I’m a travel expert – this is the hack I ALWAYS use to get £5 tickets for West End and Broadway shows

By ESTHER MARSHALL

Published: 11:37 BST, 21 May 2025 | Updated: 11:40 BST, 21 May 2025

If you’re a fan of the theatre who gets put off by high ticket prices, listen up.  

A travel expert has shared an easy travel hack that could let you see your favourite shows for a fiver. 

Chelsea Dickenson, otherwise known as the Cheap Holiday Expert (@cheapholidayexp), shared the ‘secret’ hack on her Passports Please! podcast. 

The budget travel pro says: ‘In big cities or places where they have lots of shows and events on, there can be a time when these shows and events do not sell out. 

‘But rather than the seat go empty, there are some websites and companies out there who will fill the seats.’ 

She then explains: ‘Just Google “seat filling” and the city that you’re after and you will find some companies that do this. 

‘And what you will find is that you will be able to go and see things for like a fiver or a tenner which could cost you hundreds of pounds.’ 

But Chelsea warns that the hack is generally kept quite secret, claiming that it’s like the ‘Fight Club’ code of theatre.  

Chelsea Dickenson, otherwise known as the Cheap Holiday Expert, shared the ‘secret’ hack on her Passports Please! podcast. She explains: ‘Just Google “seat filling” and the city that you’re after and you will find some companies that do this’

The travel expert says that performers could ‘dent their ego’ if they knew that some people had got tickets using the hack

She reveals: ‘I get it, the reason they don’t want you to talk about it is because I don’t even know if the shows that you’re filling the seats for whether the actors or the musicians know.’ 

The travel expert says that performers could ‘dent their ego’ if they knew that some people had got tickets using the hack. 

One commenter says: ‘Been doing it for quite a few years now and have bagged some absolute bargains!’ 

And another person adds: ‘There have been last minute ticket resellers as long as there have been theatres. 

‘It’s the same with anything that is time sensitive from hotel rooms to flights to cauliflowers. If they need to sell it, you can get a deal on it.’  

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I’m a travel expert – this is the hack I ALWAYS use to get £5 tickets for West End and Broadway shows

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