Theatre tickets for seniors

catkins

I've just bought 2 tickets for Cats at the London Palladium. They didn't give an age for the "senior" tickets but as I am 60 I bought 1 for myself and paid full price for OH as he is only 57.


I am assuming senior means 60 or over as it seems to everywhere else. Does anyone know if they are likely to ask for proof of my age when we go (picking up tickets from box office on day of performance). I don't have a driving licence so it would have to be passport or birth certificate, neither of which I normally carry with me!

Biggles

I've never been asked; in fact, in the circumstances you describe (lack of age requirement) I got in the habit of asking for two 'concessions' and never had a problem.

JB9302

I also bought 2 tickets for Cats about a month ago , we are 62/63 and I assumed 65 would apply so paid the full price .
What was the senior rate ? , we booked the stalls .

SandraScarlett

If you are going to see Miss Saigon, there is announcement on their site, that Pensioners can purchase a ticket for £37.50. I phoned the day before the midweek matinee, and was given a seat in G row of the stalls, just off centre.


During the interval, the lady in the seat next to mine, asked what I'd paid. She revealed the seats for her and her husband were classed as Premium seats and cost ..... £99.50 each!


It was their Golden Wedding though, and the family had clubbed together. BTW, it's a brilliant production. I saw it the day after it opened in 1989 with Lea Salonga.


xx

Goldiegirl

catkins wrote: »

I am assuming senior means 60 or over as it seems to everywhere else. Does anyone know if they are likely to ask for proof of my age when we go (picking up tickets from box office on day of performance). I don't have a driving licence so it would have to be passport or birth certificate, neither of which I normally carry with me!

I think 'senior' generally kicks in at age 60.

My husband has been buying senior tickets since he was 60, three years ago, and has never yet been asked for proof of age (much to his disappointment)

catkins

JB9302 wrote: »

I also bought 2 tickets for Cats about a month ago , we are 62/63 and I assumed 65 would apply so paid the full price .
What was the senior rate ? , we booked the stalls .

Senior rate was £10 cheaper so worth it

moneyistooshorttomention

I always interpret "senior" or "concessions" as meaning me, because I am a woman past her 60th birthday. If I were a man - I would take it as 65th birthday onwards.

As you can gather, I don't take any account of the fact that my State Pension Age got revised to be older than 60 (and I finally hit that revised SPA next year).

The only time I've had anyone say "not you" to me on that so far has been when it comes to local authority evening classes (where you are expected to produce proof of being over your State Pension Age) and back in England I had that when I asked for a free buspass when I got to my 60th birthday.

With those 2 exceptions, I am accepted as having "concessionary" rate as a "senior" and certainly I have always been granted a concessionary rate okay at the local theatre.

If I could afford to pay the full rate then I wouldn't claim the concessionary rate, as I personally feel that those who can afford to pay full rate should do so and not get subsidised. But single/never had any concessions or anything for having children and right now on even-lower-than-low income and I do ask.

nobodyspecial

I think "senior" concessions vary from place to place, but they must be applied equally to men and women. 60 or 65 seem to be the two standards, I've not heard of anywhere doing other ages. I really don't see why women should get concessions at a younger age than men, and individual lifestyle choices of marriage or no certainly shouldn't enter into it. The "subsidy" of concessions is borne by the retailer and is obviously worthwhile to them, a bit like group booking discounts.

Savvy_Sue

nobodyspecial wrote: »

The "subsidy" of concessions is borne by the retailer and is obviously worthwhile to them, a bit like group booking discounts.

Do you think so? I've always thought that the subsidy was borne by those of us NOT getting the concession, we end up paying a little more. Not bus passes so much, where at least some of the journey costs are paid to the bus operators, but in other areas.

catkins

nobodyspecial wrote: »

I think "senior" concessions vary from place to place, but they must be applied equally to men and women. 60 or 65 seem to be the two standards, I've not heard of anywhere doing other ages. I really don't see why women should get concessions at a younger age than men, and individual lifestyle choices of marriage or no certainly shouldn't enter into it. The "subsidy" of concessions is borne by the retailer and is obviously worthwhile to them, a bit like group booking discounts.

But women did get their pension at 60 and men at 65 so there has been a difference for a while. Now the ages are being upped no one seems clear what age qualifies for concessions apart from bus passes which, in a lot of areas including where I live, is when you get to pension age.


Quite a few places state the age is 60 regardless of sex but if they don't make it clear then I am just going to assume it is 60. I have bought cinema tickets, theatre tickets and eaten in a restaurant which had a deal for "senior". None of them queried my age and although I do have grey hair people are always saying how surprised they are when I tell them I am 60

JB9302

Saw Cats at the Palladium today , excellent:T