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The Beijing LOC finally has ticket ordering info on their website: http://www.iaafbeijing2015.com/14/08...Q00050FM1.html
1) There are no all-session tickets. All tickets for all sessions must be ordered individually, though there is a cryptic phrase which indicates package ticket reservations are not available during the first phase of the lottery. I have no idea what this means. Are they setting aside better seats for later all-session purchases or would such seats be worse? Who sells season seats after individual seats? Or maybe they mean there are no all-session packages in any phase? Confusing.
2) The order process consists of two parts: One submits an application which enters one in a lottery for tickets; applications end April 30, after which applicants receive an email with seat locations and the right to purchase within a certain time frame.
3) Purchaser is NOT allowed to select section or seat. One can simply order within 3 price categories. Given the allocation of the costliest tickets (see below), I fear the Chinese idea of good seating may not be the same as mine and I fear winding up above the sprint start line.
4) The priciest tickets will not include finish line seating which is reserved for "accredited/occupied and reserved seats" whatever that means.
5) The most expensive seats could land you in row 1 over by the pole vault, since the bottom seating around the bowl is considered price category A. As I see it, there is no good seating available at the top price level.
6) Price levels B and C basically wrap around most of the bowl, except on the homestretch where there is no B or C seating.
7) At the current rate of 6.25 yuan/$, an A seat for all sessions costs $600, a B seat is $418 and a "C" seat is $224, pricing that's quite above the last two worlds, at least for the middle range tickets.
For whatever reason, I could not get the forms to load on Firefox, but they loaded just fine on Chrome or Explorer. I had to hand write my form since the color of the font for entering one's own info was too light and some boxes that needed to be checked weren't checkable. The form also requires a signature, thus a download, print, fill out, scan, return and hope they're equipped to open a PDF.
All in all, very disappointing. One can only hope to be able to move around at will. If I hadn't already paid for airfare and a non-refundable hotel room, I'd seriously considering blowing the whole thing off and watching from home.
1) There are no all-session tickets. All tickets for all sessions must be ordered individually, though there is a cryptic phrase which indicates package ticket reservations are not available during the first phase of the lottery. I have no idea what this means. Are they setting aside better seats for later all-session purchases or would such seats be worse? Who sells season seats after individual seats? Or maybe they mean there are no all-session packages in any phase? Confusing.
2) The order process consists of two parts: One submits an application which enters one in a lottery for tickets; applications end April 30, after which applicants receive an email with seat locations and the right to purchase within a certain time frame.
3) Purchaser is NOT allowed to select section or seat. One can simply order within 3 price categories. Given the allocation of the costliest tickets (see below), I fear the Chinese idea of good seating may not be the same as mine and I fear winding up above the sprint start line.
4) The priciest tickets will not include finish line seating which is reserved for "accredited/occupied and reserved seats" whatever that means.
5) The most expensive seats could land you in row 1 over by the pole vault, since the bottom seating around the bowl is considered price category A. As I see it, there is no good seating available at the top price level.
6) Price levels B and C basically wrap around most of the bowl, except on the homestretch where there is no B or C seating.
7) At the current rate of 6.25 yuan/$, an A seat for all sessions costs $600, a B seat is $418 and a "C" seat is $224, pricing that's quite above the last two worlds, at least for the middle range tickets.
For whatever reason, I could not get the forms to load on Firefox, but they loaded just fine on Chrome or Explorer. I had to hand write my form since the color of the font for entering one's own info was too light and some boxes that needed to be checked weren't checkable. The form also requires a signature, thus a download, print, fill out, scan, return and hope they're equipped to open a PDF.
All in all, very disappointing. One can only hope to be able to move around at will. If I hadn't already paid for airfare and a non-refundable hotel room, I'd seriously considering blowing the whole thing off and watching from home.
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