So I went to the game last night for the first time in a couple of years. I signed up for the MarlinsTV and they were giving a pair of free tickets to any April home game with the purchase, and this was the only one we could make it to. With pre-paid Parking, we got into the game for $11. That was the good. From there, it was a mixed bag.

I know the garages work with the "pay-by" parking now, and game-day prices are $20, so I did the pre-paid and saved $9 there. What I didn't like about the pre-paid parking purchase is that there's no description of whether there's a required area to park when you purchase, you're just purchasing "parking". I didn't figure out there the parking is for any garage until I opened up the parking ticket and looked at the details. Once I figured that out, I parked in my "go to" garage, the northeast one, as it gives easiest access to get back on to I-95 north back to FTL/Pompano. I was also confused when we pulled up because they don't stop to check your parking anymore, they just wave you in. Well, I was confused because it gives a QR code for your parking, so I was like "well, where do I scan it and put in my plate?" Well, once we finally parked, I was going to ask an attendant what to do, when I noticed on the bottom of the QR code page something that said "activate pre-paid parking here", so I clicked it, and then it had you enter your license plate information. They did have some signs in the stairwells describing this process, but I wouldn't have seen those until I got there. Once that was figured out, it was easy and that was it, but I feel they could do a much better job explaining how that works, whether it be when you purchase, or more signs IN the garage.

Walking into the park, there are a lot more fences around the park now. The entire west plaza is now enclosed in tall fences, making the park feel even more closed off from the public.

Some were asking a while back if that "LIVE" bar thing had started being built in the plaza - the answer is no. Nothing has been done whatsoever. I'm doubting it ever happens, at least any time soon, especially with how few people actually go to games....they'd struggle to stay open IMO.

Getting into the park was easy with the QR code tickets on the Ballpark App.

Once in the park, we took a lap around the park to see what's changed since I've last been. I know they made the change years ago, and I don't need the green outfield walls back, but the promenade feels so lifeless without the colors. Just a bunch of white and gray all around, especially when it's so empty with small crowds.

The Kids Zone is no longer in the outfield promenade. They've moved it to the 2nd level. I didn't go up there, but could see it from the outfield seats. I feel like most people wouldn't know it's there in that location.

The Marlins Museum that was in the former "Taste of Miami" area was gone. I thought that was a permanent thing. They've put 4 concessions back in that location - one was a bar, then they had a build your own bowl place, a pretzel/snack place, and a sweets/ice cream place. I think they're calling it "the Lineup" now.

Elsewhere in the stadium, several stands just weren't open at all. I'm thinking it's because it was a weekday game with small crowds that they just don't open them all. Looking at what was opened, the menus have changed a lot since I've been. It seems like a lot of the specialty/specific places that they put in when Jeter & Sherman took over have now either become something else, or are only specialty in name. It seems like the majority of stands have switched to primarily variations of hot dog offerings, which I don't understand. I liked the variety they had before, but now they've reverted to mostly hot dogs and chicken tenders. There were like 2 places that offered burgers, a cheesesteak stand, a pizza stand (it's a new pizza brand now), a place with some tacos/quesedilla, and that's all I remember variety wise. Everything else was hot dogs. That "Change up" place that used to feature a meal based on the opponent now just features snacks or a "build your own hot dog" place......I didn't see a single person at it at any point when I was on the promenade.

After taking a lap, I was left unsure of what I wanted because I was underwhelmed with the options.......that directed me to look at the ballpark app to see the map of what's available....the orange is food, so I was like ok great, let's check out the menus.......well, first thing I notice, they still have names of the old places - while I don't remember the names, the pizza place isn't called Miami's Best anymore. The brewery behind home plate has a different name than what's listed on the app......I'm pretty sure it's not called Pincho or SuViche anymore either. So they've seemingly not updated this in a while. I also figured that the menus would be listed of each location so you could browse to decide.....but nope. They just have a category (food/drink) and "directions" to it. Disappointing.

So, I wound up doing another lap, and noticed that they've changed the menu displays for the worse. For instance, menus are listed as Item/price, then have "Marlins member prices 'as low as $xx.xx'" ......whatever that means, and then a category. So here's the burger place's menu.........a burger place with only one burger option haha. I didn't like that there's no indication of what the combo includes, or for the burger alone, what's on the burger, etc. I'm left to assume that a combo is burger, fries and drink. But with ballpark prices, you never know! And then what makes it a smash burger? Is there sauce? Is there lettuce tomato, etc? Is there cheese? The photo shows cheese, but it's called "smash burger" not "cheeseburger". Give me more "at a glance" info to help me decide if I want that option.

