As a member of an organisation which plans to hold an event at the Club later in the year, I received an e-mail recently, which included the following:
I have also reserved a block of RAF Club bedrooms (including two doubles) for long-distance travellers who are not members of the Club
Personally, I don't think that 'block bookings' are very fair. Particularly when some have been made for people who aren't even Club members. Those Club members attending the event should certainly be capable of making their own bookings.
In 1979 I managed to book myself and a friend plus her mother into the Club when they'd been stranded thanks to the Laker DC-10
Skytrain grounding. I was told that normally only 1 guest was permitted, but that they would make an exception on this occasion.... Yet now it seems that people can make speculative 'block bookings' for non-members months in advance?