wembly stadium (Wembley Stadium (London))

Member Name: barbie84

Product:	Wembley Stadium (London)
Date:	09/07/09 (126 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: a great atmosfere

Disadvantages: not pushchair friendly

Wembly stadium plays host to a lot of different events and is much more than just your average sports ground, recently they have had bands play there including ac/dc, take that, oasis, u2, and cold play play there or are going to play there aswell as a lot of football events including the fa cup events,

You can book tours of the grounds which would be great for major football fans as you get to visit the england changing rooms, the warm up zone, visit the royal box and a whole host of other football related areas that would realy appeal to any major fan, it is reasonably priced at £15 for adults and £8 for children for a 90 minute tour.

There is a store there selling merchandise of england and wembly , they are pritty much on par with most sports stores on there football kit prices too.

The stadium itself has 90,000 seats for fans so you can but imagine the atmosfere in there at a football game or live gig, it is amazing with all the cheering snd singing that goes on it is just so full of life,

There are a lot of restrictions on items you are not allowed to take into the stadium too, most are very sencible but others are a little bit petty to be honest, these include animal, alcohol, air horns, cool bags or boxes, umbarellas, darts, bike helmets, water bottles, suitcases laptops and back packs, cameras or camcorders but does not include mobile phones with cameras, transmiting devices, prams or pushchairs, smoke canisters, skate boards, laser devices, knives and guns, frisbies, illegal substances, bottles glasses or cans including flasks of tea/coffee, musical instruments, and anything else that could be used as a weapon.

There is no car parking facilities at wembly you have to park a distance away and use public transport to get to the venue which is why i think it is pritty poor that pushchairs are benned from the place.

The food and drink ban forces you to uy food once you are there and even though there are over 600 food and drink service points in the venue they are all very highly priced and all have long queues.

There is a movable and completely closable roof on the stadium but it is only ever closed over the seats leaving the pitch open for lighting reasons, even if it rains they do not close this up so if you are sitting on the first few rows and it rains you will get wet and umbarellas are banned so i would sugest taking waterproof clothing with you.

There are plenty of toilet facilities available and they have baby changing and disabled toilets too, there are seating areas especially for the disabled which is why i disagree so much with them not having this same friendly aproach to pushchairs.

Summary: a great atmosfere