Kansas City Royals – Kauffman Stadium
While we were on a road trip from Virginia to Utah, we stopped in Kansas City. Unfortunately, the Royals were in Miami playing the Marlins so we couldn’t see a game at Kauffman Stadium. We decided to do a stadium tour.
We thought it was pretty cool that Kauffman Stadium and GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium, home of the Kansas City Chiefs, are side by side. You can tour both stadiums. I would have loved to tour both, but we still had several hours to drive to our next destination on our road trip.
I didn’t pre-book our tour because we weren’t sure what time we would be going through Kansas City, but we were able to get a tour time when we arrived. We ended up in a tour with a very large group. Kauffman Stadium tours are a lot more expensive than some other ballparks, but you are also shown more of the stadium. Tour prices are $25 for adults, $22 for seniors, $22 for kids aged 6-17, and kids 5 and under are free. All tours start at the team store.
We had some time before the start of our tour so we looked around the Royals Team Store and I got my Kansas City Royals ink stamp for my MLB GameDay Pass-Port Book. To read about the Pass-Port Book, click here.
Our tour of Kauffman Stadium started on the main concourse.
Our first stop on the tour was the Diamond Club, located behind home plate on the Plaza Level. These are the premium seats at Kauffman and they come with complimentary food and drinks. During games, the large windows are usually opened.
We saw the player’s barber shop. Who knew there was a player’s barber shop?
We went into the visitor’s clubhouse and looked around. Since the Royals were out of town, the clubhouse was relatively empty, but very large. We loved the arcade games available in the clubhouse for visiting players and the large selection of sunflower seeds.
Our next stop was the interview room. If you wanted, you could go up front and see what it’s like sitting at the interview table.
From the interview room, we got on the elevator and went down to the field level. It was pretty cool walking right out to the field.
We saw Royals pitcher Amir Garrett coming off the field. He was on the injured list and doing some rehab at the stadium while the rest of the team was playing in Florida.
While we were at the railing on the field, Royals bullpen catcher Ryan Eigsti came off the field and handed Logan a baseball. It was a pretty cool moment. We checked out the Royals dugout and took some pictures.
We got to check out the dugout bullpen phone.
We weren’t rushed at all on our tour and were able to take some time to sit at the top of the dugout and get the view that players and coaches have during a game.
We walked to the outfield area and the first thing we saw was Rivals Sports Bar. Rivals is a 150-seat restaurant with one of the best vantage points in the stadium. Rivals Sports Bar is located on the lower level of the building with Blue Moon Tap Room on the top floor.
The Kansas City Royals have retired 3 numbers in franchise history; George Brett, Frank White, and manager Dick Howser. All 3 men have beautiful statues on the left-centerfield concourse along with a statue of former Royals owner Ewing Kauffman and his wife, Murial.
In the outfield, we had a beautiful view of the stadium and the famous fountains, even though the fountains weren’t turned on.
The Kids Zone in the outfield is part of the Outfield Experience and is incredible. They have everything for kids including a carousel, a game lounge, a playground, Sluggerrr’s Mini Golf at the K, Pop-A-Shot, batting cages, pitching mounds, Sluggerrr’s Base Run and the Price Chopper Little K baseball field.
Our final stop on our 90 minute stadium tour was the Joe McGuff Press Box.
Inside the Joe McGuff Press Box were several marks from foul balls that had found their way into the press box.
The tour of Kauffman Stadium was great and included just about everything there is to see. We really enjoyed it and it was one of the best tours we’ve had. Kauffman Stadium is a great place and we hope to see a game there one day.
