Not all fixtures are the same fixture
England v France and England v Scotland are the two that sell. The Calcutta Cup carries a rivalry nothing else in the championship matches, and France away from home brings a travelling support that fills a stadium on its own.
England v Italy is a considerably easier ticket and, for a first hospitality outing or a family group, often the better day — same stadium, same facilities, a fraction of the scramble.
The autumn internationals against the southern-hemisphere sides sit somewhere between: New Zealand and South Africa move quickly, the others less so.
What a Twickenham facility includes
Official hospitality at Twickenham pairs a seat with a named facility — a suite, a restaurant or a lounge depending on the package — with a pre-match meal, a bar and post-match access so you are not turned out into the crowd at the whistle.
The post-match part is the underrated half. Twickenham empties eighty thousand people onto a small number of roads and platforms at once; staying in the building for an hour with a drink is materially more pleasant than the alternative and costs you nothing in time.
The dress code
Smart casual is the norm across most Twickenham facilities, and some of the premium suites ask for a jacket. Rugby crowds dress less formally than Ascot but hospitality is not the terraces — no replica shirts in most facilities.
It is an English winter afternoon in an open bowl. The facility is warm; your seat is not.
Getting there
Twickenham station is a ten-minute walk and heavily loaded either side of the match. Driving to the stadium on a match day is a decision you regret at about six o’clock.
We usually place cars at Richmond or St Margarets with a short transfer, and hold a table in Richmond afterwards rather than fighting for one near the ground.
The Twickenham dress code, in full.
How the sourcing actually works
We are not a ticket agency and we do not resell hospitality. Packages at these venues are sold through the organisers’ own official programmes, and the terms of those programmes do not permit resale — which is exactly why the invoice and the tickets are issued to you, in your name, by the hospitality provider.
What you are engaging us for is the sourcing: knowing which package actually suits the party, getting the requirement in early enough to matter, and arranging everything around the day. Our fee is agreed with you and paid to us; the package itself you settle directly with the provider. Nothing is added to their price by us.
Because we place a request in your name we ask for the guest details the programme requires. Those details go to the provider for invoicing and ticketing and nowhere else.
The day around it
Around the day is the part most people underestimate. The hospitality gets you fed and seated. Getting eight people from Mayfair to the ground and back without a two-hour crawl, a table that will still take you at ten o’clock, and somewhere to stay when the whole city is full — that is the work, and it is the reason to use a concierge rather than a booking form.
We arrange the cars, the restaurant either side, the helicopter where it genuinely saves the day rather than merely sounding good, and the villa, chalet or suite if the fixture is the centre of a longer trip.
What we will not do
We will not promise a package before the provider has confirmed it is available. Flagship hospitality sells out, and an agency that takes your money on a maybe is selling something it does not hold.
We will not resell hospitality, and you should be wary of anyone who offers to. Packages bought outside an official programme can be cancelled at the gate.
We will not quote you a package price we have not confirmed for your date and party size. Prices move with the fixture, the facility and how early you ask.
No prices are published here on purpose. We do not sell the package — the hospitality provider invoices you directly, at their price. Send the date, the party size and the standard you want and we will come back with what is actually available. How our fee works.