I haven't been able to make it every year so I don't know how much weight my vote would have anyway (although I try to go as often as possible), but I would go against this. Unless the goal is to make this a retired group trip, myself and others who still have jobs makes it more inconvenient to do it during the week, including using more PTO. You'll have less attendees going I feel like, but maybe that's not a concern? I had a similar issue with the original date of this trip being over mother's day weekend, I realize other groups are down at other times and the idea was to find a time that wouldn't be so crowded, but I wasn't going to be able to make it since I have my Mom and Mother In Law that I needed to spend time with that weekend that was going to prevent me from going. The covid situation did me a favor this year by forcing the move so I can now attend, assuming it's still on.

I guess the question is what's the goal in terms of group(s) of people you want to attend this? I'd argue that since every day is like a weekend for the retired folks, help the rest of out who aren't retired by making it over the weekend still so we don't have to take as much time off. The dragon is well known enough that you're not going to find a perfect time anymore that you don't have other groups to contend with, that just is what it is at this point, so I think you have to determine which clubs you're OK with sharing the weekend with. Also, most of the drives aren't on the dragon anyway, so aside from a lodging perspective, I don't think there'd be too much of an overlap issue. Just my $0.02...

 

Currently, the event is basically Friday Saturday. How would a Sunday Monday be any different for PTO? If you can get time off to attend a Friday Saturday event, why could you not get there for a Sunday Monday. (or Monday Tuesday)
And this is not deciding if we want retired folks or working folks, it is do we want a late April event or June event. April means we have to change the week days to get lodging. June means it can be a Friday Saturday. Back to my original question which is basically do we scrub multiple dates because we cannot get the Friday Saturday. ?

 

LOL, I am pretty sure Ken looks into this forum often and beat you to it.

 

And I am going to assume that we can avoid Easter and Mothers day in the process.

 

I said that based on what you said in your original post which was "mid week," which would be in the Tues-Thurs time frame roughly. If you're proposing the Fri/Sat days be on a Sun/Mon, then that would be similar to what it is currently, just shifted during the week.