[Westside]

Prices are similar if not exactly the same at the Arena. Plus the atmosphere sucks. However, when we chose to have the tournament at HC a few years ago, we got blasted. There was plenty of seating for everyone at every game. Parking is a little dicey, I will admit. Lots of concessions, some of it homemade. A lady, also known as Granny Bear, runs this concession stand with military precision and no nonsense cleanliness! So everything considered, I prefer the high school gymnasiums as long as it can accommodate seating.

It is 82 miles from HCHS to The Arena. Most folks moaned and complained when they had to make the drive. I didn't! I moaned and complained the 6 years I had to make the drive down there.

Oh, and one more thing. If you are a voluptuous woman, you can always hide your concessions if you want to sneak them in. Personally, I can hid away enough for 8 people sans the drinks.

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Men can too. When my brother was going to UK in the early 90's my buddy and I went down a few times to visit on weekends. Once we went to UK hockey game. These games always started at midnight and obviously college and high school students who attended these games liked to drink alcoholic beverages. I stuffed three cans of beer down my pants and walked in a strutting.