Anybody done the Disney Baseball Spring Break?

Disney is holding some college tournaments over spring break, but I'm not sure that they do anything related to high school. They have a working agreement wth AAU and some of the other organzations, and those tournaments are after high school season. A lot of high school teams do come here for school sponsored tournaments and additional games against different schools around the state. We have had the pleasure of playing teams from the northeast to the northwest, lots of good talent too. Check online next fall and I'm sure you can get into some good tournaments here. By the way, after a week of 75 degree temps its 83 today. Great BB weather.

Skip,

Son's school team went down for the Disney spring training trip last year and overall felt it was disappointing. Competition wasn't very good and it gets rather expensive when they force you to buy those theme park passes as part of the spring package. They have multiple weeks of spring training packages and maybe they just had a bad week competition wise. This year the school opted to bo back to FT Pierce.

Are HS team is going down the week of April 4th. The Varsity and JV are both going and should get at least 6 games each. Along with 3 day hopper passes for the parks and 6 nights of lodging. All that for $ 437.00 a player(Based on 4 to a room) Will let everyone know how it goes.......

BB21,

Recall paying about $1200.00 last year which included lodging (disney resort), cafeteria meal plan and airfare. Factor in a few hundred bucks for spending money and extra food as the meal plan really didn't satisfy many of the growing boys and it got rather expensive. In our case anyway we had to pay the whole tab as we didn't have any school funding.

Good luck and have a great time.

p.s. did you get a schedule yet for your week?

NY Dad: Tell me about Ft. Pierce. I have no knowledge of it or other 'opportunities' out there in the Sunshine state (I'm from the SunFLOWER State)

Trojan-skipper,

We went down with a 16 yr old group for a Labor Day weekend tournament. $800 which included hopper pass and staying at All Star Sports facility (4 days 3 nights). Fortunately I travel enough that flights were no cost to us. The number of teams dropped almost overnight from orignal 6 to 3 (teams were very good, but playing the same two teams 3 or 4 times was not what we expected). Unfortunately we went during a time when bad weather can be expected and it caused lots of delays and made it impossible for the kids to really use their hopper passes more than once (non-refundable by the way).

Baseball facilities are very good and they did a great job of getting the fields ready after storms (huge downpours that would have rendered fields in Maryland unplayable for days). A little disorganized and awards at the end are certainly not what one might expect from Disney.

We have been asked to have our son go back with a team this year, but will pass.

All Star Sports would also not be our choice for staying in Disney, although I think that is a requirement.

Lots of other Florida opportunities.

Trojan-Skipper,

What do you need to know about Ft. Pierce? Kind of a quiet area. We are about 2hrs. SE of Orlando on the "Treasure Coast" as they call it, 1hour north of Palm Beach. Now in the Spring ALOT of northnern college teams come down to play.

What else would you like to know.

Skip,

Never been to Ft Pierce as last year they did Disney and in son's frosh year he was in a private school that went to Arizona. In talking with the coaches Ft Pierce had better competition and is more of a baseball spring training mind-set whereas Disney is more of a vacation atmosphere. Then again it's what you make of it I guess. Can give you some feedback when the boys return next month. Back to Arizona where he went with Varsity team his frosh year. They set up 10 games with some out of state schools there on spring trip as well as local H.S. programs that were played on H.S. fields in the Scottsdale / Fountain Hills / Gilbert area. They played 1 game at the Tempe Diablo Stadium which was pretty cool and got to see an ASU game while there. Being in Kansas I would certainly look into an Arizona trip for next year.