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11 May 2015, 01:49 (Ref:3536303) | #1 | |
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First time going to the 24 HELP!
We decided to make the last minute trip and send it over to France for the 24 hours. How necessary is it to get grandstand tickets? There is only one stand left with available seats and its after the dunlop bridge in the esses. We don't have a campsite and we are planning to just sleep somewhere on the side for a few hours, maybe even in a grandstand seat. We also want to have access to Arnage and Mulsanne but we can't figure our which entry tickets we need for the "orange" and "blue" section.
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11 May 2015, 06:02 (Ref:3536335) | #2 | ||
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You dont need a grandstand ticket. Most people dont have one.
Get a cheap camp ticket, just to have somewhere to park and sleep. You can get them when you arrive or buy in advance. You can also get a GE ticket that allows you to enter at Mulsanne and Arnage as well. We never had parking tickets for these but has always been able to park there. Kenn |
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11 May 2015, 06:10 (Ref:3536339) | #3 | ||
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GS tickets can be a problem if you don't buy them before arriving, try your local agency. They include general entry tickets. Buy yourself a parkingticket for Arnage and Mulsanne at your local agency, last year it was sold out at the track. Have fun.
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OK in order, no you do not need a granstand ticket but some here do consider them much higher than i do (never bought 1 in over 30 years) The circuit is huge and you will spend most of the time walking around watching from every where only the start line area gets especially packed at the start/finish.When are you arriving, a campsite includes parking and Beausjours is not much more than the car parking cost, You will need a car park if you do not have camping. The General access ticket allows access to all viewing area's including Arnarge and Mulsanne, but getting to them during the race can be difficult due to road closures. Anyway a warm welcome to the forum, please feel free to ask any other questions you have and read some of the threads on specific issues.Beware Le Mans is highly addictive
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Sorry Rene but the Grandstand tickets do not include General entry they are extra, but unlimited and can be purchased on arrival.
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welcome, I have a couple of spare tickets to the stand on the Ford Chicane, if you would like them, at face value.
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12 May 2015, 02:59 (Ref:3536627) | #8 | |
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The issue with us camping is that we are only taking the train in for the event and wont have a car or sleeping gear because we are from the USA. We will really be "roughing it" but it will be worth it.
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Here's the best advice you'll get all day: The guy above who is offering his Ford Chicane grandstand tickets at face value, take him up on that offer! In my visits to Le Mans (not nearly as many as most folks here though) I've managed to check out various grandstands (keep in mind, if you're down during practice or qualifying they are all open to anyone), and IMO the seats at Ford are the best on the circuit. It's where I'll be sitting, and I had to pay a mark up from a dealer. So yeah, buy those tickets before they are gone!
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12 May 2015, 06:54 (Ref:3536658) | #11 | ||
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Ok so you are on the train, two options for getting to the arnarge and mulsanne viewing area's are, one use the buses these are available and can get you there and back but they are slow and you can end up waiting a considerable time for them. The other alternative is to try and talk to those camped around you and see if they have spaces in their cars,.When do you arrive? The practice days are much easier to get to the viewing points by car but no buses unfortunately. Once you get camping sorted see who else is around and try and make contact with them they can advise you and help. Also try and be around for the meet on saturday you will certainly not be the only visitors from the US there
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Certainly if you're there over multiple days then camping is a good idea. By the sounds of it _6thgear_ seems like they are coming in for the race. So there's not a lot of point. And surely at this stage it's pretty tough to get a campsite.
My advice like ATLFalconsFan said is to get those (or some other) grandstand tickets. Especially if you're coming from the States. That gives you a base to go back to and somewhere you could get a bit of sleep. Although just make sure to keep an eye on your belongings - just in case. Most grandstands aren't manned by stewards during the early hours. You can get the shuttle buses out to Arnage/Mulsanne during the race. They are a bit patchy but we've managed to get one every year since 2011. Just make sure to leave some time if you are heading back to the circuit for the finish. As you often have to wait for about the third bus before you can get on. Especially from Arnage. |
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Hi 6thgear, welcome to the Le Mans subforum and great to hear of your determination to be at the World's Greatest Motor Race. I would hearily recommend that you spend a while (well, a few hours actually) ploughing through the various threads on here - some signposted for you already.
I'm not going to say a lot about the 'grandstand or no grandstand' debate because there are a lot of differing views. For my first 17 years or so at Le Mans, I didn't buy a GS seat, but have had one every year now since and I wouldn't give it up. In relative terms, they're pretty cheap, give you somewhere to crash out and rest up just to concentrate on the action from a perch that will inevitably give you a better view of the action. I'm one of those sad folks who wants to watch as much on-track action as possible, so it's invaluable to me. Just a note for others (and one that I've repeated elsewhere here and in my 2014 story too), we would have been refused entry to Mulsanne last year on the Wednesday evening had we not had a Mulsanne/Arnage car park ticket. Now we may just have happened upon an over-zealous car park marshal, but with (in all likelihood) an even larger crowd this year, I wouldn't guarantee anyone getting into the car parks at Mulsanne/Arnage without one - at busy times. Having said that, I'll lay odds-on they're sold out by now. |
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1 Jun 2015, 00:27 (Ref:3543594) | #19 | |
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So if I want Grandstand admission plus general admission to everything including Mulsanne and Arnage I have to pay...
75- Grandstand 75- Admission 31- Mulsanne and Arnage 181 total? Is this right? |
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I'm not sure how much the face value price is for a grandstand seat, I think they are different for each one. But I do know that you do not have to pay extra to go to Mulsanne or Arnage. If you buy the general admission ticket it is good for Mulsanne and Arnage. The separate $31 price for those is for people that only want to go to those locations and not the main area.
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Yes. If you want to sit in a grandstand seat you need both a general entry ticket and a supplemental grandstand ticket. However during practice and qualifying you don't need a grandstand ticket but can sit in any of them.
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1 Jun 2015, 05:10 (Ref:3543650) | #23 | ||
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That is correct you must have a GE, but that includes admission to all viewing area's, Grandstands are extra but optional, you can watch the race from all the grandstands during practice for free and most people do not have grandstand tickets prefering to watch from the other area's. rather than the seating in the grandstands
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1 Jun 2015, 10:02 (Ref:3543715) | #24 | ||
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They're getting a bit snippy about not having Mulsanne and Arnage-specific parking tickets if you're heading down there non?
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Others will say nonsense, but yes, I believe so. We certainly wouldn;t have got into the Mulsanne car park last year - on the Wednesday when it was pretty empty - without showing our ticket.
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