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Original Poster:

2,719 posts

165 months

Tuesday 25th October 2016
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at 9:17... took 5 minutes... well happy

lewisco

380 posts

118 months

Tuesday 25th October 2016
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Super easy this year! All booked!

purple haze

258 posts

223 months

Tuesday 25th October 2016
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Ditto here. My usual 2 general admission, parking Expo, and 2 seats in Dunlop (which I couldn't get last year). Unbelievable how quickly the grandstand seats go unless big chunks are booked in advance by the big tour operators. And that's with all the supposed advantages of being an ACO member

DS240

4,637 posts

217 months

Tuesday 25th October 2016
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Trying to book ACO stand. Usual mess.

I can book everything else no problem.

I take out two memberships to get 4 seats in the stand, and get this mess every year.

FARP

157 posts

157 months

Tuesday 25th October 2016
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All booked ......... now where did I put that freezer box !

DS240

4,637 posts

217 months

Tuesday 25th October 2016
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All booked.

Went with Sommer in the end.

Not quite what I was after, but at least tickets are bought.

GaryHetherington

161 posts

198 months

Tuesday 25th October 2016
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With the ACO finally having sorted their ticketing website over the last few years, why do we still need Ticket Agents? I got on to the page at 9:03 this morning wanting Camping Expo tickets, I got one (it said 1 left) and straight after there were no more. However we need another one for the group so are going to have to go and pay double the face value to get it from an agent? (assuming they'll still sell it to me after they read my rant!). What do the 6 official UK agents actually add to the occasion apart from cost?

P.S. I am excited honest, just the usual ticket problems!

DS240

4,637 posts

217 months

Tuesday 25th October 2016
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Fair play ACO!

The ACO posted a message on their facebook page about people queuing at the circuit for tickets and generally mentioning tickets on sale.

A fair few people had posted angry messages about the IT system not working and so few tickets being made available for sale on campsites etc.

I posted also about not being able to book the ACO stand due to some error.

They have seen the message, found my membership details from my name, phoned me, spoke to a nice girl called Emilie who swapped my Sommer grandstand seats for 4 seats in the ACO stand. All confirmed on the phone and e-tickets sent along with advice on how to make it work in future.

Then literally 2 mins after sorting it and hanging up, had another call from a different person at the ACO to try and sort out the previous issue.

Credit to ACO, that is really good customer service. Lots of moaning previously about some of their systems, but this has restored my faith and deserved a mention.

Roll on June!

a.christie

262 posts

275 months

Tuesday 25th October 2016
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So where`s all the camping pitches gone then? Only Beausejour and Epinettes Available at 10 am this morning!! No thanks.

Ian_C

193 posts

209 months

Tuesday 25th October 2016
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purple haze said:
Ditto here. My usual 2 general admission, parking Expo, and 2 seats in Dunlop (which I couldn't get last year). Unbelievable how quickly the grandstand seats go unless big chunks are booked in advance by the big tour operators. And that's with all the supposed advantages of being an ACO member
GaryHetherington said:
With the ACO finally having sorted their ticketing website over the last few years, why do we still need Ticket Agents? I got on to the page at 9:03 this morning wanting Camping Expo tickets, I got one (it said 1 left) and straight after there were no more. However we need another one for the group so are going to have to go and pay double the face value to get it from an agent? (assuming they'll still sell it to me after they read my rant!). What do the 6 official UK agents actually add to the occasion apart from cost?

P.S. I am excited honest, just the usual ticket problems!
This. I've only managed to buy grandstands from the ACO once in the 10 years I've been (about 3 years ago iirc). Last year I feared they'd all been 'pre' sold to operators, and I fear the same this year

a.christie

262 posts

275 months

Tuesday 25th October 2016
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So where`s all the camping pitches gone then? Only Beausejour and Epinettes Available at 10 am this morning!! No thanks.

rlw

3,321 posts

236 months

Wednesday 26th October 2016
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DS240 said:
Trying to book ACO stand. Usual mess.

I can book everything else no problem.

I take out two memberships to get 4 seats in the stand, and get this mess every year.
That's why I didn't bother last year. It was the ususal fk up not being able to login and watching all the ACO stand tickets go. I bought less good seats and the usual GE and parking tickets but Frankly coulnd't be arsed so I sold them all and watched it on Eurosport with Radio LM commentary.

I missed no more than 30 minutes of the whole race and saved well over £1K for my trip (inc hotel, ferry etc).

Try it.

M3_SMG

85 posts

181 months

Wednesday 26th October 2016
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Due to ACO website problems yesterday, i.e. everything shown as sold out except for Arnage we ended up ordering these rather than having none at all, later on it showed BSJ as having tickets so we ordered these and we now have 5 Arnage 2017 camping tickets available.

The ACO wont accept that there was a problem and wont accept a return.

Just need to recover the face value of 285 Euros which includes Courier to UK.

quizeye

9 posts

112 months

Wednesday 26th October 2016
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I bought tickets on the phone yesterday morning because I knew my account wasn't properly linked to my membership on the website.

