WORLD CUP 2010 in South Africa
Ladies & Gentlemen roll-up for the worlds largest sporting spectacular, which is set to explode into action in less than 480 days time. (11th June to 11th July, 2010).
The soccer FIFA World Cup is going to be utterly massive & as it will be played for the first time on the African continent, you can expect the additional thrills of African adventures like - Big 5 Safaris, Whale watching & Great White Shark cage diving to entertain you between matches.
Percy Tours recently had a 2 hour face-to-face meeting in Cape Town with the official Ticket Issuing company, so that you (and I) know what's on offer & all the finer detail of how this process will work.
The most important question that people are asking is - How do we obtain tickets to watch the football?
This is a fair enough question, but there is quite alot of other information you need to digest before we get to that issue, so let's just look at what's what -
There will be 3 million tickets issued - 1 million to be sold in South Africa, 1 million sold in the rest of the world & 1 million will be allocated to all the FIFA officials, Corporate Sponsers like Coca Cola, Visa card, Adidas, Emirates & Sony, the 32 countries teams & their officials & families etc....
There are 10 stadiums & the start & final games will be held in Jo'burg.
Ticket allocation (for normal seats) will literally be a Lottery, by which people put their names forward for all the matches they wish to watch & then they will be pulled at random out of a hat. For the 1 million South African tickets, these are only limited to South African citizens at a maximum of 4 tickets per household & for a maximum of 7 matches.
On the 20th February 2009, there will be 800,000 tickets "released" to South African citizens & registering for these will be up to the 31st March. The 1st random selection will occur on 15th April 2009 & tickets will be issued 1 year later in April 2010.
The average price of these tickets is - $139 (R973) each, with the cheapest tickets for category 4 tickets being $20 (R140) each, while the most expensive tickets for the final will be $900 (R6300). The category 4 tickets will make up 15% of all tickets sold (450,000) & will only be sold to South African citizens.
(Source - Cape Times newspaper 19th February, 2009.)
So how the heck do we all avoid such a mad random Lottery process??
The easiest & simplest solution & the one that Percy Tours will be adopting is - offering Hospitality Tickets that we buy NOW & guarantee you a seat 100% of the time. These will obviously be a little more expensive, but due to the South African FIFA World Cup only happening once in our lifetimes, i think you will agree that it will be well worth spoiling ourselves :-)))
There are loads of different options available, so let's go thro' these -
There are 3 seperate Hospitality options -
Private Suite - the ultimate viewing pleasure, in a private suite, with waitress service, food, drinks, air-con, flat-screen TVs, comfy sofas & loads more absolute luxury - you walk afew metres from your dining table, open large glass patio doors & your seats are right there.
Shared Suite - as above, but Shared with other people, so perfect for large groups or Companies wishing to spoil their staff or business clients, etc.........
Executive Hospitality - these are massive air-con luxury marquees erected in a "Soccer-style-Village", literally metres outside the stadiums, where you will be dined & pampered in fabulous comfort. Then when the match begins you walk a short distance into the Stadium & take your seat for the game. These seats will be the closest to the pitch & are the first tier of seats up from the touch-line. Incredible viewing, I hope you will agree :-)))
N.B - Now FIFA are being alittle bit cheeky - many of these packages MUST be purchased in multiples of 4 for Shared or Executive, therefore meaning that if you just wished to watch the semi-final & final of 2 matches, you will need to buy a minimum of 4 tickets for each match - therefore meaning - 2 matches x 4 tickets = 8 tickets.
RECENT NEWS FLASH - NOVEMBER 2009 -
2 things were announced recently - the Executive tickets are now called Business Seats and more importantly - the prices for them has been discounted drastically from $1450 to $950 - thats about a 35% saving - good news :-))
-------------------------------------------------
Ok, thats the seating arrangements, now to the ways you can watch the matches -
1. The Big 5 Series - this is the utter cream-of-the-cream product - watch a staggering 36 matches. This is designed for groups of 15 to 32 seats in one go & totals 850 tickets. This being the largest single ticket allocation, with SO many matches means that it is rather costly - are you ready for the price??? $1.5million, yes you read that right $1.5million - for a Private Suite. Phew-y that is quite abit of cash :-)))
Moving on swiftly :-)))
2. Gauteng Series - watch ALL the matches in the 3 stadiums in Jo'burg and Pretoria - 21 matches in total, 550 tickets for 15 to 32 seats. Private Suite is a total price of $962,500, Shared Suite is $31,500 x minimum of 4 ticket packages = $126,000.
