Extortionate price increases at the Arena (car park)

[DiscoRay]

As if "booking" and "facility" fees weren't enough already! What's next, a fee to pay the power bill?

[DimTim]

Price on Arena website now shows £320 but still limit 50 & sold out!

[BontSteeler]

That pricing is absolutely disgusting, attending these kind of events are costly enough as it is, especially a family of 3+.

The Smith family have worked absolute wonders at this club, getting people through the doors, the Arena it feels, have sort to them themselves we're missing out here.

If I was still up in Sheffield, this would've priced us out of going & I get a feeling I wouldn't/won't be the only one.

[Al Murrays Hairbrush]

I logged on as soon.as the email arrived, and there were no disabled, or "normal" bays left.
The link for "general sales" didn't work.
I tried later, and got in, again no disabled bays, but booked a normal bay.
I've emailed Shaun Smith about the rip off & farce of the situation.
That's the 2nd season of having to shove myself in the wheelchair across the uneven gravel car parks, unless the parking staff can squeeze me in somewhere, as they do try to do.
This has really P'd me off.

[Jayboy]

So thats £448 per year to park to watch our season... if you dont get one of these limited car parking spots

So last figure i saw was the club expecting close to 3000 season ticket holders?
Yet the Arena only release 100 parking season tickets, 50 x £8x32 loyalty tickets that sold out in about 30 mins and 50x £10x32 at 10am tomorrow?
The rest have to pay for them at £10 in advance, over several weeks at a time or pay £14 to Park at a game that they have paid approx £16.25 to watch!!!!
so approx 86% of a ticket price if your a season ticket holder!

there is all kinds of WRONG GOING OFF HERE........

[NinjaBreadMark]

I'm not sure where people are getting that they only had a limit of 50 tickets available at each price bracket... the only place I saw that number was on the booking page where it was a figure saying there was a limit of 50 tickets per purchase. I'm assuming that is some kind of default setting to stop scalpers, as no one would be crazy enough to buy more than 50 parking tickets!!

I saw a post on facebook saying someone had rung the arena and were told there were 250 at the lower price bracket, which still feels very low for the number of spaces they must have available.

It just shows how an increase of a few quid per ticket adds up over the season. I'm sure the food/drinks kiosks will take a hit if their prices are similarly increased.... its one thing paying the extortionate prices for a one off gig, but having to do it 32 times a season is crazy.

[Toots]

Just got our car park ticket £322.75. Extortionate but like others have said doesn’t take much for a criminal to do that much damage breaking into your car. Don’t ya just love Ticketmaster tacking on their £2.75 admin fee!!!

[ginger]

For those that can, I'd definitely suggest using park and ride with the tram. Much cheaper!

[KAR]

For those that can, I'd definitely suggest using park and ride with the tram. Much cheaper!

Tried this before and there weren’t frequent enough trams.

[ginger]

For those that can, I'd definitely suggest using park and ride with the tram. Much cheaper!

Tried this before and there weren’t frequent enough trams.

Maybe helped by the fact I don't usually stick around for MoM etc so tend to manage to get on the first tram that comes.