Should I have received the e-tickets by now, does anyone know?

rlw

3,321 posts

236 months

Thursday 27th October 2016
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DS240 said:
Fair play ACO!

The ACO posted a message on their facebook page about people queuing at the circuit for tickets and generally mentioning tickets on sale.

A fair few people had posted angry messages about the IT system not working and so few tickets being made available for sale on campsites etc.

I posted also about not being able to book the ACO stand due to some error.

They have seen the message, found my membership details from my name, phoned me, spoke to a nice girl called Emilie who swapped my Sommer grandstand seats for 4 seats in the ACO stand. All confirmed on the phone and e-tickets sent along with advice on how to make it work in future.

Then literally 2 mins after sorting it and hanging up, had another call from a different person at the ACO to try and sort out the previous issue.

Credit to ACO, that is really good customer service. Lots of moaning previously about some of their systems, but this has restored my faith and deserved a mention.

Roll on June!
Shame they didn't do that in 2016, or 2015 or 2014 or 2013...................

Ian_C

193 posts

209 months

Friday 28th October 2016
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Ian_C said:
purple haze said:
Ditto here. My usual 2 general admission, parking Expo, and 2 seats in Dunlop (which I couldn't get last year). Unbelievable how quickly the grandstand seats go unless big chunks are booked in advance by the big tour operators. And that's with all the supposed advantages of being an ACO member
GaryHetherington said:
With the ACO finally having sorted their ticketing website over the last few years, why do we still need Ticket Agents? I got on to the page at 9:03 this morning wanting Camping Expo tickets, I got one (it said 1 left) and straight after there were no more. However we need another one for the group so are going to have to go and pay double the face value to get it from an agent? (assuming they'll still sell it to me after they read my rant!). What do the 6 official UK agents actually add to the occasion apart from cost?

P.S. I am excited honest, just the usual ticket problems!
This. I've only managed to buy grandstands from the ACO once in the 10 years I've been (about 3 years ago iirc). Last year I feared they'd all been 'pre' sold to operators, and I fear the same this year
All T34 grandstands seats gone, presumably block-sold to operators frown

Dblue

3,252 posts

199 months

Friday 28th October 2016
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Ian_C said:
Ian_C said:
purple haze said:
Ditto here. My usual 2 general admission, parking Expo, and 2 seats in Dunlop (which I couldn't get last year). Unbelievable how quickly the grandstand seats go unless big chunks are booked in advance by the big tour operators. And that's with all the supposed advantages of being an ACO member
GaryHetherington said:
With the ACO finally having sorted their ticketing website over the last few years, why do we still need Ticket Agents? I got on to the page at 9:03 this morning wanting Camping Expo tickets, I got one (it said 1 left) and straight after there were no more. However we need another one for the group so are going to have to go and pay double the face value to get it from an agent? (assuming they'll still sell it to me after they read my rant!). What do the 6 official UK agents actually add to the occasion apart from cost?

P.S. I am excited honest, just the usual ticket problems!
This. I've only managed to buy grandstands from the ACO once in the 10 years I've been (about 3 years ago iirc). Last year I feared they'd all been 'pre' sold to operators, and I fear the same this year
All T34 grandstands seats gone, presumably block-sold to operators frown
51 seats left in T34 block B at the moment. Near the back though.

15 seats in Barnato exactly where we want them bought - Boom!.


lotus116tornado

311 posts

151 months

Friday 28th October 2016
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Have been trying for 45 minutes now, still can't get on the ticket website mad

Ian_C

193 posts

209 months

Friday 28th October 2016
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Dblue said:
Ian_C said:
Ian_C said:
purple haze said:
Ditto here. My usual 2 general admission, parking Expo, and 2 seats in Dunlop (which I couldn't get last year). Unbelievable how quickly the grandstand seats go unless big chunks are booked in advance by the big tour operators. And that's with all the supposed advantages of being an ACO member
GaryHetherington said:
With the ACO finally having sorted their ticketing website over the last few years, why do we still need Ticket Agents? I got on to the page at 9:03 this morning wanting Camping Expo tickets, I got one (it said 1 left) and straight after there were no more. However we need another one for the group so are going to have to go and pay double the face value to get it from an agent? (assuming they'll still sell it to me after they read my rant!). What do the 6 official UK agents actually add to the occasion apart from cost?

P.S. I am excited honest, just the usual ticket problems!
This. I've only managed to buy grandstands from the ACO once in the 10 years I've been (about 3 years ago iirc). Last year I feared they'd all been 'pre' sold to operators, and I fear the same this year
All T34 grandstands seats gone, presumably block-sold to operators frown
51 seats left in T34 block B at the moment. Near the back though.
Yeah, the ones left are Block A above the podium and are €505 each!

Conaero

86 posts

264 months

Friday 28th October 2016
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Not doing grandstands this year, just 50 tickets required for general admittance. Ferries and gites are already booked, just need to sort a couple of hotels for the run down.

Counting the days!