God, this is bad news. We indeed bought tickets in May last year when the baby was not yet conceived! We have tickets for 8 events and we are planning to bring the baby along.

KiwiMum - having read your response several times I still can't work out whether you are being sarcastic or not...if you are, shame on you, this forum is there for everyone to have their say whether you agree with it or not. If you are not being sarcastic then I apologise for misreading your tone!

I have just received my tickets for the basketball which I was intending to take my 3 month old baby to, however I have just discovered that the tickets are for the North Greenwich Stadium which is one of the venues where babies have to have their own tickets for. I thought I had fully researched this as the Basketball stadium is actually in the Olympic Park but for some reason some of the games are now in the North Greenwich Arena. I don't have a ticket for my baby and can't leave her yet as I am still breastfeeding and can't get through to the ticketing line to give me advice. Does anyone have any advice as to what to do?! I was so excited to finally get some tickets and it's now looking like I won't be able to go!

We will be taking our 9 month old son (in a sling) to two mens hockey games. When we entered the ballot for tickets I was pregnant so we applied for family friendly events and paid just £1 for a ticket for our baby. The tickets just arrived and he has his own seat number so I assume his own seat! We are super excited about the Olympics as we are kiwis and know the Olympics will never make it to NZ. Also sending hubby down to the library this evening to try and snaffle some torch relay tickets!

I was just looking at the 2012 website to check travel and saw this:

http://www.london2012.com/spectators/visiting/families/

"Babes in arms aged 12 months and under will be permitted access to London 2012 venues without a ticket provided they are securely strapped to their parent or carer by way of a baby carrier, sling, papoose or similar.

This policy applies to all London 2012 venues except the following, where there are existing licensing agreements that mean all spectators must have a ticket, including babies aged 12 months and under:

Wembley Stadium
St James' Park
Old Trafford 
North Greenwich Arena
London 2012 venues will be extremely crowded and you will have to queue. Because of this, we would advise you to think very carefully before making the decision to bring you baby along to your event.

Parents of babies must adhere to the LOCOG bag policy – that is one bag per ticket holder which must be soft-sided and a maximum of 25 litres. Furthermore, parents must adhere to the food and drink policies for spectators."

No quite sure where we stand now. This seems pretty clear but completely contradictory to everything gone before!!!!

I ll be far far away from it all! Wish you all to gave fun there, for us it us just a nuisance!

Thank you so much Ianmum for passing on that pearl of wisdom. I'm so glad there are people like you to keep the ignorance and selfishness of other parents in check. And well done on again being clearly smarter than most to have read the booking instructions properly meaning you've got tickets for your own children. Though can't imagine why you think your attitude would make you unpopular with people? I imagine you're great fun to be around.

I know I am not going to be popular with this reply... But when the application process was happening, it was quite clear which events were family friendly, and you could apply for a ticket which cost the age of the child, so I paid £4 and £1 respectively as that's how old my children would be. I was lucky enough to get one of my many choices. Like with everything, when you have children, sometimes we just have to accept that there are something's we just can't do! My passion is the theatre and I missed out on several plays with each child that I would've loved to see, but that is just part of being a parent. I was also a breast feeding mum and I used to go with my other half to the theatre (matinee) and feed the baby until just before curtain up and they would go off for a walk and i knew they could last till the interval where I met them, fed again if they wanted it, or knew they would be ok for the 2.5 hours. I know the Olympics is a very emotive issue but sometimes we just can't do everything we want to.

Hi All - I spoke to the London 2012 tickets customer service team, and sometime in the Spring (you will get an email if you secured full priced tickets to any event) they will open sales for baby tickets which I think will be one pound and they will try to seat you together. The only issue is there is no guarantee and I imagine it will be nearly impossible to get through to their phone line! (No online booking will be available). Pretty annoying for those of us who weren't even pregnant when we applied for tickets! I hope they rethink this silly policy (what are people breastfeeding supposed to do!?) but the people I spoke to seemed to think that wasn't going to happen. Perhaps a larger BBC campaign will do the trick! :D
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My husband and I have tickets to rowing and assumed at the time we could take our 2 year old for free if she sat on our knee. We have been trying for months now to find the appropriate people to confirm this with but have had no luck. Now we'll also have a 5 month old and I'm still none the wiser on who I should contact about kids tickets for rowing . Can anyone help?

I am taking my then 2 year old to see handball. It was really cheap to get him a ticket, I think 2 quid. It will be just me and him. Why not?

made the beeb - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16758568

We've got tickets for the Archery at Lords and are planning to take our little one who will be nearly two. I'll have a new baby by then and am going to try and get an additional ticket for them too. We're going with my Dad and brother and are looking forward to a family day out even if it means we all have to take turns to see any of the event!

We know Lords as a venue well (big cricket fans) so I know how baby friendly it is with great space to move about and good changing facilities etc. To be honest the tickets weren't that expensive (my little one goes for £1 as a 1 year old) and I just want to say 'we were all there' and to have the tickets/photos for their baby books. I don't suppose the Olympics will come to their home town in their lifetime again so I want to be able to say we did it together.

I hadn't even considered taking my young children or the baby that I will have had when it comes around...are people really going to take young children? I think the baby would be much happier at home with a baby sitter (fortunately I have one that I can trust, I guess it might be different for those without a trusted babysitter?)....though now just realising maybe as I'll hopefully be breast feeding it might be an issue....mmmm

There was an article in the evening standard about this a few nights ago, and your £5 is pretty reasonable, they had someone having to pay £95 for a babe in a sling for an equestrian event I think it was...
(although maybe you can't trust all you read in the newspapers ;)