Excellent air displays overall, parking chaos, overpriced food/ retail outlets, pay more next year! NO thanks
The Royal International Air Tattoo的点评
点评:I was eagerly looking forward to RIAT 2025 as I'd not been before. A work colleague goes every year and raved about it although she said the line-up this time was not as good as previous years.
I went with my 14 year old son for a nice day out. I shoould have booked the Early Bird ticket at £45 (I think) but I left it too late so had to pay the £79.50 fee. I figured that acceptable for two people.
I drove to the event and all went smoothly until around a mile from the venue then everythgin just stopped. The final mile took over an hour. For an even that takes place every year this is simply not good enough. Parking was at least free on the day.
The events are always affected by the weather and true to British weather heavy rain was forecast and the display was affected, however not too drastically.
The C5 galaxy was a real highlight being able to 'walk through' the enire aircraft hold from nose-up end to the tail. Awesome.
Sadly some other highlights did not fly but we still enjoyed the F16, Typhoon and Gripen that are always impressive.
Overall I loved the day excluding the queues to park,
However, food is ridiculously overpriced. Expect to pay about £16 for a burger, £5 for chips, you get the gist. There are many eateries all similarly priced.
The are also many commercial/retail outlets selling souvenir items.
Everything is overpriced and for the day out I spent about £80, that's excluding the tickets.
Parking was free in 2025 but for the 2026 event it's £15.
The Early Bird price for 2026 has now increased to £69.50 - a whopping 54% increase!!
There can be no justification for these price increases and sadly I won't be going again.
翻译:我热切地期待着2025年的RIAT,因为我以前从未去过。我的一位同事每年都会去,对这次活动赞不绝口,尽管她说这次的阵容不如往年。
我带着14岁的儿子去那里度过了愉快的一天。我本应该订45英镑的早鸟票(我记得),但我去得太晚了,所以不得不支付79.50英镑的费用。我觉得两个人可以接受这个价格。
我开车去了活动现场,一切都很顺利,直到离会场大约一英里的时候,一切都停了下来。最后一英里花了一个多小时。对于一个每年都会举办的活动来说,这简直不够好。至少当天停车是免费的。
活动总是受天气影响,正如英国的天气一样,预报有大雨,展览受到了影响,但影响并不大。 C5 galaxy 的一大亮点是能够“穿过”从机头到机尾的整个货舱。太棒了。
可惜的是,其他一些亮点没能飞,但我们仍然欣赏了 F16、台风和鹰狮战斗机,它们总是令人印象深刻。
总的来说,除了排队停车之外,我很喜欢这一天。
然而,食物贵得离谱。一个汉堡要 16 英镑左右,薯条 5 英镑,你懂的。很多餐馆的价格都差不多。
还有很多商业/零售店出售纪念品。
所有东西都贵得离谱,那天我花了大约 80 英镑,这还不包括门票。
2025 年的停车费是免费的,但 2026 年的活动停车费是 15 英镑。
2026 年的早鸟价现已上涨至 69.50 英镑——涨幅高达 54%!!
这些价格上涨是没有任何道理的,遗憾的是我不会再去了。