04.18.09
The New Yankee Stadium - Cost for a Family of Five
It’s 2009 and we unveiled 2 new baseball stadiums in New York, Yankee Stadium and Citi Field - home of the NY Mets. Along with the new stadiums are new prices. We’re Yankee fans so I haven’t checked out the Mets prices yet but I’m not sure how we will be able to afford to take our kids out to the ball game any more.
Not trying to be a snob but my thinking is if we’re fortunate enough to get tickets to a game I don’t want to experience it from the outfield. At that point we can’t see a darn thing and can get a better and cheaper view from home. So I set forth to obtain decent (not great, just decent) seats. Well, decent by my standards which are not that high, places us in the terrace area between either first and home or third and home - not too demanding right? Sure, well those tickets are in the $75 range plus fees of course and that’s if you get them on yankees.com. If you need to go to a ticket broker like Stub Hub the sky is the limit.
No, I haven’t purchased the tickets yet. Wanted to do the math first. So here we go:
| 5 tickets @ $75 ea | $ 375.00 |
| 5 fees @ $7.25 ea | $ 36.25 |
| parking | $ 19.00 |
| 5 hot dogs | $ 26.25 |
| 5 sodas | $ 30.00 |
| Total | $ 486.50 |
Just under $500 to spend a day watching the Bronx Bombers and that’s assuming you can ward off the cotton candy, peanuts and Cracker Jacks guys because you know your kids are going to want that too. And seriously, who is satisfied after just one hot dog? Have you seen the size of them lately?
So what do you do? Well, they do have some specials if you can take the kids out of school on a Wednesday and you can bring your own food if you put it in a clear plastic bag. And yes, there are always the bleachers at roughly $20 a ticket. So you can do it on the cheap but only you can decide whether it’s worth it. I was on ticketmaster.com seriously considering purchasing tickets for tomorrow’s game but after today’s 22-4 defeat and their opening record I am glad I didn’t click submit! What do you think?