I'm singling out the burger place here because it's the only one I took a photo of, but menus throughout the park were like this - no descriptions of what is in the menu item at all. Some stuff is self-explanatory like chicken tenders/fries. But items like this or tacos deserve an description, IMO. What do you guys think, maybe I'm nitpicking?

Also, the smaller stands on the concourse have tiny menus with very small print that you have to be right on top of to read. I realize they're smaller and don't have the signage space, but bigger than a sheet of printer paper would work better, especially if there ever are bigger crowds.

Moving to the actual stands, our tickets were in the home run deck, and we were good at first and actually went to our section. They didn't even bother replacing the original green signage in the home run porch when this group took over. Signs further back that said "sections 141-140" etc. were also still green. Not that big of a deal, but it's a detail (or lack of) that I noticed.

We wound up moving down to the right field corner after getting some food, since the place was empty and nobody was checking tickets there.

Not that I check the other scores that much, and I know they're on the phone, but they've moved the out of town scores to the auxiliary scoreboard in left field, instead of the field level boards where they used to be below the home run thing.....that area is now 3 giant ads. They made the out of town scores so small, you could barely read them........guess they wanted that advertising money.

Coupled with the team running themselves into outs/killing rallies and the game not being good, the overall vibe of the place just seemed "meh". There were definitely more Cardinals fans there than Marlins fans, as they'd loudly cheer for anything good that happened for the Cards.

While getting in was relatively easy, with the team destined for another middle of the road year (no urgency), ballpark changes for the worse (IMO), and me being the only one in my family/friends group that likes baseball, it's likely going to be a while before I go back to the ballpark, sadly.

The problem with the vibe and lack of success with the vendors in that place is the marlins don’t know how to build connection with fans so no one goes.

Instead of that obnoxious Spanglish branding they put on everything, how about all residents of little Havana get free tickets (to as many games as they want) for their household. The fuckin people don’t go anyway cause they can’t afford it so just let them be warm bodies in the stands. Maybe you’ll make a buck (or 100 lol) from the concessions. Make it a “top of mind” destination when they’ve got nothing better to do.

On 4/22/2026 at 7:09 AM, rmc523 said:

So I went to the game last night for the first time in a couple of years. I signed up for the MarlinsTV and they were giving a pair of free tickets to any April home game with the purchase, and this was the only one we could make it to. With pre-paid Parking, we got into the game for $11. That was the good. From there, it was a mixed bag.

I know the garages work with the "pay-by" parking now, and game-day prices are $20, so I did the pre-paid and saved $9 there. What I didn't like about the pre-paid parking purchase is that there's no description of whether there's a required area to park when you purchase, you're just purchasing "parking". I didn't figure out there the parking is for any garage until I opened up the parking ticket and looked at the details. Once I figured that out, I parked in my "go to" garage, the northeast one, as it gives easiest access to get back on to I-95 north back to FTL/Pompano. I was also confused when we pulled up because they don't stop to check your parking anymore, they just wave you in. Well, I was confused because it gives a QR code for your parking, so I was like "well, where do I scan it and put in my plate?" Well, once we finally parked, I was going to ask an attendant what to do, when I noticed on the bottom of the QR code page something that said "activate pre-paid parking here", so I clicked it, and then it had you enter your license plate information. They did have some signs in the stairwells describing this process, but I wouldn't have seen those until I got there. Once that was figured out, it was easy and that was it, but I feel they could do a much better job explaining how that works, whether it be when you purchase, or more signs IN the garage.

Walking into the park, there are a lot more fences around the park now. The entire west plaza is now enclosed in tall fences, making the park feel even more closed off from the public.

Some were asking a while back if that "LIVE" bar thing had started being built in the plaza - the answer is no. Nothing has been done whatsoever. I'm doubting it ever happens, at least any time soon, especially with how few people actually go to games....they'd struggle to stay open IMO.

Getting into the park was easy with the QR code tickets on the Ballpark App.

Once in the park, we took a lap around the park to see what's changed since I've last been. I know they made the change years ago, and I don't need the green outfield walls back, but the promenade feels so lifeless without the colors. Just a bunch of white and gray all around, especially when it's so empty with small crowds.

The Kids Zone is no longer in the outfield promenade. They've moved it to the 2nd level. I didn't go up there, but could see it from the outfield seats. I feel like most people wouldn't know it's there in that location.

