hollywood casino amphitheatre tailgating

Here, you walk around, through the concessions, and then up the hill. At least Alpine Valley (another not so hot venue, but for different reasons) utilizes a real hill and put the stage at the bottom, so that when you park, you pretty much walk onto the lawn and there's your seat. Long walk from the gate, because of the way the place is built with its false hill. Lines for beer and t-shirts really bad, disorderly, took absolutely forever. And where was security to tell them to clear the stairs? MIA. We had to follow a delivery person up, who was taking bottled water to the top concessions.

We spent twenty minutes once just trying to get up the stairs from the concession/restroom area because people thought it would be a great place to stand and talk. Elbow to elbow is fun under certain circumstances. No security weeding out (pun intended) the drunks. Sometimes we had to move our blanket, even though we'd planted first, just to get away from them, only to have it repeat as more and more showed up. They tripped over our blanket, stumbled into us, etc. There were just plain too many people in the venue, and it seemed like half of everyone we ran into on the lawn was drunk. Had lawn seats and I really like lawn seats - anywhere else. And that after waiting in line fifteen minutes just to get into the packed, poorly lighted den. Tried with all my might to hold my breath. I felt like I was breathing it instead of air. But amongst the humidity was also the heat (and stench) of urine. The weather was hot and humid, and so were the restrooms. Saw Tom Petty and the Black Crowes one July. Not enough toilets or stalls for the wave upon wave of drunken party-people using them. So, I'll start with generally egregious and proceed downward.

Exactly what part was the very worst progressing to the least horrible, awful aspect, I don't know.

The worst: I can't decide the order for this one. But all of that only gets it a 2, and that's generous. What's more, it has a nice outdoor atmosphere. I've been there three times, and there were several more I would have liked to see and couldn't for one reason or another. And I hate to say that, because the best part is: great acts tend to book there, at reasonable prices. Somewhat of a combination between Alpine Valley and the Marcus Amphitheater, FMB Amphitheater definitely could give you the impression by the pictures online that it's a top notch place, but (air out of bubble) it's not.

Hollywood casino amphitheatre tailgating