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Post by sleeptwitch on Nov 2, 2015 10:07:50 GMT
Thought it might come handy in the future to have some practical venue information  Here is what I remember at the moment: Columbiahalle Berlin Free parking at the street, next public toilet and a bakery on a place down the street (to the right) I think there were different doors for online tickets Eventim Apollo London Different shops and a public toilet (50 p) in the tube station building directly opposite Palais 12 Brussels Feels like middle of nowhere - about ten min walk towards the Atomium, there are food stalls and a public toilet (20 c) and for the Gents a very public pissoir... On the way there is Bruparck with some restaurants and food to go, there is a toilet at Quick (40 c). Also a great parking lot (5 €/ day). The venue had different entrances with different gates and is supposed to have an own parking lot as well (looked to me like you don't have access to it when you are early, but that's only an impression). Ringlokschuppen Bielefeld Has an own parking lot, but quite small. People use to park at the supermarket next to it, though I'm afraid it's a bit risky...
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Post by Captain Crieff on Nov 2, 2015 15:15:40 GMT
great idea!
Olympia Theatre Dublin
In the city centre. You're supposed to queue in the street where the stage door is, next to the fish & chips. different doors for different ticket categories. There's a separate frontstage like at festivals. They don't let too many people in and you get a wristband so you can get out and in again. Free toilet at Dublin Castle but of course it closes at like 6pm.
Sportpaleis Antwerp
Has its own parking lot and your concert ticket is also a public transport (tram & bus) ticket. One entrance (more than 1 door of course) for all ticket categories as far as I know. Edit 2018: there's a different queue for standing tickets, against the wall of the Lotto Arena. Also, don't ever show up before 2pm because no one else does it. On a weekend day you're fine if you show up at 4pm, on a week day you can even stay away until 5:30pm
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Post by orealo on Nov 2, 2015 18:14:54 GMT
Yeah smart!
Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam
Has different parking but the best one is marker P7. You can buy a card at HMH for € 12,- after a concert to get out of the parking station.
It is also walking distance (like 5 minutes) from Amsterdam Bijlmer Arena train station. Doors open early, mostly around 6:30 PM and the concerts mostly start at 8:00 PM so you can chill in front of the stage. Lots of bars and eating possibilities around the venue.
Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam
Parking and the same as the Heineken Music Hall since its 700 meters apart. Altough Ziggo Dome has VIP parking.
Ziggo Dome has three entrances, which are right next to each other. This venue is HUGE (fits 17.000) so be early. Inside the venue there is a subway-style shop and a cafe and a bar and lots of other stuff.
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Post by sleeptwitch on Nov 3, 2015 10:46:28 GMT
Palladium Cologne (and E-Werk)
Non-residential area of media business like agencies, tv studio, radio station or music university. Queueing on the pavement, they open two doors for all tickets. The venue E-Werk is opposite, so parking space is rare - you can park at the street and there is an own parking lot at the junction down the street, but it's for both venues and small and supposed to cost 3 €. If you're lucky there is a mobile toilet at E-Werk (and if you're even more lucky it's in a good condition...), otherwise you have to go back the street and turn left for a small coffee shop or a Subway, takes at least 15 min to be back.
Stadtpark / Parkbühne Hamburg
Nice venue in a park, obviously open air, a bit "amphitheatre-style". No official parking lot, you can try in the area around Überseering or in the next residential area around metro station Alte Wöhr or go there by public transport. It's still a few minutes to walk to the venue. Two different entrances, at least the one to the alley with mobile toilet next to it, but it can happen that they open it quite late. There is a nice little cafe in the park near the rosarium, otherwise no supplies available there. People without tickets use to sit at the alley to listen.