The Marlins Museum that was in the former "Taste of Miami" area was gone. I thought that was a permanent thing. They've put 4 concessions back in that location - one was a bar, then they had a build your own bowl place, a pretzel/snack place, and a sweets/ice cream place. I think they're calling it "the Lineup" now.

Elsewhere in the stadium, several stands just weren't open at all. I'm thinking it's because it was a weekday game with small crowds that they just don't open them all. Looking at what was opened, the menus have changed a lot since I've been. It seems like a lot of the specialty/specific places that they put in when Jeter & Sherman took over have now either become something else, or are only specialty in name. It seems like the majority of stands have switched to primarily variations of hot dog offerings, which I don't understand. I liked the variety they had before, but now they've reverted to mostly hot dogs and chicken tenders. There were like 2 places that offered burgers, a cheesesteak stand, a pizza stand (it's a new pizza brand now), a place with some tacos/quesedilla, and that's all I remember variety wise. Everything else was hot dogs. That "Change up" place that used to feature a meal based on the opponent now just features snacks or a "build your own hot dog" place......I didn't see a single person at it at any point when I was on the promenade.

After taking a lap, I was left unsure of what I wanted because I was underwhelmed with the options.......that directed me to look at the ballpark app to see the map of what's available....the orange is food, so I was like ok great, let's check out the menus.......well, first thing I notice, they still have names of the old places - while I don't remember the names, the pizza place isn't called Miami's Best anymore. The brewery behind home plate has a different name than what's listed on the app......I'm pretty sure it's not called Pincho or SuViche anymore either. So they've seemingly not updated this in a while. I also figured that the menus would be listed of each location so you could browse to decide.....but nope. They just have a category (food/drink) and "directions" to it. Disappointing.

So, I wound up doing another lap, and noticed that they've changed the menu displays for the worse. For instance, menus are listed as Item/price, then have "Marlins member prices 'as low as $xx.xx'" ......whatever that means, and then a category. So here's the burger place's menu.........a burger place with only one burger option haha. I didn't like that there's no indication of what the combo includes, or for the burger alone, what's on the burger, etc. I'm left to assume that a combo is burger, fries and drink. But with ballpark prices, you never know! And then what makes it a smash burger? Is there sauce? Is there lettuce tomato, etc? Is there cheese? The photo shows cheese, but it's called "smash burger" not "cheeseburger". Give me more "at a glance" info to help me decide if I want that option.

I'm singling out the burger place here because it's the only one I took a photo of, but menus throughout the park were like this - no descriptions of what is in the menu item at all. Some stuff is self-explanatory like chicken tenders/fries. But items like this or tacos deserve an description, IMO. What do you guys think, maybe I'm nitpicking?

Also, the smaller stands on the concourse have tiny menus with very small print that you have to be right on top of to read. I realize they're smaller and don't have the signage space, but bigger than a sheet of printer paper would work better, especially if there ever are bigger crowds.

Moving to the actual stands, our tickets were in the home run deck, and we were good at first and actually went to our section. They didn't even bother replacing the original green signage in the home run porch when this group took over. Signs further back that said "sections 141-140" etc. were also still green. Not that big of a deal, but it's a detail (or lack of) that I noticed.

We wound up moving down to the right field corner after getting some food, since the place was empty and nobody was checking tickets there.

Not that I check the other scores that much, and I know they're on the phone, but they've moved the out of town scores to the auxiliary scoreboard in left field, instead of the field level boards where they used to be below the home run thing.....that area is now 3 giant ads. They made the out of town scores so small, you could barely read them........guess they wanted that advertising money.

Coupled with the team running themselves into outs/killing rallies and the game not being good, the overall vibe of the place just seemed "meh". There were definitely more Cardinals fans there than Marlins fans, as they'd loudly cheer for anything good that happened for the Cards.

While getting in was relatively easy, with the team destined for another middle of the road year (no urgency), ballpark changes for the worse (IMO), and me being the only one in my family/friends group that likes baseball, it's likely going to be a while before I go back to the ballpark, sadly.

That didn't sound like "mixed bag" - it sounded like misery and boredom and just a lifeless cheapo park. That's hilarious Sherman wouldn't even spring to recolor the seating area signage and just left it whatever to save like $5 lol.

It sounds like a dying park - or dead already.

For the record, I loved our old like green walls as I loathe this current monochrome schematic trend that has pervaded every inch of daily life. I get it, we're all sad bois. Infuse some damn life into ish again!