3. Venue Series - watch ALL the matches at ONE stadium. As there are 10 stadium & each one has different quantities of matches being played, then this means that there are loads of options, but let's just explain one so you understand the logistics & pricing.
Let's say you wished to watch all the matches in Durban which will host 7 matches & you wanted a Executive seating package - then that would be 7 matches priced at $9,800 each, with a minimum of 4 tickets purchased = 4 x $9,800 = $39,200.
4. Final Round Series - there are 3 options here -
This product is ONLY available at an Executive Hospitality level, which means a minimum of 4 tickets must be purchased.
4.1. Series 4 - watch 4 matches - Round 16, 1/4 final, Semi final & Final, going via PE, Cape Town, Ellis Park & Soccer City. Cost - $14,000 x 4 tickets = $56,000.
4.2. Series 3 - watch Cape Town & Durban Semi-Finals & Final at Soccer City. Cost - $15,000 x 4 tickets = $60,000.
4.3. Series 2 - watch Cape Town OR Durban Semi & then the Final at Soccer City. Cost - $12,000 x 4 tickets = $48,000.
5. Team Specific Series - Follow your team from venue to venue, with 2 available products -
5.1. - Team Specific Series 3 - watch JUST the first 3 Group matches of your team - OR -
5.2. - Team Specific Series 7 - watch ALL 7 matches played by your team and if they are knocked out at any stage then you watch the Round 16 & Semi at Cape Town, before going to the Final at Soccer City, Jo'burg.
Costs -
Series 3 - minimum of 4 Executive tickets x $4,500 = $18,000.
Series 7 - minimum of 4 Executive tickets x $17,500 = $70,000.
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Other info -
To allow you to not be constantly packing & unpacking your suitcase, how about staying in one accommodation place in one city & get flown to each match in the morning & flown back again that evening? I quite like that idea :-))
Oh & on the accommodation side of things - get this - FIFA has taken EVERY room in EVERY 5 star hotel in Cape Town - that is not only a huge amount of people staying in absolute luxury, but a city where all the partying will be done by the rich & famous (it would appear)!!!
So forget 5 star hotels in Cape Town, if you were on the look out for that - because it will not be available. (Other Accommodation suggestions are mentioned below).
Large Fan Parks outside each stadium will allow those without tickets to watch each game at that venue on enormous TV screens, with many additional facilities.
FIFA has commissioned exclusively 32 jumbo jets from Emirates.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
To the nitty-gritty - PAYMENT conditions & rules -
Yes all this gorgeous luxury & enjoying yourself has to be paid for & FIFA is being VERY stringent in it's conditions - here's how it works -
Apply for tickets, with the Application process taking about 10 to 20 days - so as to make sure that Terrorists, Ticket Touts, Soccer hooligans & many other undesirables are not allowed to purchase tickets.
Then an acceptance letter is sent out - 30% deposit MUST be paid within 30 days.
Then another 30% is due before 30th June 2009,
and the final 40% is due before 30th November 2009.
If Application paperwork is presented after 1st July 2009, then 60% deposit is payable within 30 days & the remaining 40% before 30th November 2009.
ANY deviation from these payment terms & your application is thrown out - with a cheeky sub-clause stating that we might not get our deposits refunded ever.
Our Hospitality tickets will be issued in January 2010, 3 months ahead of the "normal" tickets.
Percy Tours is insisting with the Ticket Issuing company in Cape Town that Percy Tours will personally collect these tickets IN PERSON & no 3rd party is to handle our tickets.
Lost tickets are just like lost tickets to any concert - NO re-printed tickets, NO refund, NO entry to the venue - so NO fun basically :-(((
Each ticket will have on it - ID details, embossed, freud counter-strips & many other completely individualised & personalised details of EACH person / company that purchased the ticket. Therefore completely stopping Ticket Touts, or anyone selling-on tickets, or stolen tickets being used by the wrong person/s.
Plus FIFA will be strictly enforcing a policy of NO selling-on-for-profit for any tickets purchased. Minimal Booking Arrangement & Management fees are allowed at a very small add-on price.
ALL prices quoted above are the cheapest you will obtain & are the very same prices across the entire planet that FIFA has set in place & every official ticket issuing agent will quote you that exact same price, as we are all going straight to the official Ticketing company. Plus there will only be ONE totally official company in each geographically region issuing tickets.
So ladies & gents these are the rules of engagement & we had better play by their rules as they hold all the cards - or should that be TICKETS :-)))
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Percy Tours ideas and logistics (and big advantage to YOU) -
Personally we are up for the Executive packages. Obviously we can arrange ANYTHING you want, but so as to save you all a huge amount of time, hassle, heart-ache, stress and to obtain guaranteed tickets, Percy Tours will apply for all our required tickets in one go & "bundle" our ticket applications together.
