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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 15:38:25 No.1046264 View Reply Report Delete

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I'm doing Jailbreak* for the second time in a few weeks, starting at Lancaster.

Last year me and my partner got to Brighton (which is okaaaaay for within the UK), but this year we're determined to best the Channel.

Anyone got any good shouts? My rough plan was to try and finagle a train from Lancs to London (Virgin run a regular one between Glasgow and Euston that comes through here), then try for Dover. Last year we got to Kings Cross but the train guards for the Doverward ones told us we should have emailed Southeastern beforehand and they'dve given us a letter letting us on for free, so I'm going to give that a go.

What's the sketch with blagging flights in this day and age? Manchester would be pretty easy to get to, as would Liverpool.

Cheers gang

*36 hours to get as far from a starting point as possible without spending any money on travel, for charity

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 16:45:06 No.1046281 Report Delete

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>>1046264
well if you have a friend/known person that works either as a pilot or as a flight attendant you might have an angle... they get a few free boarding passes a year and a few more with discounts...

Thats all i can think of about free plane tickets.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 16:49:06 No.1046282 Report Delete

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>>1046264
Are you allowed to tell people you are doing it for charity, work the PR angle, etc. to get free travel?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 19:04:18 No.1046302 Report Delete

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For charity? I never get these things. Some organiation will donate money to charity on the condition that you do something which has no relevance to the charity whatsoever?

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 19:35:49 No.1046312 Report Delete

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>>1046302
I believe it's so that they get more exposure. Fun and unusual events are more likely to draw more donstions and headlines than just a straight up donation.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 22:59:07 No.1046347 Report Delete

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>>1046302
>For charity? I never get these things
I've done a few of these things, usually they also want the participants to hit up all their contacts for 'sponsorship' which is really just more donations. Sometimes they need to collect a certain amount to take part, though they can just make it up themselves if they need to.

>>1046282
>Are you allowed to tell people you are doing it for charity, work the PR angle, etc. to get free travel?
Based on: >>1046264
>guards for the Doverward ones told us we should have emailed Southeastern beforehand
Sounds like it.

OP, you should email a ferry company and/or an airline and/or some channel bus/taxi service and see if any of them will let you 'smuggle' yourself on to their vehicle to make the trip.

Maybe do the channel crossing as a 'stowaway' on a ferry or 'impersonating' airline crew (probably too many regulations but you could roughly dress as aircrew and just sit in a standby seat or dead-head aircrew folding seat if they'll let you).

I think getting some company to let you hitch a ride with some vague roleplaying involved is probably going to be the best bet and could be both fun and good PR for the company, they can take a pic with you, put it on their twitter and tag the event, their social media people would like it anyway. Maybe start off by talking to their social media contacts and tell them what you want to do. A standby to/from some random airport would be great, Ryanair might send you to Italy or something.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 23:02:45 No.1046348 Report Delete

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>>1046347
>let you hitch a ride with some vague roleplaying involved is probably going to be the best bet and could be both fun and good PR for the company
This is also the 'fun' sort of thing that companies like Virgin enjoy branding themselves as, so it's definitely worth a bet with such companies. If you could organise a few such things, you could end up in some really weird places. E.G. If you got a Virgin flight to NZ and had pre-arranged it, you could hitch a ride with one of the Antartic programs and end up in McMurdo or at the Aus or NZ bases there. Is that far enough for you?

Or include a cruise liner in your organising and end up on a tropical island.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 07:03:39 No.1046457 Report Delete

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>>1046282
Yeah, you wear pretty distinctive Jailbreak shirts too (not a lot of people going around in yellow tees in mid-November).

>>1046302
You get sponsored beforehand for doing it, and last year we had people who couldn't give us lifts donating to us instead on the way.

>>1046347
Ooh that actually sounds like a great idea if even one company snatches it up. Reckon I'd be better off sending them emails or tweets or what?

>>1046348
Ahaha McMurdo would probably win it for us, I think the current Lancaster champions got to Tenerife, and I've heard of other uni's teams getting as far as Perth.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 08:32:01 No.1046472 Report Delete

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everyone's got a story about their brother's mate who got to Australia because he saw Richard Branson in the bogs or something

pure bollocks

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 10:26:25 No.1046483 Report Delete

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>>1046457
>McMurdo would probably win it for us
Well...you only need to do things.

Arrange airfare via any airline that flies to NZ or Tasmania.

Arrange a hook up with one of the antarctic programs here:
http://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-us/contact
http://antarcticanz.govt.nz/contact-us
http://www.usap.gov/usapgov/mediaInquiries/index.cfm?m=1

I could only find media contacts for the US program but the bottom of that page has a bunch of contact links for twitter, email etc.

I believe weight on planes is an issue but the US has a big budget and the NZ/AU ones have a short supply line so I think they run a lot of flights. You might get lucky.

If you can't get to Antarctica, try getting to orbit. See if any high-altitude zero-g companies will get in on it, or space tourism operators. They tend to love media exposure.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 10:37:27 No.1046486 Report Delete

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Good shouts all, but I double checked with the organisers and we're not allowed to have anything pre-planned/pre-booked, which includes getting in touch with companies for cool shit in advance. Anything after the starting gun is fired is cool, but they'd have to get back and arrange it within the 36 hours.

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