Where have the Olympic XC tickets gone??!!

Applied for 2 x XC, 2 x Eventing dressage 2 X eventing SJ 2 X Kur - got nothing - gutted.

All happening about an hour from me and I cant go, what a fiasco !!!
 
KrujaaLass said:
I also live about an hour away but managed to get just 1 session. Londoners who are paying for it should have had priority.
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Why should Londoners have priority? The whole of the UK is paying for it and we all have a right to be there. If we're going down that route, I would have been travelling down from NE Scotland so would have been putting into the economy by paying for accomodation/travel etc.!

I requested 2 tickets for the XC day and the eventing SJ day, got none. Very annoyed as that was my holiday for next year foiled.
 
I got 2 XC tickets. Only applied for that and some dressage. The money taken from my account can ONLY equal the 2 XC tickets, so I didn't get the dressage, but can't complain, at least I will get to stand near the jumps on course and terrify myself with the thought of jumping over something like that! (Thank goodness I won't ever have too - I'm far too much of a coward to do eventing at any level!)
 
Applied for all the eventing sessions x 2 and just got the dressage tickets so I am currently trying other EU countries but I haven't had any luck yet so I'm hoping they either increase the spectator number after the test event or you can buy tickets into the olympic park to watch things on big screens :).

It's quite obvious why a lot of people have missed out on XC tickets when you look at the numbers as there are only 55 000 in total and according to wikipedia (not particularly accurate I know!) up to 250 000 people go to Badminton XC day so basically they should have held it at Badminton/Burghley. Or perhaps split the XC into two sessions, morning and afternoon, so twice as many people could go.
 
MagicMelon said:
Why should Londoners have priority? The whole of the UK is paying for it and we all have a right to be there. If we're going down that route, I would have been travelling down from NE Scotland so would have been putting into the economy by paying for accomodation/travel etc.!

I requested 2 tickets for the XC day and the eventing SJ day, got none. Very annoyed as that was my holiday for next year foiled.
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Like you Magic Melon, we applied for the eventing dressage/x-c/sj - of course we REALLY want to to go to the x-c, and the dr and sj would have been nice. We did get 3 tickets for the eventing dressage - but nothing else!!!:(

Now we have to go all the way from Scotland for one half of one third of the 3-day event!!!

Not only that - but because we did get SOME tickets, we don't get any preference for the 2nd ballot!!! Wish I had only put in for x-c now!!!:mad::rolleyes:

I know we are lucky to have got something, but it is very frustrating - and will be very expensive for us if we do go......
 
I only applied for 2 xc tickets and I got them - feel very lucky :)

I think when you consider that normally around 500k people go to Badminton and there were only 20k Olympic xc tickets, it was inevitable that most people would be disappointed.
 
I didnt get my xc tickets but got event sj which is also the medal ceremony so im happy with that, im still going to try and get xc tickets in the next phase in the hope folks that got extra retun them for resale..........yea you can stop laughing now,i can but dream
 
I got 4 x country tickets, not really looking forward to dragging my 4 yr old on the underground, well DLR....... think I might try to stay in travelodge if they don't charge stupid prices! x
 
Devonshire dumpling said:
I got 4 x country tickets, not really looking forward to dragging my 4 yr old on the underground, well DLR....... think I might try to stay in travelodge if they don't charge stupid prices! x
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Oh I am a big fan of the DLR - clean and roomy and as they are new, easy access for children and people in wheelchairs. While I have neither children nor need for wheelchairs I do appreciate this is a plus for a large number of people!. You can see I spend quite a bit of time in Canary Wharf! (which btw... has a really great shopping centre there too....)
 
I've got 4 XC tickets! They were the only ones that I applied for, most of the other event tickets were too expensive.

Apparently there is going to be a park and ride near to Greenwich Park on the XC day only so that will be useful with a 5 year old in tow as well as a limping ex-Marine Hubby!!
 
