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The crowd looked well down in the inside course tonight!
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Very poor attendance
Pre sales not very good for tomorrow Plus local pubs / hoteliers claiming turn over will be down As locals vote with their feet !!! |
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theres a way to get round new rules.
you can take beer in by car . get to chester ,go to nearest supermarket,buy beer,book a taxi to inside track ,pay entrance fee for taxi driver plus car,boot full of booze legally on course. |
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So just to get this right - people aren't allowed to take silly amounts of alcohol in (as is the case on any racecourse I've ever been to) so they stop going racing so they can carry on the drinking? Sounds like exactly the sort of person that ruins the races for so many.
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Just got back from Chester, place deserted, not even any scouse stragglers left over from last night
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Was Saturday better crowd still looked down?
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Never seen so many leave @ the fourth race
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good way to lose 20k a day well done mr thomas
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Online critics hit out at Chester alcohol policy
By Graham Green 12:57PM 17 JUL 2015 A SOCIAL media campaign mounted against Chester for preventing racegoers on foot bringing in their own alcohol has been dismissed by the track’s chief executive Richard Thomas, who has however pledged to open extra bars at Saturday’s meeting. RELATED LINKS Chester Saturday card The policy, which Thomas admits had teething problems when introduced last week, has spawned a Boycotting Chester Races page on Facebook with more than 3,500 ‘likes’, along with a wave of criticism, some of it vitriolic, on the TripAdvisor website. Responding to the protest, Thomas said: “We had to make the change. Normally you would wish to make any changes to rules and regulations at the start of the season, but we were left with no choice and so made the decision and went along with the police recommendation to stop people bringing in large quantities of alcohol by foot in the Open Course. “People can still bring alcohol into the picnic car park so we’re not talking about the whole of the course, it is only a fairly small fenced-off area where there are bars that sell alcohol at pub prices, so there is no argument we are profiteering and they are being operated by third parties. “We were probably guilty at the last meeting, or the contractor was, as only three and a half bars were operating properly and there were queues, so we have [now] increased that to six bars plus a Pimm’s tent.” TripAdvisor critics banned Thomas added: “Facebook is an interesting phenomenon and you can answer people as much as you like, but once they work up a head of steam away they go. However, interestingly, 12 of the people who put comments on TripAdvisor were not actually at the races – we have proved that – and they have been banned from the site.” He added: “It is not ideal and we’re aware there will be a dip in attendance in the Open Course and we’ll suffer financially, but I believe it will create a better, more family-like atmosphere and those people who have been put off in the past will come back. “People were bringing in crates of lager for personal consumption and the police were right that had to stop.” The move to restrict racegoers bringing alcohol into meetings came after complaints from some local retailers who accused the historic city centre racecourse of attracting “a drinking crowd”. |
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How did they prove that the Trip Advisor comments werent made by people on course.....that sounds like b$##$cks to me.
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It's amazing the power of social media nowadays.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boycotting-Chester-races/117702141898446 They are even trying to arrange trips from Chester to Ripon tomottow. |
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Dismiss your customers at your peril Chester Racecourse!
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They're such a money grabbing shower of toffee nosed work shy shysters you can't believe a word they say. They have been ripping off punter and bookies at every opportunity lets hope they've gone too far this time.
Getting people banned, what type of people are they? Unbelievable. |
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''selling alcohol at pub prices''
 London pubs maybe |
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Wassnot,i presume by your post,youre in favour ov your customers being full ov booze?
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No, I don't dervish. Chester have handled it really badly tho. Sounds like its been a problem for a while and they've only done something once the police have intervened. The high handed manner they have dealt with the complaints wont help with customer loyalty and to "dismiss" the social media campaign smacks of unbelievable arrogance.
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dervish, if the racecourse are worried about punters getting inebriated why dont they stop selling on course ???
... at highly inflated prices. ?? |
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there are bars that sell alcohol at pub prices, so there is no argument we are profiteering and they are being operated by third parties.
They must think we are stupid, the course charge the third party to provide the bars, the price is driven by the course. |
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£38 to get into Tatts on a bog standard Saturday is as much as you need to know about Chester racecourse and where they're coming from.
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i didnt go on course today, but judging by numbers in the pubs in the town i wouldnt be surprised if the attendance was lower than usual.
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