Anyone else going to the Olympics/Paralympics?

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We've got tickets for the men's football QF at Wembley Stadium. DS has AS and is 7 and I have got a disability too. I've emailed London 2012 today to ask if there is any special queuing arrangements for people with disabilities as I have found out today that we should leave 2 hrs to get into the stadium - aaaaaaaaaaaargggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh . I really don't want to have to get rid of the tickets. I have always wanted to go to the Olympic Games as an athlete - yeah right thanks body for letting me down - and if it were to take 2 hrs to queue, I would have to turn round and come home. Neither of us will manage a 2 hr queue!

have you seen this it does say arrival times are advisory and the gates only open 2 hours before the game starts anyway.

if you're going through London Bridge station, allow a lot of extra time!!

Our Olympic experience is in Coventry......

We'll be going into Victoria :D and then across London. The whole thing is making me a leetle nervous.

I'm sure there is nothign wrong with Cov :)

we went through London Bridge on the day of the jubilee flotilla, they were using it as a dry run for the olympics, it was an absolute nightmare. To get from one platform to the next they sent you outside the building to come back in through another door just to get a couple of meters across. If anyone is travelling with a disability please do talk to the staff, they let us round a different way avoiding all the stairs and were helpful.

Oh dear. I hate London Bridge at the best of times. 2 yrs of travelling in to junction 16 and then having to run across to Junction 2 - and then watching your train disappear!

I worked just next to London Bridge station for 6 months, couldn't hack the train journey so had to find somewhere with slightly less fraught travelling! I'd never make a city slicker.

We are going to our local stadium for some mens footy. The ticket covers two matches, but we may not stay for both. I have booked ds a wheelchair space; which comes with one carer seat in that area. The other one of us will be sitting somewhere else (although to be fair we knew that when we booked)
The tickets say to arrive two hours before hand but we have also booked a free blue badge parking space and I don't think that the car park opens that early!! Also we'd thought we would be able to leave ds' pads and changing stuff in the car.....but there are no pass outs.

It seemed like a good idea at the time, but it will be a long day.

(And we are going for DS, I'm not that keen on footy!!)

I have tickets for the paralympics on the 4th sept. I am taking the Dd's on my own and havent yet decided how to travel tbh.

I dont know london at all and am abit reluctant to take Dd3 on the tube so i might go for the park and ride.

Which station in London would you come into Ineeda? Are you going to the Olympic Park? We can give you some help.

I'm v excited now :)

I was supposed to be

BUT, we have tickets for the equestrian events - about 2 weeks after I have dc3 by CS, so probably not the best idea!

dh will take dd2 instead (she is still small enough to chuck in a sling if need be, as she is tiny!). dh is a regular commuter, so will hopefully have devised a cunning way around (might need to quiz him on this!).

I was really looking forward to it - I went to the BArcelona Olympics on a school trip when I was a teenager, and it was fab fab fab (only saw prelim events). I wish I could go this time too, but it's just not a sensible idea, really.

Hope you have a great time Ben10 (not sure what to call you these days )

Thanks ben10 I have no idea about stations. If I come all the way on the train it would be euston, or I did wonder about coming to the outskirts of london and getting a train from there. It would probably be better if I Pm you or post a message a bit closer to the time. Or at least after we break up.

Thanx for your offer of help though, i definitely need it

Ben10 - no, do please give advice publically, for all of us who would normally arrive in London at Euston

Or, even better, if people know of 'park and ride' type scenarios.

sallybear us too. I am already regretting it as ds is... erm .. challenging

If I were coming to Euston and wanted to avoid the Tube, then it is a 5 minute straight walk to St Pancras. It is then 7 minutes on the Javelin train from St Pancras to Stratford. It is very easy. It will be busy but then it's London and it's the Olympics and Paralympics. :)

The travelcard you get with your tickets covers the Javelin train.

www.tubewalker.com/route/map.php?route=128-75&location=Euston+to+King's+Cross+St+Pancras

We are going to Wembley from Kent so we have no choice but to use the tube.

Yes Silverfrog I am pretty sure that going to the equestrian event isn't going to happen for you and I think you might be a little bit busy

Park and Ride info here

Yes we are going to the Paralympics - travelling from South London

Ds2 is due to transfer to secondary school in september, and yesterday i had his annual statement review (he has cp and uses a wheelchair). One of the people attending the meeting was the senco from the secondary school, and during the meeting she told me that she had managed to secure a small number of paralympic tickets for the field events, with which ds and a few other already attending pupils with sn, were being taken to.

Apparently she had been trying to organise it for a while, but had kept it quiet until she knew for sure. I told ds when school finished and he cannot wait, he has told me a few times how much he would love to go, and is looking forward to it starting.

I thought it was a really nice thing to do.

The senco also put forward a child currently at the school who has cp, who can walk unaided, as a nominee to carry the olympic flame through our local town at the end of July, though sadly it was given to someone able bodied instead.

That's lovely of her to do it :)

inhibernation that's not too bad for you then. I wish we had tickets to Olympic Park. That's straight on the train from here!

Thanks BEN10, really appreciate it, that's saved me a lot of research

Great. I'm pleased even though I'm jealous that you're going to the Olympic Park :D