Best Seats and Travel Suggestions for Ashes Boxing Day Test Cricket

heal on 03/06/2025 - 13:16
Last edited 03/06/2025 - 13:16

Ashes tickets go on sale today and I'm looking at booking some tickets for my son and I to watch the first three days.

I've checked the ticketing website and am thinking it would be good to get boundary tickets on one of the days, then go up a level for the other days. Looking at the map I'm thinking sections M154 for the boundary day and M54 for the other two days. This should hopefully keep us out of the sun all day.

Does anyone have suggestions for any particular seats in these sections, or should I be looking at a different area.

This is on my bucket list and we'll be travelling from south west NSW. I'm working day shift Christmas day finishing at 5pm, have family in Bendigo so we could stay there or we could get accommodation close to transport to and from the MCG. I might stay Christmas night with family and get public transport the next day to Melbourne.

If I do this is there anywhere we can leave our bags until after the first day is finished before we check in to our accommodation?

Or I could just drive down there early on the 26th. It would be just over a 4 hour drive to the MCG and I'd have to park at the ground.

I'm open to suggestions as to the best way to manage this and suggestions for accommodation near to public transport to the MCG and good places to eat.

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Comments

  • geekcohen on 03/06/2025 - 13:27
    +1

    I'd have to park at the ground

    If you are lucky. MCG doesn't have the biggest parking and it is weather-dependent too, due to be grass. It isn't always open.

    If you need parking, better to park somewhere around Flinders Street and then train it to Richmond.

    • heal on 03/06/2025 - 13:46
      +1

      I'm leaning towards staying in Bendigo on the 25th and catching a train into Melbourne. Someone suggested below to contact our Hotel and leave our bags there for the day

  • soan papdi on 03/06/2025 - 13:38
    +1

    IIUC, get seats in the northern side of the ground so you're not getting the sun in your face all afternoon.

  • soan papdi on 03/06/2025 - 13:40
    +1

    If I do this is there anywhere we can leave our bags until after the first day is finished before we check in to our accommodation?

    Call the hotel you want to stay at and ask if they can hold your baggage before checkin.

    • heal on 03/06/2025 - 13:45

      Great idea, any hotel suggestions close to the ground and good food options that won't break the bank?

      • soan papdi on 03/06/2025 - 13:49
        +1

        Trams within the CBD are free, so you can pick any hotel in the CBD within your budget. I can't recommend any since I live in Melbourne already

  • heal on 03/06/2025 - 13:58

    Tickets open in 3 mins. I'm feeling like a child in a lolly shop.

  • heal on 03/06/2025 - 15:34
    +1

    Missed out on tickets. Process was a fiasco. CA said tickets would be available from 2pm. I clicked the link at 1:59pm expecting to get a message that tickets still aren't available. I went straight in the queue with over 20000 people in front of me.

    • Protractor on 03/06/2025 - 15:39
      +1

      Get yourself a Richie Benaud wig and suit.Sneak in.

  • heal on 03/06/2025 - 22:03

    CA ticketing is a joke. Managed to get tickets for 27th and 28th, so some accommodation suggestions would be good

    • Protractor on 03/06/2025 - 22:30

      CA and the AFL are money grubbing scum.Always were,always will be.

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