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Murrayfield Stadium Tour

Hi everyone, long time no chat!
Finals season is upon me here at school, so sadly I have been a bit swamped with paper writing. Something fun however that I was able to do in one of my classes was take a tour of Murrayfield stadium. This is the rugby stadium in Edinburgh, and it is where the Scottish rugby team plays. The class I am in is called sports event tourism. We went to learn about the stadium and how it makes money, which was very cool!

Since my major is about event planning, we learned about the events that go on at the stadium. Some of these include business meetings, conferences, and weddings. As is the case in most stadiums, there are different size boxes that overlook the field. The box that I found most fascinating was the smallest one. It only holds around 15 people. Companies usually rent this out to schmooze basically. The tour guide said that audi rents it a lot. The company rents it, can bring anyone they want, get served food and drinks, and at the end of the game they get a full dinner. However, the catch is that it costs almost $3,000 PER PERSON to have a seat in the box!!! I thought this was absolutely insane. I have never considered how much money would be spent on box seats at something like a patriots game, but wow. That’s a lot of money!! The stadium was built in the 1990s for a few million and they just got out of debt THIS YEAR. Incredible with the price of these private rooms!! 
the field



walking onto the field


press room
press room

We got to see the press room which I found pretty fascinating as well. We saw the difference of what it would look like on tv vs what it looked like in person. It’s so tiny in person! Made me wonder about what other press rooms look like. 

lads

lassies

Quite possibly my favorite part of the whole stadium however was the fact that their bathrooms are labeled “lads” and “lassies”. Like you’re actually kidding. It’s hilarious that they actually refer to people this way but I love it. 
That’s all for now. I am trying to catch up on my blogs! My bad for being behind nana hehe xo #stayclassyscotty





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