Firstly the 02 Venue.
i recently went to see WWE Wrestling at the 02
this was my first visit and i was so afraid of the seats!
it was packed and in order to get to your seat you need to shimmy across a 8 inch gap to your seat! with no railings! so if you fall or trip you can fall! well thats what i asume would happen! it was very scary! the venue is so big you can barly see whats going on!
but the seats inside the venue scared the hell out of me

The O2 as a place has a suprising amount of things to do!
lots of different places to eat, ice rink, cinema, 02 relaxation pods, free make your own dance video!
you can have a nice day out at the 02!
and there are always new things happening

The O2 is a cool place to hang out if you enjoy the feeling of living in an Orwellian-esque land.

I find the place rather terryfying.

We went to see Chris Rock last night in the arena, at a record breaking (for attendance) comedy gig. Half the gig was quite good, the rest was essentially a list of offensive cliches about the differences between men and women, black people and white people, black women and white men and so on ad infinitem.

The venue itself felt to me like a sort of sociological experiment. 15,000 people in one room watching one person seems in practicality to be wrong to me. For a band, it might be less weird. We were on the 4th level, at the back. The view was completely unobstructed and we could see almost the entire venue. But again this just reinforced the panoptic 1984 feeling.

From the balconies on the 4th floor you can see the tops of all the restaurants on the ground floor (of which there weren’t enough to accomodate all the people who were in the O2 last night). Being able to see the tops of the cafes, makes it look like a fake town. Like Sim City 2000.

Of course the Millenium Dome (as I will insist on calling it) is an impressive building, mostly in terms of its collosal size. It is quite exciting when you first enter it, but I couldn’t shake the feeling of not really being in a ‘real’ place. Of course, the fact that there are seemingly only chain restaurants in the buidling doesn’t help get rid of that corporate sense.

I think when the robots have taken over they will enjoy the Millenium Dome.

I visited recently for the Tutankhamun exhibition. As such I haven’t got to see the main arena space. However I did get to see the cinema and part of the ‘street’ that goes round the outside. It’s an amazing building. There’s loads of cafes of all types. It did seem a little short on loos (though I guess there are loads of them in the individual parts), and we only spotted one shop that wasn’t a café. Still it’s a great place to wander around among the artificial trees and ‘street life’. There’s ‘installations’ to look at, and a place where you can make your own dance video for free.

The open area outside on the way back to the tube station is also worth exploring. It doesn’t look much, but look closer. There’s a water wall, and the Greenwich Meridian cuts through, so you can get your piccy taken on that. At time of writing there was a display relating to the local area, which I didn’t get time to look at, and a huge statue of Anubis for the Egyptian exhibition.

Great selection of restaurants but the atmosphere is very cold. The Tut exhibition was limited and was like trying to view the Mona Lisa in the summer. Every piece on exhibit was placed in tiny viewing rooms compared to the sheer amount of people and everyone is squashed up against one another. The center itself was freeing and for a city that spends most of its time living in the colder seasons it makes you want to run and find a blanket and a fire to warm up next to!

When I arrived in London in early 2001, the Millennium Dome was a huge joke: the worst failure of an over-hyped let’s-kick-off-the-next-1000-years.
No one, at the time, thought it would become the most popular ticket-selling venue in the world.
I’ve been there three times, to see Prince, Bruce Springsteen, and Afrika! Afrika! I think that it’s just about as amazing as a large venue can be.
Access is so simple. The Jubilee Line runs right to it, and your short walk to the front door is entirely under cover. Buses, taxis, and driving are all accommodated for as well, though I can’t imagine why you’d bother with the hassle of the last option.
The building itself is gorgeous, I think, really interesting. Its only once you’re inside that you realise how functional those exterior roof “spikes” are, because they remove any need for interior sightline-blocking supports.
The lobby area is huge and ornate. It’s got shops galore. The interior arcade of bars, restaurants, shops, movie theatres, skating rinks seems endless. None of it’s cheap, of course, but if you want to beat the crowds, get there early, and have a fancy meal or a few glasses of wine before a show, you’re well catered for.
The performance area is great. Yes, it’s huge, but it’s round and very steep at the top, so even when up in the nosebleeds you’re much closer than you would expect to be.
There are tons of concession stands and toilets on every level. There seem to be plenty of staff on hand at all times, and they’re very helpful.
I’ve heard the nightclub-type venue inside the venue - the indigO2 - is quite cool, but I’ve not been in it yet.
They’ve got lots of fenced-in exterior space, too, which is where they put the Afrika! Afrika! tent.
The only painful part of a visit to the O2 is getting to the Tube afterwards. They throttle access into the Underground entrance after shows (to prevent crowds building up at the top of, and on, the descending escalators), which means you can often queue in the crowd for 10 or 15 minutes.
I hate the fact that there are acts I can only see at a venue as large as the O2, but if I’ve got to do it, I can’t imagine a better layout for doing so.

Everybody knows about the O2 as a venue, but it is not until one actually visits it that you can fully apprecite that its a fabolous place to hang out!it has every restuarant and bar you could possibly want…everything from nandos to starbucks, in fact i think it even has a club, all set inside the o2 which always has events taking place.and only 20 minutes on the tube from central london.

The O2, formerly known as the Millenium Dome is a cool place to hang out over the weekend with your partner or a group of friends. The O2 hosts a number of retsuaraunts, including chains such as Nando’s, Zizi’s and Gaucho and others such as Las Iguanas, which is a Latin American restaurant and cocktail bar, there are also many American Grill places there. The revamped venue also has a number of bars and clubs, a cinema with a large number of screens and particularly expensive tickets and of course, what it is known for, it’s concert venue, which is now taking a substantial amount of business from Wembley Arena. The O2 has been a host to many of music’s biggest players, Alicia Keys, Kanye West, 50 Cent, Spice Girls and the phenomenal Prince. I have heard many frequent concert goers complain about the prices of tickets at the O2 in comparison to Wembley as now they are forced to go to the O2 and pay the O2’s ticket prices to see their favourite artists. Nevertheless, I like the O2, it’s located a mere fifteen minute drive from where I live and offers a variety of things to do all in one stone throw away from the next. There are always exhibitions and interactive things to do, it reminds me very much of City Walk in Orlando Fl. Transport is also great here, the Jubilee line runs right to North Greenwich station, which is where the O2 is located, security is particularly strict here, searches are carried out and metal detectors are located at the entrance.
The only annoying thing about the O2 is that many bars close early due to being quiet for business, which means you can never gage what time your night may end. I found that on a Friday night most bars by eleven o clock were getting ready to close, we ended up heading to Urban Inc, a club in the O2, which was the only place open and staying open until three.
If you haven’t checked this place out yet then I would definitely recommend you do!