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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11546228 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11546228)

Major bits are:

Opening Ceremony: £20.12 - £2012

Mens 100m Final: £50 - £725

and Beach Volleyball: £20 - £450

Having had a quick look it seems like most sports start at £20-£30 for the preliminary rounds and £50-£100 for the finals.

But there's so much difference between the cheapest and most expensive tickets I'd really want to see exactly what the difference is before deciding on what was worth buying.

draft schedule also released today for those who like planning in advance before being screwed over when they move everything at the last minute

http://media.ticketmaster.com/og/en-gb/img/sys/tournament/london2012/olyschedule.pdf

Pointless guys, read somewhere the world is going to end on December 23 this year so might want to hold fire here.

Cheers for the heads up. Was in the process of sorting out my Christmas plans but I shan't bother now :)

chances of getting a ticket through ticket master is only slightly better than nil

having to buy a ticket through there partner site at 4x mark up highly likely

somebody was watching watchdog last night

lolz - just thinking same

i was in the pub last night what did i miss?

The expensive seat prices are for a good seat on the grandstand nearest the start

The cheap seats are to stand in the foundations of the grandstand that won't be built in time

Wait till Christmas eve to be on the safe side.

It doesn't say too much about how much price hiking will be possible through legal means though

Pricing seems sensible overall.  Not out of reach to most, and for lots of sports tickets should be easier to get (compared to say the 100m final).

I wonder how many people are going to spend £20 to watch any handball, let alone £50 for the preliminary rounds.

There are sports that will attract a core group of fans. I have no idea how many handballers (if that's the term) there are in the UK, and the rest of Europe for that matter, but I bet that in most cases demand will match the supply.

Can't believe opening ceremony prices. I wouldn't go to this if it was free. Who's paying 2k to go?

So that's like 70 buck a second!

How are they managing to charge tickets for the cycling road race or am i reading it wrong???

I'd imagine those are temp grandstands @ start/finish and maybe other locations. same for marathon, triathlon and walking

I also expect special last minute offers for anything that's struggling to fill up



It's already been stated before that the marathon and the like will be free, so I'm pretty sure those prices are just for the start/finish in the olympic stadium. Events like the triathlon which are all contained within one location (Hyde Park for the triathlon) - they could ticket the whole area, I think the only reason they won't is if they legally can't.

Had a sneak peak at the ticketing guide which will be available free of charge on 15th. Looks good, although some events seem pricey for what they are. Will probably pick a few of the less popular events which are easier to get tickets for and one day of athletics. Only trouble is if you apply for one day and you don't get in, you may miss on other days. Or you could apply for two days and then end up with getting both.   

Should put the prices up imo, so we actually have a team there.

Apparently there will be a website where you can sell your unwanted tickets at face value.

So you should apply for loads more than you want to go to, then see what you get, pick out the ones you want and sell back the rest.

Ok, like seatexchange type of site. Cool  8)

It's a reasonable idea if you can afford to pay for the tickets, I'm going to be a little bit more cautious myself I've narrowed down my target list to a few sports I want to see covering a few venues to give myself a bit broader experience of the games (if I get the tickets).

After that I'm just going to look for special offers in events they're finding hard to fill.

You can now select the tickets you want to apply for from today (until some time in April - it doesn't matter apparently, if you do it now or on the last day, the date of your application isn't taken into account).

I wanted to go to the Men's 10,000m final, Session Code: AT004 and the price categories are as follows:

£450.00 - A
£295.00 - B
£150.00 - C
£95.00 - D
£50.00 - E

But I'm struggling to find what these different categories mean.  A will be close to the finish line, I'd imagine; and E will be somewhere in Kent - but you'd have thought there'd be a plan of the stadium showing what these categories mean. 

Can anyone find such a guide, as I'm being thick?

Whats the selection criteria is it a random draw? Will I have a better chance applying for everything or picking a handful of events to try and watch?

23rd of December, that's my birthday. Geez I run bad.

If you pick something and get it, it's binding - you can't pull out.

So be careful you don't get stuck with 8 tickets for every day of the archery.

