I've been a reg at the RAC/WalesRally for 14 years and have just seen the price of the rally pass this year, £99, equivalent to 143 Euros!

Here's what I'm doing instead:

RyanAir to Finland 79 Euros
4 day Rally Pass* 45 Euros *includes access all areas!
Tampere to Jyvaskyla train ticket 18 Euros
Total 142 Euros

Now by the time I have saved all the fuel driving into the depths of Wales, chugging along in tailbacks, etc, things aren't looking unattractive are they!!!!

I know peeps grumble every year about the price, but this is getting ridiculous. The thing is, even when you pay all that money, they still cant get things right - I have received compensation in both of the last 2 years for ticketing cock-ups. It's just not worth taking the risk this year. In Finland you just pick up a ticket from the nearest Neste Fuel Station, no hassle, no painful hours waiting for the postman to arrive on the day you are meant to be leaving for Wales in the vain hope that your tickets will arrive on the mat!

Honestly, it really brings a lump to my throat to say "Nope, not this year" to an event I have enjoyed (on the whole) since I was a teeny, but really the time has come. I hope nobody gives me any grief about Silverstone/Glastonbury pricing - I choose not to go there either!

The organisers are, face it, just creaming us. They are charging over 3 times the price of the Finnish rally. If you also think that many more peeps attend the rally in Wales than watch the Finnish rally, whilst the fixed costs remain roughly the same, it sounds even worse!

Out.

Can't fault ya matey:) We did Sweden for not a lot of money, makes you wonder where it all goes in Wales....

yup.... Germany is 50 euros for the whole Rally - effectively last years WRC pass...

So yes, we are getting ' creamed'! But there we go. Despite all my moaning i'll prob still go!

yeah i complained the prices were rediculous - but looking at it now i really cant miss it!

Its is a lot on money I agree, and it doesn't look if its going to drop either, but sureley they could make it more value for the money we shell out.

Even if they handed out free rally stuff like calendars or books of rallying I mean atleast put some stallls up on the stages, selling momentos or something like that!! It makes it a lot better then.

The only way to get thru to them would not to attend, as thats what the welsh rugby do when the Welsh Rugby Union charged ridiculous prices for our local rugby club games! And it has worked as they have dropped some admission charges!! It hits the pocket in the end! Just a thought!

for the prices u dont get much anyway and its cold here in wales. (but thats what rallys are all about, going getting soaked through to the skin and havin a laugh with ur mates oh and the cars and stuff.) come on, wales aint all that bad (u try living here) but yes the prices r a bit ott so.. good luck to ya i say... have a nice time... :D

Yep your dead right there, Wales has lots to offer.

Return flight to Cyprus on Scheduled BA flight, so it was 'bing!' "Bacardi & coke please"....'bing!' "Bacardi & coke please"...'bing!' ......the whole flight £130

6 days accomodation £53

£1 per stage!!!!!!

....and a full tank of fuel in the jeep.....£10!!!!!!!!!!!!

.....and no bloody spectator pens!!!!!!!

Nuff said.

Bargain...you can't go wrong there! :)

same here
been going since 86 and the lack of choice and price is realy putting me off going this year
been to cyprus this year and going to germany and catalunya all cheaper and in my opinion better run events.
for a change this year i might get the swrt tickets and spend a few days with the team getting watered and fed (same as germany)

ps
is it me or has anybody else noticed that all the spectator pens are peat bogs
(at wrgb that is ??????????)

I think the last time I paid a decent entry price was back in 1999 when the rally was in Wales and England! I think I paid about £7 for the Crychan stage and about £11 for the Bleheim Palace stage! Got to say 1998 and 1999 were very good seasons with good entrys!!! :)


Not fhr Carlos though in 1998 :cry:

this is the 3rd time weve been to wales and we were at germany once we always sleep in the cars so we actually drove the whole way to germany and back in 1 weekend as for value the ticket was 50 is euros but the only time i needed it was for service area which is much better value than wales but there is other things to think about as germany is a tarmac rally you can drive on the roads they use which is cool but you dont always have much fredom to move stages, as the rally cars are using the roads u cant, therefore u cant get to the next stage. i got to a part i didnt know where i was last time but stoped as there were othere people there when i woke i relised i was parked in a field next to the rally route(which i was driving on. the vinyard section where every 1 made mistakes) so as the route was run twice i had to wait till the last gravel car after the second stage b4 i could leave sing posting may be bad at wales but at least the stages are open and maned well b4 the stage if u do find signs in germany they lead nowere untill just b4 the stage starts. but the bigest and most important reason were doing wales not germany this year is the 'craic' plenty of people up for a laugh sleeping in cars getting drunk wiv bonfires fireworks(at night not day not near the rally cars that just p1sses me of) and a good laugh where in germany well its full of germans

sorry for ranting we will see those of u that are going there those that arnt o well u can always watch the 1 tv prog about rally on the sunday(dont get me started on that either)

dec and mez