Olympic CX Prestige Tickets

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Has anyone seen on the 2012 site there is a 'prestige' ticket offer - based on a hospitality package?

My jaw has just hit the ground - the cost per person for the cross country day is £795!

It includes a croissant breakfast, lunch and 'traditional' tea + a marquee to sit in should it rain. I believe the normal tickets had a face value of around £50?

Astonishing! Had the equestrian events been held somewhere in the country, far more than 50,000 tickets could have been sold. I know all the arguments for using Greenwich but really - this does rather rub one's nose in it.

I don't know anyone who was successful in getting tickets for the xc day.

And I don't know many people who would justify £700 for a cup of tea and a bun.

PS: That should read XC in the title of course: Clearly the shock has rendered me illiterate!
 
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How much :eek:

We had an email last night saying we had been successful with our ticket application but not telling us which tickets we had. As we only applied for 2 tickets for xc day we are assuming that this is what we've got, fingers crossed
 
You'd also have to buy a table of ten I believe. I used to work for the holding company of prestige and as I've become a bit 'desensitised' I didn't think the XC was all that bad price-wise.

All rugby hospitality at twickenham is min £500, Wimbledon can be anything from 700 to 5 grand (I'm not joking, people do pay this money!) if you want a hospitality bargain go to Cheltenham for a mere couple of hundred...lol

You do get Fed and watered (or wined-free bar all day) very well at these sort of things, equivalent to a very posh slap up meal in a restaurant, not just a bun and cup of tea lol!

I guess what you're paying for is the guaranteed ticket hence why hospitality, even in the recession, always sells well.

I'm considering saving up for a modern pent hosp ticket, a snip at 495! *rollseyes*
 
Congrats terrierliz on your tickets - great news!

I appreciate what you're saying AprilBlossom in terms of the cost being par for course re hospitality - it's a spendy business in general of course.

My sadness at this is that the Olympics on home turf is in all probability a once in a lifetime event and for me it would be nice to see as many tickets as possible at a reasonable price. It's great the organisers are going to be tough on touts - but kind of ironic that these high cost packages are official!

I'm a broken record here but if only they'd used a bigger venue I'm sure many more if us would be happily looking forward to our fifty pound day out :-)
 
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