Venue is too large. When you are seated past a certain point the sound quality is poor. Seats are very steep. There are much better places to see a band than here.

You cannot bring in your own food or drink (even water!!) which is fair enough, but people need to be told about this in ADVANCE when you buy tickets. At the last concert I was at, people were forced to throw out full bottles of water (or drink the lot on the spot) as they entered the buildings as they weren't allowed to bring it in!! What a waste of clean water, so disgraceful! Such a show of greed from a big company! And it could have been alleviated by TELLING PEOPLE IN ADVANCE that they can't bring anything in.

Food and drinks on offer are sub-standard and grossly inflated, eat before you go.

Toilet facilities are pretty good as far as concert venues go, they were as clean as could be expected given how many people were there.

Also it's quite a long walk from Olympic Park station, feels further than it looks on a map. Those with low mobility better off parking (and paying an arm and a leg) or get a taxi

My husband and I watched Celtic Thunder perform at the Allphones Arena. We had bought platinum tickets but I was disappointed with our seats. Whilst we were close to the stage - on Row 11 - we had to look up because the seats were quite a lot lower than the stage and were not tiered. To my disappointment, my view was partially blocked because the people in front of me were a lot taller than me.

We had taken two trains to get to Sydney Olympic Park from Circular Quay. When we arrived, we could not see any signs that pointed to the Allphones Arena. We managed to find the restaurant I had booked to have dinner before the show - Piccolo Roma - and had to ask someone there for directions to the Allphones Arena.

I highly recommend a meal at Piccolo Roma restaurant, which is a ten-minute walk from the Allphones Arena.

I'm here for the Roger Waters concert, up from Melbourne so don't know the area and headed to venue trusting there would be food of some description, I had low expectations. The food fell far short of those low expectations. Seriously, the venue is in great condition, well planned and built with lots of room for facilities - how hard can it be to make some reasonable take away food? The fish had the texture of a deep fried thong and the chips the taste and texture of cardboard. Its true I've never eaten cardboard, but I do remember chewing on thongs as a kid. So I tried some of the box the fish and chips came in, and yes it was remarkably similiar.
To offer such awful fare to people paying serious money for tickets is inexcusable these days.
Cheerio chums.