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€53.30 For A Seat At The Horse Show

  • 17-08-2012 2:24pm
    #1
    imme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭


    The Dublin Horse Show is on at the moment.

    Was thinking of going to the RDS to catch the goings on, always an enjoyable day.

    Went on to their website which forwarded me to ticketmaster.

    It's €53.30 for a seat.

    Just €21.00 for general entry, no seat.

    Is €53.30 too much or too little.

    I think it's toooooo much.

    What think ye :confused:


Comments

  • #2
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    How many hours is the seat for?

    It doesn't seem too excessive given the price of concerts and other sporting events.


  • #3
    Antisocialiser
    Registered Users Posts: 1,375 ✭✭✭Antisocialiser


    I, for one, am absolutely flabbergasted.


  • #4
    marshbaboon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭marshbaboon


    Sure you can just stick on your sex & the city dvds for a free horse show...


  • #5
    Colmustard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭Colmustard


    If you haven't been before it is a good day out, you also get to see the horses up close and they are truly beautiful creatures. I actually think that is hood value for money, it is a good experience.


  • #6
    Hardonraging
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,641 ✭✭✭Hardonraging


    Is the seat on a horse ???


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  • #7
    marshbaboon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭marshbaboon


    Hardonraging wrote: »
    Is the seat on a horse ???

    I love horse riding, but all that bouncing around gives me a raging hard on.


  • #8
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,505 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    So stand in the rain. (/) thread.


  • #9
    LoYL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 235 ✭✭LoYL


    There has to be a way to keep out those who would stand around with their hands down the front of their trousers. Think of the horses man, think of the horses.


  • #10
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    Given the people who usually go to it, it's pretty much peanuts...

    Supply and demand , yada yada.

    The seats all full?


  • #11
    imme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭imme


    CruelCoin wrote: »
    Given the people who usually go to it, it's pretty much peanuts...

    Supply and demand , yada yada.

    The seats all full?

    you get a mixture of people there, city and country.

    On TV there're showing the parade just now. Not full, maybe people don't want to watch that though so will go to their seats in a bit.

    German manager just there being asked if Germany will win: "No" he responded.


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  • #12
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,505 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    What would you pay for a seat in the Aviva?


  • #13
    Anyone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Anyone


    Go to Smithfield instead. Same thing, just the accents are different.


  • #14
    imme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭imme


    byhookorbycrook wrote: »
    What would you pay for a seat in the Aviva?

    who me? or just people in general. depends on the event


  • #15
    mickydoomsux
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,290 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


    The horse show is a decidedly upper-middle class affair, this kind of money is peanuts to them.


  • #16
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,134 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    I would never get saddled with paying money to watch some tool mincing around on a bleedin horse. I can watch them fall off for free on Youtube.


  • #17
    Colmustard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭Colmustard


    OP if you haven't been to one before I highly recommend you go, I guarantee you will enjoy it it really is much better then spending 50 quid in a pub/club.


  • #18
    Colmustard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭Colmustard


    mickydoomsux wrote: »
    The horse show is a decidedly upper-middle class affair, this kind of money is peanuts to them.


    I don't agree, how much is a ticket to see Ireland play or a concert.


  • #19
    mickydoomsux
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,290 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


    Colmustard wrote: »
    I don't agree, how much is a ticket to see Ireland play or a concert.

    That's not really my point. I'm saying that 50 odd bucks is nothing to these people, i'm not saying other people can't afford it at all.


  • #20
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    marshbaboon wrote: »
    I love horse riding, but all that bouncing around gives me a raging hard on.
    Gives me a pain in the bollocks, or maybe I'm just a poor rider :o


  • #21
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,273 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Colmustard wrote: »
    If you haven't been before it is a good day out, you also get to see the horses up close and they are truly beautiful creatures. I actually think that is hood value for money, it is a good experience.

    Step away from that horse Colmustard!


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  • #22
    Colmustard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭Colmustard


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Step away from that horse Colmustard!

    LOL

    Seriously you see them on tele and not think twice about them, but up close to them and they are one of natures most noble creatures, their symmetry, the ripping muscles, the shining hair, their strength,,,,,,err yeah I have it bad, I am going to the bathroom.


  • #23
    wonderfulname
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,943 ✭✭✭wonderfulname


    It's a full day and you get to see some of the worlds best horses and riders, plus everything else that's going on, if you're a horsie person you can make that back on cut price gear anyway.

    I'll still only get the cheap ticket though, regardless of value 53 quid is a lot to drop in one go, to me anyway.


  • #24
    Cassidy28
    Registered Users Posts: 1,004 ✭✭✭Cassidy28


    imme wrote: »
    The Dublin Horse Show is on at the moment.

    Was thinking of going to the RDS to catch the goings on, always an enjoyable day.

    Went on to their website which forwarded me to ticketmaster.

    It's €53.30 for a seat.

    Just €21.00 for general entry, no seat.

    Is €53.30 too much or too little.

    I think it's toooooo much.

    What think ye :confused:

    Stop horsing around...:pac:


  • #25
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,505 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    mickydoomsux wrote: »
    The horse show is a decidedly upper-middle class affair, this kind of money is peanuts to them.
    Shows what you know. The Horse show is like the all-Ireland. There'll be some plummy accents about and some bimbos for the best-dressed, but mainly ordinary horse people,not toffs.


  • #26
    Colmustard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭Colmustard


    byhookorbycrook wrote: »
    Shows what you know. The Horse show is like the all-Ireland. There'll be some plummy accents about and some bimbos for the best-dressed, but mainly ordinary horse people,not toffs.

    Yeah I went a few times and I am hardly a toff, I wish I was, if that counts, as I said before it is a good day out and good sport as well.


  • #27
    Grimebox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,997 ✭✭✭Grimebox


    Seems about right. Keep the plebs out


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