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Are you looking for more information about London weekend breaks by rail? That’s actually a very good starting point because you’ve already made the best decision as far as transport goes for arriving in London. Go by train and you’ll not have to be worrying about things like car parking, how to pay the congestion charge or long motor way traffic jams holding up coach journeys. The fast inter city trains are also the quickest way to get from most UK cities into one of the central London mainline stations.
London Breaks by Rail – Express Routes
Weekend breaks can be for a West-end theatre show on any Friday, Saturday or Sunday night combined with a hotel stay of one night or more, including the show date. The most popular break tends to be a one-nighter including the big Saturday night out, but getting away early on a Friday makes a lot of sense too. Traveling on a Friday and Saturday gives a clear run through but Sundays can be fine for getting home too, depending on which rail line takes you back. All I’m saying is, check for regular Sunday engineering works if the service that relays between your city and London is one that may be prone to scheduled maintenance on a Sunday.
Longer Weekend Breaks
If your weekend break means going home on a Saturday of course, the traditional weekend has only just begun but then again I’ve noticed that for some people around here, the weekend definitely starts to ramp up on a Thursday night! London can be a very pleasant play to stay on a Sunday with less of a hurried atmosphere but still plenty of things to see and do so staying on for the whole weekend and then booking to get back on a Monday during the daytime can make for an extremely satisfying London weekend rail break, more like a mini holiday really. You could even make it a three or four night stay with the weekend theatre trip included, especially worthwhile if you have a long distance rail journey from one of the smaller rail networks that lie beyond the core inter city services.
London Shows for Weekend Theatre Breaks
One of the advantages with buying a theatre breaks package is that you can get good tickets for any of the more popular shows, even on a busy Friday or Saturday night. I tried to get an impulse ticket from the famous half price ticket booth the other day and after a lot of waiting around I came away without making a purchase. That was because the shows on offer didn’t include two that I was most interested in, and because the prices offered are not anything like half price at all.
So supposing you’ve always wanted to grab a friend and go and see Hairspray, Dirty Dancing or Sister Act on a Saturday night but couldn’t find any available tickets except from the disreputable touts and so-called discount kiosks, well the answer is to do just a little bit of forward planning and organise a weekend break in London for just a few weeks down the line, then you can get on with life knowing there’s a fantastic treat in store for you to look forward to.
London weekend breaks by rail are also perfect for really special occasions such as a big anniversary or celebration. Never mind seeing Les Miserables from the back of the upper circle, with theatre breaks packages it’s often possible to get best available seats with a competitive price guarantee, because the tour agents buy blocks of tickets way in advance and can therefore hold the best seats open for people who are booking the whole London weekend theatre package thing with the hotel stay and return rail tickets included.
This is just one suggestion, but supposing you were a big fan of the Phantom of The Opera having seen it many years ago, and fancied repeating the experience in today’s West End. This gives you two possible shows for London Weekend breaks by rail because the new show with the Phantom opens in March 2010 and it’s going to be one of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s biggest shows ever, called “Love Never Dies“. By booking the rail tickets well in advance in combination with London weekend breaks, (that’s the show and hotel stay), you get the full discount on the rail tickets which can mean as much as a 70% saving off the regular return saver.
If it appears as if the only shows on in London are the big musicals then that’s certainly not the case. There are always a number of serious plays also on in the West end, usually for shorter runs but not always, and these are also available for London weekend breaks by rail. In 2010 there will be more Shakespeare, Pinter and Becket as well as modern American playwrights, and some comedy plays too.
So you’ve decided very sensibly to opt for London weekend breaks by rail, thought about which show you’d both like to see, and maybe opted for a Friday night or Saturday theatre ticket depending which suits you best and considered the best time and day for homewards travel. All that’s left is to balance the convenience of a central London hotel with the economy of staying a little further out, but there is always a good selection of options available when booking London weekend theatre breaks. Now let me see, what else is there to worry about?
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I think London Weekend Breaks by rail are going to be as popular as ever in 2010
Not too long ago, I opened up a twitter account so I can find other artists and actors. However, I go back and forth with my thoughts about the site. Is it worth the time? For artwork it certainly makes sense. I love following Michael Hussar to see what he is working on. Twitpic certainly makes that very easy. But I wondered about actors. I didn’t get the same vibe with actors that I saw in the art community. After following a few, I noticed that quite a bit of them were simply posting their booking announcements. It was just “me, me, me”, so I stopped following them. I mean, hey, I’m happy for them, don’t get me wrong, I do it too when I have a booking, but it was boring to read something so one-dimensional after a while. I really wanted to find those in the grind of this unpredictable business, engaging with peers, and who were not afraid to say a thing or two about it. In my search I found Alicia Lara. I noticed she had quite a list of followers … and through the site we began communicating and eventually retweeting each other’s info (I wish more actors supported each other’s projects in that way).
Either way, I still continue to question whether or not tweeting (or being on facebook) is fruitful or a waste of time, so I decided to ask her what she thought. I wondered if she had any words of advice, maybe pros and cons … Here is what she said …
I think Twitter and Facebook are now essential tools for actors, and I think many in the industry would agree. I just went to a seminar for marketing myself (as an actor) and one of the main topics was how to use these sites. I got an audition recently that led to a job from someone recommending me on Facebook. I’ve met new friends, I’ve gotten information I need…all while enjoying the interaction.
