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From Bournemouth, you take the A338, A31, M27 and A2030 which takes you directly to the stadium. So, with weird emotions I, along with my daughter departed Kent, detoured via Croydon to collect two work colleagues, and then headed South along the A3. Although showing its age in parts, it has plenty of character with an old fashioned looking media gantry perched on its roof and raised team dugouts at its front. Its got a restaurant, a bar, two meeting rooms and a conference space. Curated and brought to you by TheStadiumBusiness team at Xperiology. The club has spent its entire existence playing its games at Fratton Park stadium, despite numerous considerations to move elsewhere during the latter years of the 1990s. Facelift for Pompeys' Fratton Park facility - Coliseum From the M25 get off onto the A3 then the A27 and follow the directions from the West. The stewards are very helpful, chatty, dont mind people standing up near the back and didnt force us to sit in our allocated seats. The North Stand has a basic structure of two-tiers with a roof supported by pillars that block the view of people at the back of the upper tier. Annual visit to our south coast rivals and the opportunity for my wife to undertake some serious retail therapy at Gunwharf Quays. Please click on the seating plan images below for information about the best seats to see KISS: End of the Road World Tour. Smaller tweaks continued to be made but in the early nineties Pompey began to look for an alternative place to call home. Theres also a free buffet breakfast for you in the morning. At 12 noon I decided to go for a pint. Entrance to the stand is gained by inserting your ticket into a bar code reader. Generally very good, although disappointed with the food at the ground and the stewards! I hope come May 2013 they have survived to play league one football again, but the omens are as gloomy as the weather was at the final whistle that afternoon. Fans were literally separated by a netted area only three seats wide, but on my last visit, there were no problems whatsoever. The D-Day Story. Unfortunately the club has undergone a change in fortunes in recent times. The whole room overlooks the sea though large patio doors which open out to a balcony with additional seating., perfect for an evening drink and watch the sunset. On the whole, though try to sit back and enjoy Fratton Park such older grounds now are becoming few and far between with the advent of new stadia being built. 6. We left Kent at about 10.30am and made the journey via the M25 and A3 to Portsmouth, taking around two hours. What you thought on seeing the ground, first impressions of away end then other sides of the stadium? The away end is by far the smallest at Fratton Park, with an impressive looking home end opposite. The result put us bottom of the League and in my mind it is time for the manager to go. The hot water from the taps was VERY HOT and they ran out of paper towels before the game started. Opposite you is the Fratton End where the wonderful atmosphere the Pompey fans create comes from and to the left is the South Stand probably the oldest looking stand at the ground. A further redevelopment was completed in 1997 but since then there have never been the finances in place to either move or drastically alter the Portsmouth stadium further. None of these plans have ever come to fruition and with the club continuing to battle on-going financial problems, and relegation to the lowest tier of the Football League, relocation in the immediate future doesnt seem very likely enjoy the historic grandeur of Fratton Park whilst it lasts.