PHILIPPINE ARENA CONCERT EXPERIENCE: Have a Lot of Patience Going Home

Trapped in the parking lot 11PM

We finally 'escaped' the traffic mix by 12:15AM

Patience is the key LOL

 We were very excited to watch Harry Styles at the Philippine Arena tonight. We thought the trip there would be a hassle considering the volume of people watching the show so we arrived there at 11:30 AM.  Yes!  A full 8 1/2 hours BEFORE the show.

Anyhow, it was not the going there that was the problem. It was the going home experience.  The concert finished at 9:45PM and it took Laura and I another hour of going around the arena and doing our picture taking before we decided to go to the parking area at 11PM.

The vehicles in the arena were not moving anymore at that time.  I don't really know why it was taking so much time to leave the arena.  I just thought that the sheer volume of the cars in the area caused this incredible bottleneck of cars wanting to leave the venue.

I decided to sleep in our van since I was also very tired from watching the show.  I woke up around 12 midnight and I noticed that we were slowly moving out of the venue already.  That sped things up and by 12:15AM, we were already at the toll gates going home to Manila.

The trip home took thirty minutes and by 12:45AM, we were home already.  

This blog post is just to warn everyone watching a show at the Philippine Arena to either leave just as the concert finishes - so they can immediately avoid the traffic and the rush going home - or to lay back and relax at the wide arena grounds for about an hour or two till the traffic starts to move.

It's really a waste of gasoline to be idling for more than an hour and the ill effects it gives to the environment.

I just wish the traffic leaving the arena could be fixed so that it wouldn't take that long to go home.

We were actually forewarned already that the trip home would be 2-3 hours.  They were telling the truth.