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Thursday, May 13, 2010

CITI FIELD TOURS!!

Update : you can now read about the tours

I can hardly believe that it’s true myself, but - the day is here! The Mets are offering tours of Citi Field, starting May 29th.

*picks myself off of the floor*

You get to tour the home clubhouse, the field and dugout, the scoreboard control room, press box, the suite level and ends at the Hall of Fame. The tours are wheelchair accessible and can accommodate strollers. Active duty personnel can get in for free, which is a nice touch. Cameras are explicitly permitted. My only disappointment, really, is that they’re not offering them (or at least one or two a day) in Spanish, but I’ll get over that.

A big gold star for reducing the online service charge for the tour tickets. The fee is only $1 a ticket, with no delivery charge or convenience fee.

Now, I take A LOT of ballpark tours. I have taken the tour at almost every ballpark I have ever been to. I would go so far as to classify myself as a ballpark tour junkie. So while this isn’t a revolutionary tour routing or anything, they are giving access to the home clubhouse (which not everyone does). For once, the Mets aren’t doing the bare minimum. And given how rarely that happens, I am applauding.

This is just astonishing. It’s sad that the Mets doing something right is astonishing, but given what a hard time I give them for everything they do wrong, I am going to shout from the rooftops when they get it right.

I bought tickets for the first tour on the 29th and look forward to being able to write up a full tour report for my home ballpark for the first time.

Posted by Caryn at 09:33 AM

Thanks for the news Caryn - I’m psyched!

Posted by Sharon on 05/13 at 10:20 AM

Why oh why didn’t i book to come over at the end of May! I might have to come back especially for a tour! :)

Posted by Stacey from UK on 05/13 at 12:40 PM

mets.com says the tickets are $10 for adults. maybe because you’re a ticket plan holder.

Posted by araceli on 05/13 at 04:04 PM

What are you talking about? I said the FEES were only $1 a ticket. Not that the tickets were $1. That’s exceptional because usually you pay $4 per ticket AND a $5 charge for the order.

Posted by Caryn from Brooklyn, NY on 05/13 at 04:08 PM

and don’t forget that it’s cheaper for Seniors and children, in case I want to take my dad on a tour. But this is a good thing. Can’t wait to hear the fan reviews to prompt me to head on out to Queens.

Caryn, did you ever get a tour of Shea?

Posted by DyHrdMET from NJ on 05/14 at 07:05 AM

Everyone has different things that will be important to them, but I did not have any desire to just reprint the entire press release. As with all content here, I framed it from my perspective and then linked to the site so that people could just get the info straight from the horses’ mouth.

Posted by Caryn from Brooklyn, NY on 05/14 at 09:12 AM

I’m not getting my hopes up. Remember, this is the Mets we’re talking about. There’s a catch in there somewhere; the Mets never treat their fans this well.

Posted by Dr Hemlock from Bronx, NY on 05/14 at 10:09 PM

I really have hope for these tours. The Mets did a series of tours of Citi Field in the off-season for season ticket holders (I remember seeing a few pictures) that sounded a lot like this. Maybe the tour comes with a hidden sales pitch (like a timeshare).

Posted by DyHrdMET from NJ on 05/15 at 06:41 AM

Speaking as a Mets fan and former season ticket holder (when they were at Shea), it’s the stadium. It’s just awful. It may be new, but the seats are cramped and the concourses are still too crowded. I’ve gone to exactly one game there, to mark a special occasion. It’s just not worth the ticket cost. Much of the design was obviously inspired by the wonderful Miller Park in Milwaukee, but the execution was horrendous.

From fannation. Is it accurate?

Posted by L'on qui detest les jeans-froamges! on 05/16 at 05:58 PM

No, it’s not accurate at all, and I don’t agree that Miller Park is “wonderful”. Miller Park is warehousey and sterile. The seats are not cramped at all, and the concourses are at least 4 or 5 times wider than the ones at Shea were. So wrong on every level.

But I’m sure this is some kind of troll so I’ll ignore it. There are hundreds of posts on this site where you could get the answer to that question. Start with the Citi Guide and if you have specific questions, please send an email.

Posted by Caryn from Brooklyn, NY on 05/16 at 06:10 PM