Little Caesars Arena — Attraction in Detroit

VISITED FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2025 If you read my recent review on Buddy’s Pizza, then you will know my husband and I briefly visited Detroit all in the name of seeing the Pistons play the Mavericks. Before I proceed with the review on the Arena, let me say it was typical midwest weather. Cold, rainy and then turned to FAT snow flaked snow. Not good for someone with a bad knee. Thankfully no incidents. If you are not familiar with the area the arena is located in the heart of Detroit where other sports facilities are such as Comerica where the Tigers play and the Lion’s Ford Field. The arena is awesome. Lots of memorabilia displayed throughout. Lots of eye catching images, logos, advertising. The energy was unmistakable. There was a DJ playing hip hop/rap music. The Pistons cheerleaders made an appearance. We walked around and obsorbed the environment. Lots of food vendors or sitdown eateries. If we hadn’t eaten, maybe we would’ve tried some place out. I recommend taking a loop. Once we located our seats the teams were practicing. The negative was that the seats were dirty. Beverages had been spilled. I went to the ladies room to wet paper towels to clean them. I shared with neighboring fans. Ushers should go around and clean seats! Only negative. The game was intense as most games can be. It was a close scoring game with Pistons taking the lead at times. Half time was fantastic. The Detroit Choir sang and they were wonderful. Also, because it is Chinese New Year, there were special guests. Several Chinese dance schools had their children perform. They were adorable and brave! And they looked so beautiful in their tradition garb and makeup. We got lucky to see the PISTONS win. We also receive an ISAIAH STEWART bobblehead. Unfortunately, he did not play do to 1 game penalty. However, we did see Cade Cunningham score 40 points! Beasley and Duran were on their game too! It was worth being in Detroit for 24hrs! WARNING: You will not pay any less than $50 dollars for parking. It is crazy expensive in the area. We recommend looking for street, non-permit parking. We got lucky and parked about 1/2 (4-5 blocks from the arena). However, after the game and leaving, the weather was worst and so was traffic! Many folks started to turn streets that were one way or made up two lanes on a two way street going one way. May sense? We were all in the same mess, gotta practice patience. Jeeze. OVERALL: Awesome,...

A nightmare for musicians... and even worse for those attending. Usually, I stay professional but this needs to be said. I have no idea who approved the design of this place. I'm only 5'6 and my knees were hitting the back of the seats. My sister isn't even afraid of heights but let's just say, thank God, I'm a security officer with a first aid license. She had a full blown panic attack and I had help her up to the larger platform (which is literally the highest level of the building) just to get her to breath again. Your staff is the ONLY redeeming quality of this place. Bill and his team tried to fix it. Never in my life, have I been booed and yelled out of seats by the crowd when he mistakenly put us in seats that didn't exist though. I wasn't expecting to be publicly humiliated. Which instantly ruined our moods. Back to it being thrown on Bill to fix it though. But as someone who has worked at such places? I see how much work has been thrown into his lap. And if you lose him? That entire place will fall into pieces. You need to fix your training you have there. Be more thorough with communication. Also, stop being cheap and get staff equipment for God's sake. Why is Bill and only a few others ones with radios? That place is huge. Full communication is needed in a place like that. Where I was located? Had I been a regular civilian? Who would have helped my sister? There was nobody in sight. I will never recommend artists to play here. If anything? I'll be throwing this venue on my list. If you're disabled, have fear of heights, have kids, do NOT go here. I have no idea what they were thinking when it came to seating arrangements. And to all the staff here? You all deserve raises. And Bill (supervisor of guest services)? I hope they don't work you into the ground. Had you not been there? I would...

I have been to LCA now multiple times for concerts, each time a disappointment. The sound is always bad compared to other venues seeing the same bands. In addition, having to find a portal, go down stairwells, go through random bars/business areas to get to your cramped tiny seats is dumb and confusing. The entire point of LCA is just to pilfer as much money out of your pocket as they can in the time you are there with zero value added... While cramming as many wallet carriers in there as possible to do the same.

Had VIP tickets for Blink-182 and not only was there no signage, map display, or anything to tell us where to go for our seats... nobody knew anything about anything with the VIP pass that we paid for. The special tour cocktail was $20 and it was given to us as literally just lemonade with a pack of pop rocks on the side. Was supposed to have alcohol in it and a syringe kicker and the pop rocks included. Overall everything is just way overpriced, and way underwhelming. There is no real training, communication, or standards in place for the staff for events. There is no care as to the user experience here. LCA does not have its own parking structure, so you have to use one of the areas parking garages which will run you another $50 or so.

For concerts I definitely recommend seeing the band elsewhere. Detroit is terrible, and coming here is always a hassle. Taxpayer dollars paid for this useless monstrosity. At least they don't just murder you and take your wallet... So 2 stars.

Probably fine for hockey/basketball games if you just wanna get ripped on cheap beer and sit in the nosebleeds where you cannot see anything. That will probably still run you a couple hundred bucks though. From my understanding though, people aren't enjoying...