We decided to find out what could be hired in Nottingham if you had all the money in the world and got a bit bored. Where could you go and what would it cost you? Now, the Ice Centre would be a great venue to hold your very own gig. The whole arena to yourself would set you back between £15,000 to £25,000 – a snip. You'd only get the 'shell' of the arena but it would include a floor covering and seats and maybe a stage but there would be no production. Perhaps you might fancy a smaller venue for your gig - more suited to the size of your audience? (It’s not that nobody likes your sound, you understand – just that you're very picky about who's allowed to hear you). Rock City might be the answer. You could hire out the main hall for only £500 including a box office, someone to sell your tickets, a dressing room, car park and a duty manager. What an offer! The price does go up slightly if you sell more than 500 tickets, then it’s an extra £1 per ticket. We discovered that you could hire things that you might not expect. A tram for example. You could spend an hour and a half stopping anywhere on the line for £300. But why would you want to hire a tram? Well, it's usually hired by engineers from other countries who come over to see how it's operating but they did say they were open to offers. And one of the stops along the tram route is the Royal Centre (but only get off once you've had enough of doing back flips up and down the aisles and surfing on the yellow bits). How about the Nottingham Forest ground? For only £1000,080 you could buy up tickets for every seat (but could you chant loud enough on your own?) The Royal Concert Hall could be hired out for an evening's performance for £5,000. Meanwhile if you wanted your own production next door at the Theatre Royal, it would have to be hired out for a whole week costing £13,000 plus VAT. But what if you felt like slumming it and catching a movie? Nobody wants the rustle of sweet wrappers and the view blocked by Big Hair Man – so why not hire out the smallest commercial cinema in the world – The Screen Room on Broad Street? For £75 on a weekday or £100 at the weekend, you could hire out the whole place and watch Orlando snogging Keira unhindered. Pocket change, I think you'll agree. Now obviously, watching a private view of your favourite film would be thirsty work – you'd need a drink afterwards. But why ruin your new-found peace by going just anywhere? For around £6,000 on a weekday or up to £15,000 on a Saturday night, you could hire out the entire Hard Rock Café on King Street and share your pint with the likes of Mick Jagger's spandex and John Lennon’s scarf (but once they start talking to you, it’s time to leave). After such a fun-packed day, you'll need sleep. Why go home to your own tired old mattress when you could hire an entire suite at Hart’s Hotel on Standard Hill? Nestled on the ramparts of Nottingham Castle, £235 will buy you a night of spectacular slumber in a super king size bed with a goose down duvet and pillows wrapped in Egyptian Jacquard linen (or you could spend the night skipping between your two toilets, two televisions, two private bars and the private garden). So – if there’s money burning a hole in your pocket, Nottingham’s your oyster. Or is it? There are some places money can't buy. If you wanted to make like Robin Hood and hide out in Sherwood Forest’s Major Oak, for example, no amount of money could make it your own private playground. The 23 tonne behemoth can't be hired for private use - it’s in the public domain and fenced off to protect it from the 600,000 people who visit the giant each year – so it’s probably best to work on your guitar solo instead and start making plans to hire that arena.
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