Stadium Tour

[MDoyle]

My girlfriend and I are going up to DC this weekend and thought it'd be cool to catch a tour of the stadium.  Has anyone done this?  My big question is, if I buy the tickets, will I have them by Saturday?  Or is there a way for them to hold the tickets at the park?

[eckseid]

Actually was planning on starting a thread like this, I was maybe going to do a tour soon and wanted to see if anyone else had done it. Letme know how it is if you do it MDoyle.

[MDoyle]

Actually was planning on starting a thread like this, I was maybe going to do a tour soon and wanted to see if anyone else had done it. Letme know how it is if you do it MDoyle.

Absolutely, I'm 90% sure we're going Saturday.  Will keep you posted.

[blue911]

Absolutely, I'm 90% sure we're going Saturday.  Will keep you posted.

So it costs $15 if Nats are away,yet when they're home you can go for $5. Doesn't say a lot about the quality of the on field talent.

[PowerBoater69]

The tours cost more than $15 because you have to pay Tickets.com fees.  I'm not sure if they're worth that much cash, but my wife and I sure had a good time.  We got a ton of pictures in each of the three clubs, in the dugout and bullpen, in the pressbox, in a Washington suite and all over the park.

[BBQ]

I did one at Safeco but that was when the Mariners were on a road-trip. It is a beautiful stadium, by far better than ours. [But thats because Safeco is the best]

[MDoyle]

Went on the tour today.  It was great.  Just a little review.

We went into all the suites except the ones you can buy per game.  They were pretty nice, but $400,000 a year?  I'd have to actually live there and still would be a way away from being able to afford that.

The tour guide was great, she knew a ton about baseball for being a young girl (no offense ladies), and it turns out that she had graduated from my college 4 years ago (University of Mary Washington).

Anyway, the fun part.  We went into the batting cages, and she put a couple balls in the pitching machine at 100 mph.  Then we went to the clubhouse.  We couldn't go in, we could just check it out from the hallway.  Then we proceeded into the dugout, which was nice.  Finally we went into the bullpen, and everyone got to throw a pitch or two.  My girlfriend got a good picture of my pitch (apparentally I look pretty intense when I throw), even though if I was actually pitching on a mound, it could have gone into the first base dugout, maybe the seats.

Overall, great tour.  Like PowerBoater said, not sure it's worth $20 a ticket, but it was a good time.

[CALSGR8]

Sounds good.  But you can't go into the clubhouse?  What a shame.

I heard proceeds from the tour go to their Dream Foundation and that's why it costs that much.

[AnnieSavoy]

Anyway, the fun part.  We went into the batting cages, and she put a couple balls in the pitching machine at 100 mph.  Then we went to the clubhouse.  We couldn't go in, we could just check it out from the hallway.  Then we proceeded into the dugout, which was nice.  Finally we went into the bullpen, and everyone got to throw a pitch or two.  My girlfriend got a good picture of my pitch (apparentally I look pretty intense when I throw), even though if I was actually pitching on a mound, it could have gone into the first base dugout, maybe the seats.

Some friends and I did the tour earlier this month, on the day that some of the potential draftees were working out at the park. It was cool to be able to watch the workouts for a little while, but the tour had to be changed quite a bit because of those workouts. We went into the visitors clubhouse because we weren't allowed to see the Nationals clubhouse (the draftees were in there). We saw the visitors batting cages (no pitching machines) and the visitors dugout. We weren't able to get into the bullpen. We did see all of the clubs, some of the suites, and the press box. It would have been so cool to actually go into the batting cages and into the bullpen! Maybe I should take another tour in August, when my friends from New York come down for a visit...hopefully, we'd get the full tour, and not just an abbreviated one.