Kellogg Arena — Attraction in Battle Creek

This place is the best for great competition between gold and silver excel levels. For All gymnastics in general, the venue is great with seating and also a separate area for awards. It helps with quickly getting through meets at all levels back to back. My only concern and complaint is the new addition offers a lot of excellent restaurant and drink options in the hotel which as parents makes us want to stay there but you are NOT allowed by front security (two older ladies being what I thought as Karen's) from the way they were extremely rude to me and my son about bringing a Starbucks coffee and a water into the stadium. This changes my thought about staying there (at the hotel connected to the venue) next time going to the competition. To some like myself I'd rather enjoy a nice brewed Starbucks coffee rather than the coffee and snacks they offer...

Nice in that all the seats have a good view of the arena, the bathrooms are clean, and there are plenty of them around all areas of the arena. The parking structure is convenient.

However, many of the seats are broken/unusable. All those stairs are difficult for us old folks, the elevators are smelly and in non-central locations, and the ONE exit situation is a nightmare. In the event of an emergency, people would likely be trapped, trampled and killed.

You come in from the parking garage, go down to the first floor (either via stairs or elevator) to get in, and then are required to go up all those stairs for seating. Better hope you don't have to go down all the stairs to the bathroom and then back up all of them again to get back...

My husband & I were there for our nieces gymnastics competition. My husband uses a cane to get around & stairs are not the easiest for him anymore. Unfortunately, stairs are the only way that we saw to get to the seats to watch her compete. If you happen to go up one stairwell off of where your seats were. You either have to go back down the stairs, go over to the next stairwell & climb back up. Or if you are lucky enough to find a row of seats without anyone I then & side-step your way across the row to get to your seats. Just because a place is "handicaped accessible", DOES NOT mean that they are "handicaped friendly". How does someone who uses a walker, wheelchair or any other mobility device, actually get up...