Sunderland Live Houghton-le-Spring reviews by real event-goers

Review of Taylormania

Review of Taylormania

Review of Taylormania

Review of Taylormania

Review of We Are Bounce U18s Rainton Arena

Very impressed as a parent that the security would not let them leave till a parent turned up!

Review of We Are Bounce U18s Rainton Arena

My son loves going and I no he is going to be safe with the secretary

Review of Sunderland Live Monster Truck Show

Truck show itself was good, kids loved it, however for the 'ride attraction' it was abysmal, £4 for a ride on a tea cup, a 'crazy house' which took 2 seconds to walk around, ball kick and a hook the duck. I'm very glad I didn't come at 11 and arrived at 12 but then still it was stated the truck show started at 1:00pm it didn't start until 1:30 and was finished by 1:45. Online it states that if you purchase a family ticket in which we did you would then get the monster truck ride for half price, false advertisement as I still then had to pay £40!!!! I'd never recommend anybody to go here, a lot of things need looking through and sorting, absolute rip off, false advertisement and all around joke.

Review of Sunderland Live Monster Truck show

Review of Sunderland Live Arena Monster Truck Show

This was completely oversold in the event information. The amazing entertainment and food vendors turned out to be two food vendors which were overpriced for the quality of the food, three rides for small children and a hook the duck stall. There were four portaloos which were smelly and dirty from use on the Saturday with no toilet paper in most of them.
The actual show was billed as 30 minutes at 1pm it was delayed over half an hour and ended up being about 10 minutes long.
The monster truck giving rides before was constantly kicking up large dust clouds which got into our food, hair and clothes so we were all filthy when we got home.
The ticketing on the site was frustrating, depending on how I searched for tickets there were various options and on the morning of the event the tickets were almost half the price I paid so there was no benefit to booking in advance. The parking was £5 on the website but only £3 when we actually got there.
My main sources of frustration were that the event delivered nothing close to what was described and that we paid over £30 for tickets when we could have got them for £18 on the day.

Review of Sunderland Live Arena Monster Truck Show

Review of Sunderland Live Arena Monster Truck Show

It was our first time at a monster truck event but certainly not the last. We had a great time.

Review of Sunderland Live Arena Monster Truck Show

Waste of time and money, never agin

Review of Sunderland Live Monster Truck Show

Not bad if you want a monster truck ride. Reasonably priced at a tenner a head. Show was enjoyable with some impressive jumps. Parking was ideal but be prepared to have a shower afterwards as there's a lot of dust. Also check out their merch stand. Nice hoodies for the kids. Mine has yet to take his off. Also plenty chances for photos with the trucks which you can do free of charge. Staff on site with the show were very friendly and helpful. Stewards were also great as well.

Review of Sunderland Live Monster Truck Show

The idea of the event was good! The only few things I didn't think were so good were the timings, it said on the ticket 10am-2pm. We arrived at 10am to 3 fair ground rides and a burger van. Not much to do for the kids while they waited 3 hours until the show. We ended up leaving,going home and coming back for when the show started. We expected a few different monster trucks to perform but there was only one and the show lasted about 10 minutes. I just feel like it was a wasted and expensive day. I don't think I'd recommend or even go back to this sort of event. My son did enjoy seeing the monster truck though and the performance was good.

Review of Sunderland Live Arena Monster Truck Show

For a supposed 4 hour event, there was no entertainment to keep kids occupied for 14 minutes. And the actual Monster Truck "show" was no more than 5-10mins. Over a 4 hour period??? Like everyone else, we went away and came back for the 'show'. Sorry - not good enough at all.

Review of Sunderland Live Arena Monster Truck Show

Minimal effort in setup and entertainment before the actual show. So disappointed in the lack of effort.

Review of Sunderland Live Arena Monster Truck Show

Hardely anything there to entertain kids then a 20minute show very poor. Only 2 food venders prices ridiculous.

Review of Sunderland Live Monster Truck Show

Absolutely terrible advertised 4 till 8 stood in the freezing cold getting covered in dust like covered up your nose and everything for 2 hours till the show started at 6 if you could call it a show it done 3 jumps and show was finished at 6.19 there was 2 baby rides a fun house and a hook the duck stall all priced at 4 pound each, very disappointed to say the least

Review of Sunderland Live Monster Truck Show

I thought the venue was rubbish absolutely rubbish. I would never recommend anybody to pay to come and see this venue. The prices were sky high the food was absolutely dreadful. There was not a lot of shows for the children to play on and the top door we walked around an empty car park For two hours before. we actually got to see the monster truck jumping over cars what a very disappointing venue. The kids were very disappointed and the money appear to get in was atrocious. The staff were there and looked like they had been bathing in mud. The kids thought that they were dressing up For the customers. I will never ever recommend this venue to anybody.

Review of Sunderland Live Arena Monster Truck Show

Turned up was 2 monster trucks 2 baby rides and 2 food vans. The organisers have ripped people off. Parking £6 online but ya can pay £3 to the arena for parking. Spoke to arena staff and they even said it was a shambles. The flyers and what's posted online is nothing to what it is. Would not recommend anyone go to that event. I didn't even stay 10mins b4 I decided to leave. Staff was rude I got there for 10am like it states 10 to 2pm was expecting a fun fair to take kids round not 2 rides. I spoke to staff and asked where the rest of rides are that are promoted and where rest of the trucks like promoted. The turned around said well leave ya don't have to be here. I would never book with these again. I was told the show was terrible All the truck done was drive round and ride over small car. Wasn't nothing exciting. I have seen loads complaints online. Rip off waste of money!!