"Bundling" tickets together helps YOU because there are bound to be people who will want quantities that are not divisible by 4. So let's say you want only 2 or 5 or 7 tickets etc.... Percy Tours will collect together all these odd numbers together & apply for all these tickets for you in one collective organised group. Meaning everyone gets exactly what they want :-)))
What also will occur is that Percy Tours will have all our seats together in one specially allocated area, so we all know where we are sitting for meals & the matches in the stadiums.
Just to give you a small understanding of the logistics from our side - we are currently sitting on over 35 enquiries from around the world, totalling over 470 people (currently), wishing for us to assist them with their ticketing, transportation, tours, accommodation & activity requirements. Now i would be a fool to dream that all these existing 470 people will finally book with us, but we also have to consider that these are the very organised ones and Percy Tours is bound to obtain many more enquiries as the clock starts to tick down to match day & if I were realistically modest I would guess we could be looking at about 1,500 people possibly wanting our help.
Percy Tours will also be booking all your Accommodation & Activities that you wish to do between soccer games.
Accommodation - we deal with every conceivable type of accommodation establishment, from - Backpacker Hostels, B&Bs, Guest Houses, Lodges, Wine Farms, Game Parks, City apartments, Beach side Chalets to Penthouse Mansions, 1 star to 5 star Hotels & everything in-between.......
Please inform us of your budget per person per night & your desired type of accommodation in which location & we will research, arrange & book it all for you too :-))))
Activities - Not only will all the football keep you very busy, but South Africa is an adventure play-ground offering 100's of diverse activities too. Please check out our websites "What to See and Do" page, where at the bottom of the page is a Clickable link to a comprehensive page of 300 different things to do -
http://www.percytours.com/what-to-see.html
Many Thanks everyone and chat to you very soon to discuss your desired wishes and requirements.
Percy - Percy Tours
www.percytours.com
Designer Tours (& transfers) of Hermanus, Cape Town and the whole Western Cape region.
Copyrighted by Percy Tours C.C. South Africa.
Please ask our permission before you copy any or all of the information in this Blog - we thank you every much :-))
Ladies & Gentlemen roll-up for the worlds largest sporting spectacular, which is set to explode into action in less than 480 days time. (11th June to 11th July, 2010).
The soccer FIFA World Cup is going to be utterly massive & as it will be played for the first time on the African continent, you can expect the additional thrills of African adventures like - Big 5 Safaris, Whale watching & Great White Shark cage diving to entertain you between matches.
Percy Tours recently had a 2 hour face-to-face meeting in Cape Town with the official Ticket Issuing company, so that you (and I) know what's on offer & all the finer detail of how this process will work.
The most important question that people are asking is - How do we obtain tickets to watch the football?
This is a fair enough question, but there is quite alot of other information you need to digest before we get to that issue, so let's just look at what's what -
There will be 3 million tickets issued - 1 million to be sold in South Africa, 1 million sold in the rest of the world & 1 million will be allocated to all the FIFA officials, Corporate Sponsers like Coca Cola, Visa card, Adidas, Emirates & Sony, the 32 countries teams & their officials & families etc....
There are 10 stadiums & the start & final games will be held in Jo'burg.
Ticket allocation (for normal seats) will literally be a Lottery, by which people put their names forward for all the matches they wish to watch & then they will be pulled at random out of a hat. For the 1 million South African tickets, these are only limited to South African citizens at a maximum of 4 tickets per household & for a maximum of 7 matches.
On the 20th February 2009, there will be 800,000 tickets "released" to South African citizens & registering for these will be up to the 31st March. The 1st random selection will occur on 15th April 2009 & tickets will be issued 1 year later in April 2010.
The average price of these tickets is - $139 (R973) each, with the cheapest tickets for category 4 tickets being $20 (R140) each, while the most expensive tickets for the final will be $900 (R6300). The category 4 tickets will make up 15% of all tickets sold (450,000) & will only be sold to South African citizens.
(Source - Cape Times newspaper 19th February, 2009.)
So how the heck do we all avoid such a mad random Lottery process??
