Tips for First Time Visitors to Verizon Center: Tickets, Accessible Seating and More

Verizon Center is one of the prime tourist attractions and home to downtown sports and concerts arena. This arena seats more than 19,000 people for basketball and you can see a good number of students flocking in to Verizon for enjoying their favourite sport. Besides sports Verizon also has several other attractions in store for its visitors.

Verizon is known to house more than 100 concerts along with several other events and with Washington being a world capital, nation's top entertainers keep visiting this place. For instance- entertainers such as Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling stones, U2, Barbra Streisand, the Eagles, Bon Jovi, Prince, Beyonce, Elton John, Billy Joel and Christina Auguilera have performed here in recent times.

Tickets availability to Verizon Center varies drastically as it is influenced by the popularity of the show to be hosted. However this may not be the case always. Hence visitors are requested to check at the Box office. In case you are a first time visitor to this center and wondering how to save money? In that case you can visit Ticketmaster. The unique feature of ticket master is that it imposes service charges on event tickets but you only have to pay $1 on tickets bought at the arena's ticket window.

Exclusive accessibility and seating services are provided for individuals with disabilities. Several amenities are provided for guests with disabilities which include metro stop with elevator access to street level adjacent to arena, drop off zone adjacent to the building, ample curb cuts and accessible entrances into the arena.

You will also find integrated seating system which helps disabled individuals to order tickets by calling over the phone. Additional aids and services offered include tactile and Braille signage, accessible pay telephones, rest rooms, lowered service counters and condiment stands.