What is it like in the Accor Live Limitless suite at BST Hyde Park?

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• Reality Check says:

  13 Jul13 July 05:12

  Do you get binoculars supplied or do you bring your own? The view is so skewed that you can’t see the majority of the stage – you have to rely on the screens and what they choose to show you. You may as well watch it on sky arts on your 83″ Samsung 8K at home! Through a Bose home cinema system of course! 🤣🤣

• Mouse says:

  13 Jul13 July 06:04

  Looks great! How many points does it cost to go?

  • Chris W says:

    13 Jul13 July 07:04

    Yes this is the most important detail and you left it out!

    • Rob says:

      13 Jul13 July 07:20

      If you need to ask the price ….. 🙂

      Varies by concert annoyingly. Tended to be 25,000 to 40,000 for two people this year. Link now added.

• Geoggy says:

  13 Jul13 July 07:33

  We were on the terrace below the suites for the Springsteen gig on Saturday so can compare to the Ultimate diamond where we were on Friday.

  I don’t think either of them were worth the money. On Friday the catering was just vouchers to use at the stalls in the Amex gardens and the queues were painful. Free bar was good though. On Saturday we had nothing included other than access to the terrace. And yes whilst it is raised the stage is too far away for this to feel anything premium.

  Have paid for the packages at Wembley and you are much closer with better food.

• Metty says:

  13 Jul13 July 08:04

  I’m one of those that prefer to be as close as possible to the stage rather than watch on the big screens; even at the back of Gold Circle (£170-£190) it’s not too bad a view. This year there seemed to be far more people with top price VIP tickets – who had paid for posh nosh/seats/cover/free drinks in dedicated areas such as Rob describes – in regular Gold Circle as they wanted to be closer to the stage. But not clear whether the ALL suite allows you to roam if you wish. Bumping into Roy Keane at Springsteen was a highlight for me, I smiled and said ‘hello Roy Kent’ and he called me a cheek f***er. (Kent character from the excellent Ted Lasso).

  Not living in London we used our IHG point stash on the IC Park Lane to stay over between shows. I wasn’t expecting much, but an upgrade, free meal/drinks for 1 hr delayed check in and late check out as per status via Amex Plat was a bonus.

• MT says:

  13 Jul13 July 08:21

  We have been on the back level of the Terrace for the various hospitality a few times this year and last. The picture makes the view seem much further away that you are, so while not up close it is reasonable and if it starts raining definitely a better place to be.

  While the food options for all are somewhat limited the included drinks reasonable. Fully agree however on value for money compared to Club Wembley packages, there really is no comparison.

• Kevin C says:

  13 Jul13 July 08:25

  I won tickets for Billy Joel from Vodafone. These were general admission but I think we ended up closer to the stage than the Accor suites. I think gold/diamond circle is where I’d be by choice. The one good thing about being GA is that you can easily get to the Rainbow stage and I got to the front for Rumer.

  Amex are also heavily involved. I got quite a nice water bottle and for going to their pavilion thing with my platinum I received a free bucket hat with patch!

• Nathan says:

  13 Jul13 July 08:27

  The only place to be at these large scale events is right at the front of stage.It is a completely different experience having Keith Richards playing Jumpin Jack Flash a few feet in front of you versus sitting half a mile away sipping on some low grade overpriced vino.
  These type of ticket experiences are for people with no real passion or knowledge of music and whose main interest in attending is typically so they can post pictures of themselves on the internet.

  • Rob says:

    13 Jul13 July 08:29

    You can’t get to the front unless you’re on a VIP package I think. There is a clear gap (not visible in pics) separating the two groups.

    • Nathan says:

      13 Jul13 July 08:57

      VIP packages are not required to gain access to the front you can go there with regular priced tickets.

      • ken says:

        13 Jul13 July 09:18

        Pretty sure Diamond area is right in front of stage, followed by Gold, followed by general admission (at least in 2022).
        However many general admission people seem to manage to jib in to the premium areas – can’t blame them really.

        Having premium paying areas at the front for all standing events is un-British.

      • Kevin C says:

        13 Jul13 July 09:49

        You can’t go to the front of the Great Oak Stage at BST with a regular price ticket.

        You can go to the front with a regular ticket at Finsbury Park events. The VIP section doesn’t have a view of the stage. I thinkAll Points East is the same.

        • Nathan says:

          13 Jul13 July 13:29

          Actually you are wrong you most certainly can go to the front of stage at BST Hyde Park with regular priced tickets.

