Great experience!
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 8/6/08
While it's been over a year since our team went to All Star Village, we can't stop talking about it-kids as well as parents. Out of the 13 kids on our team, only 1 family stayed off site. The rest of us rented rooms at the All Star Village Hotel. To say we had a great time is an understatement. While we were a close knit "family" before the trip, the experience of all of us being together for a week, eating meals together, walking to games together, shopping, going to Cooperstown, and hanging out at night in the tent just made us that much closer. We truly had a fantastic time.
As far as the accommodations go, the rooms are decent, however they are not cleaned on a daily basis and the beds were rarely made. The on site restaurant was very good, particularly the appetizers. We ate there several times. There are plenty of convenience stores within a couple of minutes drive. Dunkin' Donuts, CVS, etc. There is a restaurant called Brooks' House of BBQ that you must try! The coaches wives rented an "apartment" in the ASV hotel and we cooked a couple of nights which was alot of fun, having all the boys come up for dinner.
If you are going to All Star Village, I suggest you get all of your teammates families to stay here if possible. It will be a great bonding experience not to mention the convenience of not having to drive to games, sometimes 2 in a day.
My youngest son is 9 and he's also on a travel team. We're already making plans for 2011!