With the Padres visiting Comerica Park and since I was on some travel to the east coast, I worked it out to stop by Detroit on the way back to catch the last two games of the series.

For the first game I went on April 22nd, I sat in the Tiger Den (section TD129A that’s left center behind home plate), which are seats on the lower level right behind the front sections so they’re just underneath the overhang of the second level:

I can imagine that during a day game these seats are nice since you’re out of the sun. New for 2025, they replaced these seats to have the same style of seats as in the Home Plate Club (which is also new for 2025) except the seats don’t have the ventilation features like the Home Plate Club seats do (more on that below).

The rows for these seats don’t have many seats (the row I sat in only had four seats in the row) and the way it’s set up is seat 1 has a small tray table between it and seat 2, seats 2 and 3 are next to each other and then seats 3 and 4 have another tray table between them. So in this row of four seats, seats 1 and 4 were almost like their own seats.

What’s also great about these seats is the leg room is pretty wide so you don’t have to get up for when people are going to their seats in your row (which also won’t be that often since the rows don’t have that many seats).

You can scan a QR code to order from the MLB Ballpark app but it’s only the standard ballpark fare (hot dogs, popcorn, peanuts, etc). Each Tiger Den ticket comes with $10 in food and beverage credit that you have to scan your ticket at a concession stand to use (doesn’t work with ordering from the app).

You are a little further back since it’s behind the front section and a small four-person loge box that has the same style seating but it’s a great place to watch a game if you’re looking for cover and more intimate seating.

For the Wednesday April 23rd day game, I was able to get a seat in the Home Plate Club off SeatGeek. As mentioned, this area is newly created for 2025 and it was still a work in progress as they plan to build an underground space (to be finished in the middle of the season) right next to the seats, similar to how you can go to the underground space at Petco Park for the Padres Home Plate Club.

For now, they’re using the Tiger Club for food and beverage (and if you want to get out of the elements on a hot or cold day) so only Home Plate Club seat holders can access it until they finish the new space. You enter the Tiger Club through a separate entrance outside the ballpark on Witherell St and once you enter, you go up one floor to the Tiger Club.

From there, they have buffet-style food with a bar to get all drinks, including soda, with most alcohol included (there were some higher-end alcohol that had an upcharge).

For this game they had a good selection of food including hot dogs, sausages, beef sliders, pasta and meatballs, pizza, charcuterie, sushi, salad, chicken and waffles and a dessert bar with ice cream, cream puffs and cinnamon rolls.

The food was of good buffet-style quality to me (not super high-end but good like you find in most buffets) and the space is pretty big. The only negative is there aren’t a lot of dining tables with chairs to sit at and eat, instead there are many standing height tables that have no chairs as well as couch-style seating with a low table in the middle like you see in an office waiting room.

To get to the Home Plate Club seats, you leave the Tiger Club and go down one floor to the main level and walk down through the regular sections (sections 128 and 127) to access the seats.

I sat in section 1 of the Home Plate Club and row CCC (third row) and just like many other ballparks, these seats go down so they’re lower than the field in row 1, so it depends how much you like that. I find that seats that are lower than the field it’s harder to tell how far a ball is hit so anything that’s hit deep feels like it’s going to be a home run. Whereas seats a little higher but still on the lower level (like the Tiger Den), you can more easily tell off the bat if it has a shot or a routine fly ball.

The rows here actually have less leg room than the Tiger Den (more like a standard row where you have to get up to let people by) and the ventilation feature in the seats didn’t really seem to work that well. Since it was a sunny day, I had the cooling feature set to the highest level (there are three different levels) but I really didn’t notice the seat feeling cooler. The concept seems cool but didn’t seem to work that well and I didn’t really see anyone else taking advantage of it.

As far as the ballpark itself, Comerica Park has a nice retro look to it as I like the design and it fits in well with the surrounding buildings and landscape.

It has a nice view of the downtown skyline behind the outfield in right-center and has a couple of rides people (carousel and ferris wheel).

Food wise, there had a few local restaurants and a Little Caesars stand (Little Ceasars’ headquarters is across the street) but otherwise a lot of it is the standard ballpark fare.

The main level concourse is nice and wide making it easy to get around but there wasn’t a lot to do or see really as you walked around the ballpark. It seems here it’s more about getting your food and then getting back to your seat versus the many distractions of the other ballparks. Like here I didn’t even notice the Tigers team store (the D Shop) or see many souvenir stands as I walked around.

I stayed at the MGM Grand Detroit which is only about 1/2 mile away so it was a 15-minute walk over. The MGM Grand actually has free parking so some fans actually park here to walk to the ballpark.

It isn’t a straight line to get to the ballpark but the walk itself is pretty easy. This northern part of downtown is a little desolate as I didn’t see a lot of people or cars as I walked to and from the ballpark each day and there were many buildings that were empty and rundown but I felt pretty safe walking back and forth, even at 10pm at night after the night game I went to.

I would put Comerica in my middle tier of ballparks and worth visiting for those like me who want to see all the ballparks.