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Post by sleeptwitch on Nov 3, 2015 18:28:10 GMT
Yeah smart! Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam Has different parking but the best one is marker P7. You can buy a card at HMH for € 12,- after a concert to get out of the parking station. It is also walking distance (like 5 minutes) from Amsterdam Bijlmer Arena train station. Doors open early, mostly around 6:30 PM and the concerts mostly start at 8:00 PM so you can chill in front of the stage. Lots of bars and eating possibilities around the venue. Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam Parking and the same as the Heineken Music Hall since its 700 meters apart. Thank you, this is already useful Got some additional questions, though. For that show I got a parking ticket pre-ordered with my event ticket, it´s for "P1 Arena". Unfortunately it´s half English, half Dutch, and nothing of it is a translation, so now I don´t know if it´s "parking from 4 hours before show" or "parking from 4 o´clock" (it says "4 uur van te voren" and relying upon Google Translate there is no translation for that - ha! I would prefer my first try, but you know – safety...). That´s the first. And there seems to be no mention of the time you have to leave. Plus: It looks like that parking lot is a regular P+R as well. Now there are different price models, if I got that right: a discount one (1 or 8 €/24 h, depending on time of arrival), when you go directly from the parking space with public transport to the city (nowhere else!) and when back again leave within an hour, but you need a special pass for it (5 €) that also includes the public transport – and there is a much more expensive one when you do what you want. But P+R is not offered when there are shows at Arena or Ziggo (they forgot HMH, it seems, but I would assume it counts as well...). So I´m totally confused. Does anybody know: Is it possible to pay in addition to fill the time when the parking ticket from the venue is not valid, so it would be possible to leave the car at the parking lot over night? Or would you have to drive in with the parking ticket and after the show driving out and in again with buying a P+R-ticket?? Maybe that´s not even possible because "P+R-function" is somehow blocked because of the event? Or maybe it´s not even necessary to move the car, depending on how the cars are registrated and what you need to feed the pay machines or the exit barriers with and how you get that P+R-ticket at the entrance... I know, that´s quite special... So thanks for any help
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Post by orealo on Nov 3, 2015 18:52:27 GMT
Thank you, this is already useful Got some additional questions, though. For that show I got a parking ticket pre-ordered with my event ticket, it´s for "P1 Arena". Unfortunately it´s half English, half Dutch, and nothing of it is a translation, so now I don´t know if it´s "parking from 4 hours before show" or "parking from 4 o´clock" (it says "4 uur van te voren" and relying upon Google Translate there is no translation for that - ha! I would prefer my first try, but you know – safety...). That´s the first. And there seems to be no mention of the time you have to leave. Plus: It looks like that parking lot is a regular P+R as well. Now there are different price models, if I got that right: a discount one (1 or 8 €/24 h, depending on time of arrival), when you go directly from the parking space with public transport to the city (nowhere else!) and when back again leave within an hour, but you need a special pass for it (5 €) that also includes the public transport – and there is a much more expensive one when you do what you want. But P+R is not offered when there are shows at Arena or Ziggo (they forgot HMH, it seems, but I would assume it counts as well...). So I´m totally confused. Does anybody know: Is it possible to pay in addition to fill the time when the parking ticket from the venue is not valid, so it would be possible to leave the car at the parking lot over night? Or would you have to drive in with the parking ticket and after the show driving out and in again with buying a P+R-ticket?? Maybe that´s not even possible because "P+R-function" is somehow blocked because of the event? Or maybe it´s not even necessary to move the car, depending on how the cars are registrated and what you need to feed the pay machines or the exit barriers with and how you get that P+R-ticket at the entrance... I know, that´s quite special... So thanks for any help "4 uur van tevoren" means "from 4 hours before the show" (otherwise it would be "vanaf 4 uur") P1 is also very close to HMH. Tip: park near 'Uitgang Zuid' (Exit South) considering its opposite of the venue. The pricing during concerts is fixed at € 12,- (if you buy the exit card at HMH) P+R at P1 doesn't count during HMH shows either. Considering your overnight question, I'm not sure! I guess the HMH exit card is just a generic card that the machine will accept, so you could leave it overnight. I don't think the parking system is that intelligent. But I am not sure so its your risk 
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Post by sleeptwitch on Nov 4, 2015 10:39:54 GMT
Thank you, Orealo! Seems like parking has never been so exciting
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Post by sleeptwitch on Nov 4, 2015 19:53:15 GMT
Lanxess Arena Cologne
Has its own parking garages - you can pay per hour (about 1,50 €) or in advance until the next morning ("Arena-Tarif", about 5 or 6 €). There is also parking space in the area Deutz-Kalker-Straße / Gießener Straße / Reitweg and the university of applied sciences - attention: at the residential area you need a ticket until late evening, sometimes it's only for residents, but there are also parking spaces for 4€/24 h. In this area you'll also find the metro station "Deutz Fachhochschule", a kiosk, a petrol station and a pizzeria. About 5 - 10 min walk from the venue. There is a restaurant at the venue as well, and a Subway down the "park" to its left at the station "Bahnhof Deutz / Messe Lanxess".
