Olympic Tickets

[smll2]

My kids are heading to London from the States on Saturday and will be there for the duration of the Olmpics. We are having a tough time getting event tickets at reasonable prices. I'm thinking they will do better hanging out in the village and purchasing tickets from scalpers the day of the events. Any other ideas more knowledgeable folks might have would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Tom

[Fshaw]

My kids are heading to London from the States on Saturday and will be there for the duration of the Olmpics. We are having a tough time getting event tickets at reasonable prices. I'm thinking they will do better hanging out in the village and purchasing tickets from scalpers the day of the events. Any other ideas more knowledgeable folks might have would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Tom

According to my co-workers who are over there is it near impossible to find them at reasonable prices. Not sure if scalpers are reliable or not, but that is the way they are going about obtaining them.

Best of luck!

[papatrips]

My kids are heading to London from the States on Saturday and will be there for the duration of the Olmpics. We are having a tough time getting event tickets at reasonable prices. I'm thinking they will do better hanging out in the village and purchasing tickets from scalpers the day of the events. Any other ideas more knowledgeable folks might have would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Tom

They actually just discussed this on the news. Apparently there is a lot of seats empty at some of the venues and they are investigating why this is happening. They have been filling vacant seats with soldiers who are on break.

Its really weird because even women's beach volleyball is sparse!

According to the CBC if you are trying to get tickets - you have to go to the Olympic Stadium and pay 10 pounds to get in and then stand in line to purchase returned or available tickets.

[mazolaman]

Hey Tom,

This was on the BBC website today, and includes info on getting tickets from the site, and online.

From experience, you will be fleeced from touts but....

It seems they releasing more as the storm rages regarding empty seats, so, I hope this helps.

Kevin.

Wimbledon-style returns will be made available at offices at venues or on the Olympic Park as and when they become available. Priced £5 for adults and £1 for children. On Saturday, 283 handball tickets were released in this way.

They come up when spectators leave early and return their tickets. Because they have a double-header - more than one session of sport to attend or because they have seen their team and go.

On the park during the Olympics there are up to 1,000 young people present under the "Key Seats" programme to involve young and local people and those who have played a part in their community, about 150 people each day. They are being allowed in when space comes up.

[mazolaman]

Hey Tom,

This was on the BBC website today, and includes info on getting tickets from the site, and online.

From experience, you will be fleeced from touts but....

It seems they're releasing more as the storm rages regarding empty seats, so, I hope this helps.

Kevin.

Wimbledon-style returns will be made available at offices at venues or on the Olympic Park as and when they become available. Priced £5 for adults and £1 for children. On Saturday, 283 handball tickets were released in this way.

They come up when spectators leave early and return their tickets. Because they have a double-header - more than one session of sport to attend or because they have seen their team and go.

On the park during the Olympics there are up to 1,000 young people present under the "Key Seats" programme to involve young and local people and those who have played a part in their community, about 150 people each day. They are being allowed in when space comes up.

[CaptainQuintero]

Yeah the corporate sponsors who got large numbers of tickets never sent them out/sent them to people who didn't want them.

You can only buy official tickets online from the official store, there are lots of stories on the news of people being duped into buying fakes, wouldn't personally go anywhere near scalpers.

[smll2]

They actually just discussed this on the news. Apparently there is a lot of seats empty at some of the venues and they are investigating why this is happening. They have been filling vacant seats with soldiers who are on break.

Its really weird because even women's beach volleyball is sparse!

According to the CBC if you are trying to get tickets - you have to go to the Olympic Stadium and pay 10 pounds to get in and then stand in line to purchase returned or available tickets.

Thanks Papa...

We didn't know this about the olympic stadium. That great info

[smll2]

Hey Tom,

This was on the BBC website today, and includes info on getting tickets from the site, and online.

From experience, you will be fleeced from touts but....

It seems they're releasing more as the storm rages regarding empty seats, so, I hope this helps.

Kevin.

Wimbledon-style returns will be made available at offices at venues or on the Olympic Park as and when they become available. Priced £5 for adults and £1 for children. On Saturday, 283 handball tickets were released in this way.

They come up when spectators leave early and return their tickets. Because they have a double-header - more than one session of sport to attend or because they have seen their team and go.

On the park during the Olympics there are up to 1,000 young people present under the "Key Seats" programme to involve young and local people and those who have played a part in their community, about 150 people each day. They are being allowed in when space comes up.

Thanks Kevin...please any other ideas are much appreciated.

[smll2]

Yeah the corporate sponsors who got large numbers of tickets never sent them out/sent them to people who didn't want them.

You can only buy official tickets online from the official store, there are lots of stories on the news of people being duped into buying fakes, wouldn't personally go anywhere near scalpers.

At this point buying them online from the official store require you to be from certain areas in Europe and have a European address....which we don't have!!!

[rckymtn22]

At this point buying them online from the official store require you to be from certain areas in Europe and have a European address....which we don't have!!!

Use the address of where the kids are staying. Might have to wait until they get over there so the ISP shows that they are in Europe.

[smll2]

Use the address of where the kids are staying. Might have to wait until they get over there so the ISP shows that they are in Europe.

Great idea and we thought the same. Problem is the address on the credit card used needs to match the shipping address for the credit card user in Europe....

[Cohiba Stevie]

Tv?

[papatrips]

It looks like they will continue to release tickets the night before. But it looks like you will still run into the same situation with ordering. The other idea I mentioned above did not work apparently because by the time you got tickets you would miss the events because of travel time.

http://www.cbc.ca/player/Sports/Olympic+Sports/ID/2261980576/

[frenchkiwi]

hey where did all the passion (ie swearing) go? lol.

if it makes you feel any better, the tickets issue has even affected some athletes in their choice of discipline (an english one - and a londoner at that).

just saw

with Bradley Wiggins from a year ago. he won his gold in the road time trial today but his first choice was the track (where he won 3 golds at the last 2 olympics). But finding out that his kids wouldn't be able to get tickets for the velodrome to watch him helped to nudge him to a switch to the road where anyone can watch you for free.

and i laughed when i read this today:

"After winning the Tour de France, Wiggins showed a healthy disregard for protocol by addressing the British fans; here, he did something similar afterwards by freewheeling from the finish area for a mini lap of honour among the crowds, who were unable to enter the Hampton Court palace precinct where the medals were handed out. "The great thing about cycling is its accessibility, we all know about Olympic ticketing. All the real fans are out there, in here it's a bit of a prawn sandwich fest.""