Beer Tokens

[cmscratc]

Hey its my first year going to V, just heard that you cant cant take beer into the arena and you have to buy tokens for the bar, whats all that about?

[redmad1971]

Hey its my first year going to V, just heard that you cant cant take beer into the arena and you have to buy tokens for the bar, whats all that about?

[cmscratc]

Correct, you can't take beer into the arena but there are threads on here about various ways to smuggle it in.

Beer tokens you have to queue up to pay for them, then queue again to get your drinks. I think its a way to stop light fingered bar staff, but its a serious hassle when you gasping for a drink. There are a few cash bars on site tho.

[Andynet]

Seems a bit daft, how do they stop light fingered token sellers?

[Benj]

I think they trust the token sellers. It is the bar staff they don't trust. There were 3 or four cash bars last year at staffs and the ques were often shorter than those at the token bars. I don't think I will bother with the tokens this year.

[The Cat Burglar]

I think the idea of the tokens is to make the beer queues to get drinks shorter and quicker as people aren't having to find money and wait for change etc. The concept is OK but I have seen very long lines before, especially for the tokens.

Personally I've never had a problem. Get all your tokens for the weekend on the Friday night and if a bar queue looks heaving just wander around a bit. There's always somewhere a bit quieter, if you can be arsed to look.

[echoechoecho]

You'll usually see long queues at the token booths while several of the booths have no queues at all and the staff behind the windows are shouting "anyone waiting??" but us Brits just can't resist joining a queue of course... Just keep your eyes open and you'll probably never queue for beer tokens (especially when you first get into the Arena each day, there's never a queue then).

Same goes for the toilets, a hundred people queuing for three toilets while the other 15 cubicles are empty. What's that all about??

[luckysalt]

Im guessing the price is going to be £3.30 per drink this year by the way, thats what it was at Download

[The Cat Burglar]

Same goes for the toilets, a hundred people queuing for three toilets while the other 15 cubicles are empty. What's that all about??

[staffsknot]

It probably started out as a way to shorten queues, regulate the amount of alcohol, stop people getting short changed... but now it seems more of a way to wring that extra bit of cash out of you - one rainy day and you can be £20 down if your not careful and no matter how hard you try you will always find a few of them stuffed in your pockets when you get home!

[echoechoecho]

They've probably seen what's been left in the other toilets!!

[shoptildrop]

Haha indeed!

Although sometimes the empty ones have been empty all day, everyone just queueing sheep-like for the few being used. Last time we found a pristine cubicle on the sunday afternoon, with hand sanitiser and everything, what luxury!!

[echoechoecho]

yeah I found that last year u are like stuck at end of queue and u can see like 10 cubicles not being used stupid as most aren't that bad just hover I say as wasting valuable band/drinking time as only in loo few mins at best!!

[shoptildrop]

I think they trust the token sellers. It is the bar staff they don't trust. There were 3 or four cash bars last year at staffs and the ques were often shorter than those at the token bars. I don't think I will bother with the tokens this year.

[MilkyJoe]

and also will get 4 free pints of cider per day with virgin sims so might not be sooooo bad