Club Arnage

I have booked and paid £100 deposit with Just Tickets, for 2 camping passes and 4 general entry tickets. have just found out that I am not going to be able to make the pilgramage next year :'( I am due to pay the balance on these tickets by the 31st Ocotober, if anyone is interested in taking over my booking can you let me know.

Which Campsites have you booked??

MB Rick

And the total cost of the package is...?



Bad news you are not able to make it btw...

I am already onto that one. I Hope to have confirmed tickets already this year and still do not have any MB tickets.

We paid GBP 913,- last year for four camping tickets and eight GA tickets.
Whitey's bill should be somewhere GBP 450,-

What a ridiculous amount for a camping ticket ::)

The bill is £391, works out at less than £100 each. Not bad I don't think

I disagree. They start off as € 80,-, that's £ 50,-. Then they make you pay for additional General Entrance- and Hospitality Tickets, the latter are worthless to me as we never used them this year.

The upside on JT is excellent service, friendly people and you can count on getting your tickets.


It just seems a lot of money :-\

Until the ACO work out a way that you can purchase tickets directly, instead of going onto a 'list' through which you may (or may not) get the site you are after, the likes of JT are going to be able to continue taking large sums of money off of those (like me and TTTD) who camp in the same place every year.
The one time we didn't use JT we got 3 Tertre Rouge and 7 BJ.
So we sold the BJ tickets and managed to get 7 TR ones from JT very late in the day.

It seems that the ACO are quite happy to run this proceduer and nothing will ever chane, so we just keep paying over the odds.

I think that this is the way with many sporting events etc.  They do not wish to deal with the public on a piecemeal basis and are happy to let the agencies do it and overcharge us.

I once paid MRI £100 for a £25 MB ticket.  Wouldn't you?

Two ways to look at it.

Value for money - for £100, best part of a week's camping, a motor race and whatever the hospitality gets you is very reasonable, and I'd pay it.

Rip off - because we know the face values.

However to my knowledge you cannot buy any major concert tickets without a surcharge of some kind (Ticketmaster charged nearly £3 a ticket for my Christmas panto tickets - Oh no they didn't - Oh yes they did). These people are in it to make money.

The peace of mind mentioned above can be priceless, and if I wasn't one of the lucky ones on the repat list I would be booking through JT too.

Tell us more!  ??? Why is a grown man going to a Panto? I thought your kids were far too old for that nonsense Smokie. Maybe it's the smell of wee...  :D

Perhaps it was Keith Harris with Orville.

This is what you get with care in the community

Oh dear, is that the bro of Rolf?

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That's exactly what I mean. We all have to make 'n earn a living on some way, but this seems an awfull lot to me :-\

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Far worse than Rolf.  I didn't realise you had suffered Rolf in Holland.  I thought the Geneva Convention prevented the export of these things.

Strangely, they both had hit records, all terrible, with the possible exception of Rolf's  "Stairway to Heaven", because it must have been done for a bet.

If you're brave enough to learn why the British are so keen to go to France and Holland look at http://www.keithharrisandorville.co.uk/

Well, the missus is English, so that's probably where I got my knowlegde of the painting dog-molester.

As for Keith, don't know him at all, and by the looks of it, Im a lucky guy :)

Many years ago, in another life while I was a Relay Truck driver for the AA we had Mr Harris (K) 's car in for a long distance, unnaccompanied relay to the dreadded South!

His car was sitting in the garage overnight and in the wee small hours one of my mates said he heard a noise in its boot....

After poo-pooing him for half an hour someone else heard a noise from that side of the garage. (inside a large unit on an industrial esatate)

We ventured nervously in the direction of the car and there was another noise. The cars were parked in a row aginst the wall and the trucks across from them so there was a definite "them" and "us" area.

We opened the boot of his car, not something we ever bothered with, seen one boot seen 'em all, you know?

A large suitcase inside battered as hell was sat there.

You guessed it, the green horror was staring up at us!



But he never said a word, phew...



But we didn't find out what caused the noise either!


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Interesting!!!!

MB Tickets 80 Euros
GA Tickets 59 Euros

Just Tickets Prices

MB Tickets £82
GA Tickets £55

If you want a camping pass you have to buy at least 2 GA's per camping pass.  1 MB pass plus two GA's = £192. Face value = 198 Euros = £135

I believe there was uproar on this site last year about someone selling GA's on eBay for £50! List price is 59 Euros = approx £42 at the time IIRC. If you consider the seller pays about 8% in sellers and Paypal fees, plus listing fees, plus postage on the original delivery of the tickets, I'd guess at £50 they are not hugely profiteering. If they purchased from JT, MRI or P&M they are losing !!!!

Kind of puts it into perspective I think!!!!

Too complicated for me at this time on a Sunday so I'll agree.

Is a GA an Enceinte Generale?   :-\

No, Entente Cordiale!

Is that anything like lime cordial?

Absolument!!

GA = General Admission

Should be abbreviated to AE these days.


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Also, if 'enceinte' translates to 'pregnant', what does the ticket give you access to   ??? ;D ???


Del

PS  - it also translates to 'enclosure'.

Maybe the back of the pits, because the hospitality area is usually out of the question...?  ??? ??? ;D