a week's holiday on the Costa del Sol, the group claimed the set of photographs hinted at a longer time frame and different locations. In the week before the event, the group hid in their student accomodation. Using a hired suntanning bed and fake tan, they built up a skin tone that they later wrote was "... (perhaps a shade too orange) ..." Preparation for Going Places was complete. Holiday and response On the evening of 6 May, around 60 guests, including the group's tutor Atkinson and head of department Ken Hay, arrived at East Street Studios in Leeds. They found recorded flamenco music playing and sangria to drink but no artwork or students. Journalists had not been invited. After half an hour, an air hostess appeared and led the guests to a charter bus that took them to Leeds Bradford Airport. There they witnessed the apparent return of the suntanned students who claimed they had been on holiday in Estepona (often misspelled Estrepona). They invited the guests to the bar, and, after a couple of hours paid the bill supposedly with the last of the donations. The Going Places holiday story spread across campus to journalists on the Leeds Student newspaper that, on Friday 15 May, broke it with front-page headline "Con artists' Spanish rip-off" continued inside under "And they call this art?" Two days later, the story was picked up by the national Sunday Mirror newspaper. Regional newspapers the Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post followed on Monday. On Tuesday 19 May, when the hoax was revealed, reports of the holiday story were already in national morning newspapers including the Daily Express, The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian. By taking turns sharing the holiday story and photographs with journalists, members of the group had managed to get Going Places from a student newspaper to a wide range of news outlets nationwide in four days. News reports covered objections from the donors to apparent misuse of their money and support for Going Places from the students and Atkinson who said "... an event like that is quite within the bounds of contemporary practice." and "I don't think there is any problem classifying it as art – good or bad art might be another thing." Some newspapers also ran opinion pieces on Going Places as art. Leeds Student said it was neither creative nor original because millions of people take