VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena

I love this arena! I attend many concerts and hockey games. The staff is always helpful and full of smiles.Parking is fairly easy but could be expensive. I live the loud music outside which adds to the excitement of the performance!This weekend was a Jelly Roll concert. The arena was lively. Concert was great!

We came here for an evening concert. Since we were staying downtown, we didn't have to worry about parking, which was nice.Going through security was simple. I didn't bring a bag/purse, so that made it an easier process.When we arrived we had our tickets scanned and then were directed by an employee to where our seats were located.We had pretty decent seats, so we could see the whole stage and see the screens.The acoustics were great. We could hear the music. We noticed the benefit of seeing a concert with a more mature crowd is most people are sitting down, and IMO that's way more enjoyable to see a concert and listen to the music.Bathrooms were clean.

Seating 15,000 people or thereabouts, the venue is small enough where nearly every seat is a good seat. For the event I went to they were using the Evolv security scanners so it was super easy to get in with almost zero waiting time. People guiding you inside to your seats were helpful. Otherwise, I did not use any other services while here.Not being from the area my main confusion was parking. I am not 100% sure if everything is "official" but the garage next to the venue certainly seemed to be. $30 seemed to also be the going rate. Credit cards, no cash - which was fine. Leaving it was hard to tell what the wait was about. There were streets closed and police directing traffic, so I do not know how much of my wait was due to no one getting out of the garage vs just waiting for the three lower decks to empty. What was nice was that no one seemed to be fighting for the line. People just let the cars in front go and then they moved on. Thus, the three lower decks were completely clear as I started to move.

We always have a great time and the staff is always pleasent. This trip was for an icemen game and other then the terrible loss I would 10 out of 10 suggest going to anyone thinking about it.

Over the years I have been to the arena for different kinds of events, Disney in Ice!, a cousin's graduation, and an Iceman's game. It is an easy place to get in and out of for parking, scanning our tickets were mostly seamless, and there doesn't seem to be a bad seat in the place. Cons were too many people stopping just past the doors where tickets were scanned to decide their next move with no one directing them to move out of the way. Also, there was a drink stand where we asked questions to the staff member about the drinks, but she informed us she didn't know the answers. 26.05.2024

The vyStar Veterans Memorial Stadium is a nice enough venue in Jacksonville, Florida to see a sporting event or concert. Be advised that the concessions are overpriced, but that is to be expected. A hot dog was six dollars and a mil(shake was eleven dollars. The staff here were very friendly and professional. They really made the overall experience a lot better.Definitely a great venue.

I finally made it to the arena for the Hozier concert, and was impressed! The venue itself was easy to enter and navigate. We were dropped off at the entrance, but getting an uber home was a hot mess since all of the streets were closed off. There should be more signage for where rideshare pick up is. Drinks are expensive of course like at any arena, so I just had one cocktail. I was impressed by all of the concession stands. Tons of food and drinks available. I was excited to see Tended Bar (self serve cocktail machines) on floor 2 of the arena. The club level was also super nice and not overwhelming at all despite it being a sold out show. I'm excited to go to more shows here in the future!

Great venue!! I don't think there's a bad seat in the house. This video is from section 305 row A and we enjoyed our seats with nobody sitting in front of us. Luke Bryan put on a show !!

We came to the arena to see the comedian Sebastian Maniscalco tonight. The facility was easy to walk to from the Hyatt Regency Hotel downtown. Entry was also easy and quick. There were a lot of concession stands open selling food and drinks. We were seated in row D. The only complaint is that the first four rows had seats with less cushion than rows E through Z. Other than that, it was a good place to see a show.

I'm not someone who easily gives a bad review or even a slightly bad review. I have to say this just right to get my point across so that no one misunderstand me here....We got the email for the event we were attending and it said specifically, "Parking opens at 4:00pm, seating begins at 6:00 pm, show starts at 7:00pm." Even with that, we knew Gabriel Iglesias wasn't supposed to start performing (or his show to begin -- always with a warm-up couple of comedians) until 8:00pm.We arrived at the parking lot at about 4:38pm so we wouldn't get into a snarl of traffic on a Friday or end up driving around an area of Jacksonville we certainly aren't familiar with and getting all turned around and completely lost.We sat in the car waiting for more people to arrive and the lot to begin to fill a little bit before we looked at the time and saw we had only about 30 minutes before the time stated that seating would begin. So we went to the entry portion and began standing in line around 5:30. All would've gone well if the people inside would've simply followed the schedule that had been emailed to everyone. Did they come out one time to show everyone where to form a line? Only after the 6:00 seating was long past.Did they tell us they were running behind schedule? No, we found out by standing in long lines for over 2 hours hoping desperately to get in to be able to use a restroom!Were we indeed seated at 6:00? Heck no! We weren't allowed in until after 6:45 and then the lines were so long for the restroom it was ridiculous!Were any of the same food and drinks available for the people in the floor (more expensive seats) seating in front of the stage or merchandise? No, all we had an option for was cold sandwiches, chips and candy or basically beer or mixed drinks. Only one type of diet soda (coke only). Watched the people in the stands munch on chips, hot dogs, fries, hamburgers and pop corn. Walk around with tshirts and goodies and back packs too. None of which were available to us on the floor.Did Gabriel Iglesias start HIS show at 7? 8? No. At 8-something, Martin Moreno came out (Which no one minded at all), but then we had another comedian who "warmed up the crowd" before a 20 minute break for people to go grab a drink, food, merchandise or go use the restroom (which the lines were longer than they had ever been before, so I was afraid of miss the show so I didn't even go) and then after an ADDITIONAL 15-20 mins on top of THAT, finally Gabriel Iglesias came out and performed. The timing schedule that was sent to us was completely wrong and about that alone, the food concessions and merch concessions unavailable to us were the only things we were mad about. I'm disabled and am not about to stand very long at all. Knowing ahead of time how long it would be until we were actually allowed into the building would've allowed me to sit somewhere at least. The communication from the venue to the ticket holders was extremely poor. Do better or we'll go to Orlando the next time.