flipping eck. No wonder there are empty seats. More reason to stay at home and watch on TV. Very elitist.
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Men & Women - final
£50
Athletics
Men & Women - final
£420
Badminton
Men - final
£150
Basketball
Women’s preliminary
£75
Basketball
Women’s preliminary
£50
Beach Volleyball
Women - QF
£125
Beach Volleyball
Women - QF
£125
Cycling - Track
Men & Women
£95
Cycling - Track
Men & Women - final
£150
Cycling - Track
Men & Women - final
£225
Cycling - Track
Men & Women - final
£325
Fencing
Men - final
£45
Gymnastics - Artistic
Men & Women - final
£450
Handball
Women’s preliminary
£50
Table Tennis
Women - SF
£85
Water Polo
Women - QF
£65
Athletics
Men & Women - heats
£95
Athletics
Men & Women - heats
£150
Basketball
Men’s preliminary
£65
Basketball
Men’s preliminary
£75
Beach Volleyball
Men’s - QF
£95
Cycling - Track
Men & Women - final
£325
Cycling - Track
Men & Women - final
£150
Gymnastics - Artistic
Men & Women - final
£95
Gymnastics - Artistic
Men & Women - final
£450
Handball
Men’s preliminary
£50
Hockey
Women’s preliminary
£45
Table Tennis
Women - SF
£85
Table Tennis
Men - SF
£55
Volleyball
Men’s preliminary
£65
Weightlifting
Men’s preliminary
£45
Water Polo
Men’s preliminary
£65
Water Polo
Men’s preliminary
£65
Aren’t those prices for the worst seats? VIP ones, with the best views must be in the 1,000’s?
As a side note, I read today the IOC who gets the revenues from all the sales etc don’t release details as to what this money gets spent on. It could be humungous CEO style IOC wages, or ploughed back into kids sports, nobody knows and the IOC ain’t telling.
yeah, you’re having a laugh! they’re cheap. girl at work just paid £300 per ticket for athletics tomorrow night. we’ve set our max at £150 per ticket. that’s if i could actually buy any. been trying the past 2/3 days solid and their website is totally shite. absolutely ridiculous. to quote the olympics prick that was answering back to the businesses complaining about lack of trade, “you’ve had 7 years to prepare for it”.
and there was i thinking for a minute that we could, in this country, stage a global event without fucking it up.
I’m truly speechless that you consider those prices cheap.
compared to the rest of the price bands on their site, they are!
Yes, maybe ‘cheaper’ would be a more apropriate word?
I’ve been trying too, the site shows tickets available, you wait 5 or 6 minutes (maybe there’s some lady at a PC in the village, searching through drawers) before it says ‘there are no tickets’
I might just head down there Saturday morning. I hear you can get some cheap tickets minutes before stuff starts…
You need an Olympic Park ticket (£20) just to get into the park before you get even near to getting some cheaper tickets on the door (either late releases when the corporates hand back their quotas they have no intention of using, or sometimes they will recycle from people leaving). Beware, all Olympic park tickets are sold out, and even if you did get in, the queues are currently running at 4 hours. This info comes first hand from an Olympic coach I know. I have spent hours on that shite site with no luck. My sister is a triple olympian and even she didn’t get tickets, not even a park ticket! Unless you have lots (and I mean lots) of money, forget it!
Forget the price, it’s the effing buying system that’s NBG.
Mrs. and Ms. O spent 4 hours two nights running and couldn’t even get into the Olympic Park.
What a crock.
Yeah, went and had a look round but no chance of getting in…
If you want some atmosphere (easy to get to and free), the best places are the hospitality houses, several different countries:
Big screens, food, beer etc etc
http://www.visitlondon.com/london2012/national-hospitality-houses-for-london-2012/
Just been to the Danish one in St Katharines Dock. Very good. Great setting, free Danish hotdogs, nice boozer on site (Dickins Inn).
The whole ticket situation is an absolute joke…
London born and bred, lived here all my life, family can be traced right back through generations living in south London. I missed out in the first and second ballots, then finally got my nose in in the third ballot - athletics for £750 a ticket or boxing £75 a ticket. Unbelievable. How am I and most other people in London supposed to afford that?
From looking at the crowds of people at the venues on tv I can’t seem to see many of the local east Londoners who have the Olympic park right I their doorstep. I could be wrong but all I see is a bunch of middle class lookin families mooching about
What pisses me off is that the people living near the Olympics got preferential treatment for park tickets but why not the whole of London as we are all paying for it? My sister was speaking to a dutch guy on the tube and he said they had no problem getting tickets. He’d been to London 5 days and seen many events. That’s how it should be. I saw my sister swim at the Seoul Olympics. I just got on a plane, went to the venue and bought my tickets there and then. No problem. Its a joke here. I am very disappointed at not getting a ticket. Not even a sodding Park ticket. They never told you you had to get a park ticket otherwise I would have applied for that in the first place.
I think this sums it up for me