        • Rob says:

          13 Jul13 July 13:42

          How do you get across the demarcation / gap between front and back, full of stewards?

        • jek says:

          13 Jul13 July 15:34

          I think there is confusion about the ‘regular priced tickets’ here. Regular priced tickets are all GA, Gold, Diamond etc. tickets (there is even a regular VIP variant…), but not the packages from Accor, for example. GA is behind Diamond and Gold, with no front access. Gold was behind Diamon in 2022 (no front access), but this year Gold was left and Diamond was right, separated by the “runway”. Both had access to the front.

          BTW, P!nk was amazing near the stage in the Gold area and I would have regretted the terasse!

        • Rob says:

          13 Jul13 July 16:03

          There we are then. When I say ‘regular’ I mean GA.

        • jek says:

          13 Jul13 July 15:43

          Just to add: The layout for BST 2023 changed between the first and the second weekend. Only the first weekend had the runway. It seems that the second weekend shifted the Diamond area more to the right, away from the center of the stage. Looks like Gold was even better than Diamond during the second weekend.

      • Kevin C says:

        13 Jul13 July 14:28

        Then I stand corrected. Presumably that’s why they sell early entry.

      • TKMAXX says:

        15 Jul15 July 14:09

        Yes you do they charge a Gold VIP tifket to get to the front of the stage. GA are separated back perhaps 100 yards or more.

  • Rob says:

    13 Jul13 July 08:39

    One benefit of banking as a career, oddly, is that you tend to work with clients who are happy to drop £1m on a night out.

    Hence I got to attend 200-300 person private gigs from Bon Jovi, Killers, Mark Knopfler, A-ha, Duran Duran, Sheryl Crow etc. Do a few of these and you never want to attend a mega-gig in the main crowd ever again (and I haven’t).

    Hilton’s ‘secret socials’ are about as close as you can get to this today but Stormzy, Lewis Capaldi, Jess Glynne etc are 2nd tier compared to those guys (Kylie was different of course but I wasn’t at that).

    • The Savage Squirrel says:

      13 Jul13 July 13:52

      Very funny idea who you think is 1st and 2nd tier. VERY age-defining 😀

      If we take the UK as the benchmark (as we’re talking UK concerts), Lewis Capaldi has been around a lot shorter time than the “1st tier” acts mentioned, records in a FAR lower sales world driven by streaming rather than unit sales, yet still has nearly twice the UK album sales of A-Ha and is nearly up with Duran Duran. Jess Glynne not too far behind. .If you want to drill down into sales-per-year-active then the younger artists are orders of magnitude greater. Stormzy did an era-defining Glasto set (generally ranked only after Radiohead’s ’97 performance) while Duran Duran, despite being British, have never even played it. Just sayin 😉

      • Rob says:

        13 Jul13 July 15:10

        Stormzy was boring at the Hilton concert 🙂

        • MT says:

          13 Jul13 July 17:41

          I will second that!

    • Peter K says:

      13 Jul13 July 15:21

      Mark Knopfler needing to do a small gig? He must have been in dire straits!

      • Rob says:

        13 Jul13 July 16:06

        Knopfler was for charity – don’t want to imply he takes £1m to do private gigs for banks (although he might of course). He does / did do private gigs for charities.

  • Rhys says:

    13 Jul13 July 08:47

    Keep gatekeeping Nathan! That’ll show ’em!

    • ken says:

      13 Jul13 July 09:26

      Ooh, saucer of milk for Rhys.

      Nathan’s is largely right. The aged, monied, middle class not happy with squeezing the young out of sporting events, want to do the same with music.

      70 and 80 year olds playing to 50 and 60 year olds – rock and roll.

      • Rob says:

        13 Jul13 July 09:43

        Blackpink tickets were also available ….

• Ken says:

  13 Jul13 July 08:29

  But if you are a fan, it is better to be in the middle of the crowd, ideally nearer the front, rather than with people who have little interest in the music and spend the evening chatting (although this isn’t exclusive to hospitality areas).
  Music is a communal experience.

  It’s like something was lost from Wimbledon when they had to get rid of the standing spaces in area G in 1990. That was accessible to anyone (for £5 for the final) as long as you were prepared to queue and had an extremely strong bladder. I wouldn’t be able to stand for that long now (or not need the toilet), but the atmosphere was far better.

  • Ken says:

    13 Jul13 July 08:34

    And for all the criticism Wimbledon get a £27 ground pass in the first week is the best value ticket in UK sport.

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