One section of Dome closed

[Cheerfuljane]

One of the sections in the Coca Cola Dome has been closed.

I'm assuming it's the hospitality section, which just HAPPENS to be the section that I have aticket for

As you can see in the following letters, they have offered us tickets for the 29th instead.

 

I ALREADY have a front row ticket for the 29th

 

There is light at the end of this post though

 

Dear Valued Customer.

 

We regret to inform you that due to circumstances beyond the control of the promoter or the sponsors of the event and in accordance to new disaster management restrictions that have to be considered for the upcoming Celine Dion event at the Coca Cola Dome on the 14th of February, we have had to reallocate your specific unreserved seats which have been reallocated and upgradedto the Celine Dion Show at Montecasino later in the month

 

The date for the Montecasino event is the 29th of February

The reallocated tickets are in a higher price category from your initial purchase, and are reserved seating.

 

To claim these tickets, please return your current tickets to the Ticketconnection Box office at Montecasino at your earliest convenienceand to ensure we have accommodated you directly.

 

Please note the box office will be open:

Mondays to Thursdays: 12-8pm

Fridays and Saturdays: 11-9pm

Sundays:11-8pm

Tickets MUST be collected by midday 12 February.

We truly apologies for the inconvenience this may of caused.

 

For further information please do not hesitate to reply to this mail

Kind regards

Chantal Pitcher

Customer services

Ticketconnection

 

 

And this one yesterday

 

To Whom It May Concern

 

As per our telecom conversation, your tickets for the Coca Cola event have been transferred to the Monte casino event.

The date of the Monte casino event is the 29th of February 2008

Your current tickets are unreserved seats, but because of the relocation we have blocked off sections at the Monte casino and have reserved them for you.

So in order for you to redeem your new reserved tickets you need to take your old tickets to our Monte casino Box Office from 22nd of January 2008.

Please note the box office will be open:

 

Mondays to Thursdays: 12-8pm

Fridays and Saturdays: 11-9pm

Sundays: 11-8pm

 

Blocks K, L, have been allocated to accommodate the tickets transferred from the Dome.

 

Should you requirefurther information on the Monte casino event, please go to our website - www.ticketconnection.co.za or if you have any further queries regarding this email please feel free to mail me with your questions.

 

Many Thanks

Junaid Mc Ivor

Ticket Connection

Client services

0861121333

Fax:0866453357

 

 

I have 2 different tickets for the Dome. One reserved in 1st level block Z and one unreserved in Hospitality.

 

So I still get to see the show - just from crappier seats

 

This totally sucks though !!

 

I hope the other people that have to change their plans can still make it on the 29th.

They are also offering a refund if we cannot make it on the 29th.

 

South Africa is up to some serious SH*T lately. I'm afraid to come home

[Bellamy]

Why they have to close a section?

[Cheerfuljane]

God only knows !!!

 

I can't get any straight answers from these people !!

 

No repliy to my emails.

Phone lines are continuously engaged .

 

[Duchess]

man no one knows from one day to the next what is going on. my seat for the durban show seems to be obsolete now. seems those seats are now the aisles??

[Cheerfuljane]

WHAT ???

Mines next to yours

[Duchess]

WHAT ???

Mines next to yours

 

 

 

well i have no idea where we're sitting now dearest. could be we're sitting on the floor aisle number 2.

[Cheerfuljane]

I just checked TicketConnection and nothing seems to have changed.

Where did you get your info from?

 

The strange thing is that 2 weeks ago it showed that the Escapade seats were sold out but now there seems to be plenty available ???

 

Who the hell is running this show ???

[Duchess]

and have i just mentioned that we could have a black out while she singing RDMH or ANDHC or LCMM or ......... so many songs may be interrupted with this load shedding one never knows if the entire show will be seen in it's entirety. please to bring some glow sticks with jane we'll wave them about and throw some light around at least we won't fall over anyone when leaving the stadium .

[Cheerfuljane]

I'll have those glowstick bracelets all the way up my arms

You can spot me a mile away

[Duchess]

I'll have those glowstick bracelets all the way up my arms

You can spot me a mile away

 

 

ok then planning in it's stages.

i have my kids battery operated barbie mic. please bring battery operated speakers. celine has air guitar. problem solved .

[Cheerfuljane]

Crazy Chick !!!

 

They better make up for all the caos in Cape Town and Joburg !!

[Cheerfuljane]

BOTH of my tickets were cancelled !!!

 

BOTH !!!

 

Section ZA and the Hospitality Section !!!

 

I can`t believe this. 2 completely different sections.

No proper explanations. Just closed !!

 

This show was sold out over a year ago. Now I won`t be able to go at all !!

[nano]

wtf.

[Cheerfuljane]

My sentiments exactly, Anu

 

Well, I`ve just spoken to a nice friendly lady at TicketConnection and she changed one of the tickets to Montecasino on the 29th and upgraded it to front row so my friend can sit next to me.

And she changed the other to Cape Town on the 23rd and upgraded it to Golden Circle.

 

It was out of their hands but at least they upgraded them to other venues.

I was offered a refund as well but thought it would be better to just let my friends have the tix.

