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

Traffic seemed no problem this year either - lot lighter than usual.

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.

Daft money.

Quoted from PaulaM

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?

Quoted from user23.3

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?  

Quoted from user23.3

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.

Quoted from PaulaM

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.

Quoted from user23.3

It's all relative, for example ........

if you and your family screw the local taxpayer for £100k per annum it is relatively cheap!!

Quoted from user23.3

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.

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.

Quoted from brian

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.

Don't know why it's called the Newbury Show either  

Quoted from PaulaM

Don't know why it's called the Newbury Show either  

It's called Royal County of Berkshire Show.  

Quoted from Nobby

if you and your family screw the local taxpayer for £100k per annum it is relatively cheap!!

Evidence?

Quoted from brian

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.

Quoted from PaulaM

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.

I think the cost is relatively reasonable as well.

Quoted from Greenham Common

I think the cost is relatively reasonable as well.

Great if you are an individual but as a family    They didn't offer a family ticket this year either.

Quoted from PaulaM

Great if you are an individual but as a family    They didn't offer a family ticket this year either.

So why should single people subsidise your family ticket??

I'm surprised it isn't free.

One of their selling points is that there are 900 or so trade stalls.  I don't suppose those are cheap and I'm sure they get a decent whack from the fair operator and other concessions.  It's a bit like paying £14+ to go shopping in Newbury on a carnival day. No wonder they can afford to build their huge and pointless shed http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/Article.aspx?articleID=17764 even though it will only be used a few times a year.

On a slightly broader point, I can understand tory farmers and landowners soaking the poor (they get £3bn in taxpayer handouts a year, for example) they always have and no one seems to notice or care very much. I can also understand them carving up the countryside and building huge and pointless sheds, tacky houses, wind turbines and waste incinerators all over it, as they will when the coalition's planning legislation is passed.  They own the countryside after all, so that's fair enough.

What I can't understand, if you'll pardon the metaphor, is why the useless libdems are not only sharing a bed with these awful people but also allowing Bullingham Dave, George and their mates to screw them rotten in every available orifice.

Anyone?

Quoted from noobree

I'm surprised it isn't free.

One of their selling points is that there are 900 or so trade stalls.  

That's my point really. It exists as a market primarily and entrance should be free or nominal.

Quoted from 26

That's my point really. It exists as a market primarily and entrance should be free or nominal.

Agreed