Hi, My name is Angela from NH. My family will be visiting DC in April and am considering a Nationals game. I cannot find any thread regarding the Nationals game park and people's experience or input. Can you point me in the right direction? Thank you!
Edited to add title. ~R
Hi momtoryan and welcome! :bye:
I don't know anything about the Nationals' park, but I'm going to move your post to the main discussion board so hopefully someone with experience will see it and answer.
ETA: I found this info about peanut free games for 2015, but maybe you could contact the person mentioned in the article for 2016 dates.
http://www.peanutfreebaseball.com/2015/02/washington-nationals-peanut-free-seats.html (http://www.peanutfreebaseball.com/2015/02/washington-nationals-peanut-free-seats.html)
Here's another link with some good info (I don't think those dates are for this season, but even so there's still good info): https://shmallergy.wordpress.com/tag/stadium/ (https://shmallergy.wordpress.com/tag/stadium/)
Also, you will want to see this thread:
Washington, DC Threads (http://foodallergysupport.olicentral.com/index.php/topic,10033.0.html)
We have done a peanut free game (twice IIRC). Those are two to three games a year and the seating is in a corporate type box pretty far from the field.
A couple of years ago, we took our daughter to a Yankees-Nats game and sat in the regular seats. A girl directly behind DD started shelling peanuts; I nicely asked her mom if they could shell them away from DD and they graciously complied. There was also a man who did the same over the extra seat we had purchased (BIL was unable to come with us); again, I asked him if he could refrain from doing that, and he graciously complied. Our seats were a row our two in front of the overhang for the second level seats. It was a breezy day, and we had peanut skins rain down on us from above. DD did not have any reactions, but it wasn't the most relaxed environment to watch the game. I would probably do it again but I'd either purchase seats well in front of the overhang or well under.
In terms of food there, DD was able to have a hot dog from Ben's Chili Bowl and may have had a pretzel or popcorn.
DD is contact reactive.