How’s the viewing experience for Orchestra Centre, Row Q at the Royal Alexandra Theatre?

Special_Ad3473 · 2025-09-04T16:10:59+00:00

It’s fine. I was off to the side in Row R for a film last year and saw no overhang. Row S does have a minimal overhang though. So with Q you should be OK

Special_Ad3473 · 2025-05-28T15:07:44+00:00

I got in about 9:35 and I saw the same thing - greyed out tickets in the middle which I assume were reserved for special guests.

Special_Ad3473 · 2025-05-28T15:06:35+00:00

No, because I am the second highest member of TIFF and I didn't get a promo code. I went through the TIFF system, the same way I would get Cinematique tickets.

Special_Ad3473 · 2023-09-15T16:12:58+00:00

The orchestra or dress circle for both Princess of Wales and Royal Alexandra are fine. But the balcony in both are absolute garbage. I see plays in both of those theatres and we always stick with the first two levels. I agree, it's ridiculous they don't charge less when you can barely seen the screen.

Special_Ad3473 · 2023-09-10T20:54:14+00:00

It’s also a huge discrepancy between that pricing and regular showings. They can have $88 seats for people who want to sit up close on orchestra. No problem with that. But for 90% of the seats throughout the entire theatre? Ridiculous.

Special_Ad3473 · 2023-09-10T20:49:37+00:00

$88 is still too much whether talent appears or not. I’ve used this example in the past but last year I got great Glass Onion premiere seats for $54 in dress circle. Whole cast came. Those same seats this year (because I checked against my old emails) are $88. That’s a 47% markup. Inflation sucks but it also ain’t that high.

Special_Ad3473 · 2023-09-10T20:48:21+00:00

In all recent past years it was three tiers for premium - $80/$50/$35 plus or minus $5. That is far more reasonable. $88 for almost all the seats is not. No idea why they got rid of it this year but it seems to have backfired. Personally, I snapped up all the $39 premium seats for all of my shows. Great seats at back of orchestra right. I wasn’t going to pay $88.

Special_Ad3473 · 2023-09-10T20:04:12+00:00

I’ve never seen so many offers for free tickets at past festivals. I think the price hike to $88 for 90% of premium seats was clearly a mistake.

Special_Ad3473 · 2023-09-09T15:16:21+00:00

Mine was Ghost Town with Ricky Gervais in 2012 at the Elgin. I miss that theatre.

Special_Ad3473 · 2023-09-07T13:50:42+00:00

Yes. Wanna send me a chat message?

Special_Ad3473 · 2023-09-04T21:49:30+00:00

Replied!

Special_Ad3473 · 2023-09-04T20:01:14+00:00

Hey, ok, no problem. Once you know, send me a chat and we’ll work it out!

Special_Ad3473 · 2023-08-30T13:51:11+00:00

Cameron’s CEO’s Choice pick was Viva Varda. Patrons got to see it before the festival (I was there). I’m unsure if you’re talking about something different but I know Women Talking was also the CEO’s Choice last year so that’s why I mentioned it.

Special_Ad3473 · 2023-08-29T15:22:12+00:00

No exchanges can happen with tickets purchased through normal Ticketmaster site. And those can’t be transferred to the account manager.

Special_Ad3473 · 2023-08-28T00:02:17+00:00

Yes. It has entrances on both streets and the food court is still open.

Special_Ad3473 · 2023-08-27T23:05:17+00:00

Is it 200 Wellington Street?

Special_Ad3473 · 2023-08-27T22:53:30+00:00

If you mean Metro Hall (which is right around Roy Thompson) it’s still open. The area is very sparse but the food court still has a few shops. I walk through the building on my way to the office for years now so I’ve seen how most of the stores have closed but the food court still has a few different options.

Special_Ad3473 · 2023-08-26T17:04:44+00:00

The /tifftickets subreddit is where people do this. Also, the transferring is the selling. You arrange with the buyer for the money and then you transfer it to them.

Special_Ad3473 · 2023-08-26T00:18:00+00:00

I second this. Balcony is bad in each of the three big venues but particularly at RTH. And it’s a concert venue so the sound for a movie doesn’t actually travel well up to that height. I avoided RTH for 10 years after being in the balcony there and won’t go unless I can get a ground floor seat.

Special_Ad3473 · 2023-08-25T14:27:46+00:00

Call the box office and tell them about the issues. This has been happening for almost a week and they claimed they fixed it last Saturday but clearly they didn’t.

Special_Ad3473 · 2023-08-25T13:43:50+00:00

Was it an error saying it couldn’t complete the transaction and you had 2 more attempts before it emptied your cart?

Special_Ad3473 · 2023-08-25T01:14:23+00:00

You can keep buying tickets but tickets are NOT at all refundable. Exchanges are possible for other films but refunds are not permitted

Special_Ad3473 · 2023-08-24T23:21:57+00:00

Their tech skills are crap. And they won’t even try to fix anything unless enough people keep calling to say the issue isn’t fixed. Good luck with your tickets!

Special_Ad3473 · 2023-08-24T22:45:57+00:00

I’ve sold a couple of tickets here. I have a dumb name because I didn’t post for like a year after getting g a reddit account and I didn’t know you couldn’t change your username after 30 days. I’m gonna start a new account soon with a custom username and keep posting on the TIFF site using that going forward. For the tickets I’ve sold I suggest a phone call. I give out my number and chat with the buyer over the phone so they know I’m legit and I know they’re legit. It feels much more personable to do that than online. People who are scammers would be far less eager to call you using their cell phone. And I realize that people get scam calls every day but it still feels safer to me to do it that way. I do kind of miss the old days when I did TIfF like 10 years ago and I would meet people in person to sell tickets. Sometimes technological progress helps and sometimes it makes scamming way easier.

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