If people in other countries are in the same boat as us, just getting 1 or 2 sessions will they bother to come here. what will happen to those tickets will they go back in the pot so to speak
 
Luci07 said:
Oh I am a big fan of the DLR - clean and roomy and as they are new, easy access for children and people in wheelchairs. While I have neither children nor need for wheelchairs I do appreciate this is a plus for a large number of people!. You can see I spend quite a bit of time in Canary Wharf! (which btw... has a really great shopping centre there too....)
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Yeah we often stay at the travelodge at docklands, its such an easy location for O2 etc :-)
 
Tillypup said:
I've got 4 XC tickets! They were the only ones that I applied for, most of the other event tickets were too expensive.

Apparently there is going to be a park and ride near to Greenwich Park on the XC day only so that will be useful with a 5 year old in tow as well as a limping ex-Marine Hubby!!
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Ahhh I have a 5 yr old and an 11 yr old oh and a hubby in tow! Can't imagine driving in London that day, think i will just train it from Devon ... its gonna be gridlock? x
 
I was fortunate enough to go to the Greenwich test event. We went in to Liverpool Street and paid £82'ish to travel at 8.30 am and then it took around an hour to get to Greenwich on the DLR - there were no delays. The walk from the station to the venue was fine, but I imagine that when it is the "real thing" with 10 times (?) as many people, it will take considerably longer to "shuffle" to the course.

For those of you who are lucky enough to have XC tickets, then I think you need to allow plenty of time to get there and plenty of time to get out - the security at the test event was pretty strict and there was even security inside the venue ie. when you'd been on to the XC course and then re-entered the arena area.

I also wonder where all the XC tickets have gone - all my friends who applied have either dressage or SJ - no one has XC!
 
The Olympic website requests you allow 3 hours to travel in London and get into the venue.
I'm booked into Greenwich Premier Inn the night before the KUR so I can have a leisurely stroll to the the Dressage in the morning.
I've also heard security will be similar to Airport style security - bags / shoes checked etc. And they won't allow food or drink to be taken in.
 
Ps all hotels and B&Bs are cashing in .... I've paid £199 for Premier Inn. Ibis & Novatel at Greenwich are booked for team staff as far as I can tell, and the B&Bs in the area that aren't already booked are doing 7 night minimum stays at £200 per night.
Good luck in your quests fir hotels, I spent days trying to get myself in somewhere
 
KrujaaLass said:
If people in other countries are in the same boat as us, just getting 1 or 2 sessions will they bother to come here. what will happen to those tickets will they go back in the pot so to speak
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There has been ticket allocation for the equestrian events to countries that will not even send one competitor! I think the allocation process is disgraceful.

As a nation with such deep roots in the sport and a world wide renowned industry from everything such as farriers, feed companie, saddlery, and so on. It is pathetic that the supporters within our own country at our own Olympics that such a huge number of people have no chance of being there to support our teams, who out of the whole Olympics are surely at the top of the ladder for medal success.
 
I applied for two XC tickets and didn't get any :0( We did however get Boxing and Basketball although I was not overly excited about this, but the rest of the family was! 2/3 of my friends who applied for XC didn't get theirs either but another friend who applied fro 2 XC only were lucky to get theirs.. Such a shame that alot of us will be not be able to see any of the equine Olympic events when its on our doorstep.....
 
Does anyone know when the Olympic forum will be up and running, thought I had seen an article the other day that they were going to have forum for people travelling if anyone had somewhere for them to stay over the equestrian events, they were mentioning even if you had a garden that a tent could be pitched in?
I managed to get 2 Kur tickets, but I'm going to stay with a friend in Kent.
Got to laugh allow 3 hours to get to venues but try to avoid rush hour, well pick one because if you have to leave 3 hours to get to the venue you are pretty much going to be in rush hour!!!!
 
KrujaaLass said:
Have a friend whos hubby requested £5000 of tickets. Thjey only got 2 XC. How lucky was she.
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At least he beat Thomas Cook and some of the other "legitimate" ticket touts out of 2 more. How come Thomas Cook and these companies managed to secure a large amount of tickets to resell as packages with accomodation, or individual seating only at hugely inflated amounts? There is one company selling Kur tickets for £650 a seat.
 
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