* UPDATE — Toronto’s Renaissance Hotel no longer has rooms available for any of the tentatively scheduled World Series home games. Keep your eye on other playoff game dates or keep your fingers crossed for a 2016 playoff run as well.
TORONTO — Blue Jays tickets are increasingly hard to come by. Their recent winning streak has resulted in sold out home games, and the team’s current status as possible World Series winners are sending scalper prices through the (retractable) roof.
Some ambitious resellers have tried hawking Jays-Yankees tickets for upwards of $10,000. Online seller StubHub says at least one excited fan has ponied up a whopping $1,042 for Friday’s game against the division rival.
Tickets no doubt will continue to increase in demand and cost if the Jays make the playoffs.
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Assuming the Jays make the World Series, there is one cost effective way to get close to the action … book a room at the Rogers Centre’s Renaissance Hotel.
The World Series is tentatively scheduled to start on October 27 and you can still snap up your own stadium-view room for Game 1 for $324. The price includes as many friends as you can cram into your suite, your own private washroom, and a place to crash after the game.
The hotel enforces occupancy limits for events, but guests can – and regularly do – flout those rules. As long as you keep the noise down and don’t annoy other guests, you’re good.
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There are other rules, as well. You have to sign a waiver for field-view rooms, promising not to throw things out the window or put on a public show for the crowd. The action the public sees has to stay on the field.
Since the hotel opened in 1989, some 600 couples — and a few individuals – have been caught doing various deeds with too little clothing on.
Although maybe they’re just committed fans, since one unconfirmed stat says the Jays are 79% more likely to win during games where guests are caught getting hot and heavy in their field-facing hotel rooms.
For added Jays flavour, you could stay in the room where Hall-of-Famer Robbie Alomar lived during his tenure with the team, or there’s the room where Roger Clemens allegedly took a steroid injection in the butt from former Jays strength coach Brian McNamee. However, hotel staff probably won’t tell you which one that is, even if you actually wanted to know.
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