The Terrace View - Holte End Upper

[artvandelay]

So there's 92 tickets available on the website for the Terrace View for the Everton game for £114. With a face value ticket being £45.50, I think this is £69.50 for two pints and a programme? And not having the ability to choose your seat. There's a reduced rate of £96 for under 14s, which means that if you're 15-18 I guess you can't get your pints but still have to pay full price?

[eamonn]

I wonder what the refreshment offerings were when we got 76k back in 1946.

None and you pissed in your mates pocket. So the legend goes

1946 we were into 7 years of rationing, with another 6 or 7 to go.

People were used to being hungry.

Plus the rationing made them thinner so you could squeeze more in.

Basically, they really were the good old days/"marvellous times".

[adrenachrome]

I’m still of the view that the Upper Trinity Concourse is the worst for queueing. The Witton Lane is the worst for space.

Yeah at least in the UT there is room for a queue.

Based.

[VillaTim]

So there's 92 tickets available on the website for the Terrace View for the Everton game for £114. With a face value ticket being £45.50, I think this is £69.50 for two pints and a programme? And not having the ability to choose your seat. There's a reduced rate of £96 for under 14s, which means that if you're 15-18 I guess you can't get your pints but still have to pay full price?

so basically £34 for a pint of Carling in a wobbly cup

[kippaxvilla2]

If it was Carling Premier you’d be talking.

[Flin5tone]

So there's 88 seats left in the Terrace View
if these go unsold , would they just leave them to be empty or put them on sale ?

Absolute nonsense

[VillaTim]

i imagine they will be snapped up between now and Sunday

[Clampy]

When walking out after the game, a few boos aimed towards the Terrace View and some unpleasant shouts. I had a very very quick sneak in whilst the door was being held open and it didn't look anything special really.

[astonvilla82]

Talking to two lads there as my seat is next to the disability seating,he was impressed with it, alcohol price about the same as other bars,at the moment he's got a season ticket in the trinity, not sure if meant disability seating as he was the carer and it was just a tryout to see if he would like to move to the Holte.By the sound of it they share the cost which would be 1700? he said.Also seen the video where our fans where singing "Where you when we were shit", probably some were there when we shit

[chrisw1]

It looked like quite a decent space to me, but £114 for a match ticket and a random seat in the Holte upper is taking the piss.  If they sold it at £25 per game as initially suggested I'm sure it would sell reasonably well.

There seemed to be a lot of hostility to it generally walking round the concourses.  For me the main issues are:

1.  They have done absolutely nothing to mitigate the reduced space and facilities for the remaining 80%  Not a single extra bar or outlet, no fast pourers nothing.  It was a 10 minute queue for a piss at half time.  They could build an extra bar in the upper area and fit extra urinals in the lower concourse w/c's but haven't bothered.   
2. The fact that there are no member / general sale tickets in the Holte upper available because they are being held back for TV is a big problem.   

[dorsetvillian]

I'm in L7 Upper Holte. I tried to use the toilets in the upper and lower concourse about 1.30 PM. They were all blocked and close to overflowing. One door wouldn't close, and another had the lock hanging off. Pretty pathetic for the opening game of the season. It's obvious where the priorities have been this Summer.

[Nev]

The general state of the Upper Holte was awful. Alongside the blocked toilets, the floor was filthy, the paintwork on the girders peeling away and the screen end overlooking Aston Park covered in dust, debris and cobwebs. I didn't attempt to buy anything but did notice that the lights were off on the dedicated Purity Bar so that looked shut.

Whatever is happening with the Holte Suite, having a money making facility as large as that out of use is awful. Something is terribly wrong with the management of the facilities.

[Axl Rose]

The general state of the Upper Holte was awful. Alongside the blocked toilets, the floor was filthy, the paintwork on the girders peeling away and the screen end overlooking Aston Park covered in dust, debris and cobwebs. I didn't attempt to buy anything but did notice that the lights were off on the dedicated Purity Bar so that looked shut.

Whatever is happening with the Holte Suite, having a money making facility as large as that out of use is awful. Something is terribly wrong with the management of the facilities.

Spoke to a mate last night after the game, and almost word for word echoed what you've written, Nev.

I wonder why all of this has been allowed to happen, and how it can be fixed?

[Clampy]

I popped down for a piss on 20 odd minutes and there was two blokes leaning against the wall chatting, not taking any interest in the game. They might as well have been in the pub. What's the point in that?

[DeKuip]

They managed to achieve smaller queues in the Trinity by charging £6.30 a pint.