Wow Beautiful facility with absolutely NO SHADE! I get that it's just been open for 4 months, but being associated with Cedar Point you would have thought the lay out would have been thought out better.
No Shade, (they have a lot of cute little shade trees that will be awesome in about 10 yrs)what shade they have in the food area is mesh which didn't do well in the storm we had. ((Everyone under it was getting wet)Also the dugouts during the lighting storm isn't very safe either, something about being in a tin can and electricity would seem like a bad idea but where else did they have to go, NO WHERE!The interior shops were closing, "of course they were " it was raining and 500 people where there, looking for shelter and I'm pretty sure that none of those people wanted to buy anything, NOT! They should do the math when they have a captive audience. Shops and concessions were open when they only had 4 teams there but not when the facility was packed, every thing then was closed, except for the food that was also getting wet.
Ok let's talk about the opening ceremony. It was basically a quick run across the field, announcing your team before the sports events. (which by the way you couldn't hear because they had some shotty portable speaker that no could hear what was being said, really? Did they think they weren't going to need a PA system, I saw speakers all around the fields, why not use them?)How about the National Anthem or the pledge of allegiance before all of this started, come on its Americas favorite pass time, let get a little nostalgic! For a lot of the children playing there it is their first out of town tournament experience, why not make it great!?!?
Now on to the "extra activities" that are advertised to do for the rest of the families. They weren't open during our opening ceremonies because they already had a tournament earlier that day(which is what I was specifically told by the from office staff) to be honest I didn't care what was going on earlier during the day I was there at that time ,along with over 500 other people (and 2 teenage girls) I was selling the idea of coming to her brothers sports event, but enticing them with "all the extras" but nothing extra was open except for food. No of this made any sense to me.
ok on to this being a Cedar Point facility. Pretty sure they probably have access to the same misting fan that they provide the customers standing in line for the rides. They might want to send some of those over to the Sports Force Park facility. Or even those large stationary umbrellas until there trees grow.
Super small bleachers, the first row of the seats of the bleachers were so low that it gave you a perfect view of the wall right by home plate and they were NOT cleaned up from the day before when we arrived at 9:00, gross! BRING POP UP TENTS AND YOUR OWN CHAIRS.
On to the positives!
The baseball part was organized!
The beer is super cold!
Water always available to the players in the dugout
Great deals on Cedar Point passes for the rest of the family. (Players get there passes as part of their package)
Fun playing teams from all over the USA
Every player got "Nike" shorts and a t-shirt.
So it was a fun tournament, loved hanging with our players and parents! Cedar point was fun when we had time to go but the 8 day passes would have been better if it was NOT consecutive and we might have extended our stay after the tournament. I'm just a mom , and if I can figure this stuff out you would think the folks at Cedar Point could too! read more