Tropicana Field Seating Guide
Tampa Bay Rays · St. Petersburg, FL
- Cheapest section
- $8+
- Sections
- 7
- Capacity
- 25,000
Know Before You Go
Essential details checked against official venue information.
- Accessible entry
All Tropicana Field gates are wheelchair accessible.
Applies to: Tampa Bay Rays games
- Rolling Rays wheelchair transport is available at Gates 1 and 5 on a first-come, first-served basis for trips between the gate and a guest's seat.
- Wheelchairs are not available to rent or borrow, and transporters cannot pick up or drop off guests outside the gates.
- Accessible seating
Accessible and companion seating is available throughout Tropicana Field at multiple price levels.
Applies to: Tampa Bay Rays games
- Guests who need to exchange a standard ticket should arrange it before arriving and before the ticket is scanned; availability and price differences apply.
- The Rays recommend contacting the appropriate ticket representative at least three business days before the game, and cannot exchange tickets bought from third parties.
- Assistive listening
ProWire provides live, delay-free Rays radio feeds through the MLB Ballpark app inside Tropicana Field.
Applies to: Tampa Bay Rays games
- Check in at the ballpark in the app, open the Rays team page, and select the Rays Radio icon.
- Sensory services
A sensory room in Suite 45 on the 200 Level provides a quiet decompression area for guests with sensory-processing needs.
Applies to: Tampa Bay Rays games
- Request access at Guest Services at Gate 1 or 3; guests are asked to limit visits to 20 minutes when others need the space.
- Complimentary sensory bags are available at Guest Services at Gates 1, 3, and 4.
Tropicana Field is the smallest park in the majors at about 25,000 and it is laid out on two decks — the 100s around the field and the 200s above, reached by escalators from the First Base Food Hall (to Section 214) and the Third Base Food Hall (to Section 215). Almost every premium space is named for a sponsor and tied to a specific gate, which is the fastest way to find it: the DEX Home Plate Club, the Republic Bank Draft Room, The Baldwin Group Club and the Webull Suite Level all hang off the Gate 4 elevator; the MaintenX SkyDeck sits at the top of the Gate 6 elevator; and the Cownose Clubhouse is on the Gate 1 line, which is also where the Gate 1 Rotunda is and where Raymond and DJ Kitty appear thirty minutes before first pitch. It is a dome, so weather never decides anything here — the trade-off is that the roof and its catwalks are always overhead, and the park is a very different room to an open-air ballpark.
Tips & Fan Reports
Check out the club level seats like RR-114 for a unique view. They give you a buffet and free drinks. The Trop is not the prettiest stadium but the experience is fun and tickets are usually cheap.
Tropicana Field is 100s and 200s. If a listing offers you a Section 300, it is not describing this ballpark.
Raymond and DJ Kitty appear at the Gate 1 Rotunda thirty minutes before first pitch.
Find your premium space by its gate: DEX Home Plate Club, Republic Bank Draft Room, The Baldwin Group Club and the Webull Suite Level are all on the Gate 4 elevator; the MaintenX SkyDeck is on Gate 6; the Cownose Clubhouse is on Gate 1.
The two food halls have their own escalators to the upper deck — First Base to Section 214, Third Base to Section 215.
Where to Sit
Every tier in the building, what it costs, and what you give up to sit there.
Premium Home Plate Box
$110 - $300The first rows behind the plate, level with the field.
Pros
- The closest ordinary seats to the batter in the smallest park in baseball
- Served by the Gate 4 elevator alongside the DEX Home Plate Club
Cons
- The most expensive non-club ticket at the Trop
- Low behind the screen, so the outfield corners are hard to track
DEX Home Plate Club
$200 - $450+Most expensive tier
The premium room directly behind home plate, with its own entrance off Gate 4.
Pros
- Indoor club space and a dedicated elevator, so you never walk the general concourse
- The Republic Bank Draft Room and The Baldwin Group Club are on the same elevator line
Cons
- Premium pricing in a ballpark whose general admission runs to single figures
- Club access is the product; the seat itself is a home-plate box
Lower Infield Box
$50 - $130The 100s between the bases, the whole infield in front of you.
Pros
- The best all-round baseball sightline in the park
- Section 101 is on the Gate 4 elevator and 131 and 132 on the Gate 6 and Gate 2 lines, so there is a short way in from most sides
Cons
- Dearest of the general seating
- Under the 200s in the back rows, which takes the catwalks out of view but the high flies with them
Lower Outfield
$25 - $70The 100s beyond the bases, looking in along the line.
Pros
- Lower-bowl proximity at roughly half the infield price
- Section 150 is straight off the Gate 1 elevator, which also serves the Cownose Clubhouse
Cons
- Foul territory at the Trop is generous, so the near corner eats part of the view
- You judge depth on a fly ball poorly from down the line
Upper Reserved
$18 - $50The 200s, an assigned seat with the full field below.
Pros
- A reserved seat for close to general-admission money
- Both food halls escalate directly onto this level, at Sections 214 and 215
Cons
- The roof and its catwalk rings are in your eyeline from up here
- Distance in a small park still reads as distance
Upper General Admission
$8 - $30Cheapest tier
Unreserved seating in the 200s — sit where you find room.
Pros
- The cheapest ticket in Major League Baseball
- In a 25,000-seat park a cheap unreserved seat is rarely a bad one
Cons
- No assigned seat, so arriving late means taking what is left
- Highest and furthest, with the catwalks overhead
MaintenX SkyDeck
$35 - $90A social deck at the top of the Gate 6 elevator, looking down over the bowl.
Pros
- Standing-and-lounging space rather than a fixed seat, with its own lift straight up from Gate 6
- Shares the Gate 6 line with the Webull Suite Level
Cons
- A vantage point rather than a seat — plan to stand
- High and off to one side, so it is a view of the park as much as of the game
Tampa Bay Rays Seat Comfort
Padded seat cushions and compact binoculars for the upper deck.
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How We Checked This Page
Every section below names the source it was read from and the day it was read. Where we could not reach a published figure, the page says so rather than presenting an estimate as a checked fact.
- Seating
The Rays' own Tropicana Field policies and procedures guide on mlb.com/rays. Its elevator and escalator listings are what settle the building: "Gate 1 elevator stops: Gate 1, Cownose Clubhouse, Section 150", "Gate 4 elevator stops: DEX Home Plate Club, Section 101, Republic Bank Draft Room & The Baldwin Group Club, Webull Suite Level", "Gate 6 elevator stops: Gate 6, Section 131, Webull Suite Level, MaintenX SkyDeck", and the food-hall escalators running to Sections 214 and 215. Tropicana Field is a 100s lower bowl and a 200s upper — the stored guide had the upper deck at Sections 300-320, which the ballpark does not use.
- Venue policies
Current Rays Tropicana Field, accessibility, dietary, sensory, and mobile-ticket guidance reviewed for entry, family, payment, food, parking, and accessibility rules.
Not yet checked against a published source
These figures are estimates. Most venues no longer publish the numbers behind them — concession and ticket pricing moved to dynamic marketplaces — so we hold them as estimates rather than dating them as verified.
- Ticket prices — Secondary market averages (SeatGeek/StubHub)