Bournemouth Hospitality: Packages and Prices

A three-course lunch beside the halfway line at Vitality Stadium cost £125 a head for the Carabao Cup tie against Lincoln City on 8 September 2026 and £225 a head for the fourth-round visit of Aston Villa seven weeks later, according to the club's own ticket notices. That £100 swing on the same table is the first thing to understand about Bournemouth hospitality this season: the lounge sets the format, but the opponent sets the price.

Every lounge sits in the Main Stand on the west side of the ground, which makes premium seating one of the few ways into a fixture at Vitality Stadium that does not run through the Cherries points ladder. With the smallest capacity in the Premier League and the club's first European campaign adding four home dates in the autumn, demand for both standard AFC Bournemouth tickets and lounge places has never been tighter. This guide sets out what each package includes, what the club has actually charged so far, how the fixture category changes the bill and where the honest value sits against an ordinary Main Stand seat.

What the Club Has Charged So Far This Season

The only per-person hospitality prices AFC Bournemouth had published as of 25 September 2026 relate to its two home Carabao Cup ties. Premier League and Europa League packages are quoted on enquiry by the hospitality team, and the club's match notices for Sunderland, Leeds United and Sturm Graz simply state that limited packages remain in Club 1899, The Orchard and The Gallery.

Lounge	Lincoln City (Carabao Cup R3, 8 Sep 2026)	Aston Villa (Carabao Cup R4, 28 Oct 2026)	What the price covered
The Orchard	£125 per person	£225 per person	Drink on arrival, three-course plated menu, tea, coffee and mini cakes at half-time, cheese and biscuits at full-time, padded seat near the halfway line in Block 4 or Block 6
2:21	£60 per person	£100 per person	Welcome drink, inclusive pre-match street food, centre-pitch padded seat in Block 20
The Gallery (cup lounge-access package)	£30 per person	£50 per person	Padded box seating above Blocks 1 to 3 of the Main Stand, lounge access, food and drink available to buy on the day

Two things jump out. First, the same seat in The Orchard cost 80% more for Villa than for Lincoln, which shows how steeply the club scales its lounge pricing with the opponent even in a cup competition. Second, the Gallery figure is a stripped-back cup product. The club's own description of The Gallery for league matchdays is a three-course pitch-view dining package with inclusive drinks, and the price for that version has not been published.

For context, a standard adult ticket for the Carabao Cup tie against Aston Villa costs £25 plus a £2 transaction fee, according to the club's notice of 23 September 2026. The £50 Gallery package for the same night is therefore roughly double a normal seat, while The Orchard is nine times the standard price. For Premier League home fixtures, the club's 2026/27 price list puts an adult Main Centre seat at £61 for a Category A game, £58 for Category B and £51 for Category C, all before the £2 fee.

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Four Lounges and a Restaurant: The 2026/27 Line-Up

AFC Bournemouth rebuilt its premium offer for 2026/27 alongside the stadium works. The club's hospitality listing now shows Club 1899, The Gallery, The Orchard and The Garden, with 2:21 sold through the match notices as one of the "newest hospitality spaces". Executive boxes continue to be marketed by agencies but do not appear on the club's own lounge listing as of September 2026.

Package	Style	Seat	Food and drink	Sold as
Club 1899	À la carte restaurant, new for 2026/27	Halfway line, padded	Welcome drink, three-course fine dining, mini cakes at half-time, local cheeses at full-time	Seasonal by invitation, limited single-match places
The Orchard	Plated dining lounge	Near halfway line, Block 4 or 6	Welcome drink, three courses, half-time tea and cakes, full-time cheese board	Seasonal sold out, single match remaining
2:21	Sports bar	Centre pitch, Block 20	Welcome drink, inclusive pre-match street food, licensed bar	Single match
The Gallery	Pitch-view dining lounge	Padded seats above Blocks 1 to 3	Three courses with inclusive drinks on league days; cup lounge-access version with food to buy	Seasonal and single match, both limited
The Garden	Mediterranean social dining	West Stand, padded	Welcome drink, two-course buffet, mini pies at half-time, post-match bar	Seasonal only, sold out

Club 1899: the restaurant at the top of the range

Club 1899 is the headline addition, launched for 2026/27 as part of the redevelopment and marketed by the club as "by invitation only". The format is an à la carte restaurant with a rotating gourmet menu, a welcome drink, halfway-line padded seats and the option to keep the same table for every home game. The club's Leeds United match notice on 14 September 2026 confirmed that limited single-match packages remain, bookable only through the hospitality team on 01202 726300 (option 3) or by email. No price has been published for either the seasonal or the single-match version.

