Patriot Lounge vs. Social Space

[Old Man]

Patriot Club Green and Gold Room members,

With the 31 Aug date bearing down to submit interest in the new Patriot Lounge and/or Green Coat society, and with the changes in club locations and pricing levels for each, what is everyone going to do this upcoming year?

I just wanted to check in and see what any final decisions there are regarding the Patriot Club. Are you planning to be in either the Lounge or Baseline hang out area? Or do you plan to get to the PatDome and hang in the Social Space in the former area of the Gold Room which was talked about.

I'm likely to do the Social Space, but wanted to hear the thoughts of others and see how some of you are planning to spend your pregame dollars.

Old Man (who hates change)

 

[Patriotsince81]

Patriot Club Green and Gold Room members,

With the 31 Aug date bearing down to submit interest in the new Patriot Lounge and/or Green Coat society, and with the changes in club locations and pricing levels for each, what is everyone going to do this upcoming year?

I just wanted to check in and see what any final decisions there are regarding the Patriot Club. Are you planning to be in either the Lounge or Baseline hang out area? Or do you plan to get to the PatDome and hang in the Social Space in the former area of the Gold Room which was talked about.

I'm likely to do the Social Space, but wanted to hear the thoughts of others and see how some of you are planning to spend your pregame dollars.

Old Man (who hates change)

I talked with the friend who goes to games with me. We are NOT doing the Patriot Lounge or the Courtside Hospitality.

For the first game we are going to eat at a restaurant, most likely Oh George, and then walk over to EBA to check out the "Beer Garden" where the Gold Room used to be. Expected arrival there for the first game will be around 6:30.

That may become the routine depending on whether or not we have any fun in the Beer Garden and if the friends we normally hang out with go there as well. If the Beer Garden doesn't work out or we're surrounded by screaming kids then we will adjust for subsequent games. My concern with the Beer Garden is the lines, much like concessions, may take forever if one has to order and then pay for some suds. The grab and go system worked well in the old Gold Room as far as speed. Only time will tell.

 

[ProfessorCFK]

No hospitality for me. My wife is ecstatic, I am bummed.

 

[nchocola]

I moved my seats back because of this. I have five tickets. I’m not paying the same price for a lesser experience. It’s one thing to have a price increase, it’s another to just jump off the page.

Hey thanks for being a ticket holder, if you want a similar “elevated” experience it’s an additional $2500 per year for two people only. Otherwise just enjoy your seats at the same price with no hospitality.


I have a gut feeling that there wasn’t too much buy-in for these hospitality areas. I’m very curious to see the numbers when the season starts.

 

[KAOriginal]

I am a skeptical this will work. Historically , the Mason AD has been behind the curve on everything. So I applaud them for coming up with some different things.....

However--expecting a historically lagging fan base to to just jump up and spend a lot of extra money was not quite thought out. Hitting your core fans over the head with extraordinary price increases---DUMB. Cause there's no other people chomping at the bit to buy premium seats at a Mason game who have no association with the school.

I wish them luck...lol.

 

[Patriotsince81]

@Old Man. I've heard from 2 other groups of former Gold Room patrons, they are NOT doing any hospitality this year.

 

[TweederGMU]

I've heard a lot of people are just going to grab drinks/food at places in University Mall prior to games.

 

[Jack Strop]

I moved my seats back because of this. I have five tickets. I’m not paying the same price for a lesser experience. It’s one thing to have a price increase, it’s another to just jump off the page.

Hey thanks for being a ticket holder, if you want a similar “elevated” experience it’s an additional $2500 per year for two people only. Otherwise just enjoy your seats at the same price with no hospitality.


I have a gut feeling that there wasn’t too much buy-in for these hospitality areas. I’m very curious to see the numbers when the season starts.

Supply 'n' demand folks.

Mason admin is ∆ing the supply and hoping that demand is there. If not then there will be more ∆.

 

[Verdad]

Silver lining is that the price increases will likely eliminate all of the complaints about overcrowding in both rooms - which IMO has been the single biggest/consistent complaint over the last 2 decades.

Not enough interest this year due to cost? Walk price back a little next year and then get it to a point where there ideal capacity and maximum revenue.

Had to be done absent building a wing onto EBA.

I'm doing the beer garden thing on the concourse/University Mall like everyone else has said - but plan on getting back into hospitality in the future.

 

[Krug92]

Eight of us in our group and a total of 11 seats. We are not doing hospitality and moved into a much cheaper seat fee section.

 

[Krug92]

I moved my seats back because of this. I have five tickets. I’m not paying the same price for a lesser experience. It’s one thing to have a price increase, it’s another to just jump off the page.

Hey thanks for being a ticket holder, if you want a similar “elevated” experience it’s an additional $2500 per year for two people only. Otherwise just enjoy your seats at the same price with no hospitality.


I have a gut feeling that there wasn’t too much buy-in for these hospitality areas. I’m very curious to see the numbers when the season starts.

It's actually more than $2500 since you can't apply the seat fee toward hospitality anymore. For us it would have been a $3100 increase