Spring Training 2024 Schedule is out

MLB and the Cardinals just released the 2024 Spring Training Schedule.

We have set the date for our Spring Training Bash– Thursday March 7th. The party will start at 4pm or soon after the game ends.
For more on the schedule, CLICK HERE.

Our Road Trip Hotels are the Drury Hotels.

Our Headquarters Hotel at Spring Training is the Homewood Suites- Palm Beach Gardens
***If you plan to go and stay at the Homewood Suites, please make your reservations now (you can always change them). They only have a certain number of rooms set aside with the discount and we are sending this to our COMMUNITY first. We want you all to get the discount.

Call Elise Robinson at (561) 207-2662 at the Homewood Suites and tell her you want Rob Rains’ Spring Training Discount.

How the Special Discount Works:

They have started doing it differently than in past years. Last year, some of our Cardinals fans were disappointed that there were no discounts on certain days. We found out that was because they only have a certain number of discount days– so this year they are telling us when our discounted days are and how many rooms we. have. We want to encourage you to make your reservations EARLY– as in soon– so. you will get the rates available.

The people at Homewood Suites, Palm Beach Gardens are great to work with and when they found out about the disappointments of some of the fans who didn’t get the nights they wanted, they worked with us to come up with an idea that could help more of our fans. So they have a certain amount of rooms they will give us discounts on during Spring Training and when they are full– that’s the end of the discount. That’s why we suggest you contact them soon to make your reservations. Ask about their exchange policy in case you find out you want to change the reservation a few days earlier or later due to the Cardinals schedule.

Here is our discounted rate: $269 for a One King, one bedroom suite with sleeper couch.

To reserve your room: CLICK HERE.

The special price we get — $269– is a huge savings as we looked up the rate for the exact same room for March 1, 2024 and it was $418 per night.

Hotel prices tend to fluctuate from when you make reservations and there are other discounts like AAA, but if you want to stay at a nice hotel with hot breakfast, a pool, and a free ride to the ballpark (saving you the hassle of finding parking), the rate of $269 is a big discount.

We love seeing our STLSportsPage.com Community at the hotel and in fact, last year, we held two events just for you. We had a special happy hour and then we had a World Baseball Classic “Watch Party” with food and drinks.

Plan your trip to Jupiter, Florida

STLSportsPage.com is in Jupiter and we are filing daily “Jupiter Minute” reports after the spring training games. We get many requests for “what is there to do in Jupiter?” Of course you came for the Cardinals games but there is a lot to do in the area. Some of our favorites are:

Beach. Juno Beach. It’s a straight shot up Donald Ross Rd. from the Homewood Suites Palm Beach Gardens and then a left on US Highway 1: 4775 U.S. Highway 1. Juno Beach, Florida 33408.
We recently went on a Pontiki inlet cruise. It was pricey ($60) but a two-hour boat ride around Jupiter Inlet with drinks included in the price. Sunset cruise was worth the price. https://www.pontiki.com/pontiki-home
Loggerhead Marinelife Center (Juno Beach)- fun place to take the kids, all ages. You get to see the turtles that are being rescued. 14200 U.S. Hwy 1, Juno Beach, FL 33408
Mini Golf at Light House Cove: Address:1145 Main St, Jupiter, FL 33458 Phone:(561) 268-2717
The Jupiter Lighthouse is a beautiful sight whether you visit in the day or night. The photo, left was taken at night from our Pontiki cruise
There are many restaurants and evening venues and these are just a few that are popular: Guanabanas, U-Tiki, The Woods (owned by Tiger Woods), Square Grouper
Great breakfast or brunch– Juno Beach Cafe. 13967 US Highway 1, Juno Beach, FL 33408-1631 It’s open until 2 in the afternoon so if you stay at Homewood Suites you could eat their great breakfast in the morning and then go here for “lunch” they have a full menu with lunch items also.
Our favorite sports bars hae always been the
For more places to go: https://www.visitflorida.com/places-to-go/southeast/jupiter/
And if you are in town on Thursday March 16, come to our STLSportsPage.com Spring Training Party! Scroll down for more.

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Cardinals announce 2023 Spring Training Schedule: https://stlsportspage.com/2022/08/31/cardinals-announce-2023-spring-training-schedule/

The Homewood Suites is our Spring Training Headquarters. On our way to– and from– Spring Training…ROAD TRIP– We stay at Drury Hotels

As always we suggest fans stay at a Drury Hotel along the way and there is a special STLSportsPage.com discount with the promo code being SPORTS.

