Guess how much

you be lucky to get any change from a tenner imo

Well Guimness was £4.50 a pint. Serves you right for having a girly drink!

£8.70

I was on the pints but a female friend of mine was drinking vodka and lemonade (singles) - £5.70.

£9.20 !!!

And it was a 200ml can of orange.

I dont like to drink alcohol when at the races, i need to concentrate.

That's shocking Sonko. You expect to pay a bit more than you would in the pub but that's just taking the p1ss.

you cant justify it, can you.

I was paying more £2.30 for the lemonade, thats more than a cost of a 2 litre bottle.

Hip flask of tea is the way forward.

When i went to wimbledon they let you take a picnic in, that is how to treat the paying customer.

Indeed. Same at Lords. I took a hamper in.

To their credit, Sandown Park allow this as well. it is a little annoying most racecourses don't.

Gold Cup 2 years ago a couple behind me in the stands had a picnic hamper..Reminded me of a Fast Show sketch,The point when she said she'd have 50p on Kauto Star as he is "Quite good" pissed me off more than the offer of a salmon sandwich cut into triangles..

i think you'll find that if officials find alchohol on you going in, they'll confiscate it.

Email Cheltenham and complain, they need to start listening to punters

It's a bloody outrage.

Cheltenham has so much going for it and face it, we love the place, the racing, the atmos, the memories.

Given all this goodwill, beutiful setting etc they just take our good intentions and throw them back in our face time and again. From the false going reports, the 'pile them all in' nature of Gold Cup day, the rip-off food and drink prices and the patronising marketing - and that's before you even get to the 4day / 5 day festival debate.

You can make decent profits looking after and enhancing your core product and customers - look at Ascot who have courted controversy in imposing the dress code, because they understand that it's more important to be true to their customer base rather than change their product in pursuit of a mass market. Cheltenham could deal fair with their core customers and educate / look after those with a passing interest, elevating them from casual customers to passionate advocates.

Instead they choose to chisel every last penny out of anyone who coes within the orbit of Prestbury Park.

well i suppose one consolation is you wont see many annoying drunken racegoers at chelters ,at those prices they cant afford to get p**sed !

As I've said, contact them. Only when they start to recieve large negative feedback will we see a response

Or better still, get on their Facebook page and next time one of their asinine 'Hit Like if you think Big Bucks is great' messages come through, go to town on them in there.

You're a lot more visible and you might engender a few more similarly p1ssed off customers to vent spleen, to the effect blubirdfan highlights above

Exactly, in this day and age there are many ways of venting frustration at a 'product' in the public eye and so companies are far more likely to respond to it

Guess how much to get in  today at Newbury (thursday) ?

Nothing it's an RUK day and typically I'm going tomorrow and Friday. Think I got a double Brandy and Coke last year at Newbury and was over £7.  Will stick to Guiness or cider.  Bring it on.

£30 for me

30 quid??
i paid 18 for Ascot last Saturday.

Newbury had always been competitively priced during the week in the past.

£30 for the premier enclosure, thou i should had stuck to the cheaper side with it being a thursday.

Anyone paid more than that for thursday that is not cheltenham or aintree festival ?

I expect haydock maybe.

Haydock was £22 for The Paddock last Saturday, not sure about Premier.

Premier was £35 but if you order your tickets in September you get it for half price

last week ludlow was £21 in members ...£16 for tatts where the toilets were blocked , the food bar was like a scene from a prison canteen and the steppings were very slippy 'cos they could not be bothered to grit them ....ruk had a tent where anyone could walk in and it was a lifesaver .