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Ref the Orbit, will they be cute enough to make sure your allocated time for the Orbit doesn't clash with your event ticket?


As Greenwich is only 15 minutes walk away from where I live, I thought I'd try and get a couple of Equestrian Paralympic tickets.

I tried 3 different sessions and none of them had any availability. I then idly wondered whether there were any cheap seats available for the Opening Ceremony, so added that to my shopping list and clicked through. There weren't, but the 3 equestrian events in the shopping list were all now suddenly available. I only wanted one, so quickly removed all the others and ran the search again, being successful this time.

Considering it is all being run on a first come first served basis and the website never crashed on me and only made me wait a few minutes to check availability, I wonder if Ticketmaster have finally sorted out their infrastructure, or whether the Paralympics simply aren't popular enough to crash the website. I hope the former.

DG: Regarding your description of the Orbit "At least there'll be something decent to see from the observation deck this summer, which may not be the case when the tower reopens 18 months later"

I'm not so sure, as the observation deck part of the Orbit faces *away* from the Olympic Park, so the only Olympic stuff you'll be seeing is the Greenway security tents and then a view of the Park as you descend the spiral staircase.

Do you still get an all zone one day travelcard with your £10 paraolympic ticket. A nice ruse to get half price travelcards!

I’m flattened by your contents keep up the excellent work.

As an assiduous daily reader here, I have missed which events you have got tickets for, DG? I can now reveal that it is thanks to your advice that I successfully got some tickets. Fencing, rhythmic gymnastics applications all unsuccessful. However, thanks to you, I have two tickets for the opening session of the womens hockey on the first sunday morning. So I am leaving home at 5.30am to see a sport I have never played or followed. But i am really grateful for your ticket purchasing tips tips...;~))


I see that you are also having a cheap shot at LOCOG / Ticketmaster. This is an easy bandwagon to join - and yes they have made some mistakes. However the demand has been unprecedented and they have been very successful in selling so many tickets. I always take the view before criticising of whether I think I could have done a better job if I was in charge - and certainly sorting out the ticketing pricing and allocation is not a job I think I could have done more successfully than those who have done it.

I think a real problem is that people have not been helped enough in getting tickets. The actual website is rather complex to operate - eg making sure your shopping basket is clear before trying for more tickets, trying different prices and numbers of seats to get the events you want.

I first started to read your blog a year ago when I saw a reference to it regarding Olympic info. I have read it every day since and have been able to use it to help build up my own expertise on the subject and have now got a clutch of Olympic and Paralympic tickets. I thank you for your help.

I helped some friends get paralympic tickets today. They weren't going to go because they hadn't really engaged in how to get tickets and it seems there are a lot of people like that. They had been put off by the general criticisms of the process. It's a shame because people should be encouraged and helped to get tickets as if they go they will enjoy being part of this once in a lifetime experience.


Personally wouldn't accuse of DG of 'cheap shots' at anything to do with the London games.
A combination of mainstream media jingoism and resentment at seeing my council tax spent on faux classical ruins for the Mile End Road, (take a look outside the Genesis Cinema) whilst around the corner we suffer constant, life-ruining anti-social behaviour, had completely put me off the whole event.
DG's enthusiasm motivated me to go for some paralympic tickets yesterday: I DID have some problems with the ticketing process but ended up with some affordable atheletics' seats. Cheers, DG.

Bitching about the organising of the Games is part of the whole sport. It certainly was in Sydders, where even Auntie (the ABC, like your BBC but without the budget) got into the spirit and produced a mockumentary re it ('The Games'). Well worth watching, btw. Rythmic Gymnastics eh? Do you have to be over 18 to get tickets for that?



Managed to log on at 11:05 on Tuesday. Already a lot of the cheap tickets for the paralympics swimming finals have gone. There seems to be a lot of demand in London for paralympics in a way that aren't at previous olympics.

I thought the wheelchair basketball tickets that were left were all for the matches played in the dome? I'd quite like to get a into the basketball arena before it gets dismantled and shipped to Rio, or whatever they're planning to do with it now.

Nonetheless, I'm completely with DG on his advice to snap up paralympic tickets. I've got swimming and athletics tickets - hopefully including the right session to see Oscar Pistorius. :)











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