just need to sort your logistics out now where abouts are you coming from i've spent the last 3 months travelling to chelmsford for one day a week and Crawley another day of the week with the odd trip to Reading thrown in so i should know the best way up to the midlands from anywhere south
i've also joined DTD on their website so all i should need to do when i get there is show them ID and sign my membership card they also have a good offer on the Park Plaza hotel which if you go through the DTD site you can get for £75 a night B & B hotel is a couple of miles from DTD but i think they nearly all are as it's on a industrial estate.
downside the Mrs wants to come with me i said fine as long as she goes out with her mum and dad on the saturday afternoon / evening so she don't cost me any money