The Orchard: three courses on the halfway line

The Orchard is the club's mid-tier dining lounge and the successor to the long-running Cherry Orchard. Guests get a drink on arrival, a three-course plated meal, tea, coffee and mini cakes at half-time and a cheese board at full-time, then take a padded seat in Block 4 or Block 6 beside the halfway line. Seasonal places sold out before the season began and the club describes single-match availability as limited.

2:21: the sports bar

2:21 takes its name from the clock time when James Hayter completed his record hat-trick against Wrexham in 2004. The room is built as a sports bar rather than a restaurant, with a welcome drink, inclusive street food before kick-off and a licensed bar for anything after that. Seats are centre pitch in Block 20. At £60 and £100 for the two cup ties, it is the most affordable package that includes food.

The Gallery: the pitch-view lounge

The Gallery occupies the top of the Main Stand and was described by the club as a pitch-view dining experience pairing contemporary three-course dining and inclusive drinks with a padded seat just outside the lounge. For 12:30 kick-offs the menu switches to a breakfast theme, according to agency listings for the 2026/27 season. The £30 and £50 cup packages were lounge access with pay-as-you-go catering, which is worth remembering before comparing the Gallery figure with the dining lounges.

The Garden: the seasonal social lounge

The Garden is a season-long product only, inspired by Mediterranean social dining. Members get a welcome drink, a two-course buffet, mini pies at half-time, a padded West Stand seat and access to all 19 Premier League home games plus ticket access to home cup ties. The club's website marked it as sold out on 25 September 2026, so it will not reappear before the 2027/28 renewal window.

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Where the Cherry Orchard, Boardroom and Kings Plaza Went

Anyone searching for the Cherry Orchard, the Boardroom or Kings Plaza will find plenty of agency and blog content still quoting them, some of it with prices from £275, £500 and £139 respectively. None of those names appears on the club's hospitality listing for 2026/27. The Orchard is the club's own "redefined" version of the Cherry Orchard, with the same three-course format and halfway-line seating. Kings Plaza, the South Stand marquee that required home points to buy, has no equivalent while the South Stand awaits demolition. Treat any third-party price attached to the old names as a 2024/25 or 2025/26 figure until the club or an agent confirms otherwise.

Category A, B or C: Why the Opponent Sets the Price

AFC Bournemouth grades every 2026/27 home fixture into one of three categories, and the club published the full split alongside its match ticket pricing on 7 July 2026. The categories drive standard ticket prices and, as the two cup ties show, the lounges scale in the same direction.

Category	2026/27 home opponents	Adult Main Centre standard seat
A	Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur	£61
B	Brentford, Brighton & Hove Albion, Crystal Palace, Everton, Fulham, Leeds United, Nottingham Forest, Sunderland	£58
C	Coventry City, Hull City, Ipswich Town	£51

The Category A run is heavily back-loaded. Bournemouth vs Aston Villa on 2 January opens it, followed by Bournemouth vs Tottenham Hotspur on 3 March, Bournemouth vs Manchester City on 10 April, Bournemouth vs Arsenal on 24 April, Bournemouth vs Manchester United on 8 May and Bournemouth vs Chelsea on the final day, 23 May. Liverpool has already been and gone on 20 September. Category B fixtures on sale in the autumn include Bournemouth vs Sunderland on 18 October and Bournemouth vs Leeds United on 31 October, with Bournemouth vs Fulham on 30 January still flagged by the club as subject to change for European commitments. All dates remain subject to broadcaster selection.

Ticket sales for each fixture open roughly six weeks out and cascade down the points ladder over a fortnight. Hospitality releases follow the same match notice, which is the moment to enquire: by the time a Category A tie reaches general sale, if it ever does, the dining lounges are usually gone.

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Seasonal Membership or Single Match

The club sells its premium products on two tracks. Seasonal packages cover every Premier League home game plus ticket access to home cup fixtures, and for 2026/27 they were offered on a single-year or multi-year basis to lock in a place through the redevelopment. The Orchard and The Garden seasonal allocations are sold out, and Club 1899 is invitation-led. That leaves single-match packages, released fixture by fixture, as the realistic option for most buyers this season.

Two seasonal-style products are still open in some form. The club confirmed on 21 September 2026 that a four-game package covering all four home league-phase fixtures in the Europa League can be booked across Club 1899, The Orchard and The Gallery, with individual-match hospitality for those European nights to be released closer to each date. Home Carabao Cup ties are sold match by match at the lower prices shown above. Every package, seasonal or single, earns one home Cherries point per person provided each guest's supporter account details are supplied at booking, which is a quiet advantage for anyone building towards points-drop access next season.

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Booking Direct, Through an Agent or Not at All

The club's own route is the hospitality team on 01202 726300 (option 3) or hospitality@afcb.co.uk, and for the cup ties it also opened online purchase through the ticketing site. A handful of hospitality agencies list Bournemouth packages for every home fixture, most on a "price on application" basis, and buyers should ask any agent to confirm in writing that the package is supplied by the club before paying.

