Experience varies greatly with how people perceive a different events here so for context I attended an evening event where doors opened at 6 pm in December, so you can tell whether this will be a similar experience for you Getting to the venue , you can easily access via a taxi or an Uber or you can take the tram to Trafford bar and then walk the 10 to 15 minutes over to the O2 Victoria Once you get there, you do need to queue outside and you’re guided through lanes like you’re inside the airport trying to get to security where they bob and weave you through to make the walk seem ridiculously long in anything but a straight line. No, if you were in flats and boots this is absolutely no problem, but if you’re a female with heels and if you go the extra mile with open toed sandals, then you aren’t going to struggle puddle dodging through what feels like a dirty building site and pens. However, if you’re insensible footwear then this really isn’t a problem. Once you get through this queueing system, you then end up with a makeshift tent outside the doors where you step through a metal detector and you’ll have a quick body scan which requires you to remove anything electrical that would set the scanner off Now, personally, I didn’t get any kind of body search here and it was pretty obvious. People were smuggling in booze, and they were trying to check bags in order to prevent this. Once you step inside the warehouse, there is a cloakroom over on the left-hand side which had 0Q, and honestly I didn’t see many people actually use this service, and for those that did they were attended to very quickly For those people who are downstairs, there are huge bars so you will need to queue. However, they did seem to be going pretty quickly and there are enormous bathrooms with the men’s on the right hand side of the entrance and the women’s on the opposite side, both of which are decent size to cater for such a large venue . The stage is on the opposite side of the building to the entrance, and it’s gonna nice large area which is standing only in front of it Because it’s a really big warehouse and the layout it is freezing cold in December when it’s close to 0 outside so a lot of people did spend the entire evening with their coats on and if you’re not great at being on your feet full on period time this place is not ideal because there is nowhere for you to sit down If you do go for the VIP service there are set of stairs that lead you upstairs. This is located past the gents bathroom pasta bar and then you’ll get to accept stairs lead you upstairs where you’ll see a large bar on one side and then a balcony that looks out to the stage on the opposite side of the bar at the end opposite where you come up. There are dedicated Bathrooms for females and females, so you never have to queue for the bathroom You think with a dedicated bar that the service would be pretty quick however, I did end up waiting for at least 3 to 4 minutes for two or three other people to be served before me every time I went to the bar in VIP Considering downstairs has a queueing system, I would say the wait time is probably comparable even though it looks like there are more people at the bar downstairs. There are a lot more staff serving so I would guess that the week times were similar as no one was struggling to get served at the bars downstairs. So essentially, if you’re wondering what you get for VIP, you have a dedicated bathroom and a dedicated bar and a large upstairs area that’s pretty breezy with a very strong air-conditioning unit in an already very cold room in the winter time No, I do admit as a female, we do always tend to complain about the cold and it just so happened at the time of year that I went, but it was an issue. However this isn’t the case I know people who’ve been plenty of other times and went to the same event last year and came back again, and they struggled with the opposite problem that it was actually too hot. Only leaving the venue at 11 pm. The road was closed so you do have to walk at least 10 minutes to get a taxi.