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Message: [QUOTE="critterfxr, post: 5337918, member: 8772"] I believe you can choose between individual session fan experiences and the all-session fan experience. We got the all-sessions fan experience. Included: [LIST] [*]A hotel room for 9 nights (the hotel was nice, and had a fantastic breakfast that was part of the package) [*]Tickets to all games (except for the last, "if necessary" game - so we missed the championship game, which I am still a bit salty about). You do get notification fairly quickly that the "if necessary" has become necessary and tickets are for sale, but my husband was not interested in either preemptively getting an extra night in the hotel and staying an extra day just in case, or trying to extend things once it became apparent an extra game would occur. Also, those championship game tickets went FAST. With two Texas teams in the finals there were a lot of fans within driving distance and they showed up and showed out. [*]Better choice of seats (we were lower tier and had a great view of the infield). I had tried purchasing tickets for the 2024 CWS and it was awful. I logged in 2 hours after they went live, and was only able to get tickets for not great seats for one day because the platform the NCAA was using required you to pay for one set of tickets, log out, log in, and then buy tickets for additional days, rinse and repeat. We live in upstate NY. It didn't make sense to fly out to Oklahoma for 1 day. [*]Access to an air conditioned tent during the tournament, which was really nice for meals and in-between games [*]Access to "separate" bathrooms. Although these were just trailer bathrooms behind the tent, they were air conditioned and a little less congested than the stadium bathrooms. [*]Early access to the merchandise tent one of the days, which we didn't know and I'm sad we missed, because the lines were LONG. [*]$50 credit each for merchandise at the field [*]Meals (it depended on the schedule, some days you got breakfast/lunch/dinner, other days lunch/dinner, other days just dinner). The meals were catered by a local BBQ place that did a decent job of avoiding repetition. [*]Snacks (generally little bags of popcorn, snack packs of Oreos, Rice Krispie treats, etc) [*]Drinks (cans of Coke products, small bottles of Powerade). Given how hot it gets there, I wish they offered fountain drinks instead, but they were cold and readily available. [*]College World Series branded handouts daily (trying to remember what all we got: foam hands (I used mine to pad my bench seat the whole week, so I ended up being glad to have it), a small fan that mists water, a cooling towel, a handheld fan, see-through/plastic bag, nice stone coasters, and 1-2 other things we didn't pick up because we didn't want them - think keychains and bandannas) [*]The opportunity to have your picture taken with the trophy [*]The opportunity to meet previous softball players (we didn't participate in this, so I do not know who the players were) [/LIST] There might be other things I am forgetting, but that was the bulk of it. We had a great time: the softball was incredible, and the Devon Park staff and volunteers were great. I'd love to go again even without the benefit of the fan experience package, but it did make things a bit easier to navigate. [/QUOTE]

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