The Stade de France this is the largest stadium in France and is home to the
French national rugby and football teams and this stadium is the only stadium in
the world to of house both the World Cup in both sports and who could forget 1998
while the French won the first World Cup on home soil here one of the proudest
moments in French sporting history but what's the stadium actually like to go
around well I decided to find out for myself it's a rainy afternoon here in
San Danny and I decided to actually do this tour to start you must go through
gates H after being security checked and you
need to buy a ticket at the club shop which is located at the gates each
section of the stadium oh hi girls he was being a rush to get somewhere and
the reason why they're in a rush is because their tour literally started
that second I matched the tag in on this tour which was unfortunately in French
because there were no English tours available that day but I decided to tag
along anyway because my French isn't that bad we must have missed about five
minutes of the tour but we managed to catch up pretty quickly the seats here
are actually pretty good and the sight lines around the stadium are actually
not bad at all and like I said I'm not too fluent
French speaker but I could understand pretty much the fact that the tour guide
is telling us and there's some pretty interesting facts to go along with this
Stadium she then marches us all the way around
half the distance around the stadium and because this is such a big stadium it
holds over 80,000 people it's quite a serious walk
and boy there is a lot of walking-around seriously I'm actually quite lost now
and all I've done is been here for the last 10 minutes one of the facts that
she tells you about is the fact that the start de France has its own police
station and its own jails and she seems to be very very proud of this because
she actually brings you into said police station and shows you around the jails
themselves which isn't the most interesting thing in the world I mean
yeah you can take a picture of these lovely jail cells if you want to but
overall really really not that interesting on a state tour
she then leases out into a blue light car park and here she tells you some
interesting facts about the stadium such as how many toilets it has how many
metres of wiring it has but overall nothing really exciting and certainly
we're all freezing to death out here in the carpark
she then leads us out of the car park along a tunnel whereby we get to the
players entrance now she takes a time actually getting us through the place
entrance and for some reason we stopped slap-bang in the middle of a corridor
where she proceeds to carry on with the tour and there's absolutely nothing here
to see apart listening to what she has to say and believe not despite a lot of
board people standing around me I don't know why we're out here for so long but
when she opens at the door she lets us into the changing rooms this is the
famous French dressing room whereby they've got football shirts on one side
and rugby shirts on another and there's some cool memorabilia lying around and
the some other interesting bits as well such as the coach's office and the rehab
area with the hot tubs and the massage tables etc but I've been holding it in
and I was dying for a Wii so I decided to use the facilities future in here I
used the facility because I was desperate completely unaware that I was
still on a tour that means that anyone can actually walk in on me having a
slash and remember this lady the one with the yellow jacket she actually
caught me with my penis out and to avoid me like the plague for the rest
of the day rather understandably but yeah we're stuck in the place dressing
room for an inordinately long time and I'm not Italian why because she's not
actually telling us anything and we're pretty much taking the same pictures
over and over again seriously going move on now nope okay so she liters into
another empty room with nets above the ceiling and this apparently is the
players warm-up area although it's really really not that interesting well
look it looks like we're going to do a tunnel walk but she stood there talking
for a long period of time come on Lady let us walk right there we go but the
stat de France tunnel is actually kind of cool and she plays the music and the
crowd noise to kind of get you in the mood as to what it would be like to walk
out of the tunnel here at the start of France and check out these two guys here
they really really take you to touch too far arguably the best view of the
stadium is right here at pitched level so take plenty of pictures here guys
because it pretty much doesn't get much better than this help each other take
photos because it makes the experience a bit more enjoyable and oh here's my two
favorite girls again especially this one here in the Yellowjackets but after a
very short stay on pitch level she marches as upstairs and into the
corporate hospitality bit which was extremely dark extremely empty and
unfortunately there was really nothing interesting here and we spend literally
about 15 seconds around here before she leads us out of the door I seriously
hope that she's going to show us something a bit more interesting and OOP
she stopped that means she's going to take us somewhere else right wait a
minute she just told us that's the end of the tour that's it I just paid money
for this what the hell he then led out into the stadiums museum and arguably
this is the best part of a tour you get to see interesting relics such as
Zinedine Zidane's game-worn uniform and for the shirts room for the famous
players musical instruments from some of the
musicians that have performed concerts here and a whole variety of other rugby
and football shirts finally a decent one and arguably this part of the tour was
actually a lot better than the actual tour itself and it's free you don't even
need to go on the tour to access this bit then obviously you exit by the club
shop you can shop here if you want to I personally did field the neat suit but
overall I felt a bit disappointed these kids here they're all way from Scotland
and there abouts through the tour so guys I've just completed the store here
at the start de France and I gotta say don't bother
seriously guys really don't bother don't get me wrong the stadium isn't bad it's
relatively new it's you know it's their version of Wembley but if I'm being
honest not worth the time or the money there was a lot of Tours in lots of
empty areas of the stadium it wasn't particularly very interesting and even
though my French isn't great I understood pretty much what she said
and the tour itself what she said wasn't really all that interesting there were
some interesting bits in the stadium obviously the dressing rooms and access
to the field level but other than that I felt that they missed out a lot of
things and overall guys I highly recommend that you don't visit here it's
quite out of the way from the city center of Paris and you'd only come here
if you a force to be you're here anyway or see you're really really dying to see
the stadium but admittedly there's really not that much more than what I
just showed you in the videos yeah as far as where it lists on my hierarchy of
Stadium tours pretty much at the bottom yeah this was definitely worse than the
Wembley tour and arguably worse than the United sort which is really saying
something but let's play the game anyway okay nin I'm sold
what do I do well you need to come here to the start the France it's the biggest
stadium in France and it's located in the sont any area of Paris
you'll need to take the RER trains or the metro service here to the start de
France and each each arias station is about 10 minute walk so it's not too
hard to find the cost to do that saw for me it costs 15 euros and obviously you
get what you pay for there really wasn't that much in it so
yeah is there anything else I need to know yes you can't film and video but
there's really not that much point there's there's nothing to film or take
pictures off apart from the cool shirts in the dressing room that's about it
so guys once again there's plenty of other stadiums that you can go and see
there are a lot more immersive in terms of experience than this check out one of
a few of my other videos and I highly recommend you check out the Dallas
Cowboys one because that's an immense stadium that's what a stadium tour
should be like but even if you haven't enjoyed the tour with me today I hope
you've enjoyed this video please be sure to like share and subscribe comments on
the comments section below and if I get enough suggestion for other bucket list
ideas oh well I'll decide to go and do it so
guys thank you very much for watching we'll see you in the next episode and
it's located in the sont any section well guys I've just completed the store
of this list or the store of the step offense no okay guys so I've just
completed the tour of the star de France and I've got to say but really sucked
seriously I mean that was a lot of waiting around
Ninh Ly - www.ninh.co.uk - @NinhLyUK