2018 World Chess Championship: Attendance an Awful Experience

I attended Game 10. Ticket price £75.
The doors opened at 2:00pm and I was in the ‘Game Room’ for the start at 3:00pm. I didn’t enjoy the experience. In a nutshell: the seating was bench like and very hard being akin to MDF board. The players were cut off ‘on stage’ behind sound proofed unidirectional glass. The seating was only gently raked. Players were blocked from view for the first 8 moves or so by cameramen stood shoulder to shoulder inside the glass. Might as well have watched on a PC in a comfortable arm chair. Spectators were allocated 30 minute slots to be in the Game Room. So I got 3-3:30 then 4:40 to 5:10 but it was so uncomfortable that I didn’t go back in at all.
In the venue was a small room with a screen receiving a broadcast of the game. The densely packed seats were individual hard chairs rather like poor quality hard plastic patio furniture.
There was a small cafe which had standing only type high tables, no chairs.
The best seats were in the toilets.
In summary: a waste of time and money.
On the plus side: I enjoyed the National Gallery in the morning and lunch with a pint in central London.
In 1993, I attended the World Championship between Short and Kasparov in the London Savoy Theatre. What a difference: no partition from the stage, comfortable seats and no limit on the amount of time watching the game on stage.

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Sounds pretty bad.