It's not hard to get to at all (from NYC)...just that the transport is geared towards normal audiences and not U2 GA crazies.
Perhaps I did something wrong then?
I must admit I didn't really research how too get there as I didn't plan on going to the stadium. First went to MSG to see if I could pick up my tickets. I was told that I would have too go to TM at Macys or probably the stadium too get sorted. Macys TM outlet closed a while ago, nice one MSG ticket office
Next day me and my GF set off to Hoboken on the PATH. The dodderer at the stations info office looked at me as if I wanted too go to the moon and could possibly get a train but said I would be better off getting a $25 cab then the bus back to NYC.
Me and my GF decided she would spend a few hours in midtown and I would go and fetch the tickets on my own.
So headed back to 42nd st to get the bus as it was only 1 stop. Got my bus ticket (no 164 at door 224 anyone for future reference) and due to an unscheduled break
managed to miss the bus by seconds. The buses only run every hour so I got the next one.
Now I'm 99.9% sure I got on the 164 and was pleased to see the stadium emerging on the horizon and then start disappearing on the horizon all too quickly. I asked the bus driver if the bus would stop at Meadowlands and again was looked at as if mad and mumbled at in some sort of Chinese dialect. I decided to get off the bus at the Fairfield(?) hotel, which I am not sure was actually a stop.
I then spent about 45mins walking up the side of a busy road (bear in mind it was a blazing hot 90+)
Got too the barren carpark wastelands of the Meadowlands and pretty soon realised that finding an open ticket office may be a problem
I walked as far round the stadium as I could and eventually found a security guard for the building site. I asked where I could pick up tickets? Again I was looked at as if I wanted too go to the moon but there is a chance the ticket office at the Izod Centre may be open? I couldn't actually work out how too get to the Izod as the lovely looking train station in between the stadium and Izod was closed and shut off. Nice one Hoboken dodderer
At this point I decided too give up my ticket quest
. My uncertainty of the bus route, lack of people to ask advice and near death from heat exhaustion were leading me too panic a little. I had only $40 and not an atm in site - but no cabs around either.
Finally I found a lady who assured me she was waiting for the 164 back to Manhattan and could get a drink on the 2nd floor at the racetrack. The guy at the track kindly let me in to grab a drink.
45mins later, the bus turned up, hit the tunnel at rush hour, I hit times square at rush hour and eventually back to the East Village.
Sorry for rambling on but 7 hours in blazing heat, with no drink for a good while, combined with the uncertainity of waiting around was not much fun and could all have been avoided if the person at MSG had told me a) it was impossible to pick up tickets international will call not at the venue b) the venue would have no box office open.
For a country that, quite rightly, prides itselfs on customer services the lack of knowledge from the start was a bit puzzling to me.
Apart from possibly emailing TM beforehand and sorting something out? Possibly getting off the bus too early for fear of spending the afternoon driving around NJ? Pop Artist - Where did I go wrong?