Category: | Stadium, |
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Address: | 4900 Marie P DeBartolo Way, Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA |
Postal code: | 95054 |
Phone: | (415) 464-9377 |
Website: | http://levisstadium.com/ |
Great venue for the great concerts. The stadium is humongous and have more than 70k capacity. Great center stage arrangement and amazing sound arrangements. Lots of food and drinks stalls. They are expensive like $6 for small water bottles. You can carry water in transparent bags.
Overall, great event venue but here is my Good, Bad and Ugly review of last night. First, taking public transit. The good: getting there was flawless, fast and cheap! The bad: getting home when everyone was leaving at the same time was absolute chaos. It was so hard finding and getting to where you needed to be to line up for train. It took us over an hour to get from our seats to our train and then another hour to get home from there. The ugly: there were no stops announced on the train, the train was too brightly lit on the inside to be able to see the signs for the stop outside at the station and, worst of all, the inside digital display only showed "Green line - date/time - stop requested" but didn't display any station stops!! Given we were travelling from one end of the line to the other, we had to keep asking people what stop they were getting off at so we could get an idea of when to get off. We didn't even really know we were at our stop until we were standing on the platform and could actually see again.
Second, the food. Great that there were food options on each level! Bad: $8.75 for 8 ounces of tea and $18 for 3 chicken strips and small fries? The ugly: the tea tasted terrible and the chicken strips were so thin that they were translucent. Maybe they were made with lunch meat? They were really that thin and mostly breading. For almost $30, I would expect to get something that at least tasted OK.
Venue crowd management: not sure how it was later but when we got there, we basically walked off the light rail and to our seats. It took maybe 15 minutes to get from the station to our seats and that includes all the security checks, 3 escalators and walking around our floor to our section and to our seats. Couldn't have asked it to be better. Leaving was total chaos and confusion. We definitely could not go out the way we came. We ended up taking the stairs down just to get away from the crowds and there did seem to be lots of stair options so I would recommend just taking the nearest stairwell out and finding your way from there. The area outside the stadium wasn't much better in that there (also chaos and confusion) but at least you were outside. If I go again, I would love some tips on how to get out because this was the worst part about the night.
The seats: great view of the stage and the fireworks seemed to be so close that I'd flinch just a little each time they went off (but so beautiful!). The bad and the ugly: I could see where if you were there on a hot day, the direct sun in your face would be brutal and I could also see where the wind could be freezing as well. But this was a perfect night where the sun wasn't too hot and the wind wasn't too cold so no complaints there. Seats were nice and there seemed to be a little more leg room than SAP or other venues I've been at. I would definitely get our seats again in section 313 for another concert in the round or consider the opposite side of the stadium if I thought sun was going to be an issue.
Great concert venue.. The largest attendance in stadium history with 80k+ people for Ed Sheeran!
Plan to come early and be patient as it takes an hour to get out after the event!
Recommend getting a sealed bottle of water and a snack as sometimes the lines are just cray cray... ๐ช๐
Went to my first NFL GAME here August 19th celebrating my birthday. Great stadium ๐. Great crowd. Great atmosphere. Great food and drinks. DJ was on fire. 49ers won so that made it an even better experience. The staff was very nice. Now the only issue they have is getting people to the freeway it was craziness that we had to drive on the wrong side of the road and only allowed to go one side of the freeway so you then have to get off that freeway just to make a U-Turn. It was pretty dangerous having to do that.
Second time seeing Taylor Swift live in concert here! Such a beautiful venue, easy to navigate, and every seat is a good seat. Always so impressed by the staff, I admire them for being able to cater to thousands and thousands of people and maintain a clean environment. Plenty of clean restrooms and food options, remember your clear bags!