Champions Club Section at the stadium.

[cardinalkarp]

I'll let everyone know right off the bat to not get rooked into buying these seats. $120 for your typical game and you will be pretty disappointed ($140 for premium games). First of all they advertise it as come check out the newest area of the stadium, well all they did was turn some off the previous party rooms into a bigger area, and put a lounge area behind them (which if they would've said they were previously party rooms I wouldn't NEVER bought them).

Sure the food was pretty good and the beer and drinks were free but when I pay $140 for a seat I want to be able to actually SEE the game from my seats. They have terrible views of the game since you can't really even see a flyball, just terrible.

The only reason I consider myself somewhat lucky is that I was pretty much able to utilize the service of the free beer and food for two games as opposed to one so I got my moneys worth but the seats themselves are just not very good.

[Popeye_Card]

Since they have the $65/game deal going on for April for any premium seating area, is the buffet much better than the other areas? Or should I just do the BOA Club or something?

I guess what I'm asking is, what's on the buffet? I like hot dogs and BBQ anyway, so the other buffets are already fine by me.

[cardinalkarp]

Since they have the $65/game deal going on for April for any premium seating area, is the buffet much better than the other areas? Or should I just do the BOA Club or something?

I guess what I'm asking is, what's on the buffet? I like hot dogs and BBQ anyway, so the other buffets are already fine by me.

The buffett had some decent things on there. It had a ceasar salad, chicken breasts and some southwestern rice, some type of pork medallions as well as your standard brats, dogs and nachos.

It also had a carving station that the first day had some type of lamb chops and the second had had shaved pork (which was by far the best and VERY good). It also had some oyster station by I didn't want to give that a shot.

It was only worth it because I got 2 days for one out of it but if you can get them for 1/2 price its probably worth taking a look.

I haven't sat in the BOA area so I'm not sure what that buffett looks like.

edit : You won't like the view from the seats though. I was in CC6 seat 37 (which was the last row of the seats there) and you have ZERO view of the scoreboards and can't see fly balls at all.

[Popeye_Card]

For some reason I am being conned into thinking all-I-can-eat hot dogs and BBQ and all-I-can-drink Budweiser is a good deal at the park for $65. In reality, that's still a terrible deal considering what BBQ, hot dogs, and Budweiser cost at the store, and my house has HD and A/C.... (or heat this time of year)

Damn you Cardinals and your marketing!

[omaha_red]

when i go to a game i'd rather sit in a crowded seat, grab a beer and a hotdog..
all that foo-foo stuff ain't for me.. that's not real baseball watching.. i don't understand
the appeal of those special backstage-type areas..

[lukethedrifter]

I just read somewhere about how all stadiums will be adding these areas b/c it's the only section where both the fan and the team think they are stealing from each other.

[cardinalkarp]

when i go to a game i'd rather sit in a crowded seat, grab a beer and a hotdog..
all that foo-foo stuff ain't for me.. that's not real baseball watching.. i don't understand
the appeal of those special backstage-type areas..

It wasn't bad because of all the rain but yeah, I won't be buying those again.

I brought some peanuts in w/ me last night because I knew they didn't have any and wanted some for durning the game. The old lady usher that let us in gave me some snide comment, she says "You're going to eat peanuts w/ all this good food in here? Those things are such a mess!" I said no I'm going to eat peanuts and the food in here. Obviously she's just a grumpy old lady because she's going to have to clean up all my peanut shells. I made sure to make a nice mess for her.

[maddash]

I haven't sat in the BOA area so I'm not sure what that buffett looks like.

Outside of the carving station and the oyster bar, that's pretty much the buffet for any of the club rooms.

I prefer to watch the games down in the seats, but I like the option of the club rooms too. Some family members are too old, or too big of babies to sit outside in the seats, so the club sections offer a great alternative. Although the new Champions Club doesn't sounds all that great for the extra price. The best are the party rooms and legend clubs, where you can run inside for the AC and free beer and food, but you still get good seats outside. We had a legend club for a NLCS game in '06 right down the 1st base line that was awesome.

[JL21]

I couldn't help but laugh last night when they were describing that area on TV. They were advertising all of the flat screen TV's they have in there.

So basically, I'm paying $120 (or $140) to rent a bunch of flat screen TV's to watch something that's going on right in front of me anyway. Uh... I'll pass.

[Popeye_Card]

I couldn't help but laugh last night when they were describing that area on TV. They were advertising all of the flat screen TV's they have in there.

So basically, I'm paying $120 (or $140) to rent a bunch of flat screen TV's to watch something that's going on right in front of me anyway. Uh... I'll pass.

Yeah, the talk of the flat screens confused me. They're nice for being able to see replays, but do you really need 40 of them? Wouldn't one or two huge projector screens do the trick for much less?