Author: Jan@HSFCon

Update: coins & drinks/packed lunches

Coins
Coin sales are available throughout the day at the hotel reception. The reception is open from 07:00 in the morning until 23:00 in the evening.

Drinks/packed lunches
Then a small change from our side with regard to the sale of coffee / tea, drinks and the collection of the packed lunches: this will all be from the bar in room 1. That way we have the sale of all products together nicely and it is clear to everyone. The payment of the drinks are with coins.

Coffee, tea, soft drinks and beer is: 1 coin
Wines: 1 1/2 munt
Packed lunch (if booked in advance): 4 coins

Best regards and stay healthy!

Banquet sales
Van der Valk Hotel Sneek

See also here and here.

7 days to go: food

Don’t forget to prepare. Sign up for lunches and dinner through May 8, 2022.

Dear HSFCon member,

Due to the large number of participants we expect at HSFCon, we recommend that you book your packed lunch and/or your dinner beforehand. You are not permitted to bring your own food and drink for use inside the hotel.

This is why we offer you this early opportunity to arrange your meals directly with the hotel. Payment is possible during the con itself by means of tokens that you can buy at the hotel reception. A packed lunch will cost 4 tokens and a hot meal will cost 7.5 tokens (the tokens can be broken in two). The packed lunch is a standard selection, but for your hot dinner we offer you a choice of meat,
fish or a vegetarian meal. You can make your choice on the day.

You can make your reservation by sending an email to sales@sneek.valk.com stating the following:
Name:
Number of persons:
Lunch Saturday – Yes/No
Hot dinner Saturday – Yes/No
Lunch Sunday – Yes/No
Hot dinner Sunday – Yes/No
Comments:

Please note: if you do not book your meals beforehand, it is possible that you have to wait longer for you lunch or dinner due to the pressure of demand on the day itself.

Reservations for lunches and dinners can be made until 8 May 2022.
We thank you for your co-operation.

Staff and management Van der Valk Hotel Sneek

#HSFCon2022 #WeLoveItLiterally

Guest: Frank van Dongen

Frank has been making up stories and creating things for as long as he can remember. As a child he created games that were so complicated that there could never be a winner. He painted and drew exotic and dystopian landscapes in the style of Don Lawrence and Frank Frazetta. He wrote stories about adventures on strange planets, stories that never ended because there was too much going on.

Frank has always had a fascination for fossils. To him, fossils are a window into the history of life on Earth, a story that remains almost as strange and unfathomable as that of the future of life on Earth, and beyond.

A major source of inspiration for the author are books and films in which humans travel to other worlds. The promise of human exploration of distant and unknown worlds, and that in the near future, is something that gives a wondrous and profound new dimension to life. In 1969, as a five-year-old, Frank saw this ‘dream’ come true in front of his eyes, via a small black-and-white television. The first man set foot on the Moon.

After finishing secondary school in Dordrecht, Frank went on to study evolutionary biology and palaeontology in Utrecht. He started work in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. In his time off he is always busy creating things: painting, making furniture and most of all writing. Frank has been working on the SF series Ontdekking van de Mens every day since 2016.

If there is one word that characterises the author, then it has to be creating. Making something out of nothing. And most of all, that something has to be different, thrilling and mysterious, adventurous and unpredictable.

Frank has three daughters and lives with his wife Diana among the trees of Almere-Hout.