Hospitality/box experience at City

It seems you pay 10 to 100 x the price to get around 10% to 50% more utility, and it would probably feel negative after some team performances feeling obliged to stay behind for the paid for food/drink when you just want to leave.

It is mostly snob value or with someone else's money. Going back on long time ago I got freebies at the Millennium Suite, after giving it chance and going the second time I realised it was more preferable in the NS rather than miles away from the action with zero atmosphere, but you got the carvery and the company bough the drinks on top. The new Sky Bar looks like the worse place in the ground to watch the game.
 
Went in Ricky Hatton’s box some years ago at the invitation of his uncle who was a partner in the firm my wife worked for.

Didn’t find it any better an experience that sitting in my normal seat in all honesty.
 
Did the tunnel club upstairs for my 70th, expected it to be a meaningless end of season game but it turned out to be the 3-2 Villa experience. Great day (eventually), excellent food and unlimited drink, and it makes all the difference whiling away the time before a trophy presentation if your glass of fizz is being constantly topped up. Most people there seemed to be ordinary blues enjoying a special day, nothing to make anyone feel out of place or awkward. Doubt if I’d do it again given the cost, but glad to have tried it
 
Best ones i have done are the Tunnel club premium when we played Napoli in the CL a few years ago (Jesus, Sterling days) and the Chairmans lounge when we played Burnley a couple of years ago when Kompany was their manager.

Tunnel club premium is better if you want to see the players close up and behind the scenes but you get a better view of the game from the chairmans. Food and drink in both is fantastic.
 
A few years back got tickets from a friend of a friend who is/was a scout for a scottish football club. Chairmans club or whatever it was called then. Very fancy. Barcelona UCL 16/17 - 3-1. 5 course meal, steak sandwiches at half time all that shite. Perfect half way line seats. No atmosphere though. Wouldn't turn my nose up at free tickets again but probably wouldn't pay for it.
 
I was in the Chairman's Lounge once about 7 or 8 years ago and quite enjoyed it but as a one off only. Enjoyed having the padded seat but was too far from the pitch.
I like to be close to the pitch so my front row seat in CBL0 (formerly L1) suits me down to the ground (forgive the pun.)
Down at the front and in with everyone else you can shout as much as you like (no swearing as you know) but I felt self conscious when I shouted in excitement in the 'posh' seats!!
 
Once won 4 seats in hospitality for £125 in a charity auction many years ago, the normal price was £125 each at least then. Colin Bell and Tommy Booth were doing the rounds and a few others were there. Food was nice and a great view but I missed being in the crowd even though we won 5-0.

I’m not really in a rush to try it again but I might do one day.
 
pride in battle said:
Donated to a charity instead of going corporate ?
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I make regular donations and actively support a few charities. I wouldn't part with any money for 'hospitality' at a football match.
The 'fan experience' is designed to attract gullible mugs with more money than sense. It's how millionaires become millionaires.
 
Lavinda Past said:
There are far more important things in life than a bit of over priced fancy grub and a padded seat at a football match. Especially one that you've already got a ticket for.

I'd rather give the money to a worthy charity and watch the match from my usual seat.
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A noble thought imo.
 
oakiecokie said:
Do you go to the game and not eat or drink anything and not buy a Programme , have a bet on the score etc ?
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I gave up my season card a couple of years ago after many, many years, and now, when I do go to the occasional match, I only pay the FOC ticket price. In the ground half an hour before kick off, out soon after the final whistle.
I go to the chippy before the game, and drink water, or a pint in the Grove if I'm not driving.
Programmes have been a waste of money since the 1980s, full of adverts and club propaganda that any regular fan would already be well aware of.
I haven't liked the direction the club takes for some years, and when they removed the 'FC' from the club name, I said I wouldn't put any more money into the club than I had to to watch a match.
I know I'm not the only FOC who's done this, but I wouldn't care if I was. The club is now a million miles further away from the traditional fan... it's just not the same any more.
I can watch every game on a dodgy stream, so unless it suits me otherwise, that's what I do. Bollocks to the rich, and their 'fan experience'.
 
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