Valentine Park — Attraction in Florida

Went to the Manatee Festival this year and the kids had a blast! They loved getting their faces painted and even got to pet an alligator. There was an amazing array of food and merchandise vendors, live music, and and you could even bring your dogs for an additional fee. Valentine Park was designed with youth sports in mind and has 2 lighted tennis courts, a lighted basketball court, lighted minor and major sized baseball fields, full sized football/soccer field, sand volleyball pit, t-ball field, and a lighted girl's softball field. There is also a playground and a picnic area with...

I love Valentine Park, but $75 for pavilion-1 seems a little steep to me... Especially considering some of the facilities are in disrepair. The bathrooms near pavilion 1 we're bad. One bathroom door was locked with an out of order sign on it. The other bathroom had a clogged toilet and was completely disgusting... There's trash scattered all around the park. I understand that people litter and it's hard to keep up with it. But considering how much money is made at this park through rentals of the space it seems like it should be kept up a little better. But like I said, that's...

I love this park is I grew up playing baseball there and I like taking my kids there because it brings back so many memories in the break ground is great for my kids and I just bring so many memories back the only thing I'm upset about is our city does not have a baseball team anymore 20 years ago we had 30 baseball teams from the majors to the senior leads to the G balim's there was amazing the park was always full of baseball playing dumb days are gone and it really upsets me because I can't see my boy play for on city like I did growing up play...