Showjumping in London

I was thinking how badly supported it is. Maybe the ticket prices. I would have gone but didn't know it was on while yesterday.
 
There was a comment on another thread yesterday that the covered seats were £85. I bet the parking was charged for as well.

Day out for 2 at £170 plus say £10 to park plus a cup of coffee and ice cream another £10 plus fuel, you are looking at £230/50 for a pleasant Sunday afternoon. You must be kidding !!
 
Well if it wasn't for the NHS scheduling my op last week, I'd have gone.

To be honest, I think the issues with finding a venue meant a lack of publicity - I read stuff about the lack of permission and didn't realise they had got somewhere until last week.

As for cost -they always had £10 tickets in the mix and to be honest, £84 for several hours top quality sport is pretty good value today. In the world of equestrian, everyone seems to remember the days of £5 day entry to major events but this is normal if not low for major sport events. I think it's a really good addition and hope it comes back to London
 
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Well if it wasn't for the NHS scheduling my op last week, I'd have gone.

To be honest, I think the issues with finding a venue meant a lack of publicity - I read stuff about the lack of permission and didn't realise they had got somewhere until last week.

As for cost -they always had £10 tickets in the mix and to be honest, £84 for several hours top quality sport is pretty good value today. In the world of equestrian, everyone seems to remember the days of £5 day entry to major events but this is normal if not low for major sport events. I think it's a really good addition and hope it comes back to London
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Very valid point, and thinking about it, better value than the £45 x 2 I have just paid for 1 and half hours at a theatre to see The Lion King.

I am just tight ! We would have been on the £250 mark with the fuel for us to go and that is nine bales of big bale haylage. I judge everything in round bales !!!
 
rachel_s said:
As for cost -they always had £10 tickets in the mix and to be honest, £84 for several hours top quality sport is pretty good value today. In the world of equestrian, everyone seems to remember the days of £5 day entry to major events but this is normal if not low for major sport events. I think it's a really good addition and hope it comes back to London
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There were no £10 tickets on their website and I kept an eye out from the moment I heard it would be at Stratford.

As for cost versus hours of top level sport - whilst I agree partly (I don't bat an eyelid at paying that for watching England play at Twickenham), Olympia's not even that expensive for the best seats and Badminton entry for Fri, Sat, Sun and Mon only costs £70 ish in total with the bonus of having trade stands to browse as well.

Think it will take a while for equestrian sport supporters to get used to paying the same prices as top flight rugby, football, cricket or tennis...
 
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My daughter is there as a volunteer for the four days and has been on the arena gate two of those days Friday and today) and the warm up ring yesterday, so has had a brilliant view. I've even got glimpses of her :-) If you look, she's on the gate now (pink lined hoodie lol)
 
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