Yes, you can't bid for 100 hundred tickets and then choose your favourite 10 out of them.  If you're lucky enough to get a ticket in the random draw, your credit card (must be Visa) will be charged.  There will be an official site to exchange tickets at face value, but that won't be for months.  So if you apply for loads of tickets, be prepared for a hefty credit card bill.

I'm still looking for any kind of guide that explains the difference between A-E seats in the Olympic Stadium.

No it's really annoying.

The official explanation is that it's because you're not buying seats, you're buying which band you're going to sit in.

I think the most likely reason is that they just haven't allocated the bandings yet.

I'm going to leave it for a few weeks and hope at least one or two of the venues publish further details in the meantime.

£450 for the best ticket for 10,000M seems ridiculously toppy.

I thought the Olympics was meant to be accessable for all, even £50 for the cheapest seat is far too expensive imo.

Blatant lets figure out the bandings when we see how many people will buy each one so we can maximise our profit.

There will end up being 4 band E tickets available and they're on top of the floodlights.

Basically, this.

It's quite clever what they're doing.

People are going to be annoyed when their Band B tickets are up in the roof.

The prices are ridiculous all round.

Just had a look at some unusual events, and the cost is at least twice as much as I expected.

Sport for all. LOL.

I don't know. There seems to be loads of things you can go see for £20, including main stadium stuff. Just not event finals.

But, that does depend on whether you'll actually be able to see anything with a Band E ticket I suppose.

As said earlier in the thread, how can we say which band we want to buy without knowing where the seats are.

Centre court tickets at Wimbledon for £30 doesn't sound too bad though!

Seb Coe was saying on the radio that 2/3rds of tickets are £20 max. I haven't looked so dunno if that is true.

It's the same session that has the last event for the Heptathlon as well - and I imagine there'll be a clamour for people to get tickets for that.

That is true they had certain promises they were meant to keep - they haven't because I think they were intending for 3/4 of the tickets to be at the cheapest end - but they've got to come close.


Fits into the general scheme they have that the over-priced top end subsidises the cheap end.

Don't know if they've cheated by including all the bits you can see for free as part of the ticket total - it seems just too obvious for them to be able to get away with it if they did.

If they know how many tickets are going to be in each price band, then they should be able to publish seating charts.  Seems a bit of con somewhere along the line.

I can imagine the qualifying rounds of a lot of events will be in that price range - but it's the events with the demand that they'll charge the higher prices for. 

So if I go for a top ticket for the 100m final can I not confirm that the top band ticket will actually be the same side of the stadium as the 100m track?
(Apologies not been on the site as yet and just trying to sum up what you guys are saying).

As I think I said before, half the athletics tickets will be for the morning sessions which are just qualifying with no medals given out. There's no way they sell 80,000 tickets for this every day - if they don't allow pay on the gate for these there'll be huge expanses of empty seats.

You won't get a ticket for the 100m final - you get a ticket for the athletics session that includes the 100m final.

In theory that means it could be the prime position to see one of the other events going on in that session - but that would be a bit odd. I can't see how the top price tickets for that session won't be the ones with the best view of the 100m final.

Be worth watching if Carolina Kluft competes..

...and Ennis.

Have they said they aren't planning on allowing pay on the gate?

Actually, what may happen is they'll sell the tickets for the mornings in this thing they're doing now, people will have the £20 taken out (assuming the Band E tickets they're buying will be for finals and that), then once they discover the tickets are for Wednesday monring's shot put qualifying they'll just not bother turning up.

So the seats will still be empty, but they'll have been paid for.

The Olympics guys are actually being quite shrewd in getting these things flogged.

They need to say that so that people panic buy now.

It's pretty annoying they aren't giving an indication of how many applications have been made for each event.

Trying to plan a schedule is difficult, might be successful for 5 events one day and none the next.

They've published what each session contains, and the one's with medal events are clearly marked. Just how stupid would the general public have to be ...... oh, I see, never mind.

I can't find the tickets to the poker

Apparently not only must you buy your ticket using VISA, your card must expire after August too.

Whataloadofoldshit.

the august thing was just a bug which they've now fixed

Ah ok, thanks.

