Rugby World Cup 2019 Japan Travel etc...

Just off the phone to the brother. He said I was successful with one quarter final ticket match 44 winner pool a v runner up pool b. So hopefully Ireland can get the job done again the Scots. Would be easy swap over there if I had to I'd imagine.

Bitter rant: are we going to see games with less than 15k of the competing teams fans attending?

joseywhales wrote: »

Bitter rant: are we going to see games with less than 15k of the competing teams fans attending?

Apart from the bigger nations with large travelling support, yes. But there's always a high number of neutral fans at the world cups.

RoyalCelt wrote: »

How much were they?

Does anyone have a link to the page that shows what the demand is for each match? I know the soccer tournaments do it and I read about it on the RWC site but can't find it anywhere.

It was on the page where you selected each game you wanted to enter for in the ballot. Clear as day.

Basically, NZ, Japan, England, Ireland were in the red for most games. Every other tier 1 nation was at "medium".

As there's no more ballots there's no more anticipated demand per se. It's all on first come first served here on in.

BonnieSituation wrote: »

It was on the page where you selected each game you wanted to enter for in the ballot. Clear as day.

Basically, NZ, Japan, England, Ireland were in the red for most games. Every other tier 1 nation was at "medium".

As there's no more ballots there's no more anticipated demand per se. It's all on first come first served here on in.

Yeah think it's in the ticket account once you go to apply for tickets.

Apparently over 2 million applications for 300,000 tickets so far. Not sure what why they stagger the availability though..

https://www.rugbyworldcup.com/news/383065

finbarrk wrote: »

I'm after purchasing an Ireland v Scotland ticket on Stub Hub there now. It cost me €191 including fees & delivery. They were cheaper than Viagogo.

Saddens me to hear that.
Reposting here what I put on the tickets thread last night:

The first ticket I got for the French game in the 2015 RWC was a CAT A priced £250, and I bought that this time 4 years ago on the official website.
Couple of months later secured a CAT B ticket and put the CAT A one back up for sale on the official website and got a refund for that once someone else bought it.
Then a few weeks later pounced on a pair of CAT D tickets (£50 each) and successfully resold the CAT B on the website.

I ended up securing 12 CAT D tickets for that French game by the time it came around. (and still had about 8 pals left disappointed...mind you they were the ones who couldn't be arsed checking the website themselves every once in a while)
Now admittedly I was almost living on the website and got to know how they did things to a decent extent.

I was giving you the examples in my earlier post to highlight how the availability of tickets for the WC via the only official means; their own website, does not become exhausted until verrrrry close to the actual matches.

I remember feeling jubilant when I bought that CAT A ticket for £250. "Yessss... I'm going! I've got my ticket... I'm soooo lucky!"
In a similar vein to how some posters here feel gutted and disappointed that their name didn't come out of the hat today.
It's an obvious ploy to choke the supply in the early stages to such an extent as to make the demand seem even bigger than it is. And hey, it works!
But honestly there's no need for any despair imo.

If I was anyone out there hoping to go to Japan, I would be focused entirely on travel and accommodation now. Or before now.
This is the time to secure those for a reasonable cost.
Commit to those, the tickets will fall into place for you with even a small ounce of diligence over the next 6-9 months.

kuang1 wrote: »

If I was anyone out there hoping to go to Japan, I would be focused entirely on travel and accommodation now. Or before now.
This is the time to secure those for a reasonable cost.
Commit to those, the tickets will fall into place for you with even a small ounce of diligence over the next 6-9 months.

This was a really nice post. Have been stressing about the tickets, but you're probably right. Time to look at flights.

BonnieSituation wrote: »

Why?

That's silly. So so silly. For starters, no one has any tickets to sell. Secondly there'll be Spares popping up nearer the time. In fact I bet people will still be getting sorted on the day for games.


As far as I know there might even be a couple of spares in our group.

Absolute waste of time going via touts.

Ok. But I just wanted to get sorted for that game. And get it paid for and have another fee out of the way. I already have flights paid for. And accommodation booked. Incorrect in saying no one has tickets to sell. There are loads of them on there for sale. Obviously from people that have secured confirmation in either of the first 2 ballots.

Nobody has tickets yet. They're not being delivered for another few months.

I'd bend over backwards to cancel that if I were you and I'm one of the more pessimistic on getting tickets.

It’s hard not to get anxious though. We have our hotel booked and we’re booking our flights this week. The plan is to go to both Quarter Finals and the “good” Semi Final (i.e. the one we’d be in if we win the Group). We got tickets for the Semi in the ballot. We’re now discussing whether to wait, to hit Viagogo, or to buy corporate hospitality. It would be a nice feeling to at least have the “good” Quarter Final nailed down.

Andrew Beef wrote: »

It’s hard not to get anxious though. We have our hotel booked and we’re booking our flights this week. The plan is to go to both Quarter Finals and the “good” Semi Final (i.e. the one we’d be in if we win the Group). We got tickets for the Semi in the ballot. We’re now discussing whether to wait, to hit Viagogo, or to buy corporate hospitality. It would be a nice feeling to at least have the “good” Quarter Final nailed down.

Wait. Don't dare go near viagogo.

Tickets will pop up. Relax.

Try_harder wrote: »

Andrew Beef wrote: »

It depends what way you go. I’ve been looking at flights quite a bit. Varies from a little less that (15ish) to 24ish via the Middle East.

that's what my itinerary says!

What way are you flying?

Rugby travel Ireland use Emirates, so it’ll be through Dubai

I thought the Dubai routing was longer than that.