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| - Here to watch the Oddball Comedy Fest with Amy Schumer, Aziz Ansari and 8 other comedians. The show provided lots of good laughs (4stars for that).
I was going to give this 2 stars, but really that was for the "draining experience" for attending a popular show on the last day of CNE!! If you are mentally prepared for the crowds, it's tolerable! I personally do not need to experience it again. The entire experience left me drained...crowds lining up getting into the amphitheatre, crowds in the amphitheater, crowds getting out of the amphitheater, crowds leaving the CNE grounds (we took the streetcar).
However, this is a review about the venue, so I give it 3 stars.
Learned some really important lessons from this visit that I'd like to share below.
1) Good thing we got row 100 seats (ground level seats / non VIP) so was allowed to enter through the VIP entrance (did not know prior to purchasing tickets). The queues for all the back rows were humongous! I would not have had patience to go through that.
2) The tickets say the show starts at 5.15pm but when you got there, the main acts do not start until 7.10pm! (The gates open at 4pm.). There were some side acts that started at 5.20pm but it was standing room only and so so so crowded you could hardly move or even see. And honestly, people were waiting for the main acts.
3) Once you pass the gates, there is NO RE-ENTRY!!! If we knew that, we would not have trapped ourselves with the 1000s of others inside the premise to be subjected to limited fast food & expensive drink choices. Would've definitely ate at a restaurant before entering.
With 2 hours to bypass time, we stood in line for what we thought was the best food option: Rancho Relaco gourmet (Mexican) food truck. There was only one other truck: an ice cream one. Unlike other reviewers mentioning more truck options. The Amphitheatre had their own concession stands like pizza pizza, foot hotdogs, chicken tenders, beer/drinks ....etc. Rancho Relaxo was ok, it took us 45 min. to wait in line to get our burritos. The order taker was really awesome and friendly but we weren't really here for the food. Was forced in a way to try it because of the situation. Perhaps we will try their restaurant location if we are ever at College/Spadina.
4) purchase you tickets from credible sources. Eg. Ticketmaster.
Finally when the gates opened, we were led to our seats and someone was already sitting there with exact seat numbers on their tickets!! They said they purchased their tickets from kijiji from someone who couldn't attend the show. We purchased ours from ticketmaster. We had the venue management look into it and the other couple got led out by security because we think they got scammed by someone selling fake tickets!!
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