Few months ago they ran a special £100 for seats in the Directors area for the Sunderland v Palace game.
4 of us thought, what the hell, be a bit different to have a posh palace experience rather than our usual AW seats.
Food
First off pre-match, a very credible 3 course meal in Speronis, and not a bad couple bottles of wine with the meal either.
Half time back at the table (thats where everyone in the red seats sod off to!!) we were given tea's/coffee's and filled rolls.
Post Match - back at the table, more tea/coffee and loads of pies, samosas etc being served til 10.
All in... def worth doing again in future - esp for toilets which didnt resemble a melted lake of piss!
Seats
Our seats were towards the back (padded with arm rests no less) ... pretty good view, though partially blocked by pillars with a couple of screens above our heads too. The screens were actually really useful as from our seats in the AW we cant see the big screen.
Being able to see replays etc was brilliant - though why they feel the need to keep showing adverts for Palace merchandise during the game is beyond me.
Would love to have a few of these screens dotted around the AW.
Atmosphere
Now... this is where it went a little wrong.
I know the game was pretty dire, but ive never sensed such a non-atmosphere at a palace game before. No singing (at all), people around us who had no clue whats going on - 'that suarez is pretty good' - was one choice comment and I felt utterly disconnected from the game happening on the pitch.
Also it was a mixed crowd as when Sunderland scored lots of people nearby jumped up - guess thats to be expected though as its very corporate and ive no issue with that, in fact was nice to see some people who actually were passionate about the game.
All in.... worth the £100 to try something new and would consider doing it again.
Main outcome was that it made me appreciate my seat in the AW far more and the feeling of being so much more connected to the game.
4 of us thought, what the hell, be a bit different to have a posh palace experience rather than our usual AW seats.
Food
First off pre-match, a very credible 3 course meal in Speronis, and not a bad couple bottles of wine with the meal either.
Half time back at the table (thats where everyone in the red seats sod off to!!) we were given tea's/coffee's and filled rolls.
Post Match - back at the table, more tea/coffee and loads of pies, samosas etc being served til 10.
All in... def worth doing again in future - esp for toilets which didnt resemble a melted lake of piss!
Seats
Our seats were towards the back (padded with arm rests no less) ... pretty good view, though partially blocked by pillars with a couple of screens above our heads too. The screens were actually really useful as from our seats in the AW we cant see the big screen.
Being able to see replays etc was brilliant - though why they feel the need to keep showing adverts for Palace merchandise during the game is beyond me.
Would love to have a few of these screens dotted around the AW.
Atmosphere
Now... this is where it went a little wrong.
I know the game was pretty dire, but ive never sensed such a non-atmosphere at a palace game before. No singing (at all), people around us who had no clue whats going on - 'that suarez is pretty good' - was one choice comment and I felt utterly disconnected from the game happening on the pitch.
Also it was a mixed crowd as when Sunderland scored lots of people nearby jumped up - guess thats to be expected though as its very corporate and ive no issue with that, in fact was nice to see some people who actually were passionate about the game.
All in.... worth the £100 to try something new and would consider doing it again.
Main outcome was that it made me appreciate my seat in the AW far more and the feeling of being so much more connected to the game.
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