Golden Circle Advice Needed - MetLife Stadium, NJ
 

Hey!

I'm planning on getting tickets to the gig in New Jersey and just looking at ticketmaster.com it shows the golden circle split into 4 pits.

Firstly is there no diamond circle at the MetLife?

Also is there much of an advantage getting early entry fan club GC tickets to standard GC tickets? I've had fan club GC tickets before and although early entry is great, standing around from 1pm is pretty lengthy. As we are coming from the UK spending a whole day queuing seems a waste when GC tickets are guaranteed a good spot anyway.

Would just like some advice from anyone who has been to the MetLife before, its gonna be an expensive trip, but a dream come true! :D

In USA you have seats so there are no Generell admission circles like here in Europe. And also you don't need an early entry since you bought your reserved seat. You can go 5 minutes before the show though and have your seat.

Oh well that's something I don't need to worry about then! Thanks for your help! :D

Hi there,

I too was thinking of making the trip to New Jersey to see the band at home as a once in the lifetime event while seeing some of the east coast at the same time. Rather than starting a new thread, perhaps someone can offer advice on the following questions:

1. Which is usually better – the first or 2nd night?? (had good and bad experiences of this in London at Milton Keynes and Tickers)
2. How do you obtain tickets – is there an ticketmaster in America?
3. For those before, is it better to sit or stand? (I’m standing at Slane so thinking maybe of seats this time?)
4. Is there any seating area which is best to enjoy the whole experience? Don’t want somewhere which has a big space in front due to H&S!
5. I assume it is easy to get to from New York where I am likely to be staying?


Thanks
J

2. yes, there is ticketmaster.com in USA
3. In USA everything is seated, there is no generel admission area
4. There are seats from front to back so it's first of all a matter of how many money you are willing to spend. Front row seats costs up to 1500 Dollars.
5. There are busses from NY to NJ, so no problem to get there. But you should rent a car in NJ since they don't have a public transportation like we know it from England or Germany. Even in front of the arenas and stadiums there aren't busses or even taxis because in US everyone comes by his own car to the shows (I experienced this in Giants a couple of years back, gladly I got a phone No. of a taxi company).

Interesting about the transportation around the stadium. There are some details here about rail links near the arena:

http://www.metlifestadium.com/directions.php#transit

Would be interesting to know, if people have used the rail links before what time they stop running after a gig? Also how long it takes from the arena to Manhattan by train? I'm going to have to sit down and look at all this soon.

That's a bit of an overreaction to be fair. Yes, there is no mass transit in most rural areas, but in general there is no issue of getting to a Giants stadium from NYC. So no worries there. NYC has good mass transit system.

If you want to get back to ny maybe but Not when you stay in NJ. We hat to call a Taxi coz there wasnt any . Here you See loads of busses and Taxis after an Event.

apart from Barcelona which i've done twice and had to walk both times from up on that mountain as no transport to be seen or had anywhere ..

Aloha !

1. It's certainly never the first night. When I saw them they did 4 shows there, 3 back to back and then 1 show a month later. Out of the 3 shows they did back to back the second one was the best, despite the third one having a way better setlist. It kind of depends if Jon's on his period or not.

2. Ticketmaster, it's very easy to get tickets. It's the same like anywhere else.

3. Like others have said, there's no standing area's at most American concerts.

4. It kind of depends on what you make of it yourself over there. There's no such thing as a crowd being one. Many are way too busy texting, getting a beer and stuff like that. Being upfront doesn't mean you're among bigger fans. Many of the fans upfront think they're the biggest fans because they bought the most expensive ticket, yet don't be surprised if they know roughly 10 songs. I sat at the GC at one show and was located next to Kid Rock fans who'd bought the expensive tickets solely for Kid Rock, who was supporting that night. :|

5. If I remember correctly there's a trainstation located right next to the venue. From there you can take a train to Secaucus, and from there trains run to New York and back. No idea about the timetables though. Don't think it's like London over there though, if you're in the city everything is very easy to get to, but once you're outside you'll have to rely on trains who take their time. There's no such thing as a subway running to the station, it's way too far from New York for that.

Yeah, I noticed this too. There were plenty of taxi's the last time in Barcelona but absolutely not enough compared to how many people actually needed one. I remember walking back from the venue to the hotel simply due to lack of public transportation.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan