The Dome (The O2 (formerly the Millennium Dome))

Member Name: Gary_Flower

Product:	The O2 (formerly the Millennium Dome)
Date:	24/10/09 (33 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Great area to go in the evening

Disadvantages: The prices inside are exspensive

The O2, is a large entertainment district on the Greenwich peninsula in South East London. The O2 was opened in 2007 after the redevelopment for the Millennium Dome. The Millennium Dome was a large dome-shaped building built to house an exhibition celebrating the turn of the third millennium. The Dome remains a name in common usage for the venue due to this. The O2 has an indoor arena, a music club, a cinema, an exhibition space, bars and restaurants.

Entertainment Avenue
The Entertainment Avenue is a modern and very clever pedestrian avenue within The O2. The street is all within the dome and has artificial palm trees and other decorations aloud the street. The buildings were built just like normal ones. The foundations had to be laid and roofs installed. Just clever that that was all done in side another building. There are so many restaurants and bars down this street that you will be spoilt for choose. But when there is a concert on the area will be full to the rafters. The street also includes a music club known as indigO2, an exhibition space known as The O2 bubble and a cinema managed by Vue.

indigO2
indigO2 is a live music club that hold small music events and parties. The capacity of the space is and contains four bars. The space has also been used to hosted 'bootcamp' for the reality TV show, The X Factor'. I have not tried this personally but I know a few people who have I have been advised the space is excellent for small intermit gigs.

O2 Bubble
The O2 Bubble is a two-storey bubble-shaped exhibition space built to museum standards. The area opened in November 2007. Tutankhamen and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs was the first exhibition in the Bubble and it now houses Body Worlds & The Mirror of Time.

Vue @ The O2 is a cinema that has 11 screens. The cinema has a massive 770 capacity auditorium which is the biggest in London.

The O2 arena
The O2 arena is a 23,000 capacity arena used live music, sporting events. It is located at the centre of The O2 with all the cinemas and entertainment districts around it. The arena and its facilities are housed in an independent building within the dome structure. This means that the sound inside stays inside. I have seen a few concerts here, Lionel Richie being one. The space is brilliant, the sound is great and all the seats have perfect view. But the top section is so high that the seats come with a vertigo warning.

Summary: A good use of the space