Resale is where care is needed. Under section 166 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, it is an offence for anyone not authorised in writing by the match organiser to sell a ticket for a designated football match in England and Wales, and a hospitality package contains a match ticket. The club's ticket exchange is limited to season ticket holders at face value, all 2026/27 tickets are digital and delivered through the AFC Bournemouth app, and the club reserves the right to ask for ID at the turnstile. A lounge place bought from an unauthorised seller can be cancelled without refund. This is general guidance, not legal advice.

The Small Print: Dress Code, Children, Parking and Kick-off Times

• Dress code: agencies selling the lounges ask for smart casual with no football shirts, hoodies or caps. The club does not publish a code on its lounge listings, so confirm at booking.
• Children: any supporter under 16 must be accompanied by and seated directly beside a responsible adult aged 18 or over, a rule the club applies across the whole stadium including hospitality. The old Cherry Orchard carried under-12 pricing, so ask whether the current lounges do the same.
• Parking: not included as standard. The South Stand car park fills around 75 minutes before kick-off and can take 45 minutes to clear afterwards. Pokesdown station is about 15 minutes on foot and Bournemouth Central roughly 25 to 30 minutes.
• Kick-off times: the club flagged Sunderland, Fulham and other dates as liable to move for Europa League commitments, and 12:30 broadcast slots switch the dining lounges to a breakfast menu. Check the rebooking terms with the seller before committing.
• Accessibility: the club directs accessible hospitality enquiries to disability@afcb.co.uk, and Main Stand accessible parking is available with evidence of eligibility.

A Stadium Getting Bigger: What Changes in 2027/28

Vitality Stadium's 11,286 capacity is the root of every availability problem in this guide, and the club is addressing it in three phases. Phase One, delivered during the opening weeks of 2026/27, adds two corner infills, a new perimeter gate and reconfigured seating for more than 1,000 extra seats. Phase Two replaces the South Stand with a new grandstand of around 7,000 and fills the remaining corners, taking capacity past 17,500 at or around the start of 2027/28. Phase Three extends the North and East Stands to reach approximately 20,200, with timing still to be set.

For premium buyers, the relevant number is 600. Of the roughly 9,000 seats added across the first two phases, the club has said 8,400 will be general admission and the remaining 600 will form new hospitality areas in the Main and East Stands. That is a meaningful expansion on the current footprint, but it does not arrive until the new South Stand opens, so 2026/27 supply is effectively fixed at what the five current lounges can hold.

Is a Package Worth It Against a £61 Main Stand Seat?

Judged purely on the published cup figures, 2:21 is the strongest value in the building. For £100 against Aston Villa a guest gets a centre-pitch padded seat, a drink and street food, which is four times the £25 standard ticket for the same night but well below what a comparable pub-style lounge costs at other Premier League grounds. Brighton's Amex hospitality starts at £290 per person for its three-course restaurants on a Category C fixture, according to that club's 2026/27 price list, which puts The Orchard's £125 to £225 cup band in a favourable light even before Premier League pricing is factored in.

The honest caveat is that Premier League prices for The Orchard and Club 1899 are not public, and the cup-to-league jump at every club is steep. A buyer who is quoted £300 or more per head for a Category A Saturday should not be surprised. Against that, the alternatives for a non-points holder are thin: a standard Category A Main Centre seat at £61 is only useful if you can reach it through the points ladder, the ticket exchange or a resale marketplace. Hospitality is the one channel that sells the halfway line to anyone who calls first.

Getting Into the Big Games Without a Package

When the lounges are gone, the standard stands are the fallback, and it pays to know them. The Vitality Stadium seating plan shows why Main Centre commands the top price and where the North, South and East Stands sit relative to the halfway line. The points ladder itself is covered in our guide to buying Bournemouth tickets without Cherries points, including Cherry Tuesday releases and midweek returns.

For the Category A dates at the end of the season, 1BoxOffice lists standard seats for every home fixture, with each order backed by the 150% money-back guarantee. Prices on a secondary marketplace move with demand and can sit above face value, so compare them with the lounge quote before deciding which route suits the occasion.

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Whether the occasion calls for a table in Club 1899 or a padded seat in the North Stand, 1BoxOffice covers standard tickets for every AFC Bournemouth home fixture in 2026/27, with the 150% money-back guarantee behind each order.

Sources: AFC Bournemouth lounge listings, AFC Bournemouth ticket information and points drop notices for Lincoln City, Sunderland, Leeds United, Sturm Graz and Aston Villa, AFC Bournemouth 2026/27 match ticket pricing and stadium redevelopment updates, Brighton & Hove Albion 2026/27 hospitality price list, legislation.gov.uk, Football Ground Guide, Eventmasters, DN Global.