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Here's a deal if you've got a Visa Signature card.

3rd floor grandstand ticket for both oaks day and derby day

$325 plus S/H

can find it at www.visa.com/signature

I looked at the information on the website. This is a GREAT deal for those on this thread looking for 2 tickets. $325 per seat for both the Oaks and Derby in the 3rd Floor Grandstand (which are real seats versus bleachers) is face value without any PSL fee (which is over $1,000). Plus you get a VISA rain poncho.

The only downside is that you can only buy 2 tickets per cardholder and you must have access to a Visa Signature card to pay for the tickets. The website states supplies are extremely limited. I imagine these seats would be somewhere in Sections 322 to 325. With the great price on these tickets, I would suspect the tickets may be mailed out only a week or so before the Derby so that people do not buy and resell them.

Compared to the prices of hotels ($400 for the Econo Lodge?!? :zz: ) Derby tickets look cheap!

Ramada Inn in Sellersburg is the spot.

I am staying at the new Holiday Inn on Crittenden Drive this week for work. You can see the Churchill Downs twin spires outside my hotel room window. They still have Derby weekend rooms available for $469 per night. I think the Derby rate starts on Thursday night before Oaks day. Therefore, I am checking out Thursday morning.

Question for the masses - has anybody received their tickets yet?

Mine were delivered Monday 4-6. Actually they came certified so I had to go pick them up.

Same here

400 bucks for a room? i will gladly watch from my 85 buck room in berlin, with a fraulein in hand!:tro:

Received my tickets last Friday, April 3.

Uh oh. Wonder why mine haven't arrived?

Same here. Haven't received mine yet either

Mine arrived in DC yesterday.

On that note, I have two sets of three tickets for the Derby in Section 124. I'd like to get one set closer to the other set as we have a group of six going. If anybody has seats close to mine and interested in entertaining a trade for three seats in 124 row C please PM me.

I'm in 125 A, and wouldn't you know it, the tickets arrived today.

uh oh.....Both days?

I have not received my tickets yet either. I called Churchill yesterday. I found out that for some reason mine was not shipped. I spoke with a nice guy named "Trevor" and he told me they would be sent out that day. I am really looking forward to getting them. I run to the mailbox every day.

That's right, Scav, both days.

I have an option for the seats for the same price in either section 222 or 120. I have never been and was curious what people would reccomend

Um, 222? That's a no brainer.