Dawn Bowe Review of Circuit of the Americas
Great Venue Once You Get Parked & Inside: We atte...
Great Venue Once You Get Parked & Inside: We attended 2 days of events. One a concert on Saturday night and then the Indy races on Sunday. The venue itself is excellent. No complaints at all. However, they need better signage to direct you to the appropriate parking lots. We had purchased the 3 day parking pass and once we came to the front gate we turned in to find Parking Lot T. We drove and drove and started to wonder if there really was a T Lot. Finally asked some officers who told us we needed to turn on the upcoming street right and it would take us there. We finally found it and realized once we saw the main grandstands that if we had just gone straight instead of turning in the main gate that Lot T was just a short drive up, but there was NO SIGNAGE to tell us to bypass the main gate and go straight for Lot T.
Then the shuttle experience was not great. No signage to tell you to get in a certain line to get in a shuttle for main grandstand and Lot T, so all of these people are grouped all together. Saturday and Saturday night were bad, but not nearly as bad as Sunday after the Indycar race ended. People were standing at the main grandstand waiting for the shuttle, and when two pulled up we were told we couldn't get on that we needed to wait and get on from the other side of the drive. People were walking back and forth between the shuttles to go across and then were blocking parking lot exits. It was actually not very safe at all. Then when the shuttles came back that direction they were already full. We should have been allowed to get on the one direction and you'd just stay on until your shuttle stopped at your lot. It was a free for all and people who had drank too much were not nice. More signage with staff directing people into lines like they did Saturday night would have made a huge difference and not left people upset by their last experience with the venue.
Other than the directions to parking lots and lack of shuttle organization once inside the experience was great. Very nice venue.
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