o2 Arena - best to go seated or standing?

JimNastics
JimNastics Posts: 679
edited April 2009 in The Porch
I've never been to the o2 Arena, is it better to go for seated or standing? I'm guessing that even the best seats reserved for 10c members would still be quite a distance from the stage?
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  • Calum
    Calum Posts: 635
    as you only been a member recently.. I would advise standing. the better seats are given to the members who registered a long time ago... just a thought.. ask someone who has been around longer as I am still new
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  • Niko80
    Niko80 Posts: 1,613
    I went for seating in london and standing in Manchester. Nice to mix it up a bit :D

    Hopefully, the seats 10c gets are all good ones.
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  • Calum
    Calum Posts: 635
    Niko80 wrote:
    I went for seating in london and standing in Manchester. Nice to mix it up a bit :D

    Hopefully, the seats 10c gets are all good ones.

    awesome! I am not sure whether to pick up manchester tickets.. have to check the bank account!
    London Astoria - Dublin - Wembley - Shepherds Bush - London 02
  • SR259355
    SR259355 Posts: 50
    Better to get standing tickets for the O2, as it's huge inside.

    Saw the foo fighters there, and from where we are setted, they looked like ants..... :|
  • nbakyfan
    nbakyfan Posts: 231
    If I were in Europe, I would get standing. You'll be standing anyways if you get 'seated seats'.
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  • Pegasus
    Pegasus Posts: 3,754
    I went for standing but didn't realise there was no early entry. (and tickets are more expensive than what they'll be available for with even TM).
    then I further realised that 10c tickets are going to get screwed with queuing compare to people that get their tickets by post because at the O2 they use different entrances and you HAVE TO use the one marked on your ticket... which we won't get until very late..

    So you might queue for 5 hours only to end up having been in the wrong queue all along because that's not the entrance that's on your ticket :evil:

    I'm thinking about buying on the general sale and just reselling my 10cs and save myself the stress!

    NIN has early entry at the O2 a month before I believe, I don't know why PJ didn't.
  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    Pegasus wrote:
    I went for standing but didn't realise there was no early entry. (and tickets are more expensive than what they'll be available for with even TM).
    then I further realised that 10c tickets are going to get screwed with queuing compare to people that get their tickets by post because at the O2 they use different entrances and you HAVE TO use the one marked on your ticket... which we won't get until very late..

    So you might queue for 5 hours only to end up having been in the wrong queue all along because that's not the entrance that's on your ticket :evil:

    I'm thinking about buying on the general sale and just reselling my 10cs and save myself the stress!

    NIN has early entry at the O2 a month before I believe, I don't know why PJ didn't.

    So don't queue! Go to le pub instead 8-)
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  • JimNastics
    JimNastics Posts: 679
    Pegasus wrote:
    I went for standing but didn't realise there was no early entry. (and tickets are more expensive than what they'll be available for with even TM).
    then I further realised that 10c tickets are going to get screwed with queuing compare to people that get their tickets by post because at the O2 they use different entrances and you HAVE TO use the one marked on your ticket... which we won't get until very late..

    So you might queue for 5 hours only to end up having been in the wrong queue all along because that's not the entrance that's on your ticket :evil:

    I'm thinking about buying on the general sale and just reselling my 10cs and save myself the stress!

    NIN has early entry at the O2 a month before I believe, I don't know why PJ didn't.

    That's ridiculous, they surely won't let that happen. Can't we pick the tickets up when we get there so we know which queue to use? Wish I had read the "no early entry" bit before I bought the tickets..
  • DEMON CLEANER
    DEMON CLEANER Posts: 242
    if you got great membership number go for the seated option as they will probably be at the side near the front!thats what ive done.
    COYS!
  • JimNastics
    JimNastics Posts: 679
    DEMON CLEANER wrote:
    if you got great membership number go for the seated option as they will probably be at the side near the front!thats what ive done.

    My membership number is nearly 350,000, only jouined in 2006... I thought maybe that's not very good :D So I've gone for standing.
  • mrvedderson
    mrvedderson Posts: 784
    i would think that standing would always be better, nothing worse than being smashed between some seats while tryin to rock
  • danny
    danny Posts: 2,283
    JimNastics wrote:
    I've never been to the o2 Arena, is it better to go for seated or standing? I'm guessing that even the best seats reserved for 10c members would still be quite a distance from the stage?


    standing!
    danny d
  • pdalowsky
    pdalowsky Doncaster,UK Posts: 15,292
    ALWAYS STAND
  • SR259355
    SR259355 Posts: 50
    Guys can you help

    I have booked a par of tickets for the O2...

    I'll be coming back from my Hoildays from South Africa. Landing at Heathrow at 18:00.

    I should get to the O2 around 20:30. How does it work with picking up tickets as a Ten club member :?:

    I hope that Ten Club send a map or something to show where to pick tickets up, and the entance?
  • Pauk
    Pauk Posts: 1,084
    SR259355 wrote:
    Guys can you help

    I have booked a par of tickets for the O2...

    I'll be coming back from my Hoildays from South Africa. Landing at Heathrow at 18:00.

    I should get to the O2 around 20:30. How does it work with picking up tickets as a Ten club member :?:

    I hope that Ten Club send a map or something to show where to pick tickets up, and the entance?
    We'll probably find out where the box office is nearer the time. Shouldn't be anything too difficult, the place is a huge ring, pretty much impossible to get lost.
    Paul
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  • Brisk.
    Brisk. Posts: 11,581
    I wonder what 325xxx seats would be like hmm?
  • love-boat-captain
    love-boat-captain Essex. UK Posts: 476
    anyone know where abouts the reserved seats will be?
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  • jamhotgammon
    jamhotgammon Posts: 39
    Looking at O2 floor plans, i would think it would look something like this for a 'Rock' gig

    Ive only been once, to see Prince, and it is a brilliant venue (that night the stage was in the centre)

    Super easy to negotiate, loads of places to get food, and drink, a great choice :mrgreen:

    O2Arena_Standing.jpg
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  • TinyFists
    TinyFists Posts: 142
    Pegasus wrote:
    I went for standing but didn't realise there was no early entry. (and tickets are more expensive than what they'll be available for with even TM).
    then I further realised that 10c tickets are going to get screwed with queuing compare to people that get their tickets by post because at the O2 they use different entrances and you HAVE TO use the one marked on your ticket... which we won't get until very late..

    I didn't think about this at all in my excitement, and automatically went for standing.

    Already posted this in the 'petition' thread but looks like o2 customers will be the ones who get let in early:

    http://o2blueroom.co.uk/Portal/Pages/Ev ... entid=2313
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  • Pauk
    Pauk Posts: 1,084
    For an arena the seating in O2 is damn good. The 40X sections are proper nosebleeds, but the 10X sections are surprisingly close to the stage for an arena.
    Paul
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    '07 - Katowice, Wembley, Dusseldorf, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
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