The easiest & simplest solution & the one that Percy Tours will be adopting is - offering Hospitality Tickets that we buy NOW & guarantee you a seat 100% of the time. These will obviously be a little more expensive, but due to the South African FIFA World Cup only happening once in our lifetimes, i think you will agree that it will be well worth spoiling ourselves :-)))
There are loads of different options available, so let's go thro' these -
There are 3 seperate Hospitality options -
Private Suite - the ultimate viewing pleasure, in a private suite, with waitress service, food, drinks, air-con, flat-screen TVs, comfy sofas & loads more absolute luxury - you walk afew metres from your dining table, open large glass patio doors & your seats are right there.
Shared Suite - as above, but Shared with other people, so perfect for large groups or Companies wishing to spoil their staff or business clients, etc.........
Executive Hospitality - these are massive air-con luxury marquees erected in a "Soccer-style-Village", literally metres outside the stadiums, where you will be dined & pampered in fabulous comfort. Then when the match begins you walk a short distance into the Stadium & take your seat for the game. These seats will be the closest to the pitch & are the first tier of seats up from the touch-line. Incredible viewing, I hope you will agree :-)))
N.B - Now FIFA are being alittle bit cheeky - many of these packages MUST be purchased in multiples of 4 for Shared or Executive, therefore meaning that if you just wished to watch the semi-final & final of 2 matches, you will need to buy a minimum of 4 tickets for each match - therefore meaning - 2 matches x 4 tickets = 8 tickets.
RECENT NEWS FLASH - NOVEMBER 2009 -
2 things were announced recently - the Executive tickets are now called Business Seats and more importantly - the prices for them has been discounted drastically from $1450 to $950 - thats about a 35% saving - good news :-))
-------------------------------------------------
Ok, thats the seating arrangements, now to the ways you can watch the matches -
1. The Big 5 Series - this is the utter cream-of-the-cream product - watch a staggering 36 matches. This is designed for groups of 15 to 32 seats in one go & totals 850 tickets. This being the largest single ticket allocation, with SO many matches means that it is rather costly - are you ready for the price??? $1.5million, yes you read that right $1.5million - for a Private Suite. Phew-y that is quite abit of cash :-)))
Moving on swiftly :-)))
2. Gauteng Series - watch ALL the matches in the 3 stadiums in Jo'burg and Pretoria - 21 matches in total, 550 tickets for 15 to 32 seats. Private Suite is a total price of $962,500, Shared Suite is $31,500 x minimum of 4 ticket packages = $126,000.
3. Venue Series - watch ALL the matches at ONE stadium. As there are 10 stadium & each one has different quantities of matches being played, then this means that there are loads of options, but let's just explain one so you understand the logistics & pricing.
Let's say you wished to watch all the matches in Durban which will host 7 matches & you wanted a Executive seating package - then that would be 7 matches priced at $9,800 each, with a minimum of 4 tickets purchased = 4 x $9,800 = $39,200.
4. Final Round Series - there are 3 options here -
This product is ONLY available at an Executive Hospitality level, which means a minimum of 4 tickets must be purchased.
4.1. Series 4 - watch 4 matches - Round 16, 1/4 final, Semi final & Final, going via PE, Cape Town, Ellis Park & Soccer City. Cost - $14,000 x 4 tickets = $56,000.
4.2. Series 3 - watch Cape Town & Durban Semi-Finals & Final at Soccer City. Cost - $15,000 x 4 tickets = $60,000.
4.3. Series 2 - watch Cape Town OR Durban Semi & then the Final at Soccer City. Cost - $12,000 x 4 tickets = $48,000.
5. Team Specific Series - Follow your team from venue to venue, with 2 available products -
5.1. - Team Specific Series 3 - watch JUST the first 3 Group matches of your team - OR -
5.2. - Team Specific Series 7 - watch ALL 7 matches played by your team and if they are knocked out at any stage then you watch the Round 16 & Semi at Cape Town, before going to the Final at Soccer City, Jo'burg.
Costs -
Series 3 - minimum of 4 Executive tickets x $4,500 = $18,000.
Series 7 - minimum of 4 Executive tickets x $17,500 = $70,000.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Other info -
To allow you to not be constantly packing & unpacking your suitcase, how about staying in one accommodation place in one city & get flown to each match in the morning & flown back again that evening? I quite like that idea :-))
Oh & on the accommodation side of things - get this - FIFA has taken EVERY room in EVERY 5 star hotel in Cape Town - that is not only a huge amount of people staying in absolute luxury, but a city where all the partying will be done by the rich & famous (it would appear)!!!
So forget 5 star hotels in Cape Town, if you were on the look out for that - because it will not be available. (Other Accommodation suggestions are mentioned below).
Large Fan Parks outside each stadium will allow those without tickets to watch each game at that venue on enormous TV screens, with many additional facilities.
