Tickets for the convention will be on sale at 10:00 am on Friday 21st March 2025.

An all-weekend ticket covering all three days of the convention is £20, whether paid in advance or on the door.

Tickets for the individual days of the convention are £5 (Friday) and £10 (Friday & Saturday / Sunday).

You can collect your pre-purchased tickets from the convention reception desk - see the "opening times and ticket collection" section below for opening times.

Subject to availability, on-the-day tickets may be available.

You can buy your tickets from this site, paying via Paypal (whether with a Paypal account or a credit card / debit card) at the point of purchase.

Once tickets are booked and paid, refunds can only be paid in the event that the convention does not go ahead.

The convention reception desk will be open from 4:30pm on the Friday, and 9am on the Saturday and Sunday of the convention - we ask that you don't come up to it in search of your tickets before that time, and instead queue outside the convention area so that we can get set up.

The convention reception desk will generally be staffed throughout the day until early evening on Friday and Saturday (generally around 6 - 7pm), and around lunchtime on Sunday. Outside those times, you can track down committee members wearing their cornflower blue t-shirts, or there may be one or more mobile numbers listed at the reception desk you can call in case of issues.

The convention gaming areas will be open from 4:30pm on Friday, 9am on Saturday and Sunday, until the early hours of the morning, Friday and Saturday, and notionally until 6pm on the Sunday, although the hotel tends not to mind people continuing playing past that time. 

If you are staying overnight on the Sunday, you may wish to move into the bar / mezzanine areas to continue playing after 6pm, in case the hotel decide they wish to tidy up the tables and chairs in the main gaming area.

Rooms are available at £99.00 on the Friday night, and £115.00 on the Saturday night, bed and breakfast. That's for sole occupancy - add £10 / night for double / twin occupancy

Free parking is available for 70 cars (other car parks are nearby) and convention attendees must register their cars at reception.

We have secured a discounted rate (including breakfast) for the hotel for Friday and Saturday nights (shown above).

If you are arriving earlier, or leaving later, then you can chance your arm and ask for the discounted rate to be applied to the Thursday and / or Sunday night(s) as well, but this is by no means guaranteed.

Some have had success with this in the past.

Call them on 01926 514167 and ask for MidCon rates. That's it.

Absolutely not. There are a number of alternative hotels within walking and driving distance of the hotel - see the hotels page on this site for details.

Breakfast is available to those who are staying at the hotel as part of the room rate.

Food will be available to order from 11:00am to 5:00pm, and from 6pm to close, and will consist of a range of items from sandwiches to full main courses, priced between around £5 and £15.

Whilst a bottle of something soft next to you whilst you're playing a game isn't a problem, we'd prefer you patronised the hotel bar, restaurant, and convention lunch, rather than open a picnic basket and bring out a four course feast. 

It helps us to keep us friendly with the hotel.

Being in central Kenilworth, there are a host of food options within easy walking distance.

The aim of MidSummerCon is simple - to give people a place to play a huge range of games with others from all over the country (and overseas), whilst allowing us to trial a new venue.

The convention is run by unpaid, slightly-harassed volunteers and not the hotel, so any problems other than with your room, drink or hotel food should be addressed to a Committee member (different coloured name badges, wearing sky-blue polo shirts).

You can see more details about who's who on the committee here.

The convention runs from 4:30pm Friday 20th June to 6:00pm on Sunday 22nd June 2025 (although the hotel tends not to mind people staying for a little while after that time).

MidSummerCon takes place at the Holiday Inn hotel in Kenilworth. Directions to the convention via various methods of transport can be found here.

Tickets are £20 for the entire weekend, or £5 / £10 / £10 for the Friday / Saturday (includes Friday) / Sunday, and can be bought online here.

Subject to availability, tickets will also be available on the door.

It's not too complicated - chances are high that you won't get lost.

Absolutely not - many people do, but it's not obligatory unless there is something that you absolutely want to play.

Keep an eye out on this website's Find A Game section where people will post details of games that they are playing for which they are looking for other players. Speak to one of the committee members and they will help you find something suitable. Or, if you've bought a game with you that you want to play, find a table, put up a "looking for players" sign and start setting up and you will almost certainly find some takers.

Alternatively you could post about it on the Facebook group yourself (linked to from the footer of the site).

See the Food and Drink section above for full details.

If your problem is with the hotel itself, then please try reception first, and then seek out a committee member if you don't get any joy there - we will do whatever we can to help, but are limited (we cannot magic up empty hotel rooms at 3:00 AM, nor clear out the toilets if they become blocked).

If your problem is with the convention, then find a committee member and talk to them.

MidSummerCon is a friendly convention, so any attendee should hopefully be able to help any other attendee if they have an issue.

Just track down any member of the committee who will be happy to receive feedback, both positive and negative, as we are always looking for ways to improve the convention experience for all attendees.