I know this is a bit far in advance, but thinking about days off before others in our office get in first (summer can be booked up by end of Jan/Feb).
Anyone queued for Wimbledon tickets before? Or used the resale for the show courts? Did you have much luck? How long are queues, what time did you arrive and for which day etc?
Thinking of going this year but didn't try the ballot etc (should have!).
Would actually go to the effort of camping out etc for show courts tickets but might be a bit expensive for me and a friend I may be going with at £100+ each, so possibly looking at early hours for ground tickets and then the resale queue but want to know if it's likely to be a day queuing without actually seeing much!
Advice on the best days/busiest days etc welcome too!
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Edit: @BR7_addick beat me to it
The queue is fun and I would do it again.
I know people who've gone late afternoon and got the tickets of those who left early. They got good courts.
So I'd say do either.
If you want Centre or No 1 you probably need to camp overnight or drive there and get in the queue by about 5am.
If you're camping overnight you may as well get in the queue early and maybe take turns to go for a wander.
But it's all guesswork.
500 tickets are kept back for centre court, number 1 court and number 2 Court for the first 10 days of the tournament. You'll really need to queue overnight to get one of those.
Otherwise you can buy a ground pass on the day. Get there early - before the first tube gets in - and you will almost certainly get one. Get there about 6 or 7 and you should be OK.
If you get a ground pass, once you are in you can queue again at the ticket resale office on Henman Hill for a ticket for centre court. (As people go home, their centre court tickets are scanned and resold for charity) You may have to wait some time but there's a good chance you can get on Centre Court for a few hours at the end of the day. In fact, when I was working one day last year I saw the first ticket sold at 3.30pm.
Give it a go! It's a great day out and I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
Think we might look at camping but in the first week in the hope of show court tickets but while they are £60-70 not £120-140. Seems less queuing etc then next morning too and not the end of the world sleeping in a tent for a night in summer! Probably nicer than getting up at 4am then trying to get in without public transport.
The ground tickets and resale look tempting because of the price though!
You better check the price of tickets. Centre court tickets start at £66 on day one this year and get progressively more expensive. So you won't find many in the £60-£70 range.
The overnight queue is fun. I'm told it's a good place to make friends!
The ground tickets and resale option is tempting - if i remember right £25 and £10 respectively last year - but you can spend a lot of time queuing. In fact, quite a few people who want to do this option go straight to the resale queue when they get in. Guess it depends how keen you are to get on a show court or just watch tennis.
Cheers for the advice!
Oh, meant to ask - can you see the big screen from the resale queue?
As you get nearer the front, you might see it at an angle but it wouldn't be a great view.
You can see this years prices here.
https://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/atoz/tickets_and_ticket_prices.html
I do wonder how many buy those pop up tents especially for it then can't put them down again.