2017 Worlds Helsinki Info and Chat

[Pamigena]

Has somebody been able to change their tickets?

Actually yes, IIRC there have been some people who'd emailed them and asked if they could change their seats after they had released better seats. I think they had to pay a fee for it, though. But it can't hurt to just ask :yes: worst case scenario: you keep the seat you already got.

 

[FS_rrb]

Actually yes, IIRC there have been some people who'd emailed them and asked if they could change their seats after they had released better seats. I think they had to pay a fee for it, though. But it can't hurt to just ask :yes: worst case scenario: you keep the seat you already got.

I emailed them some weeks ago and I was told that my email would be resent to the person who managed this. However, I didn't get any answer.

Now I've just emailed them once again. I know that changing tickets is generally not allowed, but in this case I'm feeling quite upset. Before buying my tickets (this was in October) I asked them if new ones would be put on sale later. Of course I was not expecting them to tell me what their selling strategy was, but I was hoping for a sightly sincere answer. Now I feel like I've been cheated in some way. :sad46:

Of course if the tickets cannot be changed I would still be super happy for going to Worlds...but I just think that this situation is not fair. We're not talking about a few tickets, we're talking about lots of new tickets for ALL the events :angry1:

 

[RemyRose]

You could try and e-mail them? I mean, this is ridiculous. They have really, really great seats for most events, like opposite the judges, all the way down to row 6?! I bet there are a lot of people who feel cheated now. I would be if I found entire rows had been held back even when the website still claims right now an event is sold out.

Maybe those are the unsold DASH tour tickets being released back into the wild but still :dev2:

 

[Pamigena]

I emailed them some weeks ago and I was told that my email would be resent to the person who managed this. However, I didn't get any answer.

that sucks :noshake: sorry that didn't work out for you so far. I suppose they might be pretty busy so shortly before the event? Hope they at least give you an answer anytime soon.
Maybe it also depends on who handles your request? In my experience, calling hotlines or dealing with any other kind of service, you can get lucky or not so much (one time last year I needed some info from my credit card provider. Called 4 times, talked to 4 different people, got 4 different answers that weren't even slightly similar :shocked: thanks for nothing, guys.)

...but I just think that this situation is not fair. We're not talking about a few tickets, we're talking about lots of new tickets for ALL the events :angry1:

I guess the people who manage to snag a great last-minute seat will be quite happy :sarcasm: but I really wonder how many others they have pissed off in the process. I'm also really not a fan of this selling strategy. Seems quite unfair to say the least.

 

[TT_Fin]

I quess some companies have reserved those seats. But they have not got enough clients and they have cancelled seats or whole reservations.

 

[sequinsgalore]

Yay, just bought tickets to Pair (FS), Ladies (SP+FS), Men (SP+FS). Might buy some at the venue later if possible.

It will be my first int'l figure skating competition. Say hi if you see me :luv17:

 

[khughes]

Well, the seating stuff in peculiar. I think some of the great new seats came from the official agency, whose name I forget. I bought mine with them and was not required to book a hotel at the same time. My seats are section 17, row 7 and there were a number of row 7 seats in this new batch. I guess they just couldn't sell them but had the right to do so for 10 months or something. Anyway some fans, such as sequinsgalore (well done to you!), lucked out at the last minute.

Are we planning some kind of get together? I faithfully wore my yellow ribbon in Boston but didn't meet any GS members!

 

[YesWay]

Given what we saw at 4CC, I'm looking forward to Helsinki more than ever! :-D

I think it's going to be a Battle Royale in every discipline, on an EPIC scale...!
Basically the same front-runners as 4CC plus (I assume):

-Fernandez, Ten, Kolyada and Kovtun in the Men... fully expecting off-the-charts quad madness!
-Medvedeva, Pogorilaya, "another Russian", Wagner, Miyahara, and Kostner in the Ladies...
-Papadakis/Cizeron, Cappelini/Lanotte in the Dance...
-Stolbova/Klimov, Tarasova/Morozov, Savchenko/Massot in the Pairs...

Sadly, no Mirai though... despite being the top American lady at 4CC. She finished with a bronze medal against a very strong field, while Chen and Bell for whatever reasons could only manage 12th and 6th respectively... hope they show us their best in Helsinki!

Of course I'm looking forward to many, many other skaters too... who may not threaten the podium, but I love to see them all the same... :-D

Yay, just bought tickets to Pair (FS), Ladies (SP+FS), Men (SP+FS). Might buy some at the venue later if possible.

It will be my first int'l figure skating competition. Say hi if you see me :luv17:

Wow, you sure picked a good one for your first International...! :-D

 

[TT_Fin]

I was late. I was not sure if I can stay in Helsinki for Friday and Saturday, so I bought tickets only to SP:s and pairs free. Yesterday there was tickets, to ladies and mens but I was "on road" and was not able to buy tickets with phone then and now it seems there is not. But pairs is anyway my favourite, so it's ok the watch the rest on TV. I am not biggest fan of dance, so I was goint to skip it. The situations seems to "live" all the time.

For me this is also the first figure skating live competition ever, thought I have been fan from childhood, and I am not young any more. I belong to typical figure skating fans age group.

 

[khughes]

I was late. I was not sure if I can stay in Helsinki for Friday and Saturday, so I bought tickets only to SP:s and pairs free. Yesterday there was tickets, to ladies and mens but I was "on road" and was not able to buy tickets with phone then and now it seems there is not. But pairs is anyway my favourite, so it's ok the watch the rest on TV. I am not biggest fan of dance, so I was goint to skip it. The situations seems to "live" all the time.

For me this is also the first figure skating live competition ever, thought I have been fan from childhood, and I am not young any more. I belong to typical figure skating fans age group.

I'm with you, TT Fin. I've been a fan since the first moment I could think, but Boston was my first live competition. It was so thrilling that now I'm coming to your country!

 

[Hamonrsa]

I'm with you, TT Fin. I've been a fan since the first moment I could think, but Boston was my first live competition. It was so thrilling that now I'm coming to your country!

Boston was my first live competition as well, and I only attended the Ladies Free Skate. I instantly fell in love with this sport and booked Helsinki around four months later. Grateful I was able to "tuck in" Trophee de France in Paris this past November. We're closing in quickly!

 

[Merjan]

I'll have my winter holiday during the Worlds so I have a ticket for almost every event + practices on Tuesday. I've been at Worlds in Helsinki (1983 and 1999) and Europeans in Helsinki in 1993 and 2009 as well as at Worlds in Göteborg, Sweden, Europeans in Tallinn and Stockholm when they were there most recently. And I must say I liked the arena in Göteborg, SWE, the most. In 1983 Brian Orser won the bronze medal in Helsinki...

 

[TT_Fin]

Sorry guys. There was just a few minutes ago 1 ice level ticket to ladies free and quess who has got it! There was some tickets to men's free at the same time too, but I think I go home on saturday and I will watch it on TV. I am going to stay at my brother's apartment during the games and do not want to disturb him more. I was not sure about the weekend schedule before, so that's why I did not buy earlier. I'll also have my winter holidays and I asked this week just because of this competition.

 

[Winnie_20]

Funny thing, I have never before heard of a "winter holiday" (and can it still be called a Winter holiday when it's during Spring? *grin*)

I just got my voting card in the mail for the Dutch general elections on March 15. Meh about the politics, but every time people mention how close the Elections are getting, I cheer up because I remember how close my holidays are getting, too, as mine start the same day, which means Helsinki (and my first visit to Scandinavia) is also getting closer.
Seems crazy, I bought tickets on March 18, 2016. That's more than 11 months ago! Time sure has flown since then... :hap93:

As for figure skating competitions experiences, nothing like some people here. One small competition in the Netherlands (Challenge Cup, actually held this very week/weekend again), and two GPFs (both won by Hanyu, which is how I know he's going to win this Worlds, too!). The venue in Holland was so cold, it was awful, but fun because of the small size, and Barcelona was brilliant. I'd die with excitement if ever a big competition is held in the same venue in Barcelona again.

 

[TT_Fin]

Little of topic: Winter holiday is Finnish system. In Finland we get more holidays than in many other countries, what I have read. I have been working in the same company etc. we get Also shcool children have more holidays than in many other countries I think, 2,5 months at summer and on week on the autumn and one week in winter, just now some of them are havin one. The "holiday low" for employees - I translated direct, do not know the right word for it, is quite complicated to explain. Most people have 5 weeks holiday. 4 of them is recommended to have on summer time and one week is recommended to have outside of summer. Most have it during between January and April, those months also included. But there are lots of expctions, too.

I have so many favourites that there are no enough medals to share.

 

[TMC]

Also in many companies you can choose between money or days off as compensation for overtime. That's how my husband is able to have 7 weeks holiday every year Unfortunately he can only take three days off to accompany me to the SP & SD events as he's going on a stupid team building weekend with his colleagues that week...

 

[Violetti]

Funny thing, I have never before heard of a "winter holiday" (and can it still be called a Winter holiday when it's during Spring? *grin*)
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March is (or used to be) more like a winter month in Finland than spring. Spring usually begins in April but there might still be lots of snow in eastern, middle and northern parts of Finland where spring might begin later. But this seems to be changing as the winters are warmer like now there is not so much snow in Helsinki.

 

[MaiKatze]

Little of topic: Winter holiday is Finnish system. In Finland we get more holidays than in many other countries, what I have read. I have been working in the same company etc. we get Also shcool children have more holidays than in many other countries I think, 2,5 months at summer and on week on the autumn and one week in winter, just now some of them are havin one. The "holiday low" for employees - I translated direct, do not know the right word for it, is quite complicated to explain. Most people have 5 weeks holiday. 4 of them is recommended to have on summer time and one week is recommended to have outside of summer. Most have it during between January and April, those months also included. But there are lots of expctions, too.

I have so many favourites that there are no enough medals to share.

This is interesting. In Germany were always told through the media that we're so inferior to the Nordic countries, especially Finland is always a shining example, but they never tell us how much holidays there are. Not that Germans have to complain though.

 

[khughes]

Little of topic: Winter holiday is Finnish system. In Finland we get more holidays than in many other countries, what I have read. I have been working in the same company etc. we get Also shcool children have more holidays than in many other countries I think, 2,5 months at summer and on week on the autumn and one week in winter, just now some of them are havin one. The "holiday low" for employees - I translated direct, do not know the right word for it, is quite complicated to explain. Most people have 5 weeks holiday. 4 of them is recommended to have on summer time and one week is recommended to have outside of summer. Most have it during between January and April, those months also included. But there are lots of expctions, too.

I have so many favourites that there are no enough medals to share.

Where is your seat?

 

[TT_Fin]

Where is your seat?

I bought single tickets to all SP:s except dance and pairs ladies free. My place and even the stand chances in every event, but all are Ice Level 1. Tt seems that I have tickets almost in every compass points in different events. So I skip men's free, dance and gala.

It would be nice to meet some of you, if possible. Hartwall Arena have room more than 13 000 viewers during Ice hockey, probably it is near the same, so it is not easy to find each other.