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Post by happytobehere on Oct 13, 2021 19:11:25 GMT
Nothing I’ve been too in the past 2ish years has given physical tickets & I really miss them, it was like a price of memorabilia for me. I don’t think we’re ever getting them back tbh, it’s probably much cheaper to send out e-tickets. I’ll keep printing them off anyway to collect, but it’s definitely not as good.
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Oct 13, 2021 19:25:43 GMT
I booked a £15 ticket for Indecent on Sunday and it says I'm collecting it at the box office so I guess the Menier are doing them still. First physical ticket I've had since all this started though.
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Post by sophie92 on Oct 13, 2021 19:32:26 GMT
The only physical tickets I’ve had this year were for Waitress at my local theatre, and Constellations because I didn’t receive the Nimax check in email and thus didn’t get sent my e-ticket. There seemed to be a lot of people in the same situation at that performance.
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Post by dontdreamit on Oct 13, 2021 19:55:29 GMT
I wish that all these e-tickets could be saved in my Apple Wallet so everything is together. ATG in am taking to you in particular here! Dream on, dontdreamit! I also dream that one day I’ll be able to find a “My Account” button on the ATG website where I can easily find the details for the shows I’ve booked. I think there’s more chance of me winning the euro millions this week! |
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Post by shady23 on Oct 13, 2021 20:13:05 GMT
I loved picking up tickets at the box office as there was always the chance you may have been upgraded.
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Post by anita on Oct 14, 2021 9:22:50 GMT
I don't have a mobile.
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Post by Mark on Oct 14, 2021 9:27:25 GMT
I loved picking up tickets at the box office as there was always the chance you may have been upgraded. Loved when this happened. I remember booking one of the £15 back row stalls seats for Beautiful and when I went to pick it up he looked at it, and put a big line through the seat number and moved me to a premium stalls seat! Lastminute.com occasionally used to have some amazing deals, and you typically wouldn't get your seat numbers until you arrived. More often than not you'd get a nice upgrade. I've had a handful of paper tickets since venues reopened - Pippin at Charing Cross, Back to the Future from Todaytix Rush, Indecent at the Chocolate Factory, Oleanna at the Arts. Very rare though. I even bought last minute tickets for Pretty Woman at the box office about 20 mins before curtain and they were still emailed to me! |
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Post by CG on the loose on Oct 15, 2021 10:20:33 GMT
I've had physical tickets from a few regional venues, but the vast majority have been e-ticket only, to such an extent that I now forget to check my ticket wallet and have twice turned up without the physical tickets for the rare shows still issuing them! I do miss them, I usually buy a programme (at least on a first visit) and tuck the ticket in to remind me when I went. An e-ticket print out is just not the same. Think I'll buy a stack of A6 cards to write the ticket details on for the programme.
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Post by G on Oct 19, 2021 10:03:26 GMT
No particular nostalgia for physical tickets but on one occasion I got to the theatre with 2% battery on my phone and barely made it inside the theatre (with no printout of the e-ticket and no power bank). Good for the environment I suppose but not great for me that evening!
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Post by Samwise on Oct 30, 2021 0:36:46 GMT
There are obvious advantages during a pandemic as it means people aren't standing in queues swapping airborne droplets and box office staff have fewer droplet-inhaling face-to-face encounters.
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Post by fansylvanians on Nov 5, 2021 2:14:45 GMT
I loved picking up tickets at the box office as there was always the chance you may have been upgraded. Loved when this happened. I remember booking one of the £15 back row stalls seats for Beautiful and when I went to pick it up he looked at it, and put a big line through the seat number and moved me to a premium stalls seat! Lastminute.com occasionally used to have some amazing deals, and you typically wouldn't get your seat numbers until you arrived. More often than not you'd get a nice upgrade. I've had a handful of paper tickets since venues reopened - Pippin at Charing Cross, Back to the Future from Todaytix Rush, Indecent at the Chocolate Factory, Oleanna at the Arts. Very rare though. I even bought last minute tickets for Pretty Woman at the box office about 20 mins before curtain and they were still emailed to me! Rush tickets for BTTF are no longer collect from box office, they’re now sent as an email. |
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