Olympic Tickets – buying tickets for family

I’ve got a cousin from abroad who’s planning on visiting london during the olympics. If I get him a couple of tickets, presumably thats all hunky dory right? Or does the cardholder/account holder need to be one of the attendees at the gate?

On a slightly related note, I’m sure this has been done to death already, but HOW MUCH?!!?! When London 2012 was first won, I imagined taking the three weeks off and watching lots of live sport. Cheapest track tickets are £80…so I don’t think my olympic kitty is going to stretch very far. Fortunately my office is a 15 minute bike ride from Box Hill, so at least I’ll get to watch the road race for free.

Could be wrong, but I think the tickets will have names on. Guess you might get away with it at the gate, if they don’t ask for ID, but it’s probably not worth the risk. Can’t they just buy their own?

Oh, ticket prices – track cyclings for posh people, course the tickets are expensive. 😆 Try a sport where there are more available places, and less British interest.

Should be OK I think, they don’t ask for names during the ‘request for tickets’ part, presumably if you get allocated some then they ask for names so as long as you know his name I can’t see why it would be a problem.

Yes they’re a rip-off.

Also does anyone know how the allocation works if you are successful? Say you’re a family and request 4 tickets, if you ‘win’ does that mean you get 4 tickets or does it mean you win one and you have three chances left to win more? It’s going to suck if families only get partial allocations.

they don’t ask for names during the ‘request for tickets’ part

Sweet – I’ll see about getting them for my Mum then 🙂

I think its all or nothing – ie if you requested 4 tickets for a particular event then the ballot will either give you the whole lot, or none of them.

Can’t see it being any other way, otherwise it’d be a nightmare as people would change their minds if they couldn’t get the quantity they needed.

You’ll have to go to the Olympics with yo maw molgrips…

Are tickets transferable?

Our ticketing policy states that tickets are non-transferable. However, a member of your family or a friend may purchase tickets, as the lead booker, and can then give you one of those tickets. Please note that the lead booker should be in attendance with you on the day of the event to avoid the possibility of other members of your family or friends being denied access to an event if the lead booker is not present.

Yeah and if you wanted two say for you and your parter, it’d create problems if you only got one!

Thanks for that Bunk, I guess that clears things up.

We’ve been looking at tickets for the taekwondo and there’s no price reduction for our baby who will be 1 year old when the olypics are on. xcgerfibwkg(and other such naughty words)

We’ve been looking at tickets for the taekwondo and there’s no price reduction for our baby who will be 1 year old when the olypics are on. xcgerfibwkg(and other such naughty words)

Weird, for the events we’ve gone for it’s been kids pay their age (ie. 2 quid for our 2 year old) is that not the same for all of the events?

Weird, for the events we’ve gone for it’s been kids pay their age (ie. 2 quid for our 2 year old) is that not the same for all of the events?

We did check and it seems that only covers the earlier heats and we want to go to the later ones/medal ceremony 😡