Tickets for Paralympics

[GeorgeEliot]

Are there any left?

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

[Italiangreyhound]

kbear what is it you want specifically? There are tickets for some events at moment, or are you looking for something specific?

[cluttered]

OK just got some swimming tickets for Saturday to go with my cycling tickets tomorrow so I am removing ticket checker from my bookmark bar now (thanks so much to whoever posted that link, I have passed it on so it has helped lots of people in addition to me).

Just wondering though, for those of you who have spent a lot of time trying over the last few weeks, do you think it makes it more likely to get tickets if you go for all full price rather than a mixture of adult and child tickets? Both times I succeeded I tried for children's tickets a few times unsuccessfully then got through when I tried for all full price, thinking that returns might be more likely to be adult tickets. Maybe it was a coincidence though and I have just wasted my money paying full price for the DC?

[Kbear]

tickets for athletics tomorrow - ready to select, so I did, then pressed request tickets and they are not available..... SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAM

[Kbear]

unclekevin - thanks - have followed your advice

[Kbear]

SCREAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM I got some!!!! Thank you so much - Athletics on Saturday - wish I had known about it for the Olympics....

[mummynoseynora]

i have just got athletics for monday (hope I am right that school isn't back until Tuesday!!)

finally - the one thing we wanted was to see the park, and now we seem to have tickets for 3 different events!

[caramelwaffle]

I've just bought athletics tickets for next week. Went straight to checkout - amazing.

Bumping in case anyone would like those tickets ruby is offering.

[maxtrue]

cluttered think you may be onto something re the kids tickets..going to try just adults next time as I haven't been able to get anything when I request adult and kids...bit crap if thats true

[cluttered]

It's just that I read on the returns website that you can't part-sell your tickets to leave children's tickets alone so if you had 1 adult and 3 kids' tickets someone after 1 adult and 1 or 2 kids wouldn't be able to have them. That made me think it might be easier to go for all adult tickets because if a group of 4 adult tickets were returned you could buy 3 of them. Even though it says there are child tickets available it doesn't say how they are parcelled up. However that is assuming they are selling returns and not tickets they kept back from the initial allocation. I don't think I can really extrapolate from 2 successes which is why I was wondering if anyone else had this experience.

[unclekevin]

kbear...so glad you took my advice and was successful in getting some tickets.

cluttered...hate to take the glory but it was me who posted the link for ticket checker, again glad you've got tickets. For anyone trying to buy ticket, go to 2012ticketchecker.com

[cluttered]

Thank you unclekevin, i was too lazy to hunt back to see who posted the link, I found it much more reliable than the ticket alert tweets which kept linking me to tickets with no availability.

[WhyTheBigPaws]

Hi all, wondered if anyone could help - we've got tickets for this Sunday and were planning to pick them up but a couple of days ago I got an email offering the option to print at home. This would be much better so I filled in the form but have heard nothing since - and worryingly it says once you've selected print at home you can't collect from the box office! I'm hoping the email will come today but wondered if anyone else had an experience of this? So excited now (me and DD) and don't want our day screwed up.

[TheDoctrineOfEnnis]

Hi Why there have been delays, you should still get it in time (check your spam mail just in case) but you can try calling them.

I also read on twitter that if the reason you have no tickets is email problems they will sort it out at the gate.

[SoupDragon]

I picked my tickets up from the central London box office yesterday. There was a woman in front of me with exactly the same email problem and they sorted it out there.

[WhyTheBigPaws]

Thanks, that's reassuring :)

[SoupDragon]

Another MNer had the same problem yesterday: The print at home tickets did not come through but we had no problems at all picking them up at the venue box office.

[SoupDragon]

If they do come through you can use them to travel instead of your games travel cards. The poster I mentioned also managed to travel with, I assume, her email confirmation and a print of the webpage that says you can use Paralympic tickets,

[WhyTheBigPaws]

Oh that's interesting, I was assuming we'd need to buy a Travelcard. I know it's only about £8 but it's a shame to if one's included in what you've paid for. I may ring the ticket line later and see what they say.

[SoupDragon]

Here

[WhyTheBigPaws]

That's brilliant, thanks :)

[topbannana]

That was me!! And yes, just the e-mail confirmation of my tickets and a copy of that link did the trick.
The worst problem was the South West trains men who seemed deeply suspicious, everyone else knew exactly what I was rambling on about and just let me through. That was the first day though so they should be used to it by now :) TBH, once we were actually in London, most of the gates were open anyway so nobody was checking tickets.
I think also, having an air of the provinces about us, made us far more plausible as visitors to London to see the games (I had clamped a piece of straw between my teeth and DS had a chicken under his arm :o)

[WhyTheBigPaws]

I used to live in London but am a total tourist these days so we should be OK! I'm glad to hear it worked for you, I'll definitely give it a go :)