ticket master

Is buying tickets from ticketmaster a good or bad thing? Do you pay a lot more? Do you get a choice of seats? What if any alternatives are there...thinking Zumanity
thanks much

For many shows/concerts, Ticketmaster is the only ticket outlet.
With Cirque I would go to the hotel website and check for discounts - they are very often there - or trie Las Vegas Advisor, Travelzoo or Vegas.com

Tonyrob

Like 'em or not, good or bad, we're stuck with ticketbastards, aaaaaa TICKETMASTER.
YES, Ticketmaster charges the highest service charge, next with a bit lower
charge, is buying off the property website, and cheapest is buying direct from
the box office, in person.

My biggest gripe with TM is their service reps are there to SELL TICKETS.
They don't know the showrooms like the box office reps do and can't help
suggest much.

What you want to do is...
LOOK AT THE SEATING CHART
GET AN IDEA OFF WHERE YOU WANT TO SIT
REQUEST YOUR SECTION AND ROW TO THE TM REP.
It's good to have that seating chart in front of you when you call...

Ticketmaster Las Vegas: 1.866.510.2437
Before that damn recording goes on and on and on and....
PRESS 'O' for operator and get yourself a REAL PERSON.
I find they're more in the mood to help you when they open up...10am???

Many of the properties that don't use Ticketmaster, have turned their ticketing
over to a ticket center. They're a bit more helpful than TM.

Do what ya gotta do.....

thank you for your help.....got tickets from the box office over the phone...still seemed high but with airfares escalating I may not have to worry about buying show tickets after this trip.

and sometimes the box office is just hooked into ticketmaster anyways.

Actually, the box office is always hooked in to Ticketmaster if the tickets are available on Ticketmaster.com.

The difference is that at the box office, you won't have to pay the "Convenience Fee," or any ticket "printing" fees. (You will still pay mandatory taxes and any "facility" fees. A facility fee is essentially the equivalent of a Convenience fee, but it goes to the venue rather than Ticketmaster. That fee is charged whether booked through Ticketmaster or through the venue directly. A majority of times, the Facility Fee is built in to the actual ticket price, and is usually significantly lower than the Convenience Fee (Usually $1-5).

Convenience fees alone can be 10-30% of a ticket prices, so it is a significant savings to buy directly at the box office, especially if the event is not a one-time-only thing where tickets tend to sell out in minutes.

Brent