Ready Time
You know what you need to do. Ready Time helps you know when to start.
Concert tickets list three different times, and none of them tells you when to leave the house. Doors, opener, headliner: each one is a different deadline depending on the night you want. Ready Time works backward from the time you care about, so the night starts at the show instead of in the parking garage.
Doors at 7 often means the line started at 6. The opener "starts at 8" but may walk out at 8:20. The headliner goes on somewhere between 9 and 10, and that time is rarely printed on your ticket. On your side there's dinner, the drive, a parking garage two blocks away, and a security line that snakes. You can't control the venue's schedule. You can plan your half of the night. If you're going with people, share the plan so the whole group works back from the same doors time.
Plan on arriving about an hour before the printed start time. That covers parking, the security line, and finding your seat with a little room left over. If it's a general-admission floor and you want the rail, your deadline is doors instead, and for a show you care about the plan starts mid-afternoon. Assigned seats give you more slack: aim to be seated 15 minutes before the opener, or about 45 minutes before the headliner if you're skipping the opener on purpose. The plan below has a preset for each. Pick the one that matches your ticket, then tap in your own dinner, drive, and parking times. Eating a real dinner first helps, because venue food is expensive and thin.
The drive above is a starting number. In the app, pick the real place, choose drive, walk, or bike, and Apple Maps fills in how long it takes.
Change where you're leaving from or how you're getting there, and every step before the drive shifts with it.
Arrive by 6 for a 7:00 start. That leaves 30 minutes for parking and the security line and still puts you in your seat before the lights go down. Check whether 7:00 is doors or showtime first. The two are usually an hour apart, and the ticket doesn't always say which one it's printing.
Yes, and plenty of people do. The catch is that you're guessing when the headliner actually starts. Openers usually play 30 to 45 minutes, and there's another 15 to 30 minutes of changeover after that. If the show is billed at 8:00, arriving around 8:45 is the common bet. It works cleanly with assigned seats. On a general-admission floor, the spot you wanted is often gone by then.
Start with the venue's own event page, which usually lists doors and showtime even when the ticket doesn't. Bigger venues post the night's running order to their Instagram story the day of the show. setlist.fm shows what the tour has been playing at recent stops, which is a decent guide to how long the opener runs. If none of that turns anything up, the box office will tell you over the phone. Then assume the whole thing runs about 15 minutes late anyway.
Work backward from the door time you actually care about instead of the printed showtime. For a general-admission floor spot that's doors. For assigned seats it's roughly 45 minutes before the headliner. Then subtract parking, the security line, and the walk from wherever you found parking. If you're taking transit, pad the transfer more than the garage. Venues run late and openers commonly slip 15 to 30 minutes, but that delay isn't slack you can count on.
Get a nudge at the right moment, while there's still time to act.
Each step gets its own alert, so you know what's next and how long you have.
“I get so tired of counting backward to when I should start my task. This app is the solution.”App Store review
Ready Time
You know what you need to do. Ready Time helps you know when to start.