First Time to Lambeau - Help Wanted

Go to the nearest catholic church dressed as an altar boy. Free lodging. Well, not "free".

This should be interesting.

Need any place to have your kids babysat while you're at the game?

First post, I suppose we should be nice.

The day the schedule comes out is the best time to book a hotel room.

Good luck finding one now. They're available but you will have to do some leg work

Tickets should be easy. You can wait for gameday and fight with the scalpers or just use Ticketmaster/Stubhub to see what the going rate is.

Not that difficult, you just need to work at it.

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Originally posted by Henry:
Go to the nearest catholic church dressed as an altar boy. Free lodging. Well, not "free".

The Catholic High School I went to for two years closed the other day. I'm still scarred by this decision so I don't find this comment funny. Reported to El-Ka-Bong. Jerk.

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Originally posted by Dan:
Hey all,

I just graduated from college in NC last spring, and am looking to make my first trip up to Green Bay this December. I'm trying to catch the Sunday night game vs. the Lions on 12/9, then hang around to attend Aaron Rodgers Day on 12/12. Given my lack of experience and funds, I am eager for some input on how best to go about this. I am doing my own research, but am also very interested and hopeful to hear if there are better/cheaper ways to score tickets and a place to stay than going through Ticketmaster and buying a hotel room. If anybody has any other useful advice, that would also be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for your time.

Go Pack Go!
Dan

Dan,

I, too, am making my first Packer game along with my son this year although we've been to the Packer Hall of Fame and I've been a Packer fan all of my 60 years. I called the Packers office months ago for guidance, and was told the ONLY places they recommend that fans buy tickets to avoid getting scammed were 1. Packer Fan Tours and 2. Ticketmaster. I was going to go that route but got lucky as I have family in Madison and some friends of my younger brother had season tix and were will to part with 2 of them to help us out. Even then, we paid more than face value, so count on spending $100 to $400 per ticket; I don't see any way around that.

I'm sure housing near Lambeau is very hard if not impossible even though it's only August, but check around. My solution would be to stay further away (Milwaukee, Madison?) and just plan on driving a rental car early on game day to Green Bay.

There is one guy on the board here who sometimes has tickets he's willing to sell, but I don't recall his name, nor do I know how much the tix go for.
Also, supposedly you can always get a ticket on game day from a scalper, but I wasn't going to buy airfare from Idaho and risk not getting in to the game when this is probably a once in a lifetime experience for us. That may be the only way you might get a ticket for face value or less, though, unless someone from this board can hook you up.

We just got our (first) tix this week in the mail, and my son and I are really excited! Good luck to you, Dan!

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I'm sure housing near Lambeau is very hard if not impossible even though it's only August, but check around. My solution would be to stay further away (Milwaukee, Madison?) and just plan on driving a rental car early on game day to Green Bay.

I would try Appleton, Neenah, or the Oshkosh areas.

After the game housing should loosen up, so you should only have to stay further away for one night and then could probably move in closer to GB if you want to take the trouble to move your stuff.

FWIW, it's probably the wrong direction but 30 minutes to the west on 65 mph Hwy 29 is Shawano. There is a Comfort Inn just north off Hwy 29. easy.

http://www.comfortinn.com/hote...wano-wisconsin-WI106

Lambeau field is on the border of Green Bay and Ashwaubenon so when looking for a place to stay keep that in mind. There are a few hotels with in walking distance of Lambeau if your in luck you may stumble on a room. The Tundra Lodge and water park, a Hilton and Cambria Suites are the ones I remember.