Docks Hamburg
Club in an old cinema at the Reeperbahn - no parking at the streets in that area (few spaces for residents), but lots of "entertainment" and bars around. Whilst queuing keep the little street in front of the club clear, otherwise the security will make you to... There is at least one parking garage nearby, at the highrise ("Tanzende Türme") at the corner of the Reeperbahn, 2€/h. Opposite there is metro station St. Pauli. Busses are also stopping there - at least if there is no event on Reeperbahn itself like processions, so you'd better check...
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Post by sleeptwitch on Feb 10, 2018 18:11:00 GMT
Sooo, considering venues again, woohoo For all of you visiting beautiful Münster in March: Since they upgraded from the Jovel Club to the exhibition hall - it‘s right next to it. The main entrance is a bit backwards. There are at least two hotels in the neighborhood and a cinema, behind the cinema there is a car park (which is approx. 2€/h). But there is also a free P+R („Nieberdingstraße“, for GPS take Theodor-Scheiwe-Straße 1), from there you can either take bus #6 or 8 towards the city center (that would be the busses from the central station as well, opposite direction) - or simply walk, it‘s just one stop. And nearby there is a small industry harbour, there are many restaurants (imho you can get the best pizza in town there at Café Med). Just cross the street at the cinema and follow the canal. And in case anybody is parking at ArenA Amsterdam: What you should know (and not every security guy you could probably ask does - guess why I know that...) is that there is a tunnel right through the parking space and if you have the bad luck to take the wrong entrance there is absolutely no way to get to the other side, except from the outside. The CCTV footage must be quite entertaining. Bunches of tourists slowly becoming mad... At another occasion I had my car parked over night, whilst staying at a hotel, no problem. There were still some security people next day who saw my printed ticket and waved me through. Not sure if that was completely correct, though... Palladium / E-Werk Cologne: Quite uncomfortable to wait. There is nothing... you can try to put your car at Schanzenstr./Carlswerkstr. At least there is a bus stop at the venue. The next toilet I know of would be a walk away towards the underground station (Keupstraße) at the TV studios of Brainpool (in the basement), in that area you can also grab some food.
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Post by sanniebeer on Feb 10, 2018 18:22:30 GMT
Good topic!
Another thing for Ziggo Dome: dutch people are kind of relaxed on going to concerts. Ive always been the first at about 3 or 4 pm. Coming before that is a waste of your time. People just go there after work, so most of them will be there from 5pm.
For the parking, it changed then, the 4 hours prior to the concert. Last time I parked there all day for the 12 euros.
Not decided if Ill take the train or car this time.
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Post by pippi on Apr 5, 2018 10:47:58 GMT
Going to Brixton Academy in London in October. Anything I need to know about that venue? Never been to London, so it’ll be quite the adventure for me!
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Post by Captain Crieff on May 4, 2018 15:31:20 GMT
l'Olympia Paris:
As long as the ticket office is open (until 5pm or so) you can queue in the corridor thing that leads to the doors. Then the queue will be moved to the pavement, 20 metres further. You can go to the toilet in the rather fancy looking restaurant next door (at least, my friend did that and she didn't get in trouble lol). French people are a bit crazy so some will arrive at 11am or so, but early afternoon - 3 or 4pm should still guarantee a decent spot (that means front row or second row). If you get bored and go for a little walk, chances are you'll run into the Opera which is nice (but don't go looking for a supermarket on that side, there's one pretty much around the corner of the venue, not in the direction of the Opera). The venue allows water bottles in if you take off (= hide) the lid. Also note that the floor of l'Olympia is bouncy and will transform into a trampoline during songs like Munich and Papillon - increases the fun by 85%.
La Riviera Madrid:
Queue in front of the door that doesn't have a window. They will open the one with the window but not before they've moved the queue to that other door anyway. There's a Burger King nearby if you need a toilet or a Whopper. Spaniards are really crazy so they arrive early (read: in the morning) but there's a nice park where you can chill unless the weather is utter shite like last week. Oh and the security guys outside have a beating stick and handcuffs (??) looks a little intimidating. Apparently they're also really strict with things like cameras that are too professional-looking and umbrellas.
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