Royal Opera House - what are good seats?

[dinny]

Just booking to see Nutcracker at Christmas - what seats should I avoid? Thanks

Laurie, report back! when are you going?

Your lucky dd, dinny - is this weekend exam weekend ?

we've got ampitheatre right, hope they are ok

hi LIZS - their exam is first thing a wek today, they just had their last lesson

bless, hope it goes OK and she doesn't hate ballet by the time New Year's Eve comes around!

going on New Years Eve

It's directly above - seriously - about one foot above only - I really don't get why its so cheap - £130 for all four seats

I could spit on the royals
I won't though

oh, snap - 1pm or 6pm?

the evening one - 6pm

ooh good luck to her . dd's tap group are doing theirs, but not her she has at least another term to go in that class and will be with mostly kids 2 years younger. She's not very impressed.

thanks, LIZS

does she do Sat am tap?

yes 11am, follows on from preprimary ballet I think

oooh, dd is in that class......

which the tap or ballet or both ? It is normally chaos when we drop her off but the girls who remain seem to be school ones!

just tap - she does ballet on Mondays now

yes, total chaos, isn't it???

lol, do you drop off at 11 or earlier? which "rank" , dd is in back line of Year 2's?

drop off at 11am

hmmm, have never really asked dd - she is Year 2 and isn't doing any exams in tap

lol we must have passed , although normally dh takes her ! She'd lost her tapshoes the other week if that rings any bells.

think dh took her last week......

we must have seen each other!! is she really really tall?

lol, no she's tiny !!

For eateries near the ROH you could try Food for Thought on Neal Street. It is cheaper and busier and they do good veggie food, quite crammed up on little tables, lots of fun.

www.allinlondon.co.uk/restaurants/restaurant-589.php

Not as posh as other restaurants.

The ROH restaurant is quite posh but has a sense of occasion, and not as expensive as you might think. I like having my pudding in the interval!

Also... Make sure that in the interval you take her onto the outside balcony so she can see Covent Garden piazza from above, and if you walk all the way round you can peek through a window into the workshop where they make the costumes!

Have fun!

Sadly I can't go to teh nutcracker

I am damaged from having seen my niece in it 437 years in a row with teh same farkin costumes every time. ARGH

slight change of subject but i wanted to get tickets for dh for the flying dutchman at ROH but aghast at price . am a novice opera go-er and have never been to ROH .I was expecting to pay about £100 each but cheapest available (and there are very few even then ) are about £185- £215 and i cant afford it . does anyone know what the system for returns is or whether if you phone ROH they retain some seats that are not released on line - cant see why they would but...I am cross with myself for not noticing this was on as he has always wanted to see this at ROH .any advice gratefully received

if you are students this scheme migth help

or if you ring up you can get 'listening' seats whoichj have no view of the stage at all but yopu can still hear

Pipsqueak you can queue for day tickets if you are in London on the day.

www.roh.org.uk/booknow/ticketinformation.aspx

but it is only one per person and the queue is often long, espevially something like this.

Also keep an eye on the website every now and again in case returns go on sale.

I only ever pay up to c.£30 to go to the ROH BUT I always book as soon as the tickets are released, that is the secret I'm afraid. What I would say, although this is probably scant consolation, is that the same performances do tend to come round again and again.

Pipsqueak - I managed to get amphitheatre tickets for the Flying Dutchman at the ROH. You have to book on the first day of booking and be online when booking starts. By the time I got through - having started at No.465 in the queue when the booking opened - there were very few amphi seats left (this was around 1 hour after booking started)and probably many people still in the online booking queue behind me.
My tickets are comparatively expensive (£57 each) but a friend of mine booked for the same performance at the same time and got cheaper seats. If you don't book immediately you will only be able to get expensive seats, I'm afraid.