This will go down as the WORST MUSIC FESTIVAL for the SUMMER
of 2012. We arrived to the music
festival with 45 minutes to spare befor the start of the performances. Since we bought parking for $25, we had
enough time to park and get to our seats.
Well it did not go as planned. We
waited 2 1/2 hours to get to the entrance of the parking location. We missed the first two acts while waiting in
line to get to the parking lot. Once we entered the Balboa park lot, we were
directed to a DIRT FIELD. I told the
attendant we paid $25 to park in Parking Lot A - which is stated on our
tickets. The attendant's comment was
"this is where they want you to park". I said, but we paid for
parking. Needless to say, we did not
have a choice. While walking to the
entrance to the park to get check in, other patrons stated that they DID NOT
PAY FOR PARKING AT ALL- they were allowed to park FOR FREE. When we arrived to the ticket booth to get
our wrist band, the unprofessional worker simply torn off the ticket handed us
our stub and the wristband, without attempting to put the wrist band on our
wrists. When finally got to the area for
seating, there was no one assisting, directing or anyone of authority to ask
any questions, we simple walked in the gated area without anyone saying
anything or noticing our presence. The
seats were not numbered. I paid $171
dollars for Platium seats just to be told to sit anywhere. The seating chart displayed on the Balboa
Park Music Festival website was misleading and not a true representation of the
actual seating arrangement The seating
chart displayed on the website was a replica of the seating chart for the
Verizon Wireless Meadows - formerly Irvine Meadows, which is false
advertisement. WE ARRIVED TO A DIRT PARKING LOT AND HAD TO SIT IN DIRT to watch
the concert - for $171 dollars and Gladys Knight DID NOT perform. The patrons
of this event should get together to file a class action law suit to disuade
future events of this magnitude, as this event was full of deception,
unprofessionalism and NO SECURITY.