There may still be a chance to buy tickets for this summer’s World Equestrian Games (WEG), after UK companies have secured extra tickets.
Earlier this year, readers were left frustrated by the ticketing system, in which many disciplines sold out within hours.
But tour operator Equestrian Escapes, which has already sold “a couple of thousand tickets”, has recently acquired packages from Europe.
There are eight to 10 packages left in each discipline. They also have a “mixed eventing package”, which features the jumping phases of eventing, with endurance and dressage to music. Prices start at £725 per person.
Sports hospitality company Lucid Events has sourced hospitality packages for the dressage grand prix freestyle final (29 August) and the first team showjumping finals
(4 September).
The packages start at £650 per person to a VIP package from £949.
For Equestrian Escapes, tel: 01829 781123; for Lucid Events tel: 020 8614 0810
First published in Horse and Hound in 22 May 2014
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Martha is an experienced journalist who is mad-keen on horses and dogs. Her reporting CV includes the Paris Olympics, European championships, Aachen World Equestrian Festival and World Cup finals. After growing up with assorted liver and white springer spaniels, she enjoyed 14 years with two rescue dogs. Now, her constant companion is Fidget, an extremely energetic and habitually muddy black and white springer. Martha has written on topics as diverse as a top horse’s clone to the best GPS trackers for dogs, as well as equestrian and rural matters for Country Life, The Field, The Times, The Spectator and The Telegraph alongside Horse & Hound.
