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One Direction Tickets - Manchester

This may be money wasting, not saving, but Ticketmaster are showing seated tickets still available for the Friday and Sunday concerts in Manchester at the Ethiad. £72 each including fees is a bit steep, but much less than some of the other sites want.

1.5% Quidco to numb the pain, but it'll be midnight (bad) memories by the time you get off the car park at the end.

HTH

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  • ryanmia02
    ryanmia02 Posts: 80 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary Combo Breaker
    Thanks for this, I only had standing tickets for my daughter so just got her some seated tickets :)
  • spacey2012
    spacey2012 Posts: 5,836 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    £72 to watch a Karaoke dancing troupe.
    Be happy...;)
  • amy609
    amy609 Posts: 66 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Looking for 1 standing ticket in the Blue Zone for daughter's friend on the Sunday but only available at inflated prices unfortunately.
  • Thank you 2 tickets just purchased for my daughter and accompanying adult.
  • BettiePage
    BettiePage Posts: 4,627 Forumite
    eezer wrote: »
    Manchester at the Ethiad. ...............but it'll be midnight (bad) memories by the time you get off the car park at the end.

    HTH
    I saw Muse there last year and yes, it was nearly 2 hours to get off the damned car park! Ridiculous!

    Think I'll be giving 1D a miss though
    ;)
    Illegitimi non carborundum.
  • I can't believe that people go to an event with 60,000+ people, park in the official car park, and expect anything other than a slow getaway.

    The Etihad has plenty of industrial estates nearby, all offering parking and a much quicker exit.
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  • paddyrg
    paddyrg Posts: 13,543 Forumite
    You can avoid the traffic by leaving halfway through the show - two wins in one ;-)
  • greenface
    greenface Posts: 4,871 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    Traffic management leaving the eithid is pants . walk about a mile outside the eithiad zone and save 2 hours leaving manchester via the only route available . (i head down kingsway through burnage onto M56 for my journey back to Merseyside takes about an hour to get home inc walk. Will take 3 hours + from Ethiad or supermarket opposite
    :cool: hard as nails on the internet . wimp in the real world :cool:
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