Camping for Wimbledon – How to Get Last Minute Tickets

If you visit London in late June, you can’t miss the excitement of Wimbledon tennis taking over the entire city. Wouldn’t it be great to go?

The usual way to get a ticket to Wimbledon is to register on the ballot before the end of the previous December. But don’t worry if you didn’t. You might still have a chance to see the largest Grand Slam lawn tennis tournament in the world. It is one of the few major international sporting events that makes affordable tickets available to the public every day.

And being in the queue is a very British tradition. The Duchess of Cambridge, who you may know as Princess Kate (née Kate Middleton), takes over from Her Majesty the Queen as patron of the tournament in 2017. But in 2004, she and her sister Pippa lined up with everyone else since 5 am to mark Tickets to the center court. Like her, all you need is patience, stamina, and a smile.

That is how

Queue for tickets

1. Anyone willing to queue (or queue as we say here) can buy tickets on match day. The atmosphere in the queue is friendly and visitors enjoy the opportunity to meet and discuss tennis with other fans. Every day, except the last four days, 500 tickets for each of the courts of the Center and No.1 and No.2 are on sale to the public at the turnstiles. The cost varies, depending on the day and the pitch, between approximately £ 43 and £ 225 (in 2019).
2. Thousands more entrance tickets to the Grounds are sold every day. They are good for court No. 2 and for unreserved seats and for Courts 3-19. Tickets cost between £ 8 and £ 25, depending on the day. You must pay in cash and the prices change every year, so check the ticket website to be sure.

1. Tickets are sold on a first-come, first-served basis, cash only at the turnstiles. The ticket line is a single line to Gate 3, starting at Wimbledon Park, parking lot 10 off Wimbledon Park Road. (see on a map) From the park, queuers (including those who stay overnight) pass through Wimbledon Park Golf Club, past security checkpoints, over a bridge, and all the way to Gate 3.
2. The lines are long. If you want an admission ticket to the grounds, you need to arrive several hours before the grounds open at 10:30 a.m. If you’re looking for one of the show ground tickets, plan to camp overnight. People in the queues bring folding chairs, picnics, and soft drinks. Plan to bring rain gear too – lines creep, rain or shine.

1. When you arrive in line, you will be issued a dated and numbered Queue Card to show your place in queue. Hold it, it will be checked when you enter the grounds.
2. You will also be offered court-marked wristbands, with a removable court count, if you arrive early enough to get one of 1,500 court tickets. When you give it to the cashier, you will receive a ticket to the court named on the account. Don’t worry if you don’t get a bracelet and account – you may still be able to get one of thousands of Grounds Admission tickets.

1. Camping in the Wimbledon line In the past, if you wanted to sleep a night in the Wimbledon ticket line, you had to take a chance and pitch your tent in or near the line. In 2008, the process became easier. Queuers can now camp at Wimbledon Park, near parking lot 10 where the queue begins. Around 6 a.m., volunteer butlers will wake you up, ask you to dismantle your camping gear, move your cars to the parking lots, and approach a narrower formation to make room for those joining the queue for the day. At 7:30 am the Stewards will hand out the 1,500 court specific wristbands from the front of the line.

1. Restrooms Don’t worry, the facilities at Church Road and Wimbledon Park Road are open 24/7.
2. Visitors with reduced mobility Visitors with reduced mobility may wait closer to the Grounds, but entry to the grounds will still be in order of queue card number. Ask a delegate for help and directions to get to the end of the closest row. Disabled visitors with mobility impairments planning to purchase tickets on game day should call the box office on +44 (0) 20 8971 2473, for further instructions on facilities and parking.

1. The best way to get to Wimbledon is by public transport. Trains run from Waterloo Station to Wimbledon Station every 4 minutes and there is also a regular District Line service on the London Underground to the train station. A frequent shuttle bus travels to the All England Lawn Tennis Club from the station. There is also a bus service, from Marble Arch in central London, every 30 minutes. Whatever you do, don’t try to drive to Wimbledon. Traffic during the tournament is impossible and you will not find anywhere to park.

Buy tickets online

Several hundred tickets to Center Court and Court No. 3 are sold online through Ticketmaster.co.uk the day before play. No other online ticket sales are authorized or honored, so don’t be tempted by offers that seem good to be true. You will probably be turned away at the gates.

To get the chance, you must register on My Wimbledon and subscribe to the free newsletter to receive notifications and complete details about online ticket sales. Like any popular ticket sold online, once notified, you need to act fast as it sells in seconds.

Obligations

If you have very deep pockets, you can try to get yourself some obligation tickets. And I mean deep: Last year a pair of center court tickets to the Wimbledon finals reportedly sold for £ 83,000, and a price tag of £ 15,000 per pair is pretty average.

Obligations for sporting events or important venues are like shares in a company. In exchange for an investment that, in the case of Wimbledom, goes to the maintenance and maintenance of the land, the holder of the obligation obtains a fixed number of specific seats during a fixed period of time. The bondholder can then sell the seats they do not plan to use. There are brokers and markets where bonds are bought and sold. Bonds are the only Wimbledon tickets that can be sold to third parties.

Camp at Wimbledon and Queue to buy tickets. It is much more fun and much cheaper.