Son's Review = 4 (The Ugly - the bathrooms by the end; the Bad - the food; the Good - everything…read moreelse. My Review = 4 - The Ugly: Exiting Dreams Park after the Opening Ceremony and skills competition. This is the one time where everybody is there at the same time, and all leaving basically at the same time. Dreams Park should either bring in off-duty officers for traffic control and/or open up service entrances to exit. - The Bad: Concession pricing. It is all overpriced ($3 for a banana), to expansive for how much you get, or just tastes bad. No Drinking Fountains. The dugouts have them but the water flow is so low you basically have to kiss the dispenser to drink the water. Also, there are no drinking fountains anywhere that I saw for spectators. - The Good: Everything else. The staff is very friendly and helpful. The fields are in great condition. Also, since you are basically enclosed in the field there are great echos--and when a kid hits a home run it sounds awesome. Most fields are surrounded by hill so you can watch them from the outfield if you don't want to stay in the parent "dugout". The cost of the team photo package (approx. $104/player on our team) was well worth it. The cost to engrave balls & bats was also fair. Overall the facility has a great nostalgia vibe. Sponsor signage is limited to one small outside sign per field. Coaching Tips - Home Runs: probably a combination of 200' fields, minimal pitchers mounds, and Dreams Park supplies their own balls, Home Runs are the norm. You need at least a 5 run lead to feel a little comfortable - Defense: You do not want runners on base. When a home run comes you want the damage to be limited to just one run and not 3. Encourage you players to chase foul balls; practice double plays and baseball IQ scenarios, have your outfield 5-10' off the back wall--if it goes over their heads it's either a home run or bouncing off the wall and coming back to them - Offense: If it is not a home run it's a single unless the hit hugs the foul line. For the most part passed balls and wild pitches bounce back to the catcher so it is very difficult to steal home w/ a runner on 3rd. Remind your big hitters not to be a hero, and swing like normal--the home run(s) will come. Your players that are almost there in getting a home run in regular little league or tournament play will most likely get home runs here. - Know the Cooperstown specific rules. Something weird happened w/ a catcher interference call and balk call at the same time which after a rules review overturned a run scored by the opposing team. On the flip side at a later game the opposing coach forgot a team is allowed one "mulligan" balk call per game and our runners advanced on a first balk call. Parent Tips - Have the parents doing the play book, GameChanger, and highlights sheet sit next to each other because they will need each other's help - We made a swag bag of a lot of the checklist item that a few of the parents who drove up brought with them (i.e. towels, bed sheets, pillow covers, deodorant, games, etc.) - One of the dads volunteered to be a dugout dad and he took care of getting the ice, laundry service, and misc. small things for the coaches so the coaches could focus on the kids. The dugout dad did not spend the night. - The larger restaurants in the area can handle a party of 50 or 70. We met together for lunch before registration in order to all come into together. - We setup a sign-up genie to volunteer supply water, sport drinks, etc. for the boys and coaches. There are two Wal-Marts nearby and I picked up my items on the way into town. - Bring water and food for yourself and family. Though you see many signs saying you cannot bring outside food & drink I never saw it enforced, and if they do you can leave it in the car and go there when you need it. - If you have no one that is experienced with the playbook, I would recommend some people practice it with a recorded game on GameChanger, or follow allow with a live game. - The Closing Ceremony is not from 6-9, but 6 to 6:40. You have time to go some place for dinner. - Remind your player to flush and lift the toilet seat up if all they're doing is peeing. My son's take-away for others is go to the bathrooms before 7am because you never know what you're going to get after. As for me, I used a single person bathroom after a player came out and the toilet wasn't flushed, there was pee all over the seat, and I had to clean it up.

Three games into our Cooperstown experience and my overarching takeaway thus far has been how bad…read morethe officiating is. Cooperstown's draconian rules against arguing with umps give them absolute power with threat of banning your coach from the tournament. A ball that was hit over the right field fence, but was at least four feet outside the foul pole and yet still ruled a home run. A runner tagged in a pickle and running outside the basepath called safe. A pop fly and force on the failed tag up that was then ruled a balk after the play. The pop fly stood, but the base runner was restored on first base.... It just makes no sense. I have never seen such consistently horrible officiating at any tournament and this is supposed to be a professionally run premier baseball experience. Extremely disappointing. I do not recommend.

That's the best indoors academy i've ever been yet. The…read morebatting cages are huge and the staff is super nice. :)

From the owner: We are an indoor sports academy that offers a really wide range of sports for both kids and adults…read more From soccer to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, from batting cages to softball, baseball, lacrosse, field hockey, football, yoga and meditation. We are the first place with an innovative concept of an interactive TV channel dedicated for our academy with live broadcasting of all the sports practices, classes, and more! Our 25,000-sq./ft. facility allows us to host birthday parties, corporate events, workshops, exhibits, school field trips, and church reunions.

I enrolled my daughter here for gymnastics classes. She's 4, and has never done any kind of…read moregroup/sports activity before. I feel the rate for 12 classes (1xweek) is reasonable. She's still very shy and standoffish doing some of the activities but I love that the instructors are attentive and offer to help her however they can and encourage her a great deal. She's definitely begun to come out of her shell. The other kids in her class are also lovely - I can tell several of them have been doing these classes for a while and they are very sweet with my daughter and exhibit great team work / sportsmanship, which I feel can be attributed at least in part to these classes & the instructors, so that's awesome. The facility is large, bright and clean. Staff members are friendly and helpful. I'll probably sign my daughter up again in the future for more classes!

I'm writing this review as one who had a guest pass for this facility, so of course, I could've…read morejust been there on a bad day. This does not apply to the gym or the facility itself. However, I don't think the behavior I witnessed should be acceptable on any day. This was the worst group fitness instruction I have ever seen. She taught the BodyPump class. She did not give her name, but I eventually saw it on their schedule. I've taken classes at many gyms, including the YMCA, Gold's, Anytime Fitness, and Crossfit boxes. Never once did I question the instructors qualifications or intentions at those organizations. The instructor I had didn't even introduce herself. Didn't once give a quick overview of the class for anybody that may be a newcomer. I found this to be not only unprofessional but rude to those who may be intimidated by group fitness. This woman, who is not even a certified personal trainer, began to berate me by calling me out in front of the entire class on her mic. She told me I "wasn't strong enough" for the weight I was challenged by but in total control of. I've been in powerlifting for several years, so I've been training with heavier weight and therefore have developed the strength necessary. She continued to call me out in front of the class, saying "you! You in the back! I don't care how strong you are!" This is a weight-training class for "all levels." How hard would if be to simply approach the participant and quickly ask them how they're doing? This person had zero qualifications based on my research nor did she know my fitness background to have the right to question my ability. Once again, I've been to many group fitness classes, they were all respectful and encouraging with the proper education and qualifications. I hope nobody else experienced this "trainer's" lack of etiquette.

What an open clean gym with an indoor pool. Heated! Yes heated and salted!…read moreNo markers Or lines underwater for a lap swim. That would be an added plus. I also would put the treadmills in the second row , not first row ,to watch TV without killing your neck . I would be less uncomfortable with my butt jogging in front of the other steppers or people on the machines . Given all that beautiful space, coffee, tea, updated lockers , just wonderful

Used to be a great family club but has changed drastically for the worse since new management has…read moretaken over. They hired very unfriendly manager who has staff watch and scrutinize wvery move members make. Almost hostile exclusive, atmosphere. Very uncomfortable. Sadly it has lost all the friendly, welcoming qualities it used to have along with rasing prices to a ridictulous level.