Braves' tickets
- Thread starter msstate7
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stubhub never lets me down
With the caveat that their Rainout Policy is weak (as I learned the other night).
Never experienced a rainout with them but that sucks
dak
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Timely thread. I'm looking to buy single game tickets on a week night in early August, and I'm a little stumped on how to play the parking situation as an out of towner. Any recommendations from locals on where to park? I have two young children, so any situation that involves a lot of walking or a lot of waiting will not be a crowd pleaser.
msstate7
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Is the whole area suitable for waking or do I need to stick to certain hotels?
dak
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Thanks. Will start assessing the hotels . . . hopefully one will have a shuttle to the stadium, but that's probably a pipe dream. My primary experience with MLB games is Cincinnati, and I have a feeling this is going to be a lot more complicated than that.
I was at the Hyatt. sturg was at one of them also a walk's distance away.
For me, the Hyatt was a 2 minute walk to the main road from the hotel (parking lot and passing through another hotel's parking lot). Then another 2 minute walk downhill to the 4-way stop which is where all the traffic cops are. You walk across street, another 1 minute walk but this time uphill, cop is there to stop traffic so you can walk across the street and from there no more delays to get to the Battery, about another 2-3 minute walk to get to the battery. Once you're in the battery, it's actually a lot of space to walk around. Once you get in the park then it feels a little tight, but since I doubt the games you'll be attending will be packed like the first 3 in opening weekend I went to you won't have any issues with that.
Hampton Inn & Suites (Atlanta-Galleria) is an easy (less than 5 minutes) walk, as is the DoubleTree Suites (Galleria).
On the other side of 285 there is a Sheraton Suites, but the pedestrian bridge isn't opened yet so the walk would be less pleasant. There's also an Embassy Suites and a Hampton Inn right by Cumberland Mall, which would probably be a 30/45 minute walk.
DirkPiggler
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We stayed at the Embassy Suites Hawk mentioned this past weekend. You could do like apparently half of the people who attended the game and park in their lot and ride the free shuttle. They supposedly check dashboards for parking passes, but I never saw it happen. I did see multiple people get off the shuttle after the game, get into their cars and drive away from the hotel.
Because of all the free-riders taking the shuttle, we used Uber to and from the game. Cheap ride, but it was hit or miss. Our first driver ended up having to back up the on ramp to 285 because she ended up in the wrong lane. She also ended up missing the big ass sign on Cobb Parkway that said RIDESHARING NEXT RIGHT and made the first turn towards the stadium, costing us precious time that could have been used touring the stadium or drinking free beer (see below). It's pretty sad when a guy who's never lived in Atlanta and who's only visited there probably 10-12 times in his life knows the way to the stadium better than a driver who is using a nav system. The pickup situation is not how the Braves or Uber originally described it either. The thing about going to the pickup area, receiving a 4-digit code, and taking the next available driver waiting in line? Yeah, that's bull****. Uber works the same there as it does anywhere else in the world. Still probably better than riding the shuttle back to the hotel though.
Regarding tickets, if you watch StubHub closely you can get some of the Delta Sky Club all-inclusive tickets for $80-$90 each if you wait until around 4:00 or so on the afternoon of the game. That's a pretty good deal considering you get a padded seat, in-seat wait service, a sit down meal (brisket and fried catfish when we were there), and oh by the way FREE BEER (well, not free, but you don't have to pay any extra for it once you've bought your ticket). Wine and well drinks are also included, but who drinks any of that at a baseball game?
Because of all the free-riders taking the shuttle, we used Uber to and from the game. Cheap ride, but it was hit or miss. Our first driver ended up having to back up the on ramp to 285 because she ended up in the wrong lane. She also ended up missing the big ass sign on Cobb Parkway that said RIDESHARING NEXT RIGHT and made the first turn towards the stadium, costing us precious time that could have been used touring the stadium or drinking free beer (see below). It's pretty sad when a guy who's never lived in Atlanta and who's only visited there probably 10-12 times in his life knows the way to the stadium better than a driver who is using a nav system. The pickup situation is not how the Braves or Uber originally described it either. The thing about going to the pickup area, receiving a 4-digit code, and taking the next available driver waiting in line? Yeah, that's bull****. Uber works the same there as it does anywhere else in the world. Still probably better than riding the shuttle back to the hotel though.
Regarding tickets, if you watch StubHub closely you can get some of the Delta Sky Club all-inclusive tickets for $80-$90 each if you wait until around 4:00 or so on the afternoon of the game. That's a pretty good deal considering you get a padded seat, in-seat wait service, a sit down meal (brisket and fried catfish when we were there), and oh by the way FREE BEER (well, not free, but you don't have to pay any extra for it once you've bought your ticket). Wine and well drinks are also included, but who drinks any of that at a baseball game?