London theatre tickets - best discount resource?
Dec 28th, 2008, 04:55 AM
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the SWET box (what y'all are calling TCKTS) is extremely unlikely to sell you rubbish seats.
It works on the basis of selling the most expensive seats first - ie the best ones at half price and working back from there. So you will almost always get the best tickets - but they won't necessarily be cheap (half of £75 is still £37.50!).
If a show is so poular that it only has the worst seats left - it's unlikely to use the SWET box.
As for the various commercial operations in Leicester SQ and around - you pays yer money, you takes yer chances.
It works on the basis of selling the most expensive seats first - ie the best ones at half price and working back from there. So you will almost always get the best tickets - but they won't necessarily be cheap (half of £75 is still £37.50!).
If a show is so poular that it only has the worst seats left - it's unlikely to use the SWET box.
As for the various commercial operations in Leicester SQ and around - you pays yer money, you takes yer chances.
Dec 28th, 2008, 05:48 AM
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Hi,
I have used the other ticket booths in Leicester Square - no problems.
I think it is important that you ask for a good seat & make sure you know what seat you getting before buying .... if they cann't tell you - walk away.
Mark
I have used the other ticket booths in Leicester Square - no problems.
I think it is important that you ask for a good seat & make sure you know what seat you getting before buying .... if they cann't tell you - walk away.
Mark
Dec 28th, 2008, 11:32 AM
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"the SWET box (what y'all are calling TCKTS)"
Huh?
Probably the reason we are all calling in TKTS, is because two or three years ago they officially changed their name to TKTS. It says TKTS on the building, the websites call it TKTS, and the official name of the entire operation is TKTS. Why shouldn't "we all" be calling it by its proper name?
Here is a picture of the building with the big letters on the side that say "TKTS".
www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/tkts/about_tkts/
Now do you want to explain why you call it something else that what THEY themselves call it? In fact, care to tell us why you call in the SWET box?
Meanwhile, what is this deal about "half of 75 pounds in still 37.50"? The last I knew the most expensive seat for any show in the West End had just raised to 60 pounds (a couple of shows on weekend nights only). Has that changed?
Huh?
Probably the reason we are all calling in TKTS, is because two or three years ago they officially changed their name to TKTS. It says TKTS on the building, the websites call it TKTS, and the official name of the entire operation is TKTS. Why shouldn't "we all" be calling it by its proper name?
Here is a picture of the building with the big letters on the side that say "TKTS".
www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/tkts/about_tkts/
Now do you want to explain why you call it something else that what THEY themselves call it? In fact, care to tell us why you call in the SWET box?
Meanwhile, what is this deal about "half of 75 pounds in still 37.50"? The last I knew the most expensive seat for any show in the West End had just raised to 60 pounds (a couple of shows on weekend nights only). Has that changed?
Dec 28th, 2008, 01:11 PM
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No. Good guess, but TKTS is run by Society of London Theatres, sometimes referred to as SOLT. And before they officially named the half price booth TKTS, they did use the name SOLT, but it's been fourteen years since the initials SWET have even existed. The name changed to Society of London Theatre from Society of West End Theatres in 1994. I've heard of living in the past but comeon now!!!
Dec 28th, 2008, 04:10 PM
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Well, janis, there is a lot of difference between reveling in the past (music wise, for example) and "correcting" others in a snide way when they are right and you are 14 years behind the times. Living in a place doesn't make a person right because he uses terms or names that were changed long ago.
What would people think if someone from the UK asked about going to New York and seeing the Mets play baseball this summer and having a local New Yorker "correct" him back with, "I don't know what you're talking about. You should watch the New York Giants or the Brooklyn Dodgers instead"?
But I should correct myself on another matter as well. I think the Canary Wharf TKTS is now closed and replaced by one at Brent Cross.
What would people think if someone from the UK asked about going to New York and seeing the Mets play baseball this summer and having a local New Yorker "correct" him back with, "I don't know what you're talking about. You should watch the New York Giants or the Brooklyn Dodgers instead"?
But I should correct myself on another matter as well. I think the Canary Wharf TKTS is now closed and replaced by one at Brent Cross.
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