St Paddy's Day JOKE!
This 17th avenue location is ridiculous.
8 of us PRE bought $5.00 tickets in order to wait in line for LESS amount of time then people who had not purchased tickets.
2 of us were already in the pub. We arrived at 1830, still relatively early for a weekday event and saw two clearly different lines.
Line 1: at least 30 people deep
Line 2: 3 people deep (when we joined)
The ticket clearly reads "ticket holders receive priority entry - subject to AGLC/FIRE REGULATIONS"
Now, we aren't new to how rules work and 3 out of our group are former industry staff so we get the whole capacity thing. Two of us promptly got in, leaving four of us left. Over an hour later we get in.
Only after witnessing numerous non ticket holders jumping the queue, friends of friends of door guys, managers etc. All the while being told their at capacity and then letting the non ticket holders line in FIRST, "to be fair" because they were waiting for SO LONG.
Now, the whole point of purchasing a ticket is to have PRIORITY over mon ticket holders.
There was no band or dancers, fiddlers or bagpipers and we were left with awful top 40s and over priced green beer.
Never again.
Not the way to run an establishment.