London 2012 ticket prices

cdam

Prices revealed today. was going to post this in the grab-it section, but then thought better....

so, Archery Final anyone £95 please

Athletics final, £725 (cheapest £50)

what about badminton, we all like that, final £150 (£45 cheapest)

Boxing finals cheapest £95 for mens finals (£50 for womens)

other top (and cheapest) final prices
Diving £450 (30); track cycling £325 (£50); football (laughable, have a look!!!);

In fact sorry, i am just getting angrier.

At least they are doing concession tickets for kids...Well yes, pay your age but NO for most finals, adult prices all round.

London 2012 legacy, Only wealthy people will be able to attend,

I was going to make it our holiday, coming down from Scotland, 2 adults 2 kids

No way, what a rip off, Thanks sebastian (Lord Coe to the oiks....)

For those of you with a few grand to spare (or only going to one event with the family, not a medal event) here is the link

http://www.tickets.london2012.com/about_tickets.html#prices
then go to pdf section

corbyboy

What sort of prices did you expect the tickets to be?

The athletics finals will sell out no matter what the price, so it is obvious they are going to try and make some money out of it.
They haven't said how many there are for each price tier, but £50 starting price for the men's 100m final. That's a bargain!

As for football, cheapest tickets are £40 to watch the men's final! That is cheap! There's are going to be some football quarter finals in Glasgow starting at £20, so maybe you don't need to travel all that way.

They have to have a balance between ticket prices and availability.

What sports are you into? A family of 4 to watch the rowing finals starts at £120. You think that's expensive?

You think if all the tickets were £1 for every event that you would have a hope in hell of getting in anywhere?

joyce63

It's a once in a lifetime opportunity, and while the best seats are extremely expensive, if you don't mind being quite far away from the action, £50 for a whole day's athletics doesn't seem expensive at all.

I'm really impressed with the prices for the tennis, which is what I want to go to. OK the best seats are expensive, but you can go to the finals at Centre Court for as little as £65. I went to the men's final at Wimbledon this year and the ticket was £104. I personally would prefer to go for the preliminary rounds or quarter finals at Court No1 and these are even better value for money. I really like how there is a choice of ticket prices, for the Championships everyone pays the same, whether they are at the very front or very back.

I'm also in Scotland but really want to make the trip if I can.:D

wrumble

I dont understand the prices they have given in the PDF. the cheapest prices are probably the kids and oap prices, no? if not they have been graded from good seats to bad seats, in which case then the prices are reasonable. Still theyre not exactly aimed at the middle lower class are they?!

*manda*

I think they're in line with other events which is surely what we'd expect? Yes I'd like them to be cheaper but they games are costing us enough as it is so I guess this helps reduce some of the impact on the taxpayers. Besides last time I went to a premier league game I paid £70 for 90 minutes, and regularly I'm shelling out £30+ for concerts lasting no more than 3 hours including (often lame) support acts

cdam

The prices are in line with other events. Maybe, but I don't remember billions of British tax payers pounds being spent on "comparable events". What did I expect? Just what we got, the British tax payer getting screwed, and people making excuses for it, just like they did , and still do, for those poor bankers who so unfairly get the blame for things.

For me, my wife and 6 and 9 year old, to watch any athletics medal event, £200 (if we are lucky enough to get the handful of tickets at that price), if we want to see 4 days of events with accommodation, food, transport etc not a lot of change out of £2000 i suspect (after all, everyone will be out to screw the punters, hotels, B7B's , food retailers, why not,when the example has been set and the bar is so high.

Well, maybe the lodsamonies can afford that, lets see if it still the same in 2012.

And as for Hampden and the prices, yeah, if they were decent teams in a proper tournament then maybe OK. By the way, I paid £25, in total, for me and my eldest to attend the Scottish Cup final this year (a meaningful event, at least it has been for the past 100 plus years). A group game under 23 tournement in 2012. a hell of a lot more.

Prawn sandwich anyone.....

eezer

Me and my kids have season tickets at the mighty Wigan Athletic. It costs us £25 per match - that's for all four, not each. Top class sport (well sometimes) for very little.

At the Olympic prices, Seb Coe and his merry men won't be getting anything from me.

And sorry to sound cynical but in the rush to milk every last penny from the paying punters, major sports events are notorious for ticketing fiascoes - half empty stadiums cos the corporate chiefs buy the tickets and don't go whilst the normal bloke is priced out. Will this be any different? I hope so.

quoia

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For me, my wife and 6 and 9 year old, to watch any athletics medal event, £200 (if we are lucky enough to get the handful of tickets at that price), if we want to see 4 days of events with accommodation, food, transport etc not a lot of change out of £2000 i suspect (after all, everyone will be out to screw the punters, hotels, B7B's , food retailers, why not,when the example has been set and the bar is so high.

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With the exception of the finals all four of you could get in for just £54
the kids costing just £6 & £9 each (OK by then it might cost you £4 more if they are 8 and 11 which makes it £58) and £20 for adults (unless you're 60 by then and you'll get in for £16)

Not bad for a full day's entertainment - potentially 10 or 12 hours of competition.
Previous Olympics have had athletics running constantly from 8am/9am in a morning right through until 8pm/9pm at night.

I think you'll find that the ratio of the number of tickets and their prices will be inversely proportionally. There are obviously far fewer seats adjacent to the start or finish lines than are not, similarly there are significantly more seats further from the track than those on the front row (or at least VERY close to where the actual action is taking place) or the PRIME locations that will be sold at a much higher price to subsidise and reduce to overall cost of the cheaper seats.
There will be more £20 seats than £150 seats I'm sure

Holders of tickets for Olympic venues will get free travel within London on public transport - the buses and the Tube - at least for the day they are valid