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[Albion] And I thought 1901 was expensive
- Thread starter TomandJerry
- Start date
I've been to The Goldstone once before about six or seven years ago now. I'm not even sure it was called The Goldstone at the time.
@Deano's Right Foot won four places in a competition and kindly asked me along.
It was a genuinely very decent experience.
I remember the hostess showing us to our table, casually remarking, “Drinks are included…” then pausing for effect before adding more loudly, “…including spirits!”
As it turned out, I'm not sure we had any spirits at all, but we got through a ridiculous amount of red wine.
The food was also very good.
It's something I've always said people should consider who'd like a nice experience for a special occasion at the Amex. The Category B/C pricing isn't too bad at all, particularly if you have a similar fondness for red wine!
@Deano's Right Foot won four places in a competition and kindly asked me along.
It was a genuinely very decent experience.
I remember the hostess showing us to our table, casually remarking, “Drinks are included…” then pausing for effect before adding more loudly, “…including spirits!”
As it turned out, I'm not sure we had any spirits at all, but we got through a ridiculous amount of red wine.
The food was also very good.
It's something I've always said people should consider who'd like a nice experience for a special occasion at the Amex. The Category B/C pricing isn't too bad at all, particularly if you have a similar fondness for red wine!
Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
I believe in Joe Hendry
- Oct 4, 2003
- 13,003
I reckon I could consume well over £7k worth of pre match small plates and post match cheese over a season. Can I still sit in my West Upper seat though?
The Grockle
Formally Croydon Seagull
Agreed. It's money to the club and helps keep the regular ticket prices down.
One of the many benefits of the Amex is the choice it offers. With a season ticket you can enjoy top football for around 20 quid a game with a season ticket or enjoy a luxury option for several hundred a game with many options in between.
MattBackHome
Well-known member
- Jul 7, 2003
- 12,016
Yeah I did the East one for Saints last season. Food not bad, unlimited drinks obviously great, pre match talk from Booker & Mullers was slightly doddery. Overall good, but I wouldn't have done it if I'd paid myself.
Highlight of the evening was seeing Tyler Dibling in action
Highlight of the evening was seeing Tyler Dibling in action
Assume the toilet is basically just a wall outside for the authentic Goldstone experience?!
It almost as if the 90 minutes of football is getting in the way of an afternoon of boozing.
Not for me, but for those that can and want to splash the cash. seems ideal.
Not for me, but for those that can and want to splash the cash. seems ideal.
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
Is it really aimed only at old fat drunk balding rich men with dodgy beards.
Beardy in the light blue shirt really needs to go up a size, and the blue polo shirt is a bit tight.
Is that you laying on the grass bank?
I did the full hospitality when I took the wife to her one and only Ablion game. When she was recapping the afternoon to a friend, she turned to me and said “who was that sleazy guy in the cheap ill-fitting suit?”…it was Gary Chivers.
Comrade Sam
Comrade Sam
A mate got me into the Tunnel Club a few times. It's an epic experience, however it is full of blokes from the building industry that have made it big. They just talk shop and as the bar is on tap, never return to their seats after halftime.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Live and let live I say, it's where the money is for the club.
Just so long as folk don't use their WFA to help fund such luxury.
Just so long as folk don't use their WFA to help fund such luxury.
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
Who are that couple relaxing on the grass, not exactly the best backdrop to the picture!
I know exactly where that is, high behind the outer concourse on the east side.
- Jul 7, 2003
- 48,741
If a few builders in the corporate seats want to talk shop for 90 minutes while funnelling £7,000 each per season into the Albion's coffers then that is just fine with me. All of their money coming in goes some small way towards ensuring the rest of us minions don't have to pay quite so much.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 74,346
This. Especially as they'll be claiming most of it back through the books of their company and feeling really pleased with themselves
Feels like a whole day gone just for a standard ticket with any train issues!
Arthur
Well-known member
Couple in the row in front of me have these tickets. I reckon they probably see more of the game than I do.
I personally wouldn't want to do it more than once or twice a season but for those that do good luck to them.
As others have said the food is half decent, service is still crap but it's Sudexo so you expect that and you get as much booze as you can drink (as long as you can get served) so it isn't actually that bad value IMO.
I personally find these offerings a bit stressful, not that I have partaken more than just the very occasional time. I feel pressure to eat and drink myself stupid so that I get full value for the ‘free’ food and drink, and pressure to eat and drink it quickly so I don’t miss the build up and the start of the second half, not to mention pressure to nip out to the gents more often than seems reasonable due to all the ‘free’ drink I’ve had.
A nice seat is good, but for me the rest would just get in the way of the main reason I am there in the first place which is to watch the game.
So not for me thanks, though not saying I’d turn down a freebie…..
A nice seat is good, but for me the rest would just get in the way of the main reason I am there in the first place which is to watch the game.
So not for me thanks, though not saying I’d turn down a freebie…..
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 74,346
Only done hospitality once at the Amex, when somebody kindly paid for me to be a guest at the 80th birthday celebrations of a grand old lady who'd been a shinning-over-the-wall-at-the-Goldstone Albion fan for half a century.
Enjoyed it, sort of, but was itching throughout to take my rightful place in the North Stand. Sorry, but it just didn't feel like going to football
Not judging but If I want to blow that sort of money on a special football experience I will save it for the middle seat on an Air Astana midweek flight to some far off footballing outpost, if the opportunity arises.
Not going to score very highly for comfort, but I reckon it will be a slightly more interesting tale to tell than an afternoon in corporate hospitality.
Not going to score very highly for comfort, but I reckon it will be a slightly more interesting tale to tell than an afternoon in corporate hospitality.