Advance Tickets Information
Information relating to Advance Ticket Purchase and purchasing tickets over the counter or at the gate for the 2012 Robin Hood Festival will appear here as soon as updated information is available.
In the meantime here is a guide to what you might expect - the information relates only to the 2011 Beer Festival:
"It will be possible to pay cash at the gate again this year but the only way to guarantee admission will be to buy an advance ticket, we anticipate that access will be restricted to ticket-holders only at the busier times, particularly Friday evening and much of Saturday. So we are suggesting that tickets be purchased if you want to be sure of getting in.
Tickets can be purchased online now through See Tickets like last year, simply click here to proceed direct to the inter link. These tickets will be mailed out to customers but booking and transaction fees will be charged on top of the admission price.
Tickets can be bought with no booking fees, over the counter only, by visiting the Nottingham Tourism Centre in Smithy Row.
To buy tickets by telephone call 0871 231 0847 but please note calls cost 10p per minute from a standard BT land line, mobiles and other networks may vary, and there will also be a booking fee and transaction charge.
Glass Sizes and Mini-Token
For the first time we will give you the option of buying your drinks in thirds as well as half pints as the 2011 commemorative tankard will have both a third and a half pint line on it! To allow for this change a new type of payment system is to be introduced, a new “mini-token” will be half the size of the previous tokens and they will be used in multiples, so for example a third of a lower strength beer might be two mini-tokens and a half pint will cost three, with higher strength drinks proportionately higher. No cash will be taken at the bars in order to speed up service.
Admission Prices
To speed up entry there will again be a package admission price. £12.50 will get you through the gate, a commemorative glass and ten mini-beer tokens (when taking into account the recent increases in VAT and exercise duty on beer this represents better value than last year!). CAMRA members will receive a further five mini-tokens on presentation of a valid membership card and if you prefer to bring your own Government stamped glass we will give you a further five mini-tokens in lieu (but if you want to drink thirds make sure it has the appropriate line on it!). Further mini-tokens will be on sale in the marquees.
The admission price will get you entry, a commemorative glass (lined at both a third and a half pint) and ten mini-tokens.
CAMRA members will receive a further five mini-tokens on presentation of a valid membership card and if you prefer to bring your own glass we will give you a further five mini-tokens in lieu of a commemorative tankard (but your glass must be Government stamped and if you want to drink thirds make sure it has the appropriate line on it!).
"The new “mini-token” will be half the size of the previous beer tokens and they will be used in multiples, so for example a third of a lower strength beer might be two mini-tokens and a half pint will cost three, with higher strength drinks proportionately higher."
Reminder
For those prefering to buy their tickets on line:
Tickets can be purchased online now through See Tickets simply click here These tickets will be mailed out to customers but booking and transaction fees will be charged on top of the admission price. "