Ultra VIP hospitality for the Women’s FA Cup Final may sell for 100,000 Hilton points today

As we covered last month, Hilton Honors has launched a partnership with the Football Association and Wembley Stadium.

It is a comprehensive deal, running for three years, but the quick summary is that tickets for major Wembley events, including the Oasis concerts this summer, will be available for Hilton Honors points.

VIP hospitality tickets for the Women’s FA Cup final between Chelsea and Manchester United are up for auction at present. The auction ends in the early hours of tomorrow morning.

It has gone under the radar so far and you may be able to get two tickets for the reserve price of 100,000 Hilton Honors points. You can bid here.

What is the Wembley experience like?

Some HfP readers, along with my son and I, went along to the Carabao Cup final (which I attended) and the two England internationals last month. These introductory packages were an astonishing deal at a fixed 115,000 Hilton Honors points for two people. Cup final packages in the same suite were selling for £4,000 for two looking at emails I received from hospitality companies.

It goes without saying that you enter Wembley via a private entrance with no queues. Parking is provided although I’m not sure I’d recommend driving there on a match day.

Hilton is using the One Twenty Club at the stadium. This is exceptionally high level hospitality – I can honestly say the lunch we were served was the best ‘hospitality’ meal I can remember. It easily exceeded, for example, The Courtside restaurant on Wimbledon’s Centre Court.

(If you’re bothered about these things, the champagne on free flow was Laurent Perrier Millesime 2015. Wine pairings were available with the mains – although instead of a glass they brought the full bottle over and left it with me!)

Here is a PR photo of the One Twenty Club:

Here, click to enlarge, is the menu we had:

Here is the view from the seats – you enter directly from the restaurant so its under 60 seconds walk. This means you can easily get back to your table at the interval ….

…. for a half time course of pies! This assumes that your lunch wasn’t enough for one day.

There is an extra treat at the end of the match. The path the players take up to the presentation gallery takes passes your seat so you can see them up close.

It was all very impressive. Note that I paid for my tickets with points in the same way as the other HfP readers did – this was not a freebie.

Bid for the Women’s FA Cup Final today

Auctions are currently running for the Women’s FA Cup Final between Chelsea and Manchester United on Sunday 18th May.

All packages come with hospitality in the One Twenty Club as I showed above.

At the time of writing (5am on Thursday), there are two bids (both at the reserve price of 100,000 points) for the three packages available. If only one other person bids today, everyone will get their package for 100,000 points. It’s an excellent day out and children are very welcome.

You can see the packages, and bid, on this page of the Hilton website. Note that, due to a long running IT issue, you will not see them if you go to the Hilton Experiences home page and filter by ‘United Kingdom’.

The auctions close in the early hours of Friday morning.

PS. VIP packages for the FA Cup Final will also close today. Bidding for these is currently at 300,000 points and there are four packages available. Of course, you don’t know who will be playing in it, but it means that the packages will go for fewer points than they otherwise would.