Drury Hotels have free breakfast and dinner every day of the week, plus they have swimming pools, hot tubs and work-out rooms. For those wanting to add Orlando to their trip there is a Drury Hotel there.

Some of the stops we have made on our way to Florida with Drury Hotels near are: Nashville, Tennessee; Atlanta, Georgia; Valdosta, Georgia; Gainesville, Florida; and Orlando.There is a new Drury Hotel in Fort Myers, Florida for those wanting to travel to an away game in Fort Myers. Drury Hotels are based in Missouri and are a family-owned business. Use Promocode: SPORTS at any Drury Hotel, ANY time you stay at a Drury Hotel.

SPRING TRAINING ARCHIVES

A look at some of our fun parties… For many years we have been having special Spring Training Bash Parties which benefitted charity– Rainbows for Kids and Leukemia Society of Palm Beach

2022- Tuesday March 15- Homewood Suites–

The 2022 Baseball Bash happened even though MLB had cancelled the game that was to be played that day due to the lockout and ongoing negotiations that were happening at the time. We considered cancelling the party…

But we know many of our readers plan their spring training trips around our party so we went ahead and had a “smaller, scaled down event.” Turns out we got. a great crowd and Cardinals broadcaster (and former pitcher) Rick Horton was our guest of honor.

Horton is shown, left with Shirley Browne of St. Louis. Shirley is 98 years old and she is a long-time Cardinals fan. In fact, she remembers watching Dizzy Dean pitch.

2021- No event due to Covid-19

2020- The Day They Shut Down Baseball– We had a Party!

This may have been the last “party” or large crowd gathering you attended if you were there. It was held on March 12, 2020. Just as fans were arriving after the Cardinals Spring Training game, everyone’s Twitter feed was blowing up with the news: MLB had cancelled the remainder part of Spring Training– due to the start of the COVID-19 closings.

Photos from the 2020 Baseball Bash:

This may have been the last “party” or large crowd gathering you attended if you were there. It was held on March 12, 2020 and just as it started we received word that MLB had cancelled the remainder part of Spring Training– due to the start of the COVID-19 closings.

The day the 2020 Baseball Bash was the day of the last Spring Training game. We had a player scheduled and due to “circumstances beyond their control” he could not attend. There was a great, enthusiastic crowd and the fans had a fun time despite what was happening.

Photos from the 2019 Bash:

Rob, Ponce, Trim, panel

Mike Trim WPTV West Palm Beach, Cardinals pitcher Daniel Ponce de Leon, Rob Rains

For the past several years The Homewood Suites has teamed up with STLSportspage.com to put on a charity event which benefits Rainbows for Kids in St. Louis and Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Palm Beach. The event is free of charge and open to all fans of STLSportsPage.com and any guests staying at the Homewood Suites. Carson Kelly was the guest last year, shown in photo with Mike Trim of WPTV News in West Palm Beach and Rob Rains.

Ponce crowd- Go Cards

The Spring Training Charity Bash features free food and drink as well as a silent auction, but the highlight of the event has always been a player from the St. Louis Cardinals who attends and entertains on a sports panel with Trim and Rains.

Ponce= Trim asking questions

Trim, a Cardinals fan, originally from Hermann, MO is a television anchor and always donates his time to do the panel with Rob Rains of STLSportsPage.com. The photo, above, right is the 2017 event featuring Aledmys Diaz.

After the panel discussion there was a barbecue and the Cardinals fans got to eat hamburgers and hot dogs.

Ponce- barbecue

The best part of the party is raising money for two great charities. Proceeds from the Baseball Bash are divided between the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Palm Beach and Rainbows for Kids in St. Louis. Tyler Hammond, shown in photo below was a member of Rainbows for Kids when he was a child. He had multiple organ transplants, but was able to participate on the Rainbows for Kids Baseball Team and all the activities designed for families with children in treatment. He has now graduated from college and is a volunteer with the organization. He is shown in the picture with Daniel Ponce de Leon.

Ponce with Tyler

Plan a trip to Spring Training and join us at the party!

Rob Rains interviews Daniel Ponce de Leon at the 2019 Baseball Bash.

2018- Kolten Wong

OTHER PARTIES

Carson Kelly was the special guest in 2018. Television anchor Mike Trim of WPTV always chips in and is seen in the photo above with Kelly and Rob Rains.