We arrived Wednesday early like always to get in good with locals bar keeps and navigation strategy. It worked well. The Detroiter and ol
Shillelagh are great spots with great employees. We never had an empty drink and got quiet the discount. The food is also excellent at both spots. Food overall was great. Pizza to Greek and Lebanese choices are awesome.
The downtown is better then expected. They are really trying to clean it up and you can tell. Good bars food and 2 casinos. Football and baseball stadiums right next to each other. The town went to KC and really did a fine job with setting up and controlling the draft areas. Still a ton of walking but it made sense and a large area DT was pedestrian traffic only. A grade for set up
Outside of downtown oof. Rough is putting it nicely. Crime and poverty everywhere. Every block on the east side where we stayed had abandoned houses or burnt down houses. The Airb&b we stayed in was an old brick house in a once flourishing area (prob 50 years ago). The place was decent though the host sucked to any response and had very little utensils or toiletries. We actually bought stuff for the place. The grass was really high and we offered to cut it (lawnmower for sale up the street 50bucks) and no response. I gave the neighbor a stick of venison sausage and his response was do y'all like girls I can send some over
we declined. Most ppl were great esp the locals. They all ask what you think of Detroit then laugh when you try to be nice and not tell the truth. They say it's really improved I hate to see the past. Lions fans and Packer fans all teamed up on viking fans so that was fun.
As for the draft we like other years do not go into the stage area and for good reason. It was insanely packed. More ppl then expected showed up. By draft time Thursday night most places were at max capacity and wouldn't let ppl him. Even the casinos were turning ppl away. The streets were packed. The draft has over 800k and that's just in the draft area where they were counting. I'd swear over a million ppl were in Detroit. Getting an Uber was a chore. Like over an hour. This is all with a great set up
Like other years 2 of my buddies are disc golfers so we played 2 courses. When was excellent about 30 mins out and another was meh. As a once a year player we always have a blast
Overall it was a great trip. Still behind Nashville Texas and KC but better then others
On a different note my group all agreed to skip GB next year for a few reasons
One guy works in GB and prob will have to work that week.
They really want to go somewhere warmer and we go to a game every year anyway
And 3 and I know ppl here hate when I say this but trust me GB is not built for this event. They don't have the logistics or room to house 500k or even a 1 million guests. Traveling to and from Milwaukee is not the answer and will be a &%$@ show. I don't say this to knock GB and I really hope it works but I can't imagine it being anything less then a mess
So we are going to the Kentucky derby instead ha.