I just like the opportunity to throw a virtual punch at that smug git Seb Coe.

Submitted my ticket requests for two athletics sessions.

[  ] They won't be ridiculously over-subscribed
[X] I'll end up with the seats in the car-park or
[X] I'll end up not getting any tickets

at least you'll be used to sitting with the short stacks...

Going to try for a few. Wish list at the moment is

Opening ceremony (fat chance but what the heck)
Hockey
Athletics
Football final
BMX
Basketball

Trouble with the athletics, do you go for events you want to see or go for ones you are more likely to get but not really interested in, or both and end up spending too much.  ;carlocitrone;
Think I will just go for it and if I end up with too many, give ones I don't want as Christmas presents.

The VISA thing is ghey.

You do know that the person who buys the tickets has to be there don't you?

I've gone for 8 sessions, most of them are just for the 'Olympic experience' there's only 2 I particularly want to get.

If you try to buy the top tier of prices, does that mean you are more likely to get the seats, or are you just as likely as someone who tries to buy the bottom level.

 

There will be an official ticket reselling site where tickets can be sold at face value (probably minus a Visa admin fee). But that won't be opened for something like 6 months.

No idea how many tickets they're allocating for each tier. Even though they're saying that 80% of tickets will be in the cheapest bracket (it might not be 80%),  they haven't said that for popular sessions at the athletics there will be the same distribution of tickets.

When you submit your request, you choose your preferred price, bbut also choose a price range.  I assume the cheaper seats will have more people going for them, giving you a better chance of getting a ticket at a higher price.  But that's just me guessing...

pretty redic i have applied for the opening ceramony one as this should be incred price difference are redic tho

I wouldn't go to the opening or closing ceremonies if they were free and on in Darlington!

y not

because it'd involve going to darlington at a guess

then again I live in stratford and very much doubt I'd bother wandering down the road to either even if they were free

Why would you want to see a load of athletes walking round the track NOT competing?

Boris Johnson, Seb Coe, The Queen, Mick Hucknall singing the National Anthem.

Hell, I'd pay good money NOT to attend.

Why would anyone rather see a load of singing, dancing and stuff rather than Usain Bolt winning the 100m?

Mick Hucknall is singing the national anthem?  Please tell me this is a joke.  Please....

With Boris Johnson, Seb Coe and the Queen? Please tell me this is true, please...

Abba tribute band?

Did you know the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary?

God Save the Queen!

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oixfJc8s3ZM

It's not the most ridiculous thing ever.  Probably more likely to be someone like Leona Lewis, but I find her far less offensive than Hucknall.

I just came up with the most offensive tosser I could think of who would fit in well with the other 3!

Come Dine With Me Xmas special lineup revealed.

Ship $500 to mondonewc on Stars and I will guarentee you that you wont have to attend.














PS Totally agree with you, cant think of many things less appealing to go to.

maybe my expectations are too big

the china olympic was redic good imo

i think its an experience worth going to

You honestly think London openening ceremony will be even 10% as good as Beijing?

Save your money to see Usain Bolt imo.

I'm glad I'm a big Bekele fan in the 10,000m (and 5,000m).  Far better value for money than Bolt in the 100m!

Assuming he's fit:  http://www.athleticsweekly.com/news/bekele-back-in-training-hopeful-for-london-2012/

I want to go to the opening ceremony so I can compare it to when I went to the Beijing one.  :D

I went a bit nuts and ordered a shedload of tickets, if they all come in I am selling a kidney.

Not sure but I think I went for
Lots of atheletics obv
A bunch of bronze medal boxing
mens finals weightlifting
gymnastics - the one on horses and rings (my missus fancied that)
basketball final (dont like b ball but figured it would be fun to watch the yanks assuming they made the final)

Of all of em, I actually would love to get the weightlifting most, I love any sport where you are watching someone try and beat their personal best, medal or not. I bet its actually boring in real life.

A couple of pictures of the Olympic Stadium

I hadn't seen these pictures before, so apologies if they're old news and I've just been blind.

(http://www.architecturetoday.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/mvs_os.jpg)

(http://www.architecturetoday.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/mvs_os2.jpg)