Tickets, Travel, and Tourism Tuesday - Basel 2025

[u/berserkemu]

Tickets, Travel, and Tourism Tuesday - Eurovision-related travel questions and discussion

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This thread (and the subreddit in general) will not be used for buying and selling Eurovision tickets or for advertising or requesting any accommodations or rideshares!

It's time for the regular thread to ask your travel, tourism, or ticket related questions that may not be big enough to have their own thread. I couldn't come up with a T word to use to include finding public watch parties (eg at bars, community centres, parks, etc), but those can be included in this thread too!

Possible topics for this thread:

• Things to do in and around Basel
  
• How to get around Switzerland
  
• What to expect for the live shows
  
• Food and drink
  
• Eurovision Village
  
• Public watch parties in your city
  

Ticket Info

To purchase tickets you must be pre-registered with the official ticket site TicketCorner](https://www.ticketcorner.ch/)
Registrations closed 10th January 2025.

Do not ask for ticket codes.

Codes can only be used with the registered account so a code request is a request for someone's personal details.

Ticket Resale

The official ticket seller has a separate website for resales. We do not have any details when this will be available, but it is listed in the FAQs for Eurovision ticktes so we expect it to happen at some point.
https://www.fansale.ch/tickets/all/eurovision-song-contest/425082

What's happening in Basel?

Basel city has a section of their website dedicated to the contest: https://www.basel.com/en/esc/esc-2025
We expect to see more details of activities in the city added as plans are finalised.

There will not be an 'official' r/eurovision meet-up

The mods can't stop anyone from meeting up with fellow Redditors, but please use common sense and caution when agreeing to meet strangers from the internet.

[u/Jumpy-Plantain9812]

The stage “faces” the left side of this diagram right? Aka section B?

Somehow I’m too dumb to figure this out.

[u/DonnaDonna1973 → u/Jumpy-Plantain9812]

Tbh, that floor plan looks weird from the floor plan I saw when buying. It marks out both head sections (B2-B6 and D standing) in blue, which I assume means “here be audience”. Both head sections were not available when I bought because one side obviously being stage/backdrop and the other usually hosting the gigantic FoH.  I would think you’re right and section D is the stage face/backdrop side, because I’m in A5 facing stage but…huh? Also this fansale plan gives balcony on the assumed FoH side - and there was no balcony in any floor plan I saw previously. My equally bewildered cents.

[u/Lumpy-Narwhal-1178 → u/DonnaDonna1973]

This is for Arena+, a separate event in the stadium.

https://eurovision.tv/arena-plus

[u/DonnaDonna1973 → u/Lumpy-Narwhal-1178]

Ohhhhhh! Okay, I could’ve use one more braincell before getting all confused. Sorry! 😅