DaveAV1 Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 On 14/09/2023 at 20:38, Follyfoot said: I am going in for a game, going to burn an away scarf singing ‘burn, burn, burn you bast**d Then whilst standing on the left side of the patio start chanting the left side, the left side and can you hear the right side sing? then go sssshhhhhhh and then arrrrrgggh Might get a Tizwas Swop Shop in before I get pinched. Hopefully they throw me out and then I can sneak back in when they open the gates with 15 mins to go Upper Holte means back of Holte? Right?? Now you’re really showing your age!!! Knowing what you’re talking about shows mine too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 Just now, DaveAV1 said: Now you’re really showing your age!!! Knowing what you’re talking about shows mine too! I’ll organise the whip-round for your bail money @Follyfoot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 Just now, DaveAV1 said: I’ll organise the whip-round for your bail money @Follyfoot Although I think Purslow should stump up for the cost of a brief! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 8 minutes ago, DaveAV1 said: Although I think Purslow should stump up for the cost of a brief! Or is that included in the price of a TV ticket? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 (edited) Which one is better value? Terrace View - 2 drinks, a programme, no food - £45 extra on top of ticket. Lower Grounds - Lower Holte, some drinks (how many?), unlimited food - £60 extra on top of ticket. Edited September 30, 2023 by ender4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted September 30, 2023 Author Moderator Share Posted September 30, 2023 25 minutes ago, ender4 said: Terrace View - Upper Holte, 2 drinks, a programme, no food - £45 extra on top of ticket. Lower Grounds - Lower Holte, some drinks (how many?), unlimited food - £60 extra on top of ticket. Couple of things: 1. The ticket that comes with access to the Lower Grounds will either be your existing season ticket or in the Upper Trinity somewhere. In the Terrace View you get a ticket in the area that it's in. As a result, the Lower Grounds won't be open at half time as most people won't be able to get back there from their seats. The Terrace View having an Upper Holte ticket is it's big selling point - you can come over from Hong Kong for a game and go straight into the full on Holte End experience. 2. At the moment, on the first time they're trying it and their initial plan - i beleive it's all the drinks, all of them, as many as you like, no limitation whatsoever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 (edited) 11 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: The ticket that comes with access to the Lower Grounds will either be your existing season ticket or in the Upper Trinity somewhere. In the Terrace View you get a ticket in the area that it's in. As a result, the Lower Grounds won't be open at half time as most people won't be able to get back there from their seats. The Terrace View having an Upper Holte ticket is its big selling point Ohhhh that makes more sense now. I was wondering why the pricing between the 2 areas (LM and TV) didn’t feel right, but that explains it. Edited September 30, 2023 by ender4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBlack Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 @punkiller1981 As far as I know, Terrace View seats (that are reserved for people paying the £120 ticket price to get a seat and entry to the Terrace view) don't get released as "just seats". Someone here may be able to confirm what happened to the seats that haven't sold and whether they ended up in general sale as seat only tickets at some point? I don't think they did. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrchnry Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 Been offered a mates terrace view ticket tonight so gonna go see what the fuss is all about. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwaysAVFC Posted October 29, 2023 Share Posted October 29, 2023 Went in the Terrace View today as it was going to be the best situation regarding my Dad and ultimately it helped with that so it was a good decision. There are a number of things that I would pick out though. I know it's a premium experience but being pretty experienced in hospitality and catering I thought the bar was way over staffed, considering how poorly other areas of the ground can be staffed. On top of that, they half poured pints ready for orders which would be more beneficial on the concourses than it was in there, with that number of staff. The fridges were poorly stocked. My Dad can't drink at the moment. He had a Heineken zero when we arrived which was quite early but they didn't have any after that. Seemed like it was the case for ther drinks too. Food seemed very limited, not sure if that's the normal offering or was just today. I went out pitch side of The Terrace View, which I guess is the new accessible area rather than Terrace View itself. This was a bit weird as had I still had my season ticket it would have displaced me as I was literally stood where my seat was in Lower Holte. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villatillidie95 Posted October 29, 2023 Share Posted October 29, 2023 How’s this thing doing now? From my seat in north stand upper I saw a lot of activity in upper holte around the 41 min mark making their way down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punkiller1981 Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 This is just my take on things regarding the terrace view but I think the holte end ticketing should have been left alone given it’s the essence of the ground and where the atmosphere is driven from so giving what seems to to be 2 or 3 thousand tickets too this product and stopping real fans getting into the upper holte for me starts to put us up there with the Man Utd prawn sandwich brigade when the are loads of other areas this could happen. On a personal perspective I’m about 10000 in the ST Que so I have a Villa membership which was great last season as I could get an upper holte seat for most games so I went to probably 12/13 home games. This season I couldn’t get a ticket for Luton or West Ham and have had to get a ticket in the lower holte on a different row to my son so I have asked Villa for a membership refund as it’s basically pointless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwaysAVFC Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 16 hours ago, Villatillidie95 said: How’s this thing doing now? From my seat in north stand upper I saw a lot of activity in upper holte around the 41 min mark making their way down I think that's just a general getting down to the concourse to get served. The Terrace View seats are scattered across the upper Holte. I did go down to the toilet with about 10mins to go in first half and lots were heading down to the regular bars. We didn't go down to the Terrace View at half time, so don't know what it was like to get served in there. We went in after the game for a quick drink as we were parked in the accessible parking so waited for the road closures to be removed and watched the Utd-City game. There were a fair few that were in there but not as many as pre game. