Transport Considerations
This does not appear to fall under any of the other categories, so I have started a new one. Not everyone is a car driver, I haven't owned a car for a number of years. Other players, even if they do own cars prefer to travel by train. Recently, a number of congresses have been held at venues with poor public transport, that is five miles or more from the nearest train station. For someone without a car like myself unless I can negotiate a ride I'm faced with the choice of struggling with local bus services which are often very infrequent and sometimes non-existent, or paying large sums of money for a taxi, adding to the cost of a weekend. Neither of these are attractive options, so the consequence is I tend to stear clear of these congresses. I know venues that tick all the boxes are not easy to find, but public transport accessibility should be one of the boxes that are ticked.
Comments
I agree with David Muller that not having a car makes travel to some EBU events tiresome as well as costly. We probably will not play at Daventry for that reason.
It will not work for the Summer meeting, but in my view some of the hotels in Coventry (that have recently been used by the EBU) are a good location for events. As well as being centrally located within England, there is a good bus service (probably because it is a university town), even running on Sundays, so even though the hotels are a few miles away from the station they are easy and cheap to get to (once one has arrived at the station).
If it is not done already, I would suggest the EBU might test its venues by using the website https://www.traveline.info that enables one to plan a journey using public transport. The degree of accessibility by public transport would ideally be one of the many factors taken into account.