Surviving Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
Tips to consider when seeing a concert
With a capacity to hold 20,000 people, the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre is unique in that it offers both lawn seating (13,000 people) and venue seating (7,000 people).
- Most things to account for when deciding arrival time is traffic levels, how popular the artists is resulting in lawn seat availability, and parking lots. It is not a huge deal of you’re late to a show depending on who’s opening for the artist. Most shows say they start at 7 pm. The earlier you are, the better lawn seat options you have.
- If you have lawn seats, bring either a towel to sit on or a durable blanket. Lawn seat chairs are available to trent at the theatre. Large folding chairs are prohibited.
- Hollywood Casino Amphitheater allow shows rain or shine, so check the forecast for your scheduled concert. If there is rain and you have lawn seats, perhaps bring a chair or put tarp underneath your blanket. Shows have potential to be cancelled if there is lighting for safety issues.
- Like most concerts, food and drinks can be pretty pricy. So don’t be surprised that you have to pay $10 for a funnel cake. However, the theatre offers a self-serve snow cone stand, and that is around the five dollar price range.
- Pay attention to where you are parked at. Even though that seems pretty obvious, I cannot emphasize this enough. Parking rows are marked with letters and numbers on each far end, so observe other markers if you’re parked near the middle.
- Wear comfortable shoes. Girls tend to go all out in heels, but when you’re in a tight square of lawn space and walking around on crowded concrete, heels are not a suggested shoe choice.
- Most tickets are bought through the live nation website and can be printed at home, or accessed on your phone once you get there through your email. http://www.livenation.com/venues/14396/hollywood-casino-amphitheatre-st-louis-mo
- There is parking “VIP” options for $30 that take up the first couple of rows of the lot. I do not believe this is worth it just because you’re going to be sitting in a line either way. I recomend looking up the list of songs the artist is going to play( http://www.setlist.fm/ ), and decide of the last sing is worht styaing for, or walk out early and beat traffic.