Seattle Stadium Tours
The stadiums in Seattle are interesting places to visit. I had a great view of them flying into SEATAC which made me more anxious to get a closer look.
The Mariners were in town and T-Mobile Park doesn’t have tours on game day. That will be something for my next trip to Seattle. If you are interested in touring T-Mobile park on a non-gameday, you can book that here.
If you are interested in booking a tour of Lumen Field, you can do that here. Lumen Field has three tours my last day in Seattle. I’m going to try to make it from Chihuly Gardens to the last tour at 2:30pm.
I boarded the Seattle Center Monorail at 2pm. It’s going to be tight.
I boarded the Link at Westlake Center at 2:18.
I am off of the Link by 2:30 but I made a major mistake. It looked like the walkway to the left went to T-Mobile Park. I went right to Lumen Field. I should’ve gone to the T-Mobile Park walkway because it goes right between both stadiums.
Instead I ended up way over here.
I make my way around to the stadium steps. I’m already late for the tour but I’ve come this far. I’m hoping the tour is running late or I can catch it in progress.
A pedestrian informs me I need to go to pro shop on the other side of the stadium. I get there at 2:40 ready to buy a ticket. They tell me part of the group hasn’t left yet. If I can buy a ticket, I can join them.
Now ticket master will no longer allow me to purchase a ticket. I offered a cash payment of more than face value they said they couldn’t take it. They did let me purchase a ticket for a future date. That was actually $4 more than today. I did that and got on the tour for $22.50. I was glad they worked with me because this was my last chance to do the tour.
We started in the lower concourse outside of the gift shop.
This is looking over at T-Mobile Park. The event center in between is used for tailgating and has solar rods on the roof.
They call their fans the 12s because they stole 12th man from Texas A&M and got sued. Those aren’t the exact words he used though.
The field is currently setup for soccer because the Seattle Sounders do play soccer here.
I feel like they have good spacing in their seat rows. It’s definitely better than the Superdome, but I think it’s significantly better than AT&T Stadium in Dallas (really Arlington) as well.
This is the second level concourse.
According to the signage this looks to be the Delta Sky Club. I would imagine you have to have premium seats to have access to this club.
We caught up with the rest of the tour at the ESPN broadcast booth.
This is a look inside one of the smaller broadcast rooms.
Next to the broadcast booths are coaches booths.
The NFL Replay Booth is setup where nobody can see in the window.
Next we come to the press box.
This is a front row view from the press box.
After the press box we moved down to one of the corner end zone luxury suites.
If you own this suite, you can have it stocked with food and drinks.
We are downstairs now and heading back to the dressing room area. They have a framed jersey signed by every musician who has performed in the stadium. There are A LOT of them.
They aren’t doing locker room tours right now. I believe they said they did prior to COVID. Maybe that’s something they’ll add at a future date.
This is the entrance to the visitor’s locker room.
This is the entrance to the Seahawks locker room.
We are now in the Seahawks press room. This is currently setup for soccer. During football season there wouldn’t be any tables in here. Those chairs that are stacked up would be lined up in front of the podium.
This door goes into the head coaches office. This is were Pete Carroll would enter the press room after a game.
This door goes into the Seahawks locker room. This is where the players would come in for the press briefing. There’s a separate press room for the visiting team that we didn’t see. I would imagine it’s a similar setup.
We are in the lower level seating area now. This is where the Seahawks would enter the field.
This completes the tour. The tour ended at 3:50. If the first group left on time that would make it an 80 minute tour.
I am appreciative of the staff for working with me to get me on the tour. I didn’t tell them I was a blogger until after the tour. I thought they did a great job and I highly recommend touring Lumen Field and/or T-Mobile Park when you’re in Seattle.
