To be angry at sisters Eras tour present??

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I have two tween DDs who are Taylor obsessed atm. Was gutted when I didn’t get a code to get them tickets.

Well yesterday my sister came round, and told me she had a surprise for the girls. Three eras tour tickets for me and the girls!! The girls (and me) were so excited, youngest ran off to show her aunt what outfit she was going to wear, and oldest kept announcing that it was the best day of her life.

and then my sister said: “it’s a good thing your DH has the weekend off too, he can drive you to the airport!”. Well I felt like bingo in that one episode of bluey. Airport? I’m not going to the airport?

Turns out the tickets are in London. This Sunday. We live in Ireland. My sister bought the tickets, but now I’ll have to book flights and hotel. I have work on Monday so I’ll have to try book that off. We have a family holiday coming up as well as my best friends hen party so really do not have the money for flights and a hotel, if I can even find a hotel this late notice.

I just wish she’d come to me first before telling the girls, as now I’m either going to have to crush their dreams or somehow find a few hundred quid to get us all to London.

AIBU to be so angry at my sister (even tho I think she thought she was doing a nice thing.) and to think that a present should not put the recipient out of pocket…. Sorry I actually don’t even know what I’m expecting people to say back I’m just in need of a good rant.

Yanbu, a gift shouldn’t incur extra costs for the recipient unless agreed first. She shouldn’t have told the children without checking first that you were ok with the logistical and financial burden attached to going to the concert.

If she has just bought the tickets make sure they are legit before you spend any money getting there.

I would just roll with it and enjoy it - not worth getting stressed about it.

Can you get the ferry as a foot passenger and get the train in?

They didn't start at that a year ago, as a PP said. I went to Cardiff last night and got one of the best seated tickets for £160. They started at £80 and even less for Anfield - about £60.

It’s not nit picking if she doesn’t have the money or time to get there and needs to be at work. Something such as complaining that the seats weren’t in her preferred area would be nitpicking.

Flights will be about €1000. Car and ferry about €350 if you can face Holyhead to London drive.

Those tickets are expensive and difficult to get hold of. The flights and hotel for one night might be about the same price as the concert tickets. Or maybe the auntie can take your daughters instead so you don't miss work?

Ps ferry foot passage for 3 is about £160 return Dublin to holyhead, train return (holyhead to london) for all 3 is £260ish in total so that is more financially doable than flying

This!

I’ve looked on sky scanner and Dublin to London flights are from £132 Fri to Monday. It’s a shame she didn’t tell you sooner though.

Exactly!

This. ^ I like TS and think she has done very well, and I am pleased for her. She is very talented, very pretty, and seems like a lovely down-to-earth young woman. But I am constantly stunned by her concert ticket prices.

Her superfans say 'oh but TAYLOR doesn't set the ticket prices!' But if that is the case, then why not?! It's HER TOUR! Why is she not more in control of the ticket prices? She must have some say in it. There's no way they need to be as high as they are!

She has lots of young fans, and parents who are at their wits end trying to get these crazily overpriced tickets. And on top of potentially paying almost a THOUSAND POUNDS for just TWO tickets, they are having to spend a bloody fortune for accommodation and train tickets in many cases. (And even plane and ferry tickets in some cases!)

As I said earlier, I am very glad that I don't have young children now. I wouldn't want to be dealing with this shit!

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Yep. It's like buying people art and then they have to go to the expense of framing it.

She should have told you earlier so you could make arrangements in time.

Get your sister on the case of booking travel and hotel and lend you the money for a few months.

This is a rubbish thing for her to do.Forcing you to buy flights when they are at their most expensive and finding somewhere to stay ( I would probably take up that kind mumsnetters offer of a floor).

When is she playing in Dublin? It would probably be cheaper to try and get some resale tickets for that show and try to sell on the London ones.

She's in Dublin for 3 nights the last weekend in June

There are very few ticket available and LOTS of scammers. Make sure the tickets were bought directly from Ticketmaster or AX.

I hope they're genuine tickets given the cost and effort it's going to entail.

Ticket prices are high because the artist can't make even a basic living from recordings alone. If everybody paid for the music they download, live performances might be cheaper to attend.

Assuming you don’t need to repay your sister for the tickets, then the money YOU would have spent on those will now go on flights and a hotel - isn’t that a break-even?

Appreciate the travel and poss time off will be a bit of an inconvenience, but the memories this will make will be incredible. I’d shrug it off and be thankful for the thoughtful gift.

Can I just check these are legit tickets through ticketmaster or axs, not through StubHub or another 3rd party site? Seen lots of people not getting in with the latter so don't want you to go to all that trouble then not get in..

Those fans have already bought the cheaper tickets! We paid loads less for Anfield.

I know a fair few people who have got in fine with StubHub.

I know two people who bought from Ticketmaster but using a strange "bought account" scenario and couldn't get in.

But yeah, I'd second checking these are legitimate seats, and that if they are restricted view or anything, they're still worth all the effort. That needs to be step number one.

Definitely legit tickets for anyone asking! Her sister in laws sister (does that even make sense, my head is fried trying to make plans lol) got them at the original sale and then ended up not being able to go.

For everyone saying wouldn’t I have spent this money on tickets anyway- the original sale was almost a year ago. That money has been long spent, financial situations have changed, and also going to Dublin would have been a 45 minute drive for us. No need to buy flights, accommodation, buses, trains, food for the weekend etc. And would have had a year to plan.