Just buy some hospitality you tight cu*nts.
Just buy some hospitality you tight cu*nts.
"Beat the price and lose. It's what we do".
SlimChance, March 2018
No way I'm paying for hospitality as this weekend is my least favourite of the three pre-Xmas meetings. But, tiers depending, will still have a go in the ballot for a chance of getting on a racetrack
Cheltenham has been put in Tier 2
"The owls are not what they seem"
4700 members have supported them despite knowing there was little chance of going racing. To tell them they will go into a ballot after people have paid for hospitality is nothing more than Covid profiteering, and an absolute disgrace. Everyone going into the ballot was the ONLY right thing to do.
They're no better than the rip off merchants that wanted to charge twenty pounds for toilet rolls or a bottle of hand sanitiser. They should be ashamed of themselves. Do they not realise that some of their members may have been made unemployed or have lost 20% of their wage. Others go as a family who they haven't been able to socialise with for the last month. They finally had something to look forward to, but have a significantly reduced chance of going when they couldn't afford to pay £150-£1000 a head for hospitality.
If I actually said the words that I currently think about the ********, this entire posts would just be asterisks!
Hospitality closes to members at 5pm today after that its opened to anyone, if they sell 2000 packages not one member will be going. I would guess members have the off chance of getting friday but no chance on the saturday. This is quite depressing news and a kick in the nuts for those of us that have capitalised the business during this crisis.
****! I was hoping the hospitality would be different (as in not included in the 2000).Originally Posted by frontrunner
I genuinely feel like trying to organise a members boycott. They have hit the absolute rock bottom with this.
If one non-member attends hospitality and reduces the number in the ballot I will send my membership back immediately, and I will also never set foot in the racecourse again.
Last edited by Maruco; 26th November 2020 at 3:37 PM.
I am making enquiring at the minute but it seem that a non member can buy hospitality after 5 pm today and guarantee to be there. I suggest we bin membership and go to tenerife to watch on tv if this is true
Definitely. If it's correct I'm finished with them. We'd save a bloody fortune too Brian!
Confirmed non members will be able to purchase hospitality after 5pm today but won't give numbers available
Anyone know a good solicitor who happens to be a Cheltenham member?
That's an excellent suggestion.
It reminds me of the time I was in Benidorm on one of my early spring solos. There were loads of Welsh guys and I was blethering with them in a sports bar (believe it or not) and asked them if Wales were in the area for a game (football? rugby?) and they told me it was cheaper for them to come to Benidorm for the weekend all-inclusive and watch it in a bar than go to Twickenham.
My kind of thinking.
Last edited by Desert Orchid; 26th November 2020 at 5:02 PM.
Illegitimi non carborundum
So it seems that the hospitality figure is separate from the 2000 spectators.
However, out of the 2000 crowd the owners attending needs to be deducted.
Bizarre regarding the owners, as how do they know how many are going to attend, as the ballot ends on Monday 30th way before decs are made.
The hospitality figure isn’t separate from the 2000 Darren. The total 2000 will include hospitality, owners, and private boxes. I’ve not been able to find out if those that paid for the Insurance Bar have also been prioritised, but I’d imagine so. That will probably take around half the 2000 allocation on Saturday.
However, I called to book hospitality posing as a non-member. They are so far using the Panoramic Restaurant and the Gold Cup Restaurant, and said they would open up more facilities if/when they have numbers to support it, and they will put me on the waiting list as a non member and call me after prioritising members in hospitality first. You, I, and any general member who hasn’t booked hospitality will go into the ballot after hospitality has been filled with members and non members. If they open up another restaurant this will also come off the ballot numbers. Memberships have also gone up from 4500 to over 6000 since the announcement, so a a few thousand will be vying for a few hundred tickets, and the racecourse will have non-members in there.
In addition any non member can book hospitality at the Festival right now with no limitation. If the numbers are limited at the Festival we’ll be treated like **** for that too.
Covid has exposed what us members already knew , they are just a bunch of greedy feckers
As soon as I saw the arrangements for Members should meetings be cancelled, I chose not to renew, Brian.
It was a fleecing waiting to happen - they’re a shower of fu*cking chancers.
Last edited by Grasshopper; 27th November 2020 at 8:31 PM.
"Beat the price and lose. It's what we do".
SlimChance, March 2018
A very wise decision but living 30 miles away I was always going to get sucked in
Fixed that for you, pal.
"Beat the price and lose. It's what we do".
SlimChance, March 2018
I only wish I was a pound behind you
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