Help First Time Queuing (Milan 20 October)

[TimotheeChalamet 6,032]

Hi, fellow GGDsters. 

The date of my show is approaching and I'm getting super agitated. It will be my first time queuing for a Gaga show and of course for my date only it will be pouring rain all day long without even half an hour of break, I will have to queue for 7 hours. I hate my life and I hope they don't cancel the show because the area will likely be flooded 😑

That said, I have some questions for you veteran queuers (?):

- How do you handle peeing?

- Are powerbanks allowed in GA?

- I'm going with two friends, one of them won't make it to the queue until several hours after me and the other one will arrive. Are we going to be flayed alive by other people if we sneak her into our spot?
 

Thank you, don't let this flop please  

Edited 11 hours ago by TimotheeChalamet

[River 118,541]

@TimotheeChalamet uncap the title plzzzz 

[Dadru 2,381]

You will definitely be allowed to enter with a power bank. For toilets, you will make friends in the queue and you can for sure leave your spot for a few minutes and return. Everyone has to pee eventually  

As for bringing in friends who arrive later: I should communicate that with the people around you if they are okay with it. I think mostly it won't be a problem, but maybe if suddenly 2 people join some get frustrated. Communication is key!

Edited 11 hours ago by Dadru

[TimotheeChalamet 6,032]

40 minutes ago, Dadru said:

As for bringing in friends who arrive later: I should communicate that with the people around you if they are okay with it. I think mostly it won't be a problem, but maybe if suddenly 2 people join some get frustrated. Communication is key!

It will be only one girl who will be stuck at work, so maybe they will understand 

[Oriane 21,212]

Yeah forget about the concept of queueing that you know, because you only know short and tight queues. Queueing for a whole day means that it's not going to start looking like a queue until the few last hours. People will be sitting and spreading everywhere, not following a particular order. They will leave and come back multiple times, to go get some food, go to the toilet, walk and stretch their legs, or even having a look at the rest of the queue (especially at a Gaga concert, you want to get a look at people's outfits). Get a last bathroom break 1-2 hours before the doors open, because the queue is getting very tight by then and it will be harder to come back after that. That's also the ideal moment to sneak one or two people into the queue, because it's so packed that you end up next to people who were a bit further, and nobody's going to realize that these people were not here earlier.

[TimotheeChalamet 6,032]

2 hours ago, Oriane said:

Yeah forget about the concept of queueing that you know, because you only know short and tight queues. Queueing for a whole day means that it's not going to start looking like a queue until the few last hours. People will be sitting and spreading everywhere, not following a particular order. They will leave and come back multiple times, to go get some food, go to the toilet, walk and stretch their legs, or even having a look at the rest of the queue (especially at a Gaga concert, you want to get a look at people's outfits). Get a last bathroom break 1-2 hours before the doors open, because the queue is getting very tight by then and it will be harder to come back after that. That's also the ideal moment to sneak one or two people into the queue, because it's so packed that you end up next to people who were a bit further, and nobody's going to realize that these people were not here earlier.

Good! Thank you. My only concern is that as far as I can remember, the space for queuing at that specific venue is a bit constrained.

Last time I queued there was "only" for 3 hours and it was a hit tight already, but I was 11 years ago and it was a very different concert 

Edited 7 hours ago by TimotheeChalamet