Raptors at Scotiabank Arena: What time do doors open?
Doors open about an hour before tip-off here.
Doors open about an hour before tip-off here.
Your leave-by time is the first travel row. Ready Time can alert you when it comes up. Put in your tip-off time, tap any duration, and the plan recomputes backward.
NBA game night at Scotiabank Arena, home of the Toronto Raptors. For a concert here, start from the concert night plan instead: a support act sets the deadline rather than the anthem.
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Start times here are the team's own. The NBA sells no national window, so a game goes on when the building and the market suit and there is nothing to convert from Eastern. These are the slots this team plays most often.
These are Scotiabank Arena’s own times. The team publishes start times with the schedule in the summer and a few move again for television during the season, so take the time on your ticket over the one you remember.
Cup group games, Christmas Day, the Martin Luther King Jr. Day afternoon and a nationally televised night run their own times. Type those in on the tip-off row.
The arena is joined to Union Station, which is what makes the train the easy answer on a weeknight. Union is where the TTC subway, GO Transit’s trains and buses and the UP Express from the airport all meet, and the walk from the platforms to the doors runs indoors through Maple Leaf Square. Driving means the Gardiner and Lake Shore at the hour the rest of downtown is leaving, which makes the garage a worse deal than its price suggests.
Two levels of parking under the building belong to suite holders and office tenants. The arena’s own garage charges a flat fifty dollars, takes no cash, has a two-metre height limit that rules out a roof box, and opens an hour before the game unless you hold a restaurant booking; its four accessible spaces are reserved by phone.
For everyone else the nearest public garage is the one under 15 York Street, open around the clock and entered from York Street or Bremner Boulevard. Booking either ahead through SpotHero costs less than the drive-up rate.
Bag rules are the arena's own here and they run from a wallet-sized clutch to a bag that fits under your seat. Getting it wrong usually means walking back to the car and re-entering the line.
Check current sizes and door times on the official Scotiabank Arena FAQ before you go.
Gates open an hour before tip-off and the arena states that for every game rather than varying it. The Premium Entrance opens earlier for suites and restaurants, at five for an evening game and two hours out for anything earlier. Screening is metal detection for everyone.
Bags are close to banned: nothing bigger than 16.5 by 11.5 centimetres, which is 6.5 by 4.5 inches, and no backpacks. A bag that fails can be checked for twenty-five dollars in the galleria across from Gate 1, and anything needed for medical reasons goes through x-ray at gates 1, 3 and 5. There is no re-entry once you have left.
Scotiabank Arena was previously called Air Canada Centre, so older directions and tickets may still use that name.
Doors, lots and bag rules change; the official site is the live source.
Doors open about an hour before tip-off here; that is when the crowd starts arriving, not when you have to. Being through the doors about half an hour before tip-off covers screening, the walk to your section, and a stop on the concourse.
Work backward from tip-off: minutes in your seat beforehand, walk to your section, security screening, walk from the lot, parking, then the drive (30 minutes in the default plan). That puts leave-by at 6:12 PM for a 7:30 PM tip-off. Change the tip-off time and every row moves.
It is whatever the team has scheduled, and these are local times rather than a converted national window. On this arena's clock: a late-afternoon game at 3:30 PM, an early-evening game at 6:00 PM, a night game at 7:30 PM. This example uses the night game window. Cup games, holiday afternoons and nationally televised nights run their own times; the tip-off row is editable for those.
The plan allows 10 minutes for a normal walk-through queue. It runs longer in the twenty minutes before tip-off. Arriving fifteen minutes off that peak is usually enough.
About an hour before tip-off here. Check the official Scotiabank Arena FAQ for your game.
Not in the lots here. If you are meeting people somewhere else, add that as a step and everything before it moves earlier.
Assume the limit is small. Check the arena's own page for current sizes. The timing risk is being turned around at the door and walking back to the car: the walk twice and a second trip through the queue.
Flying in? The airport pages. Taking Amtrak? The station pages. No stadium listed? The tailgate timeline is the same plan without a particular lot.
Start the plan in the app, and the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island show the time left, with a bar that fills as each step passes.
Glance at it on the walk in without opening the app.
Every step also gets its own alert, and sharing the plan gives whoever is driving the same leave time, with alerts on their phone.
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