Olympic Tickets or the 2012 rip off

[Paul the 6th]

Originally Posted by flymo

clearly not, thats the second time the thread has 'died'

megalolz

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by Rog

Basically where are the concessions? I assume that the Olympic commitee do know that people live outside of London? The cost of travelling down to London and staying in London is extremely prohibitive normally, without factoring in olympic ticket price.

Don't forget that we Londoners got the privilge of paying for more if than you.

[punyXpress]

When we paid for the railway so you can get there?

Let's see. 2 adults and 1 kid. We'll be environmentally friendly and take the train (Virgin, bucket class) from Shrewsbury to Euston. Sadly they don't give tix prices more than 12 weeks in advance. Return to London on the 9.31 from S'bury arrives Euston 12.14, open return with London Underground travelcard for the three of us is £462.50. Three tix for the evening Athletics show say on 5 August 2012 would be £125 each for a half decent seat.

Plus hotel room (family) - say £150.

Parking at S'bury station (we live 10 miles away) £8. If we got the bus it's £5 each return.
Train £462.50 (from Virgin website)
Tix £375 (from Olympics website)
Hotel £150 (guesstimate)

Total excluding food and drink etc = £995.50

Perhaps those who think it's all such a jolly and wonderful occasion should think about this.

It's totally unaffordable for people like me.

Originally Posted by Ed

Let's see. 2 adults and 1 kid. We'll be environmentally friendly and take the train (Virgin, bucket class) from Shrewsbury to Euston. Sadly they don't give tix prices more than 12 weeks in advance. Return to London on the 9.31 from S'bury arrives Euston 12.14, open return with London Underground travelcard for the three of us is £462.50. Three tix for the evening Athletics show say on 5 August 2012 would be £125 each for a half decent seat.

Plus hotel room (family) - say £150.

Parking at S'bury station (we live 10 miles away) £8. If we got the bus it's £5 each return.
Train £462.50 (from Virgin website)
Tix £375 (from Olympics website)
Hotel £150 (guesstimate)

Total excluding food and drink etc = £995.50

Perhaps those who think it's all such a jolly and wonderful occasion should think about this.

It's totally unaffordable for people like me.

So what you're saying is that just to be able to get to London to watch the olympics with your kids it's gonna cost you £624.50.

And so you're saying it's unfair tickets are around £125 each? Even if the tickets were £50, you'd still be looking at £700+ which is not cheap.

For those annoyed about expense of olympics cos they live far from London, the bulk of your expense is for that very reason, you live far from London!
I can't complain about pricey LA Lakers tickets if it costs me £600 to get there in the first place.

Yes, but its isn't the London olympics is it?

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by Berlin

Yes, but its isn't the London olympics is it?

Originally Posted by thulfi

So what you're saying is that just to be able to get to London to watch the olympics with your kids it's gonna cost you £624.50.

And so you're saying it's unfair tickets are around £125 each? Even if the tickets were £50, you'd still be looking at £700+ which is not cheap.

For those annoyed about expense of olympics cos they live far from London, the bulk of your expense is for that very reason, you live far from London!
I can't complain about pricey LA Lakers tickets if it costs me £600 to get there in the first place.

Or put it another way, how much/month extra do you think it would cost to live in the equivilent house you have now in an equivilently decent area in London?

About £600/month maybe?

So you are getting off lightly.

Personally I think, with the way the world economy has gone, we ended up with a White Elephant/Poisoned Chalice in this one.

What beggers belief is they then spent/wasted more money chasing the World Cup...

Originally Posted by keithd

oh look, another Olympics in Great Britain bashing thread.

lets put this politely, **** off you miserable *******s.

this thread is dead to me

I know you wont read this reply keithd, since this thread is dead to you, which is Ironic as you dont seem to have read the content or the reason why I started the thread in the first place either.

I dont want to bash the olympics. Being an Engineer and working on some of the olympic works myself throughout London, I think they have done an outstanding job on getting everthing done in time. I also think we have a great chance of doing well and I think that we will run a good games.

My gripe was that they dont seem to have factored in the costs to anybody who has to travel from outside London or stop in London to watch an event. They sign deals for hotels and the like for the marathon why not the olympics? I was also raising the point that there shoudnt be any pricing structure. All seats one price for all, then the luck of the ballot takes over. This isnt a private enterprise to make money, we have all paid for this and yet we wont all get the chance to benefit due to being priced out of it. This was a brilliant opportunity to allow the whole of Britain to celebrate what will be a one off event in our life time and yet greed and shortsightedness seem to have put paid to that.

In short I would love to go but they seem to have forgot to factor in the average wage in this country and the fact that with the cost of travel this is going to the out of reach to many families throughout the country.

Oh and on a final note, I love a passionate argument from both sides but I dont appreciate beign told to....how did you put it...ahh yes "**** off you miserable *******s" especially when you didnt even understand the content of the thread.


But hey ho bygones

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Don't forget that we Londoners got the privilge of paying for more if than you.

Noted SoulKiss, but you will also have the benefits of the infrastructure once the games are over and your local economy has been boosted through all the work. Swings and roundabouts and ting.

Originally Posted by Rog

My gripe was that they dont seem to have factored in the costs to anybody who has to travel from outside London or stop in London to watch an event.

Ok, well one person has already stated it would cost their family of 2adults and 1child £624.50 just to get to London in the first place.

If we factor this in as a cost, then you should charge tickets at 1p, because £624.53 is a lot of money for 2 adults and a child to see one event.

What price would you say is fair? Even at current prices, transport is still going to be 80% of the cost for those who live far from London. Can't blame trains/petrol/hotel costs on the olympics now can you?