Easy to find tasty food at The Depot

Kiosk right in front of Section 40 always had delicious Pan con Bistec or chicken quesadillas. It’s hard to eat just one.

The Change Up has different food every home stand and the Kosher dogs at the Kosher kiosk are outstanding. It’s a baseball stadium. Were you expecting Tomahawk Ribeye for your $11 entry ticket?

Parking is a fokken BREEZE. Four MASSIVE parking garages STEPS from a MLB stadium.

You sound horribly disgruntled or a noob who got completely out of touch with attending a live Marlins game. You probably couldn’t wait to post your very lukewarm review.

Broke Bruce sucks but less than 30 cities in America have pro baseball. We have pro baseball and a very scrappy squad that doesn’t quit. Jump on board and enjoy it!

59 minutes ago, DTrain said:

Easy to find tasty food at The Depot

Kiosk right in front of Section 40 always had delicious Pan con Bistec or chicken quesadillas. It’s hard to eat just one.

The Change Up has different food every home stand and the Kosher dogs at the Kosher kiosk are outstanding. It’s a baseball stadium. Were you expecting Tomahawk Ribeye for your $11 entry ticket?

Parking is a fokken BREEZE. Four MASSIVE parking garages STEPS from a MLB stadium.

You sound horribly disgruntled or a noob who got completely out of touch with attending a live Marlins game. You probably couldn’t wait to post your very lukewarm review.

Broke Bruce sucks but less than 30 cities in America have pro baseball. We have pro baseball and a very scrappy squad that doesn’t quit. Jump on board and enjoy it!

What are you talking about dude? Disgruntled noob out of touch with attending a live Marlins game? Please...........I have a ton of posts on here about my park experiences before and after the current group. Folks here were literally joking I lived in the bushes at the stadium because of all the updates I'd always post. I've been going to games at the park literally since opening day 2012, and was in the park before that during construction of the thing. Had a 20-game package in that season and have been to a bunch of games since then, both under the Loria tenure and the Sherman era (though fewer under the current group). I've gone far less recently because ownership's lack of drive to compete leaves me not wanting to spend money on going.

I don't think you read my post at all. It was a comparison to how the park was last time I went (or before that). When is the last time you've been to the park?

No, I'm not expecting a Tomahawk Ribeye. I'm expecting the same food experience/variety that I had last time I went under the same ownership group. They made a point to improve the food when they took over.......and it has regressed from that standard that they set. I'm supposed to just say "ok thanks" to that? No, I'm not giving them a pass for setting a standard of a nice variety of food options at each stand, and then reverting to 5 varieties of hot dogs and 2 hamburger options/typical ballpark food in 90% of the concessions.

I know what the change up is....had you read the line where I said "That "Change up" place that used to feature a meal based on the opponent now just features snacks or a "build your own hot dog" place", you would know that. You're telling me that the food of St. Louis is a build your own hot dog? Ok.....

Hmm, look at that......no hot dog on that list.....

I didn't say parking was difficult, I said the prepaid setup was confusing until you got into the stairwells where it was explained, and said "Once that was figured out, it was easy and that was it, but I feel they could do a much better job explaining how that works, whether it be when you purchase, or more signs IN the garage." Parking isn't difficult because the place is empty. But when it was full, it's a disaster in the area.

Those are just a few off quick searches, but I know there's been plenty more......but yeah, total noob..........never been, just complaining to complain......

Threads I've started:

loanDepot Park Updates Observations & Critique - Miami Marlins - MarlinsBaseball.com

Marlins Park Renovation Updates - Page 9 - Miami Marlins - MarlinsBaseball.com

Comments in other threads:

Recess Sports Lounge and other ballpark changes - Page 2 - Miami Marlins - MarlinsBaseball.com

Going to my first game at loanDepot Park tomorrow - Miami Marlins - MarlinsBaseball.com

Edited April 30Apr 30 by rmc523

Looks like I REALLY touched a nerve!

You grossly overstated how the ballpark experience isn’t what it used to be and I called you out on it.

My point remains 😝

37 minutes ago, DTrain said:

Looks like I REALLY touched a nerve!

You grossly overstated how the ballpark experience isn’t what it used to be and I called you out on it.

My point remains 😝

You're entitled to your opinion. But you implied I'd never been before, which is far from the truth.

If you're happy with them removing features and menu items throughout the park, by all means, throw them a parade.

I just don't think giving this cheap organization a pass for pulling more things away is warranted.