点评:Went for UFC fight night for a bday so 2 couples. The building has no re-entry, which we knew, but is somewhat annoying for a 7 hour event (doors opened at 2pm and was over at 9pm). We didn’t arrive until 5:30ish which will be important later.
There is bad signage and we didn’t see anyone to help you find your section or seat like in the Calgary Saddledome. So we ended up walking the entire 2nd level because sections 231 - 233 aren’t on the signs, they ended at 230 lol.
So get to our seats and there’s ppl sitting in them, they were in the wrong section bc of bad signage as well and it was no problem so they moved. After an hour or so went for overpriced food and $20 beers and came back to someone sitting in our seats and someone had puked on the ground on seat 3 going into the row. Went back up, the event is starting again btw, to tell staff who said they would take care of us. So waited 1/2 hr or so eating and watching the event on the tvs in the concourse. Then went back to our seats and there’s still puke and the puker is sitting there again (in not his seat mind you) security/staff came down 2x because why idk but they saw the puke, asked who the puker was, and again said they were coming to clean it but didn’t want to interrupt while the show was on. We all know that and would like to watch as well, in our seats! There were lots of places they could have moved us but we didn’t think to ask and they didn’t offer. So we eventually sat over the puke for the last 2 hrs and nobody came to clean it up so that was pretty gross. Plus they cut off the drinks at 7:20pm bc there was a fight in the expensive floor seats. It seemed like a LOT of overserving was going on.
Getting out of the place was very busy and in general, the whole area seems to have road closures and construction messing things up but the uber drivers were great both coming and going! Lots of aggressive panhandlers and open drug use, which seemed to target the men more. I definitely would not want to be in the area without a giant amount of people around. This is sad because I used to love Edmonton and was never leery of it.
翻译:为了庆祝生日,我们两对情侣一起去看了UFC格斗之夜。我们事先知道场馆不允许重新入场,但对于一场持续7个小时的赛事来说还是挺麻烦的(下午2点开场,晚上9点结束)。我们大约5点半才到达,这一点稍后会很重要。
场馆的指示牌很不完善,也没有像卡尔加里的萨德尔多姆体育馆那样有工作人员帮忙指引观众找到对应的区域和座位。结果我们不得不在整个二层楼里四处寻找,因为231至233区并未出现在指示牌上,指示牌上标出的区域只到230区,哈哈。我们走到自己的座位处,发现上面已经有人坐着了。由于标识不清,他们也进错了区域,不过这没什么问题,他们就换到了别的座位。一个小时左右后,我们去买了价格虚高的食物和20美元一瓶的啤酒,回来后却发现又有人坐在我们的座位上;而且在第3排靠近过道的那个座位旁边,还有人吐了一地。于是我们又回去找工作人员,顺便说一下,此时活动又重新开始了。工作人员答应会帮我们解决。于是我们又等了半小时左右,一边吃着东西,一边看着大厅里电视上播放的比赛。然后我们回到座位上,发现地上仍有呕吐物,那个吐的人也又坐在那里了(注意:他坐的并非自己的座位)。保安/工作人员来了两次,原因我不清楚,但他们看到了呕吐物,还询问是谁吐的。他们再次表示稍后会来清理,只是不想在演出进行时打扰我们。我们也都明白这一点,其实我们也想乖乖坐在座位上观看演出啊!其实有很多地方可以让我们换个位置,但我们没想到去询问,而工作人员也没主动提出来。于是我们在最后两个小时里不得不坐在那些呕吐物旁边,可始终没人来清理,真是恶心至极。此外,晚上7点20分时饮料供应就被切断了,原因是高价的楼上层座位区发生了斗殴事件。看起来当时饮酒过量的情况相当普遍。
离开那里时人非常多;总体而言,整个片区似乎都因道路封闭和施工而混乱不堪。不过无论是去程还是回程,Uber司机们都表现得很棒!不过那里有很多举止粗鲁的乞讨者,还有人公然吸毒。那种情况似乎更针对男性。我绝对不愿意在周围没有大量人群的情况下待在那个区域。这真令人难过,因为我以前非常喜欢埃德蒙顿,也从未对它产生过戒心。