Drexler
Yesterday

Travelling to USA soon any advice appreciated

Hello

Myself and pops are heading to USA in early November and want to catch an NBA, NFL and NHL game at minimum. Likely going from California to NY via Vegas from Nov 3rd to Nov 18th. We don't have a team as such so will literally watch anyone play anyone.

Can anyone who has done a similar trip in the past or recently offer any advice around ticket purchasing - what are the best websites/platforms to use? I'm happy to spend a bit more on NBA tix as I don't follow football or hockey but the budget is in the hundreds not thousands for a seat!

Any info is greatly appreciated even just general travelling to the US tips

Cheers

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Dunkman
Yesterday

Good luck but it looks like mayhem over there at present, sorry no advice. ::))

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LoveBroker
Yesterday

I have done this but a loong time ago, Dec 2007 to Jan 2008.

I tried to buy tickets in Australia but NBA.com would not let me because I had no US adddress, OK.

When I got there I tried again and it would not let me pay with my Australian Credit Card as it was not to a US address.

I went to the NYC NBA store to buy tickets but again my CC would not work, this CC worked in other places.

The game at MSG was sold out.

There were many tickets available in Washington, I walked past and saw Chris Brown outside the arena, but I didn't want to see Washington.

As a C's fan I wanted to see BOS @ LAL (Staples). I tried several things but could not get tickets. In the end I spoke to the Concierge and he bought the tickets for me using his card and I paid him cash plus big tip.

It was US$250 for one row back from the back wall in the top tier.

Still a memorable night to see KG, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen take on Kobe, Bynum and Derek Fisher.

I would hope that these days they allow foreign credit cards to buy tickets OR there are alternatives like WISE cards.

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Drexler
Today

Cheers for all that. I have a wise card will give that a go. Luckily old man has childhood friend living in NY so maybe if we run into issues he can do something on our behalf. Always hearing stuff about stub hub for ticket reselling over there but yeh makes sense trying to buy it with an Aussie card wouldnt work. I'll keep investigating.

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