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My review.
We arrived at 8:15pm. To our surprise, the line was super long. I guess with what we paid, and a venue the size of this, we assumed there would be more than ONE entrance to handle everyone arriving at the same time. We got in about 15 after 9.
After plenty of pre-party drinks at the hotel, and now standing in line for almost an hour, at this point, we both needed to use the rest room in mean way. And this is something I can’t believe no one has mentioned in their reviews. Was it not INSANE that there was just ONE bathroom on the lower level? (NOT counting the bathrooms in the VIP area – since most people did not have access to that area.) Is it just me, or is that CRAZY!!?!! So we went from standing in one line for almost an hour, immediately into another line for another 15 minutes. Poor girls had it even worse!
It’s been mentioned that there were close to 10,000 people at the show. At least 8,000 (guessing) of those had to have been general admission floor/non-vip – and to have ONE bathroom. I just don’t see how that is even legal, with fire code rules and what not.
Anyway, this meant that we missed the very beginning of the show (Tiesto’s introduction) – which was a big bummer. :/
I guess maybe a reason it hasn’t been mentioned by anyone else, is because once we were in, and had used the bathroom, and made our way into the arena, the atmosphere and music made us forget about the bad line experiences.
We had and AWESOME time. We had really been looking forward to this for a while, and Tiesto and his show did not disappoint us.
The sound was excellent. The circus folk were ‘interesting’. The lighting and rigging were incredible. The crowd was great. So many people jumping up and down in unison – so into the music. Definitely, GOOD TIMES. And Tiesto… he was a lot harder and faster than I expected, but that’s not a bad thing. Yes, he had a couple moments when I kind of cringed at the beat-matching, but it wasn’t anything horrible. The stopping of the music between sessions or whatever I could have done without, but again, it didn’t ruin it for me. I loved how he played some music I didn’t know, and even loved it better that he played some music that I DO know.
My favorite parts of the show were Love Comes Again, Just Be, As The Rush Comes, and the finale with all the confetti. The BEST part for me, was when he played Suburban Train. In general, the place was going ape-shit all night – which was awesome, and totally enhanced the experience… but when he played that song, the place literally exploded! (Plus, its my favorite Tiesto song – so I might be a little bias on that one.)
This was a first for me as far as events of this “concert” type… but I almost didn’t leave the same spot on the dance floor all night. The drink lines were to long, and I didn’t want to miss any of “the show” – so I ended up just getting lemonade whenever I wanted anything to drink (since there were no lines for that). I ended up drinking 1 vodka redbull, and 3 lemonades and came back to the hotel with tons of cash, which I normally would have dropped on booze.
Couple other things notable. For an all ages event, very few kiddies showed up. Guess maybe the price tag kept them away for the most part. Second – BOY was there a lot of eye-candy at this thing. When I wasn’t entranced by the music/show, I was admiring someone beautiful dancing next to me.
I’d do it again in a heartbeat, and hope we get something like this again. 
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i didn't go!
