2014 Malla Summer Retreat, Estonia (Aug 8-18)

[rpietila]

I have a great privilege to invite you all to Malla Summer Retreat, the premier opportunity to experience The Bitcoin Castle and the sunny Estonia at its best season.

The event length is 11 days to make it easier for you to arrange flights and stuff. You only pay per night, so feel free to join us for any time you wish, to taste the "perpetual conference" atmosphere that is breaking forth in the place! This is the unique opportunity to combine leisure with intrigue, business with indulgence, and spice it up with travels to St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Tallinn, and rural Estonia.

The Bitcoin Castle is developing. We have recently constructed 4 new hotel rooms in the outbuildings and set up a kitchen and breakfast/dinner hall in the Manor + the new Cigar cabinet. Our capacity is about 25 guests at a time, which has contributed to the decision to have a longer event.

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We have two room classes, Premium and Standard, plus the notorious Bed Only in our Dormitory. If you want to stay in hotel conditions, you are adviced to take a new Premium room with its own bath. If shared bath suffices, the Standard rooms offer good value. Pricing is dynamic according to demand and current prices are shown below in BTC (changed because of popular demand):

Room Type	Thu 07	Fri 08	Sat 09	Sun 10	Mon 11	Tue 12	Wed 13	Thu 14	Fri 15	Sat 16	Sun 17
Premium Romantic Double 25sqm	0.7	0.42	0.42	0.42	0.42	0.42	0.42	0.56	0.56	0.56	0.42
Premium Business Twin 20sqm	0.55	0.33	0.33	0.33	0.33	0.33	0.33	0.44	0.44	0.44	0.33
Standard Double/Twin 15sqm	0.33	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.26	0.33	0.33	0.2
Bed in Dorm	0.16	0.11	0.11	0.11	0.11	0.11	0.11	0.13	0.16	0.16	0.11

Our acclaimed Breakfast includes sparkling wine, and is priced at 0.04. Dinner (3 courses) is 0.06. They are mandatory. Grand Dinners are organized to celebrate special events and the excess is paid by the inviter. Lunch is voluntary from the café or local eateries (0.006-0.03). All drinks are billed. The wine cellar has about 40 different wines for all tastes and budgets, ranging from 0.04 to BTC1 and over. The cigar list has 20 cigars ranging from 0.006 to 0.16.

NEW: We want to encourage international attendance, therefore we give BTC0.2 towards the drink bill for everyone coming from outside Europe, and BTC0.1 for everyone coming from any country except Finland and Estonia!

As has been the custom in the previous Malla events, the event itself is free-of-charge, so there is no conference fee.

For booking, PM/contact me and supply your:
- name
- room type
- for which nights you are reserving
- time of arrival and departure from Malla, or time for pick-up in Tallinn (where?) and return, if known. Taxi one-way to Tallinn is 0.1 through our shared booking (up to 0.3 from the street and they don't accept bitcoins)
- contact phone number (for taxi driver)
- preferred contact info for contact prior to the event (PM, email, ..)
- special dietary needs
- other wishes.

Be ready to pay your reservation in BTC immediately after confirmation. The prices include the 10% discount that applies when paying in BTC.

We have a webpage also but that is not yet ready and may need to be revamped even before launch...


The following guests have given permission to disclose their attendance:

Dr. Choo
rpietila
rontus
oposti
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[elebit]

I don't want this to come off completely wrong here but: Shall we all come and live in a shoddy ray traced house?

If this is a hotel arrangement, would it not be prudent to show at least one picture of the place? Perhaps even of a room?

It's just a bit strange, that's all. Take it as friendly advice if you want this business to take off.

[rpietila]

I don't know how to upload pictures  Hopefully some of the previous visitors would share theirs.

In the last conference, 23 participants from 11 countries were generally satisfied with their conditions, and we are making them better all the time.

The Premium rooms are purpose-built to premium hotel standards a month ago. The other rooms are approx. 10 years ago renovated to Euro living standards but their bathrooms are shared. These are undergoing a slight renovation which may be ready before the event.