I view these social media outlets as both personal and professional. I have a personal Facebook page, but I also have a separate fan page that is purely for getting information out about what’s going on in my career. That job I mentioned earlier was gotten through a NY actor who is a friend on Facebook on my personal page, though, so it all definitely intermingles. He’s become a good friend even though we’ve never met in person! That happens on these sites.
I’ve been on Twitter since about March of 2009 and I’ve found that there are mostly pros, not so many cons. But there ARE cons. I approached Twitter (not really having a clue what it was about–a friend got me to join) as a personal thing. Of course I put in my profile that I’m an actress and a writer, but I tried to describe my personality as well. I started writing (they’re called “tweets”–say what you want to say, but make it fit in 140 characters or less) just my thoughts, then I started talking to people, then I formed friendships. You are drawn to certain people–they will reach out to you. Of course I think about acting and writing so that’s what I tweeted about sometimes, and other actors and writers found me. My view on this–I’m not drawn to people who just talk about their careers. I want to know THEM. Not everything, but something about their personalities. I want more of a connection than to feel like they’re always trying to get me to buy something, or go see something of theirs, etc.
I advise not to overshare, though. There is a line. Understand that the whole world is listening–once something is on the internet it’s out there and anyone can find it. So think before you put it on the internet. I had a bad experience with this on Twitter. I tweeted an opinion about a certain person in the industry who had committed a crime and had fled the punishment. Someone found me through that tweet–an unbalanced person. They didn’t make any sense, they tracked me to my Facebook fan page, posted upsetting comments and sent disturbing e-mails to me through my website. They also said on Twitter that I had made a comment that I had not made. It was a real learning experience–if someone goes after you they can say WHATEVER they want and all you can do to defend yourself is deny it. But, really, that describes what can happen to someone who is famous–same thing!
It takes some time to keep current on these sites (especially Twitter.) I’ve found it to be worth it if you don’t get too sucked in. You might want to just check in once or twice a day, converse with a few people, and leave it at that. That’s fine–no need to spend hours on there. It’s a great way to get questions answered. Find people in the industry, experts, such as casting directors, agents, producers, directors, other actors. Ask questions. And, when you have stuff to share, share it! Before you know it you’ll have followers that will be interested to know that you will be seen on that t.v. show, or this commercial, or whatever!
Alicia is currently filming the web series “The Resolve” ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1539466/ ) which also has a Facebook page of course( http://www.facebook.com/#/pages/THE-RESOLVE-Series/169309626238?ref=ts )
Alicia’s website: http://www.alicialara.com
Alicia’s Facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Alicia-Lara/32248764522
Follow her on Twitter! @AliciaLaraLA
Sean “Diddy” Combs has 2,269,623 followers and counting on Twitter. He is an icon in his own right but with this kind of following a company would never need to use traditional advertising.
Ford does not compare to Mr. Combs but does a good job in using Twitter to segment its market as well as an extension of its other marketing efforts. The use of Twitter and other social media has contributed to Ford’s heightened awareness and strong brand building online.
For example, in April, the automaker, asked 100 influential bloggers to test drive its new Fiesta for a six month period, and post their opinions of the car on Twitter as well as Facebook. By October, it was estimated that the resulting material received 4.3 million hits on YouTube and 3 million comments on Twitter, while 540,000 people had viewed photos hosted on Flickr. “To get 60% awareness in traditional media, it costs somewhere north of $50 million,” said Jim Farley, Ford’s group vice president of global marketing. A Yahoo or Google page takeover actually gets more eyeballs than a network TV commercial now. That hasn’t happened before” (WARC, 2009).
The Ford Fiesta has its own Twitter page and 5279 followers. That’s more than some companies total in followers alone. Despite the fact that the Fiesta will not be available until mid 2010, this type of product awareness and brand building is extreme.
Ford has proved how social media can be positively integrated into the mix by allowing bloggers the opportunity to share information. It is often thought that bloggers can either be to a company’s benefit or to its demise. In this case, utilizing bloggers led to the successful launch of the Ford Fiesta before it has even made it to the marketplace.
Ford also serves as a great example of how social media can be successfully integrated into a marketing campaign and yield results that deliver a tremendous ROI as well as great market penetration. Ford has proven that social media has its place and any company that resists using social media is truly at a loss. Social media is not to be ignored and the key is truly finding the correct balance with other traditional media while encouraging freedom of expression and creating a sense of community.
WARC. (20 November 2009). Ford, Starbucks gain from digital media. Retrieved on November 22, 2009, from http://www.warc.com/News/TopNews.asp?ID=25969&Origin=WARCNewsEmail
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I think Twitter and Facebook are now essential tools for actors, and I think many in the industry would agree. I just went to a seminar for marketing myself (as an actor) and one of the main topics was how to use these sites. I got an audition recently that led to a job from someone recommending me on Facebook. I’ve met new friends, I’ve gotten information I need…all while enjoying the interaction.