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| September 18, 2011, 5:28am |
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Went yesterday...much quieter than usual....not impressed with £17 per adult ticket.
Good things....
Better range of food from the catering vans
Wicker Man statue
Free coffee and cake at the Sally army cafe
Bad things....
On site signage
Shuttle bus arrangements
Fairground rides not very good |
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| Cognosco |
| September 18, 2011, 7:33am |
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Traffic seemed no problem this year either - lot lighter than usual. |
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| PaulaM |
| September 18, 2011, 6:16pm |
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Haven't been for years, although I would quite like to. £53 for 2 adults/2 children and the car park is just too high a price in my opinion. |
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| September 18, 2011, 6:24pm |
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| user23.3 |
| September 18, 2011, 6:31pm |
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Haven't been for years, although I would quite like to. £53 for 2 adults/2 children and the car park is just too high a price in my opinion.
It's all relative, for example you wouldn't get much change out of £50 for one a seat a some of the country's Premier League football grounds and that's just a couple of hours entertainment, Newbury show is a whole day. Additionally day tickets for the other big event in Berkshire, Reading Festival are £80, per person. By the way, wasn't it £14 in advance for adults? |
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| Cognosco |
| September 18, 2011, 7:02pm |
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It's all relative, for example you wouldn't get much change out of £50 for one a seat a some of of the country's Premier League football grounds and that's just a couple of hours entertainment, Newbury show is a whole day.
Additionally day tickets for the other big event in Berkshire, Reading Festival are £80, per person.
By the way, wasn't it £14 in advance for adults?
If someone has the interest and the money to pay then all well and good off they go for a day out. If you have no interest then of course it would seem expensive and you don't go. Unless you can claim it back on EXPENSES of course User?  |
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| September 18, 2011, 7:02pm |
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It's all relative, for example you wouldn't get much change out of £50 for one a seat a some of of the country's Premier League football grounds and that's just a couple of hours entertainment, Newbury show is a whole day.
Additionally day tickets for the other big event in Berkshire, Reading Festival are £80, per person.
By the way, wasn't it £14 in advance for adults?
Take atent and make two days out of it. You'll never get bored of the twenty year old funfair events. Yeah, easily get two full days and never get round it all. |
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| Nobby |
| September 18, 2011, 9:13pm |
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Haven't been for years, although I would quite like to. £53 for 2 adults/2 children and the car park is just too high a price in my opinion.
It's all relative, for example ........
if you and your family screw the local taxpayer for £100k per annum it is relatively cheap!! |
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| PaulaM |
| September 18, 2011, 10:16pm |
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It's all relative, for example you wouldn't get much change out of £50 for one a seat a some of the country's Premier League football grounds and that's just a couple of hours entertainment, Newbury show is a whole day.
Additionally day tickets for the other big event in Berkshire, Reading Festival are £80, per person.
By the way, wasn't it £14 in advance for adults?
It can be as "relative" as you like - its an expense I can't afford/justify and neither can a lot of people. |
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| brian |
| September 18, 2011, 10:28pm |
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It's supposed to be an agricultural show but over the years has turned into something of a circus. I fail to see what the Ghurkas and daredevil riders have to do with local farming after all. As I'm not a farmer, it has little interest for me, nice as the moo cows and bulls with big dangly bits and woolly sheep might be. |
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| PaulaM |
| September 18, 2011, 10:38pm |
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It's supposed to be an agricultural show but over the years has turned into something of a circus. I fail to see what the Ghurkas and daredevil riders have to do with local farming after all. As I'm not a farmer, it has little interest for me, nice as the moo cows and bulls with big dangly bits and woolly sheep might be.
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| Greenham Common |
| September 19, 2011, 9:35am |
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Don't know why it's called the Newbury Show either
It's called Royal County of Berkshire Show. |
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| whingewhingewhinge |
| September 19, 2011, 9:39am |
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if you and your family screw the local taxpayer for £100k per annum it is relatively cheap!!
Evidence? |
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| Brewmaster |
| September 19, 2011, 10:27am |
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It's supposed to be an agricultural show but over the years has turned into something of a circus. I fail to see what the Ghurkas and daredevil riders have to do with local farming after all. As I'm not a farmer, it has little interest for me, nice as the moo cows and bulls with big dangly bits and woolly sheep might be.
I quite agree. I stopped going two or three years ago. As well as a circus it is also just an exercise in self-congratulation by the local agricultural Mafia. Mrs B and I have taken to attending The White Horse Show at Uffington on August Bank Holiday. Although billed as a 'country show' rather than an agricultural one, it has heavy horses, poultry, ferrets, otters and other animals, and is much more rural, more friendly, and of a more comfortable size than the Chieveley event. Got a real ale beer tent, too! I recommend it. |
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| user23.3 |
| September 19, 2011, 6:44pm |
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It can be as "relative" as you like - its an expense I can't afford/justify and neither can a lot of people.
I don't doubt this, I was just saying that when you compare it to other events it's not an extortionate amount to charge. |
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