Hi Neil,

Glad to hear you like the event!

Our "Official Policy" has always been that:

1. We never turn anyone away. (UNLESS we have notified in advance that it is limited entry and pre-reg only etc)
2. Day passes have always been available, with the caveat that you pay for "the rest of the event" on entry, and when you leave, go back to the Reg Tent and get a refund on the difference. This is because as you can understand, once someone is in, there is no way to make sure they leave at the end of the day. And we know people have managed to rejig their schedule and stay on!

I suspect the person who paid for two days last year didn't quite get the message on that correctly. We are volunteer run, and sometimes the messages get garbled in translation, so our apologies for that - we will make it clearer next year, AND put it on the webpage for the event.

We do discourage day tickets, trying to get people to come for the whole event or at least a two day pass. We HAVE had issues where someone has come for the day, wandered around and checked out the exhibitors, not gone to presentations and seminars, and concluded it was a crappy event! They just didn't get into it, and misinterpreted what it was all about - and we REALLY don't want that. So it's a bit of damned if you do and damned if you don't situation for us.
Hope that makes sense!

For next year we have already discussed how do we get the 4 wheelers to attend in greater numbers, and would appreciate comments on that. We need more to attend and present, both on trip stories and on technical aspects. We also need a 4 wheels person to become part of the organizing team, to help make it a better event for them. Interested? :)