New Ticketing System for Salute 2015
Hi everyone, some info on the tickets for Salute 2015:
As part of our plans to reduce queuing to a minimum we are using an E-ticket system. If you buy your ticket in advance from
http://www.salute.co.uk/salute/salute-2015/ then the cost is £10
(that's slightly less than last year).
If you buy on the door it is £15
cash only. So buy in advance and spend that £5 on some nice stuff from
the traders!
Why are we doing this?
This year has seen the introduction of a new ticketing system for the
South London Warlords show Salute, what follows is a short explanation
to try and shed some light on this change.
From my point of view I
think probably the main reason this change was implemented was because
we needed something that would help get people into the show much
quicker and easier than our normal queuing system.
Over the past few years the queues have been getting longer and harder to deal with,
once the doors opened at 10am we then had to get the advanced ticket
holders in and then we had to start to collect the money for all those
paying on the day!
This has been an issue that we have wanted to try and deal with for many years.
It was suggested that I look into E-ticketing as a way forward to help
with this issue, and after a few meetings and a lot of scratching of
heads we thought it would be good to at least try this and see if it
helps with this years show, but for it to work at all we felt we needed a
separate hall to do this in.
Well after some negotiating with
ExCel we managed to get a separate queuing hall at one end of our normal
show hall, and with making an entrance in the temporary wall system we
have taken the queues off the boulevard, what this means is that this
year visitors will enter the show from this queuing hall.
In this
queuing hall we will have people with scanners for the pre-paid
advanced tickets and a section to take the cash on the day ( hopefully
from just after 7am!! ), this will mean that at 10am, when we normally
open the doors, everyone in the queuing hall will have had their tickets
checked or paid their money and will be ready to enter the show!!
We hope...
Hope you all have a great show.
Mac
Salute Coordinator
South London Warlords