FIFA has commissioned exclusively 32 jumbo jets from Emirates.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
To the nitty-gritty - PAYMENT conditions & rules -
Yes all this gorgeous luxury & enjoying yourself has to be paid for & FIFA is being VERY stringent in it's conditions - here's how it works -
Apply for tickets, with the Application process taking about 10 to 20 days - so as to make sure that Terrorists, Ticket Touts, Soccer hooligans & many other undesirables are not allowed to purchase tickets.
Then an acceptance letter is sent out - 30% deposit MUST be paid within 30 days.
Then another 30% is due before 30th June 2009,
and the final 40% is due before 30th November 2009.
If Application paperwork is presented after 1st July 2009, then 60% deposit is payable within 30 days & the remaining 40% before 30th November 2009.
ANY deviation from these payment terms & your application is thrown out - with a cheeky sub-clause stating that we might not get our deposits refunded ever.
Our Hospitality tickets will be issued in January 2010, 3 months ahead of the "normal" tickets.
Percy Tours is insisting with the Ticket Issuing company in Cape Town that Percy Tours will personally collect these tickets IN PERSON & no 3rd party is to handle our tickets.
Lost tickets are just like lost tickets to any concert - NO re-printed tickets, NO refund, NO entry to the venue - so NO fun basically :-(((
Each ticket will have on it - ID details, embossed, freud counter-strips & many other completely individualised & personalised details of EACH person / company that purchased the ticket. Therefore completely stopping Ticket Touts, or anyone selling-on tickets, or stolen tickets being used by the wrong person/s.
Plus FIFA will be strictly enforcing a policy of NO selling-on-for-profit for any tickets purchased. Minimal Booking Arrangement & Management fees are allowed at a very small add-on price.
ALL prices quoted above are the cheapest you will obtain & are the very same prices across the entire planet that FIFA has set in place & every official ticket issuing agent will quote you that exact same price, as we are all going straight to the official Ticketing company. Plus there will only be ONE totally official company in each geographically region issuing tickets.
So ladies & gents these are the rules of engagement & we had better play by their rules as they hold all the cards - or should that be TICKETS :-)))
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Percy Tours ideas and logistics (and big advantage to YOU) -
Personally we are up for the Executive packages. Obviously we can arrange ANYTHING you want, but so as to save you all a huge amount of time, hassle, heart-ache, stress and to obtain guaranteed tickets, Percy Tours will apply for all our required tickets in one go & "bundle" our ticket applications together.
"Bundling" tickets together helps YOU because there are bound to be people who will want quantities that are not divisible by 4. So let's say you want only 2 or 5 or 7 tickets etc.... Percy Tours will collect together all these odd numbers together & apply for all these tickets for you in one collective organised group. Meaning everyone gets exactly what they want :-)))
What also will occur is that Percy Tours will have all our seats together in one specially allocated area, so we all know where we are sitting for meals & the matches in the stadiums.
Just to give you a small understanding of the logistics from our side - we are currently sitting on over 35 enquiries from around the world, totalling over 470 people (currently), wishing for us to assist them with their ticketing, transportation, tours, accommodation & activity requirements. Now i would be a fool to dream that all these existing 470 people will finally book with us, but we also have to consider that these are the very organised ones and Percy Tours is bound to obtain many more enquiries as the clock starts to tick down to match day & if I were realistically modest I would guess we could be looking at about 1,500 people possibly wanting our help.
Percy Tours will also be booking all your Accommodation & Activities that you wish to do between soccer games.
Accommodation - we deal with every conceivable type of accommodation establishment, from - Backpacker Hostels, B&Bs, Guest Houses, Lodges, Wine Farms, Game Parks, City apartments, Beach side Chalets to Penthouse Mansions, 1 star to 5 star Hotels & everything in-between.......
Please inform us of your budget per person per night & your desired type of accommodation in which location & we will research, arrange & book it all for you too :-))))
Activities - Not only will all the football keep you very busy, but South Africa is an adventure play-ground offering 100's of diverse activities too. Please check out our websites "What to See and Do" page, where at the bottom of the page is a Clickable link to a comprehensive page of 300 different things to do -
http://www.percytours.com/what-to-see.html
Many Thanks everyone and chat to you very soon to discuss your desired wishes and requirements.
Percy - Percy Tours
www.percytours.com
Designer Tours (& transfers) of Hermanus, Cape Town and the whole Western Cape region.
Copyrighted by Percy Tours C.C. South Africa.
Please ask our permission before you copy any or all of the information in this Blog - we thank you every much :-))
