We have been to the first concert & could not see Prince even though our tickets were VIP costing £245 each. Our seats were D21 & D22 FLOOR BKF2. Nearly all people around us could not see. We have since been trying to change our next pair of tickets for different seats but Ticket Master etc do not want to know blaming the organiser for this. In total I have spent nearly £ 1,000 on tickets and we wont be able to see.

WE WERE DONE LIKE A KIPPER....

VIP get seats where u cant c the overview of the stage and u get cheap beer bought from tesco and cheap finger food from asda....also the real vips get the best just b4 the gig starts,,,,yes folxx there is a real vip party 4 the celebs.

prince can go .... himself.

Thank god i didnt get one,

You would be able to get a good snap once he come round to the edge of the stage else you need to keep looking up at the stage.

Lower tier around 102/103 or 106 or the equivelent on the other side of the round seem the best

FREEFALLIN said:

saskia said:

We spend a lot of money 2 4 D1 and coulden't see prince.
Also the clipper cruise was bad because we got kicked off after one hour and where not brought to our seats that's why we had to look so hard we found it after the 2nd song of prince - he started early- Sorry...i am veeery negative about p and his mangement....

"Thank god i didnt get one" - quote of the year. Me too.

N there not good at all.

I've got Fanclub tickets for BkF3. Should I stick with the Bk111 ticket I originally bought for that night?

Damn. I just don't know what to do.

1p1p1i3 said:

for what night? maybe i can buy them i've got 2 times block 105 and 106

1p1p1i3 said:

I'd stick to block 111, you'll have a great view from there. The only floor seats I'd go for are the ones at the pointy end of the stage. The ones I'd avoid like the plague are the floor A2/3 & D3 - worst seats in the house from what I could see.

slaphead said:

i think that's the best you can do.i'm searching for 2 tickets on the 6th of sept in block 102 do you know maybe on wat site i can find? thanx

1p1p1i3 said:

I was in F3 on the opening night and had a great view and you feel very close. The sense of the arena around you is amazing. However, Prince does use the stage as thought it has a 'front' (the front being the 'point' or 'arrowhead' of the stage) and 80% of the time you are looking at his back. People at the very front of the 'Golden Circle' were ripped off - they could only see him when he was on the stage right in front of them. I've got tickets for Sept 9th in bk 107 lower tier and I think it will be a better view - but not necessarily a better experience.

I posted this on HQ, but I thought I'd post it here so people with VIP tickets don't get too down about all the [understandable I guess] negativity before they go.

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OK. I'm going to give you the experience of my wife and I.

First off we had to go to entrance H which is quite a way around the venue, and we were fighting a tide of meandering people to get there, so allow a good 5-10 minutes for that

You get checked through and are given a wristband with 'Prince hospitality' on it with 3 detachable tokens for alcoholic drinks. You can then either walk up a load of stairs or take the escalator... we took the escalator

Once there you walk for some distance past lots of smiling ushers and have the chance to peek into the corporate boxes with some envy hehe.

At the entrance to the 'backstage bar' you are invited in with a FREE drink of either Stella or red, white or rose wine.

We wandered around a bit people watching. Basically just loads of people sitting at tables or lounging in sofas.

We found a couple of spare seats next to a couple and sat whilst the crew checked levels through the amps from a CD. The bar is quite high up and behind a black curtain. Had this been lifted we would have been looking over the back of the stage.

Once the noise had died down, we started chatting with the couple [who coincidentally were from a nearby area, the guy even worked on the road we live on] and had a fantastic time getting more tiddly on free booze and noshing through the canapes. The canapes are good, but after a few beers we started to get quite sneaky on our quest for more... like saying "excuse me miss, is there a loo" and then saying "oh whist you're there..." and helping ourselves to more munchies

We were so into chatting that we stayed up there through the Nikka Costa set. She was good, but not enough to drag us from our tiddly canape-munching chat fest.

After she finished we realised we ought to be making a move for the man, so we skipped round the venue to the front and down the escalator to the entrance. Just a note, because we were on the ground floor we thought we were meant to go to the ground floor to access... we were a bit drunk so it made sense... but we had to go back up to the first floor for our seats.

The seats around the stage are fantastic. We were all in the 3rd row on D2/D1 by the right side of the pointy-bit of the stage. Sure, the stage is quite high and from there you can't see people from the waist down when they are on the opposite side of the stage, but no biggie, because when Prince is standing about 3 metres from you and looking right at you, you really don't care at all Sound was fine to these concert-damaged ears

Did we have a great time in VIP? Yes.
Is VIP worth the money? Probably not on face value, but an experience like that is really what you make of it. As it was we had a fantastic time and made some new friends that we will be seeing soon.

I've been on VIP stuff before and its the experience more than the value in my opinion. eg, the VIP lounge at Brixton Academy was crap. You got to stand next to scary spice in the bar, but the view was rubbish and served no purpose [again like scary spice? hehe].

I have VIPs for the 18th too, and whilst I'd probably like to have saved the cash for the second date, I'm not not too anxious about money thankfully, so I'm looking forward to going again.

j4ckplu9 said:

Me and my partner went to the VIP show on Friday 3rd. And it could not of been more of the anthesis of the above!

we get to entrance H 5-10 minutes early in readiness for the gates opening at 6. By 6.20 the natives were restless. No information handed to us, just a lot of guys on radios and mumbling into their headsets. Finally we get the go ahead at just before 6.30. We walk round to a set of doors that are locked. O2 staff inside ready to frisk us and give us our free CD. We wait and we wait...again, no explanation unless you broke line to ask someone, and even then they werent too sure....so we wait. Finally the doors open to ironic cheers and we are asked if we are VIP. We say yes, are given a red "hospitality" wrist band and ushered upstairs. We go into a plush dimly lit room with chairs and comfy sofas. We are told the first drink is free. We take one and go to see the stage. Sound checking is still ongoing...all of a sudden..BAM...we are all asked to move away and out of the room to stand along the corridor.

We stay there for 30 minutes...in a corridor ...begging for more drink and some food, but none materialised. Eventually music stops, we are ushered back in. All of a sudden droves of people emerge...we finally click that these poor guys were either held back at the entrance or along some other corridor....

When the finger buffet eventually materialises its served by waiters and waiteresses who do not seem to have a clue where they should be going. People are breaking rank to run over to them, devouring all that lay on the silver platters.

Im still aghast that for £235 a ticket we dont even get a free programme, let alone a few novelty items like most VIP tickets warrent...when we are told to make our way to our seats...still hungry and thirsty we assume we will be escorted to our seats as stated in the letter. We are block C2 all the way round the other side. Well....what a nightmare. We are left to our own devices...we ask and get told 4 different answers...all of which are wrong...panic now....its 8.35 and P is surely on any minute....we run past some people and ask again...this time were told something that resembles the right answer...we have to go through 4 sets of O2 staff making sure we are in the right place before taking our seats literally 20 secs before he popped up with "satisfied".....ironic i thought...given that for £235 per ticket I thought the overall experience was far from VIP...

I went to the opening night on the 1st and sat in the gods...that experience eclipsed Fridays...and for a fraction of the cost....nice touch would of been freebies - not much a programme would of been nice.
perhaps a few of the band could of come along..maceo etc...said hi, signed your free programme before popping off to get ready...
More food and a more drink....
escorts to your seats when your freaking far away without a scooby doo where to go next....

Show itself was great....shame about what happened before!!

wrekkastow said:

I agree with you and imagine how much worse it would have been if you'd been in a block down behind the drums like I was as VIP on wednesday.

When you go as a couple, it is £400 above the cost of just buying the tickets normally. The VIP seats themselves have a face value of £31.21 like the rest so they really should be making a big big effort to within the space of 60-80 minutes get £400 of value to 2 people. They've made absolute minimal effort. Any little bit imagination seemed completely lacking in what they can do to make vips feel like a vip and not a mug. Champagne at entrance, a Program, perfume, laminated pass, souncheck, actual LIVE entertainment and not just a DJ...and yes being escorted to the seat would have also felt nice rathdr than a thank you for your money you can go now and find your own damn seat (haha). I can't understand how anyone can be happy with the VIP package. You may have liked your seats and enjoyed the show, but whatever way you look at it, the seats were worth £31.21 no more no less.

I agree with you and imagine how much worse it would have been if you'd been in a block down behind the drums like I was as VIP on wednesday.

When you go as a couple, it is £400 above the cost of just buying the tickets normally. The VIP seats themselves have a face value of £31.21 like the rest so they really should be making a big big effort to within the space of 60-80 minutes get £400 of value to 2 people. They've made absolute minimal effort. Any little bit imagination seemed completely lacking in what they can do to make vips feel like a vip and not a mug. Champagne at entrance, a Program, perfume, laminated pass, souncheck, actual LIVE entertainment and not just a DJ...and yes being escorted to the seat would have also felt nice rathdr than a thank you for your money you can go now and find your own damn seat (haha). I can't understand how anyone can be happy with the VIP package. You may have liked your seats and enjoyed the show, but whatever way you look at it, the seats were worth £31.21 no more no less.[/quote]

Yep...i noticed that too...the ticket price - £31.21...made me slighlty annoyed at everything that transpired. £470 the pair plus travel...and as you say...nothing really to show for it save for a red hospitality wristband...haha.

felt very let down by the experience.....a harsh lesson learnt me thinks. im going on the 11th and 14th in lower block...can almost guarentee a better night which is a shame, coz i hate moaning...would SO perfer to be biggin up the VIP treatment and making everyone jealous (joke!!)

wrekkastow said:

Yep...i noticed that too...the ticket price - £31.21...made me slighlty annoyed at everything that transpired. £470 the pair plus travel...and as you say...nothing really to show for it save for a red hospitality wristband...haha.

felt very let down by the experience.....a harsh lesson learnt me thinks. im going on the 11th and 14th in lower block...can almost guarentee a better night which is a shame, coz i hate moaning...would SO perfer to be biggin up the VIP treatment and making everyone jealous (joke!!)[/quote]

ooo weird...where did ur quote bits go?? lol

poepie said:

Sat 1st. I've got lower tier tickets for the other nights I'm going so I suppose it will be a different experience. Possibly a worse/more frustrating one?

Hmm... What to do, what to do... !

I was in F3 for the opening night and had the time of my life without seeing most of Prince but when he came over he was so close it made up for it and I was with other fanclub members which did it for me.

I was in the upper tier on Saturday night, and could appreciate the stage and lighting more, but did not find the experience as exsiting at the one on the floor, I felt less part of it. Still, its nice to have the chance to mix and match, so I have still 8 more shows to attend.