The castle does not (currently) have hotel rooms, they are located in outbuildings.

Hope you are satisfied with the explanation!

[Bit_Happy]

The Bitcoin castle is going to be a prime destination for BTC fans.
I cannot manage to travel much this summer, but if I could I would certainly attend.

[Bit_Happy]

As a funny sidenote, it was recently revealed to me that the food in the last conference cost me 93 EUR per person per day so I was subsidizing the eating of the guests by almost half!

(Sorry couldn't resist...  )

Sounds like some really good food. I've gotten used to eating cheap, it saves a lot of money, but I miss some of the better tasting choices.

[hmmmstrange]

How much to pitch a tent on your lawn? I'll bring a shovel so i wont need any bath facilities, just access to the wine cellar.

[blatchcorn]

What currency are those prices listed in?

[Richy_T]

What currency are those prices listed in?

mBTC I'm sure.

Wish I could go. Too much going on this year.

[rpietila]

Prices are updated and promotion added. Marketing will start soon so receive your place now to take advantage!

[rontus]

I can hereby confirm my attendance, I'll be coming a month early back to Europe from Beijing just because of this retreat. I will release information of my new business adventure at this retreat, so only by being there you can get your piece of action of that. And I'll also ask rpietila to host us a great celebration of something that has happened to me in my personal life recently.

[rpietila]

Rontus has confirmed that he has gotten engaged during his voyages. To celebrate, we will serve you a

Grand Dinner

on Saturday, August 16th, at 6 p.m.

in the 1st floor of the Manor House, in the Dinner halls and the Cigar Cabinet

The Grand Dinner surcharge is waived due to Rontus' magnanimousness.

[rpietila]

What currency are those prices listed in?

mBTC I'm sure.

Wish I could go. Too much going on this year.

Prices are in EUR UPDATE: changed to BTC. The full board in dorm or cheaper room, or shared room costs altogether about 100-150 EUR. The highrollers have been able to spend up to 1,000 EUR per day. The grand intention is to maintain the diversity so that the place could cater to the needs of both the Bitcoin elite and the budget bitcoiners.

After all, 10x more spending sounds like much, but with Bitcoin, it is only 14 months of gains on average....  

[rpietila]

The September retreat is also open for reservations!

Note to all: I purposely reduced the prices as an early-bird discount for those who need to plan early anyway. This is now the opportunity to come, if you live far away and have always dreamed. The weather turns bad in October and stays that way until January (in some years throughout the winter). In the winter there will be fewer retreats and it's not so nice since most of the activity would be indoors. The cheap prices will be raised at the instant that there is a credible threat that in some days the place would be full.

[serje]

So you had a Porn photographer and former performer on your last meeting there?

Will she come again?

If yes then I might just show up there!


P.S. Congrats on your purchase! Well done! Now I have another place to visit with BTC .... the only thing that is missing is BTC

But will make some and will come there one night or 2

[rpietila]

It is true that Malla is not a place for conformists.

[rpietila]

Slight updates made. There is still plenty of room(s) left, so please make your reservations now!

[serje]

I just made an instagram account for Malla Retreat!

Follow it for awesome(hopefully) pictures!

Only a few hours left until we begin! Book now! Or cry later!


http://instagram.com/mallaretreat

https://twitter.com/mallaretreat

[Bit_Happy]

I just made an instagram account for Malla Retreat!

Follow it for awesome(hopefully) pictures!

Only a few hours left until we begin! Book now! Or cry later!

This looks like tons of fun.
Congrats to everyone who gets to attend. 

[rontus]

The first carload just arrived this afternoon. It's great and host still has accommondation available for last-minute decision makers. The rooms are sweet, specially the premium ones. I've got a jacuzzi inside the room, how sweet is that!

[rpietila]

The first carload just arrived this afternoon. It's great and host still has accommondation available for last-minute decision makers. The rooms are sweet, specially the premium ones. I've got a jacuzzi inside the room, how sweet is that!

Yeah, just wait until you see the pictures. Serje, our professional roommaker, has opened instagram so cant wait!