[Other Sport] Biggest Entrance Fee You Have Paid ?

Barnet Seagull

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Jul 14, 2003

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• Feb 7, 2025

• #21

I think we paid about £800 for a pair of tickets near front row at London 2012 which was an unbelievable amount back then.

Mr Bolt took my photo


and we saw the best race ever IMO


Money well spent

 

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amexer

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Aug 8, 2011

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• Feb 7, 2025

• #22

£100 for basket ball in Miami. Saw me coming as a tourist.
£100 Dortmund Have seen many games in Germany at about £25/30 Sure they save a few seats for mug tourist in the gods and this time I was one

 

Change at Barnham

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Aug 6, 2011

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• Feb 7, 2025

• #23

£248 Wimbledon Men's Final (face value in the ballot)
£250 Ajax v Brighton (via a re-sale site)

Best value £7. He would of been 80 years old yesterday.....

 

BBassic

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Jul 28, 2011

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• Feb 7, 2025

• #24

Gig in New York a couple of years ago. Tickets were cheap enough but the flights, hotel, food and drinks for a week took it into the low thousands of pounds.

Probs that.

 

thedonkeycentrehalf

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Jul 7, 2003

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• Feb 7, 2025

• #25

$514 for a pair of tickets to see Denver Broncos against the Kansas City Chiefs back in 2018.

Been a Broncos fan since 1986 and it was the first and only time (so far) I’ve been to Denver so wanted to get good tickets.

 

North of Robertsbridge

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Sep 22, 2023

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• Feb 7, 2025

• #26

BBassic said:

Gig in New York a couple of years ago. Tickets were cheap enough but the flights, hotel, food and drinks for a week took it into the low thousands of pounds.

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that’s starting to sound like our Europe away games

 

Vatican Citys No.2 Keeper

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Jul 9, 2007

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• Feb 7, 2025

• #27

$200 for my seat in the 100 level of the Superdome in New Orleans for Wrestlemania 34 in 2018. Zero regrets as it was a proper bucket list trip as a diehard wrestling fan for over a decade at that point.

Considering the whole show took place on one night back then, it's probably a bargain considering a similar seat/view for Mania 41 in Vegas this year will cost $1k for the two nights.

 

The Wookiee

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Nov 10, 2003

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Worthing

• Feb 7, 2025

• #28

£250 for a visiting brass

 

Eeyore

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• Feb 7, 2025

• #29

Whoislloydy said:

Vancouver Canucks tickets are $200 (£112) for nosebleeds, a beer will set you back $23 (£13)

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Vancouver Canucks, are they wading birds or something ? That's an expensive nature reserve.

 

Eeyore

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• Feb 7, 2025

• #30

The Wookiee said:

£250 for a visiting brass

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I read that as £250 for visiting bras.

 

Superphil

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Jul 7, 2003

25,807

In a pile of football shirts

• Feb 7, 2025

• #31

A lot for the 2007 Led Zeppelin show at the O2, but the vast majority of what I paid went to REMF. To this day one of the top three gigs I’ve ever been to.

Paid a healthy amount for VIP tickets for Kerry Mayo’s testimonial too, and that was just brilliant.

 

madinthehead

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Jan 22, 2009

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Oberursel, Germany

• Feb 7, 2025

• #32

My Dad paid around 700 quid for 2 Liverpool v Brighton tickets on the black market. I was gifted 2 500 euro tickets for the England V Slovakia Euro 24 game

 

A1X

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• Feb 8, 2025

• #33

£115 for a ticket to Lord’s for the West Indies test last summer

 

el punal

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Aug 29, 2012

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The dull part of the south coast

• Feb 8, 2025

• #34

Westdene Seagull said:

Expensive - I paid £400 for two hours of back door entry

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Really! Someone must have seen you coming.

 

el punal

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The dull part of the south coast

• Feb 8, 2025

• #35

Two things to add to this thread :

1. Barnet v Brighton FA Cup tie at the Underhill ground (1981 I think). The greedy buggers charged £6.00 entrance fee. My Cup Final ticket in 1983 was £5.00!!

2. The biggest OMG story. A cricket loving couple I know bought tickets for flights and hotel accommodation to watch England in Australia for the 2006/7 Ashes tour. They also managed to buy tickets for the fourth and fifth days of the final test. Oh dear, the Aussies trounced the Poms 5-0 in the series and won the final test on the third day. Ouch!

 

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Hotchilidog

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Jan 24, 2009

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• Feb 8, 2025

• #36

I’ll get back to this thread after The Sabbath sale next week. it will eclipse the £165 I paid for AC/DC last year

 

WATFORD zero

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• Feb 8, 2025

• #37

Change at Barnham said:

£248 Wimbledon Men's Final (face value in the ballot)
£250 Ajax v Brighton (via a re-sale site)

Best value £7. He would of been 80 years old yesterday.....

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Now that's a good bill

 

Wozza

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Minteh Wonderland

• Feb 8, 2025

• #38

Weststander said:

The problem with the gigs for the big stars is that when you finally get to the front of the vast online queue even on a faux ‘special invitation’ presale, the £110 and £170 tickets have gone. Or was it a slight of hand in the first place?

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Pre-sale tickets are always restricted. The bulk go on general sale.

And there are often multiple presales these days - artist, venue, sponsor, credit card etc.

 

Wozza

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• Feb 8, 2025

• #39

Glastonbury, I guess.

£350ish. Worth it.

 

pasty

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Jul 5, 2003

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• Feb 8, 2025

• #40

£280 for 2 James Blunt tickets at The Albert Hall. Absolutely not my bag, but the brownie points I got from Mrs P made it worth it