MidAmerica is fast approaching – your faithful team is hard at preparation.

Important Dates

• April 23 – Last day to pre-order t-shirts, fleece, etc. on our web site. Registration will continue, but we need numbers finalized so we can go to production of the gear.
• May 14 – is the last day to register and reserve a meal for Friday and/or Saturday night.

VERY IMPORTANT…

IF you haven’t done it yet – PLEASE take a few minutes and go to register, order gear, and get meal tickets. This is a real help to us in planning and keeping cost down.
LINK: https://midamerica02fest.com/store/

Lodging – If you still need it

• Option 1 – rooms at the second hotel – Wyndham Super 8 479-253-5040
  This hotel is east of our fest hotel location, ask for Lynn Worley – tell her you are part of the BMW Group to get access to a block of rooms they are holding for us. Their address is 3010 East Van Buren, Eureka Springs , AR, 72632
• Option 2 – Host hotel – which is currently sold out – Best Western Inn of the Ozarks 479-253-9768, but it’s always worth calling the host hotel and checking on room availability as people do cancel, and there is another group that same weekend as we are, there will be cancelations.

Regardless of either of the two hotels we’ve listed, when making reservations, please use the above numbers, ask for the BMW group block and rate.

As of today… April 13, we have a great turnout… 97 rooms are booked for the Fest.

Get Ready!
Barb & Bo Black
QUESTIONS – Bo at [email protected]

Greetings 02ers,

Get those 2002s ready, we are getting closer to June 1,2,3 and our largest group of 02s to date.

We have a new home, and while some things have changed, we feel like this is an opportunity to make the event more enjoyable.  We have a very nice hotel, great meeting space, and a large parking area.
Keith will have the website updated with registration, meal info, and gear preorder shortly.

Important info about this year’s fest…

• If you wish to arrive Wednesday, the hotel discount rate for our group will be available.
• The hotel is full service, we will no longer be able to provide our own Friday and Saturday evening meals and bring our beverages into the meeting room.
• Meal tickets must be reserved on the website.  Tickets are $15.
• All individuals planning to eat dinner on Friday and Saturday night must have a ticket for each meal.  Friday will be BBQ, Saturday hamburgers and brats.  Debbie and Terry for many years have paid for the Friday night meal.  They along with the True Friends are helping keep the meal cost down.
• As usual we will have space at Sparky’s Thursday evening.  Many will join us there, but there are other good places to eat in Eureka Springs – you are on your own.
• There will be a cash bar outside our meeting room in the evenings.
• Please, no glass bottles in the parking lot.  Beer in cans or cups only.
• Cash or check only for meal tickets and t-shirts, etc. at packet pickup.

Agenda – preliminary

THURSDAY – packet pickup, 1:00 pm drive to Crystal Bridges, evening – welcome and tech session
FRIDAY – packet pickup continues, tech session, drive to Rogers for lunch, outdoor tech demos, evening tech sessions
SATURDAY – tech sessions, car show + group photo, tech quiz, door prize drawing, special drawing, awards

If you still need lodging…

As of today… 3/23/2023 -Our primary hotel sold out in 48 hours.  The Wyndham Super 8 is holding rooms for us, there are 14 rooms available. This hotel is east of our fest hotel location, call (479) 253-5040 to reserve, ask for Lynn Worley – tell her you are part of the BMW Group to get access to a block of rooms they are holding for us.  Their address is 3010 East Van Buren, Eureka Springs , AR, 72632

For a full listing of accommodation options in and around Eureka Springs, see  the web site: https://www.eurekasprings.org/lodging/

Lots of 2002 activities – this is always great fun, but the 02 stories and the folks that drive these special cars are the real attraction.  Join us and be a part of MidAm 23!

Remember, as Commander Cody said “I AIN’T NEVER HAD TOO MUCH FUN”

Our Fest Hotel will fill up fast each year. People have been coming long enough that they reserve their rooms a year in advance to be close to the event.

https://www.eurekasprings.org/best-western-eureka-inn/

Given that, there are quite a few hotels nearby as Eureka Springs is a tourist destination for many people and events. The link below can be used to easily find many of them.

Lodging

For the 2020 year, we put a small video together that talks about what goes on at a Fest.

Each year is different, but the cadence of how things are sequenced, prior to the event, are as follows: