Tickets for Paralympics

[GeorgeEliot]

Are there any left?

Missed out on seeing Olympic park but would really like to take dc.

[caramelwaffle]

[BeckAndCall]

Well done. Just thought I had some then got to the shopping basket stage and they were all gone. I've been trying so hard, it just doesn't seem to be happening....

I'll keep the ticket checker link up for the next few days - maybe it'll help!

[scaredycat12]

Do the tickets seem to get released around 5pm every day?

[PeppermintCreams]

The tickets get released either morning afternoon or evening. One big batch a day. Today's was around 4pm. Yesterday was around 4pm. Monday was around 11am. Tomorrow - who knows?!


Does anyone know how to get a games travelcard when you've got print at home tickets? We live in London.

[baffledmum]

I picked up 6 tickets for a fiver each today when thousands went on sale just before 6pm. We can get into the park only but that is completely fine.

[PeppermintCreams]

I've just found the answer to my question on the website. I can only pick up the travelcards from the venue box office on the day. GRRRRR.

[Southwest]

GGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRR I missed them
Arrrrrrrrrgh

[Southwest]

Ohhhn I'm going to bang my head against a brick wall now!

[TheSkiingGardener]

Right, after all this bloody effort, I have finally got 5 tickets for the same day so that the grandparents can come with us to the Olympic park.

So what does MIL say, "oooooh, I quite fancy that Orbit thing, can you get tickets for that too?"

Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrgh! She has no flaming idea how difficult it is!

[caramelwaffle]

Heh heh

That's funny Skiing

[TunaPastaBake]

Peppermint look further down the thread for info on travel cards - starts Fri 17th 8.26.57

Got mine printed off at local station - you need to go here

National Rail Games Travel

[PeppermintCreams]

I've registered on the rail website, and put the tickets in my basket, but can't get it to do anything else. It keeps saying Use Games Travelcard for my journey (which I don't have!) and also this error message comes up: There are no delivery options available for the combination of tickets selected. Please purchase a ticket from the station.

I have read further down the thread but no one who actually lives in London has said they have managed to get theirs printed off at the station. So if anyone has please let me know!

Our two Oyster journeys there will still be cheaper than the £6 postage, but I was hoping not to have to queue up at the box office to get our travelcards home.

[TunaPastaBake]

I had trouble initially and kept getting the same message but kept trying and did it eventually . We live in Surrey just outside the Games Card Travel.

You could always go to your local station and speak to them there about it .

[soundbites]

Peppermint, I live in West Sussex and I have bought train tickets online (otherwise I'd need to pay peak fares for first thing on Mon 3). That will get us as far as London Bridge so I guess we will then need to buy single tube tickets for me and dh to Stratford. DD1 (5) and DD2 (3) are free on the tube. I then think I will show my print-at-home ticket to the box office (which weren't so busy inside the park when we were at the Olympics, but bad at the gate) and collect travel cards for the way home. I bought the tickets in such a flurry yesterday (having tried for days ? and eventually striking lucky after an alert from the 2012TicketChecker) that I just ticked print-at-home without thinking that it meant no travel cards. There might have been time to have them posted. I am going to try to collect my tickets from the station early next week and will let you know how it works.

[soundbites]

Games Train Tickets that is via their website.

[topbannana]

I now know my way round the 2012 website more intimately than my own DH's body :o
And still no effing cyling tickets
All I can say is its a good job DS is at my DM's, if he was here I fear the stress and excitement may boil over into actual family violence :o

[ohthedandy]

Thanks so much for that website info VeryHappy - have just got some athletics tickets!! Thrilled doesn't cover it!

[dinkystinky]

DELIGHTED to have got wheelchair basketball tickets for 1st Sept for all the family - the only catch is we have to collect them from a box office. Does anyone know where the Hyde Park Ticket collection box office is/is going to be (apparently it opens this weekend) as would like to pick them up in advance of the games starting?

[soundbites]

Hi Peppermint, just collected our games train tickets from the station and it was easy from the self-service machine ? and for the family of four to travel is the same as one peak adult return so very good value. We are still without a travel card though and have resigned ourselves to getting singles from London Bridge to Stratford (which are going to be more (£4.30 each adult) than the £6 would have been for postage ? grrr!) and then collect travel cards at a box office in the park for the return journey.

[TheDoctrineOfEnnis]

TSG, no is a complete sentence.

[Southwest]

Just tried agaain and failed
I don't understand how I can keep failing I only want 3
I try and try and try and you all seem to get some and I just keep going [sob]

[PeppermintCreams]

I've just got some velodrome tickets for the in laws.

That's me done. I'm unsubscribing to the twitter feed now.

I might brave calling the helpline on Tuesday to see if they can post some travel cards to me...

[topbannana]

Aaaargghh peppermintcreams- just aaarrrrggghhhh!!!
Travelling back from parents in Suffolk today and as my iPhone is in to be fixed, I dispatched DM to scour the site like a hawk until we get home. She is new to all this internet mularkey but seemed to be coping quite well until the tickets popped up and the laptop died in quick succession though anybody else on a life and death mission would make sure it was plugged in!
So anyway, DS and I have decided that, as our days are limited due to Cub Camp, school etc, we would bite the bullet and take tickets to the equestrian on Thursday morning. We also have Olympic Park tickets so at least we get a day up there and DS can take a million few photos :o
Perhaps I will still check if there are any for the velodrome though............:o

[mummynoseynora]

I GOT SOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sorry for shouting but so excited! Been trying for like a month every day- 4-5 times a day (until I discovered the twitter feed last week)

today I have managed to get tickets for all 4 of us to two seperate events! So we are going to powerlifting finals on sat 1st and rowing on sunday 2nd

wahoo!

[cluttered]

I got some today too!!! Got some Olympic tickets previously for diving but only managed to get 2 so took DS2 who is passionate about it and is in a diving club. DS1 was devastated that "you chose DS2 over me" but said all would be OK if I could get him Paralympic track cycling in the velodrome.

No problem I said thinking it should be possible if I had managed after a few days of trying for the Olympic tickets, but I have been trying every bleeding day for a fortnight, even while we have been on holiday abroad and no joy. I used the ticket checker alerts and the twitter feeds and was online and logged in the minute they dumped the tickets, had 4 sessions in my basket and they were showing as available, no joy whatsoever. Was convinced there wouldn't be any today since none were put on yesterday or last Sunday I think, don't know if other people thought there would be none over the Bank Holiday weekend and that is why I succeeded today?

I feel like I am addicted to trying now, my day is based around whether they have loaded the tickets or not, will just try for one more lot of swimming tickets this time but really anything else is a bonus now, I feel very very lucky.