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwaysAVFC Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 9 hours ago, punkiller1981 said: This is just my take on things regarding the terrace view but I think the holte end ticketing should have been left alone given it’s the essence of the ground and where the atmosphere is driven from so giving what seems to to be 2 or 3 thousand tickets too this product and stopping real fans getting into the upper holte for me starts to put us up there with the Man Utd prawn sandwich brigade when the are loads of other areas this could happen. On a personal perspective I’m about 10000 in the ST Que so I have a Villa membership which was great last season as I could get an upper holte seat for most games so I went to probably 12/13 home games. This season I couldn’t get a ticket for Luton or West Ham and have had to get a ticket in the lower holte on a different row to my son so I have asked Villa for a membership refund as it’s basically pointless Only done 1 game in there and unless it my only option for a ticket for a game I really want to go to it will probably be my only time but my guess is the club will probably see it as a success. They get premium ticket revenue for those seats, I'm presuming it was mostly sold out and that was for Luton. There was quite a mix in there and it was by and large seemed like fans you would see in any other area of the ground. I know where your coming from though and my membership recently expired and haven't renewed for me or my daughter yet. I'm pretty low on the waiting list, had it not been for these new areas I'm pretty sure I could have got a season ticket this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1HoV Posted November 7, 2023 Share Posted November 7, 2023 On 30/10/2023 at 06:24, punkiller1981 said: This is just my take on things regarding the terrace view but I think the holte end ticketing should have been left alone given it’s the essence of the ground and where the atmosphere is driven from so giving what seems to to be 2 or 3 thousand tickets too this product and stopping real fans getting into the upper holte for me starts to put us up there with the Man Utd prawn sandwich brigade when the are loads of other areas this could happen. On a personal perspective I’m about 10000 in the ST Que so I have a Villa membership which was great last season as I could get an upper holte seat for most games so I went to probably 12/13 home games. This season I couldn’t get a ticket for Luton or West Ham and have had to get a ticket in the lower holte on a different row to my son so I have asked Villa for a membership refund as it’s basically pointless The top two rows of K2 are pretty much always empty now. Not too sure what that compares to last season as I didn't take much notice up there, as a member I would generally go around rows 23-28 in K2 or K6 as they were available at 5pm Monday on the dot. I went for the TV season ticket as I just wanted to be guaranteed Holte Upper all season and didn't know if it'd be as available as before. My problem now is, I can't purchase cup games that aren't Terrace View. There's tons of seats available in Holte Upper right now for Alkmaar and Legia, my own ST seat is gone yet I can't purchase TV and I still can't purchase a normal seat on the general sale. The ticketing situation is a problem for everyone atm and I've been complaining to the TV team on a regular basis about my own experience and getting the views of everyone else thrown in to my moaning as well. Ben Davey, who was the main contact for running The Terrace View, appears to have suddenly left without giving fans notice. I don't think I've been the only one voicing the complaints. Are there any other Terrace View ST holders with this problem? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted November 7, 2023 Share Posted November 7, 2023 On 30/10/2023 at 16:17, AlwaysAVFC said: Only done 1 game in there and unless it my only option for a ticket for a game I really want to go to it will probably be my only time but my guess is the club will probably see it as a success. They get premium ticket revenue for those seats, I'm presuming it was mostly sold out and that was for Luton. There was quite a mix in there and it was by and large seemed like fans you would see in any other area of the ground. I know where your coming from though and my membership recently expired and haven't renewed for me or my daughter yet. I'm pretty low on the waiting list, had it not been for these new areas I'm pretty sure I could have got a season ticket this year. Fans are being exploited when times are good, let’s hope they’ll still be around, or at least can afford to be when things aren’t so good. A project created by people or an individual with zero affinity with either the club or its fans. He no longer is employed by the club though, so hopefully this won’t be repeated. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted November 8, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted November 8, 2023 On 05/10/2023 at 12:39, mrchnry said: Been offered a mates terrace view ticket tonight so gonna go see what the fuss is all about. I'm in the Director's Club Premium tomorrow night for the Alkmaar game. I'll need a hat three times the size of that one 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted November 8, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted November 8, 2023 4 hours ago, Stevo985 said: I'm in the Director's Club Premium tomorrow night for the Alkmaar game. I'll need a hat three times the size of that one Made of gold 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted November 8, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted November 8, 2023 1 hour ago, sidcow said: Made of gold Perfect Can you get that to me by tomorrow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hereford-Villan Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 It seems to be a success from what i can see when in the area before and after the game. I'm actually glad i got on board early as i can see more people wanting to get season tickets next year. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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