Free entry to the Shard

[the-e-dealer]

yeah Every Family has ?120 to spsare - Obvious. Next theyll be winging they dont have the fare to get there! (Or Their as is becoming fashionoble on hear)

[Alan Medic]

KidKruger Wrote:

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> I got 4 tickets - taking offers around ?20 per

> ticket or ?75 for all...

What KK really means, but is too shy to say so, is that he is not that type of greedy bastard who would hawk some free tickets to his neighbours but that the he would really like to give them away to a worthy cause. So get your stories in.

[lizbells6]

11.00 this morning spotted first person queuing up outside Grove Vale library. Sitting on a camping chair under an umbrella.

[James Barber]

This is the ticket allocation by library:

Blue Anchor 100

Brandon 50

Camberwell 100

Dulwich 100

East Street 50

Grove Vale 50

John Harvard 1370

Kingswood 50

Newigon 1250

Nunhead 50

Peckham 700

All seems a bi wonky - Peckham has 3x the library users compared ot Camberwell both the same distance from The Shard but Peckham library 7x the tickets.

Also 4 free tickets per person which is higher than the average household number seems daft.

But at least my colleague Paul Noblet who has campaigned for free residents access has achieved this http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/6398

[the-e-dealer]

What about East Dulwich?

and who has a new wig on? I think we should be told!

[Sue]

Got to Grove Vale at 1pm, was 37th in the queue!!

Waited an hour on the off chance but it was quite clear it was no go.

Ridiculous allocating four per person - apparently people are selling them on eBay :(

Why wasn't there a draw, with people invited to apply online? Would have been much fairer and I and the others queuing wouldn't have got very wet :))

James - how about campaigning for a discount for Southwark residents? No way will I be able to go otherwise. But hey at least I once went to a champagne reception on the top of what was once the NatWest tower :))

[the-e-dealer]

They could have used the Olympics System to allocate them.

[nimby]

TED I think thats Grove Vale.

[Twirly]

What Sue said! I was even further back in the queue, and there were plenty of people behind me too.

[DJKillaQueen]

'apparently people are selling them on eBay'

Just had a look on ebay and found nothing.

The allocation system seems ridiculously unfair.

[DaveR]

Reading the se1 link it appears that if you want to eat or drink at any of the venues on 31-33 floor you will have to pay ?30 odd per head which is then offset against your bill. Seems like a pretty strong disincentive to going there.

[PeckhamRose]

It's only a tenner (or it was about a year ago) to go to the bar up Tower 42. The two of us treated ourselves to champers. That's a view! (That is to say you buy a drink/s to the value of a tenner.) Shard is maybe two and a half times as high? Explains ?25! Not defending it. I think it's an atrocious price (even though I bought some - I just love heights), but 4000 free tickets for Southwark is absolutely not enough.

[Jeremy]

PeckhamRose Wrote:

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> Shard is maybe two and a half times as high?

Not even close... 600ft vs 1000ft.

Totally agree that ?25 is ridiculous, hopefully they will be forced to revise the price.

[computedshorty]

Penthouse Accommodation in the Shard.

Leasehold Free.

This offer is conditional to the Maintenance Clause.

To Maintain the outer roof, " from base level to highest point " replacing any damaged glass panels & weather proofing.

Use of innternal Goods lifts would be allocated to accommodate moving said penels to the appropriate floor.

Apply by Tender to the Leasehold Managers Office Sub Basement Minus Five.

The lease has now been taken up by Mr Sherpa Tensing.

[Tigres Pride]

Ref James Basrber's claim of a 700 ticket allocation for Peckham Library,

I don't know where he got his figures from but as we were in the first 5 of the Peckham queue, the librarian told us that there were only 200 tickets allocated to Peckham Library!!!

[Alan Medic]

That's probably 200 for the public and 500 for the staff and their friends.

[ratty]

Cynics!

Let's have a shard roll call! Who's going?

[Alex K]

One of the best features of this forum is that now and again a poster swoops in through clouds and clouds of murky speculation with a brilliant FACT. **cue other posters shrinking back, shielding their eyes and yelping, It burns! It burns!** James Barber, thanks for the allocation details and a tip of the hat, please, to your colleague.

If as Sue recommended he can wring another few freebie tickets out of the Shard's management, well, yes. Please. But with library-based queueing, for continued comedy.

[Alan Medic]

Quite often part of the Shard is covered in low level clouds. Wonder what happens then.

[Alex K]

Low-lying clouds, AM? Well... then you're shard out of luck.

Thank you -- thank you -- you've been a wonderful audience -- I'm here all week...