Red bull air race - do I need to buy (expensive) tickets?

[laurawaterford]

or can we watch just as well from other vantage points. Tickets are quite pricey at £35 adult £15 kids. and there are 6 of us.

I wondered this as well - we like the look of it but aren't that keen

ooh where is it?

its on the 2 and 3rd of August by the O2 arena on the embankment in London. Thank goodness I cleared a previous message I was about to post that asked if it was maybe inside???!!!!

LOL Laura.

Just imagine...

I am going to chance it and not get tickets but try and watch from the waterside, kids a bit young and poss get bored or scared!....

Good idea - we'll do the same. and yes - imagine....cringe

don't forget that this event is low-level flying! We live near Canary Wharf and were disappointed last year - they put all sorts of obstructions up to block the view.

I agree that the tickets are too expensive. If I remember rightly, the flying didn't last that long.

so probably not worth making the trip out to see it unless you have tickets then...

hmmm, might it be worth talking to the river bus people? - they just might have a boat nearby at right time...will be a lot cheaper, and kids will get river-trip even if don't see anything else!

We always watch Farnborough from the top of the Tesco Multi-Storey car park. The planes loop around the car park as it is the end of the flight path so you get brilliant views - for about 30p parking!!

thames clippers now go to the O2 and then to Woolwich... it would definately be worth seeing whether they are operating this weekend. A river roamer ticket is about a fiver and you can use this all day, up and down the river.

I went once. The atmosphere is great but you don't really get to see any action. It plunges down immediately upon take-off. Funny in the beginning, then becomes a yawn when you realise its just that.