Hello Friends!
I am wondering what strategies folks have for getting really granular with the "Best Available Seats" maps. It seems ours are...not that great, and I would really like to start defining best seat on a seat by seat basis, which is something I have been able to do in other systems where I have created facilties.
Is anyone doing this and how are they accomplishing it?
Our main venue is just over 2600 seats and I would love to be able to rank each seat 1 through 2600 with 1 being the best and 2600 being the worst. I also need to be able to make sure best available seats are kept together in sections/rows and to reject the request if seats together are not available.
Thanks!
Jeff
Hi Jeff,
I'm not sure if this is as granular as what you were thinking, but we get pretty detailed with our Best Seat Maps when building new facilities or new zones for existing facilities. We also have a venue with approx 2600 and many different sections and sightlines.
As for keeping seats together, I think this is what assigning contiguity to each seat will achieve for you. Let me know if you have any questions. I'm happy to share any tips that might be helpful.Anastassia
Awesome! For your best seat zones, are you breaking these out by row? A few rows? Center vers Left vers Right? If you have boxes, are each box their own best seat zone? I am going to review all the documentation as well to get a better handle, but it would be interesting to see how many best seat zones you have in your 2600 venue. We have 31 and it feels too few!
Hi Jeff,We have between 38 and 45 best seat zones (depending on the show - for example, Classical vs Pops) I could definitely add more zones if we got more granular, but the way it's set up now has been working well for us. I do usually a few rows at a time. Here is the venue I'm talking about, if that's helpful - you can see that it has a lot of pods. For most sections, I do front to back for vertical fill, and centre out for horizontal fill. And yes, each of the boxes is its own zone - filling front to back both vertically and horizontally, because the seats are lined up one behind the other.
This is great info. I really appreciate it! WHOA that map. I can imagine it would be a grand gift if one day the SYOS maps can have rows oriented visually the way the theatre is actually set up!