were Hayley, Steph D-C and Lorna, Ross, Steph B, Kristy and Gemma and Blaise, Kaleigh and me. As it was Christmas we all made an effort to look Christmassy and dressed as Elf’s or tried to wear something Christmassy. As it was the last day of term there weren’t many people at college, however we still raised £69.78 which was really good!! And it means that some of the money will go towards our Prague trip which means a little bit of the trip has been paid.

After we had raised the money Kaleigh and Lorna had to go to the finance department in the college to bank the money as they are the finance team. We are now planning our second fund raising event which will be sorted out by Blaise, Steph B and Hayley which means we will be able to raise more money!

I will keep you updated with everything which is happening! See ya later.

First Meeting....

We had our first meeting on Friday 10^th December, we had a list of things which we needed to do and as part of being on the transport team Kristy and I had to look at the prices of flights. As a group we all decided that we wanted to go to Prague on Monday 9^th to Thursday 12^th May we then all started to look at prices for the flights, we wanted to fly with easyJet and parents would drive us to and from the airport which means we wouldn’t have to pay for parking only petrol money.  We found out the flight roughly cost around £80 which means when we first looked at the prices they haven’t changed in price they have stayed the same which is good!!

As well as finding out prices for flights as a group we also looked at hotel prices, and attractions, however the meeting didn’t go that well as some people didn’t research the information which was needed.

We are trying to organise a fundraising event for on Friday 17^th December, so come back to this page and see what happened!!