Wrigley Field Tour Question

[PackLandVA]

Anyone ever taken the Wrigley Field Tour offered by the Cubs (as opposed to some private tour)? I'm thinking about going with a few people in a couple of weeks. It would be on a non-game day (day off between road trip and coming home).

 

How long is the tour? Worth the $25? Positives or negatives?

 

Thanks!

[UMFan83]

Yeah sorry, I think their policy is to not allow Packer fans on the tours.

 

Edit: Tour is about an hour, and I'd say its worth it. My tour started out in that one executives bar/restaurant, then we walked directly up to the press box. Got to walk past the home and away radios, the spanish language, etc, walked past the kitchen in there and then went into the press room where all the beat writers and other media assemble. Then we walked all the way down to the home clubhouse. Couldnt enter it but everything was layed out as if there was a game that day. You could see the weight room and stuff on your way out, and you pass by the toilet and sink that are just before the enterance to the dugout. Then you get to spend a bunch of time in the home dugout, taking photos and being allowed to walk onto the foul ground part of the field (they'll yell at you for touching dirt). Eventually you climb the wall and walk back up the stands into the concourse and then walk into the visitors clubhouse. This clubhouse I could walk in, sit in the dugouts, etc. Nothing was layed out though. Then you are done.

[BeerHere]

I did it as part of a bachelor party a few years ago. I don't recall it being $25 but a lot of that day is still foggy. I remember the clubhouse, dugout, the radio booth where they had the "Comcast fax line" or whatever they called it....it was a fax machine held together with duct tape. The scoreboard was cool but a cold reminder of how old that thing is/was. I did get to meet Pat and Ron, still have the picture. Well worth it.

[J.R.]

Very worthwhile. Even if it has gone up to $25, it's still a bargain if you love the park.

[PackLandVA]

Thanks guys (and/or gals)! I appreciate the feedback. Any other comments are surely welcome!

[Old Style]

I did it a couple of years ago and LOVED it. Pretty much what everyone else said, except they were setting up for a Billy Joel/Elton John concert so we didn't get to go into the visitor's clubhouse or the umpire's room. Sitting in the dugout was such a great moment for me. Watch your head, though. I wacked mine on the concrete ceiling in there. We took pictures with the bullpen phone like we were calling to tell Woody to get warmed up and drank from the water fountain. Either our tour guide was laid back or no one saw us because we didn't get any slack for it. They had the field roped off, but I bent down and touched the grass behind home plate without any issues, either. We wanted to go take pictures in the Bartman seat for a goof, but they would not let us go that far down in the seats.

[Mark Priors Calves]

I took the tour a few years ago and it was a neat experience. For Cub fans, its a definitely something I would recommend they do once.

[Old Style]

FWIW, the Wrigley tour was much better IMO than the Fenway tour and I'm not just saying that because I'm a Cub fan. We didn't get to go in the press box/clubhouse/dugout/luxury suite or anything like that in Boston. Then again, it was a game day so that may be part of an off day tour.

[drcub1908]

did the tour last week on TUESDAY, then drove to Milwaukee and saw the Cubs..then on THURS I was in St.Louis and did the tour of New Busch...

 

the Wrigley Tour is great..we also got to walk in the locker room, just in the front but to see all the jerseys hanging was great! Now my ADVICE is to bring a small container..and scoop some infield gravel and pull a few blades of WRIGLEY grass.

hush hush...

 

I will say that as a Cubs Fan..I am so jealous of Busch stadium it is incredible...obviously as it is only 4 years old..I would love the Cubs to keep the bleachers and re-do the grandstands with that triangular building we heard about someday..the players need more room and more facility ... REGARDLESS...

 

Drink from the dugout fountain,

do a curtain call from the dugout

and call on the bullpen phone and

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