 

I`m still so depressed that I won`t be able to go to this one though. It`s the BIG one.

[CSCfan]

Ahhh, that's SO terrible!! Don't know what to say....

 

They should still have tried to get you to this gig one way or the other! I'm sure there's still SOME seats that are unoccupied..

[Duchess]

they've probably changed those tickets for the bigwigs. i wouldn't put it passed them at all.

 

which ones are we going to jane?

[Cheerfuljane]

I wish I knew the truth !!

 

We're going to the Cape Town concert on the 23rd and Montecasino on the 29th

[Duchess]

I wish I knew the truth !!

 

We're going to the Cape Town concert on the 23rd and Montecasino on the 29th

 

 

at this rate we'll only end up going to the durban show.

[Shonah]

I wish I knew the truth !!

 

We're going to the Cape Town concert on the 23rd and Montecasino on the 29th

 

 

at this rate we'll only end up going to the durban show.

 

I honestly have not even checked if anything has changed on my ticket I hope not. Besides I'm sitting in the middle the front field. Celine tickets rock cause they're so expensive. I wanted to sit right in front at at R2 900 way out of my league as oppose to my ticket being R735, still celine's concert is probably the first ever in South Africa to have the most expensive seats out of all the artists that have been here to South Africa.

[CSCfan]

Fans furious over Celine

 

05/02/2008 18:00 - (SA)

 

Birgit Ottermann

 

Cape Town - A group of Celine Dion fans are up in arms because their tickets for the international diva's opening concert in South Africa, at Johannesburg's Coca Cola Dome, have been reallocated to the Montecasino concert on 29 February.

 

The Canadian singer will be opening her world tour with a special Valentine's Day concert on 14 February - a highlight on South Africa's social calendar for which die-hard fans booked tickets months ago.

 

"I booked my tickets well over a year ago, and now this," a very disappointed Beverley Anderson from Johannesburg, told News24.

 

"I have now been moved to Montecasino and will be sitting (rain, hail or blue sky) in the car park. I think it is disgusting. I would have thought that the promoters and sponsors would have been more helpful, even if they are not to blame," she said.

 

According to Liesl Laubscher of Cross Communication, some of the concert tickets had to be reallocated at the request of Celine Dion's production crew.

 

Dion's production crew

 

"Ms Dion's production crew has insisted that certain changes be made in the Coca Cola Dome for the singer's concert to run smoothly, and unfortunately that also included some changes to the seating arrangements."

 

"Personally, I have to say, if it had been me who bought a ticket for the Valentine's Day concert, I would have been the hell in!

 

"However, the promoters and sponsors did not really have much of a choice. They simply had to attend to the crew's demands, seeing that there are still so many other Dion concerts in February," Laubscher said.

 

"I do think, though, that they are very accommodating by offering tickets in a higher price range and offering to reimburse other expenses," she added.

 

Site line and seating plan restrictions

 

Laubscher told News24 about a Celine Dion fan of Cape Town who had even been reimbursed for plane tickets and accommodation that had already been booked for the Johannesburg concert.

 

The unlucky Dion fans were informed of the reallocation of tickets by an e-mail from Ticket Connection.

 

The e-mail explained the ticket reallocation as follows:

 

"Celine Dion's international production team, on final inspection of the seating arrangements at the Coca Cola dome have advised the promoter that due to the nature of the new Celine Dion Taking Chances World Tour production, there are certain site line and seating plan restrictions which have to be adhered to in line with international standards for the benefit and safety of the public and the production."

 

Duncan Heafield of Kusasa Entertainment, South Africa's event promoter for Celine Dion's concert, confirmed this with News24.

 

"Due to certain restrictions in relation to the magnitude and sight requirements involved in the upcoming Celine Dion show, we were forced to displace two bleachers (stands) at the venue," Heafield to News24.

 

"We have committed ourselves to accommodating these patrons in any of the other shows at a higher ticket price or have offered to refund them," he said.

 

'Bring an umbrella'

 

But, to Beverley Anderson, who had been looking forward to the opening concert for so long, this is no consolation.

 

"I and the other unlucky fans out there, have paid a lot of money for a ticket (I paid almost R1 000) and expected to see Celine at the Dome, a big indoors venue with good sound quality.

 

"Now I'm forced to go to an outdoors venue where the chances are good that it might rain. When I complained about this, I was just told 'Bring an umbrella!' I'm really disappointed and feel I deserve better value for my money."

 

Good news for other Celine Dion fans is that none of the superstar's other concerts in South Africa will be affected by this and, that the singer has agreed to stage another concert on 1 March at Montecasino in Johannesburg due to the huge demand for tickets.

[Cheerfuljane]

Brilliant find Mathias

 

I'm bidding on some tix from a seller on bidorbuy.co.za

I hope that they are legit coz I'm paying double the face value

 

A friend of mind from Cape Town just arrived in the UK and she said that the media has been bombarding the whole of SA with news of Celine's Tour since October.

That's good news though

[Cheerfuljane]

OK - I won the tix and am still going - thank goodness !!!

[nano]

wooot!!