Transportation from downtown Detroit to The Palace

9th Wonder · Post #1 » by **9th Wonder** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 4:36 pm

My girlfriend and I are coming from Toronto for game 3 and staying downtown Detroit. We're having some trouble finding transportation from downtown out to the Palace. We don't want to drive. Any (low cost) ideas? Thanks!

Spider156 · Post #2 » by **Spider156** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 5:12 pm

RexRyan · Post #3 » by **RexRyan** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 5:14 pm

uber - not many other choices

Scout Taron · Post #4 » by **Scout Taron** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 6:32 pm

Yeah Detroit doesn't have the best public transportation infrastructure. We never built any to force people to buy cars and appease automakers. I would just drive. Driving around Detroit/Metro Detroit is easy. Very little traffic because our road system was designed hold a much larger population base.

Otherwise Uber. Their might be a bus that will take you there, but I'm not certain.

9th Wonder · Post #5 » by **9th Wonder** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 7:22 pm

We opted to get a hotel in Auburn Hills for Friday and Detroit for Saturday. Thanks for weighing in.

While we're all here, can anyone point me in the direction of some good breweries/brewpubs in Detroit? Any where else worthwhile to hit up? We're going to the Tigers game Saturday afternoon but are pretty open otherwise.

SVG · Post #6 » by **SVG** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 7:39 pm

9th Wonder wrote:We opted to get a hotel in Auburn Hills for Friday and Detroit for Saturday. Thanks for weighing in.

While we're all here, can anyone point me in the direction of some good breweries/brewpubs in Detroit? Any where else worthwhile to hit up? We're going to the Tigers game Saturday afternoon but are pretty open otherwise.

Go to HopCat in midtown (Woodward Ave, 5 mins away from downtown). Try their crack fries, and grab a Soft Parade while you're there. Careful with them Soft Parades though, pretty strong stuff

Manocad · Post #7 » by **Manocad** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 9:18 pm

Hopcat is awesome. Atwater Brewery is cool, both the one in the city and Atwater on the Park in Grosse Pointe Park. There isn't jack diddly in Auburn Hills; there's Hoops right down the road from the Palace and the Venue right across the street. Those are good pre-game locations; a better post-game hang out is the Red Ox in Rochester Hills which is 15 mins from the Palace. Lots of microbrew taps there.

Manocad · Post #8 » by **Manocad** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 11:35 pm

Also hit the Detroit Brewing Company before the Tigers game. It's almost across the street from Comerica Park.

gusman · Post #9 » by **gusman** » Fri Apr 22, 2016 1:28 pm

Scout Taron wrote:Yeah Detroit doesn't have the best public transportation infrastructure. We never built any to force people to buy cars and appease automakers. I would just drive. Driving around Detroit/Metro Detroit is easy. Very little traffic because our road system was designed hold a much larger population base.

Otherwise Uber. Their might be a bus that will take you there, but I'm not certain.

I never know where I am going in Detroit and find it so confusing

Scout Taron · Post #10 » by **Scout Taron** » Fri Apr 22, 2016 5:29 pm

gusman wrote:
Scout Taron wrote:Yeah Detroit doesn't have the best public transportation infrastructure. We never built any to force people to buy cars and appease automakers. I would just drive. Driving around Detroit/Metro Detroit is easy. Very little traffic because our road system was designed hold a much larger population base.

Otherwise Uber. Their might be a bus that will take you there, but I'm not certain.

I never know where I am going in Detroit and find it so confusing

The downtown, midtown, mexicantown, etc. area near the river is a bit confusing because of how everything is diagonal and the weird wheel spoke thing around campius martius. Almost everything else (including suburban areas) is on a nice mile grid system though.

bballnmike · Post #11 » by **bballnmike** » Fri Apr 22, 2016 8:28 pm

I asked on twitter and @ThePalace responded that cab or uber is your best bet, confirming what most people here said