My Chargers tickets are on roughly the 25 in the second tier (which I like better than much of the first tier, the front of which is a little close; if you can get the front half of the second tier anywhere between the 20's the view will be quite good). Unless you are in the ozone (and yes, there is an ozone tier for which you need exceptional eyesight; avoid those seats), there is not a bad seat. The tiers are almost vertical, so even at the top you have not moved a long distance back from the field; just an elevation gain. The massive tele screen helps the top rows quite a bit. Though like all SoCal stadiums, they seldom replay the really controversial calls.
The field is approx 6 stories down from ground level. It is a heck of a facility. You can take an elevator, but most just take a string of escalators. The top is covered; both N and S ends are open (but with the field level so low, that opening is well above most of the seating). The place stays ventillated and will only be 10 F or so warmer than ambient, so an evening game in December will probably see interior stadium temps in the 50's. It takes a heck of a wind to feel anything much 3rd level or lower. I was there when the lightning storm forced a 25-ish minute suspension of Monday Night Football. Clearly they did not think the ozone seating tier was adequately protected from lightning, though in true lighting storm country the structure would have been built with good lightning arrestors. I've never seen a midwestern game in a covered stadium interrupted, but maybe I just have not seen the right game...
The good, the bad, the ugly:
The good: big parking lots; beautiful landscaping with good photo ops on the front (South) side; comfortable seats with adequate side to side space; broad aisles; clean overall, with clean & adequate restrooms. Adequate security, and I've never seen a fight or altercation, even when the Raiders were playing us (though like all Raiders games, there was probably double the number of Sheriff's deputies on hand).
The bad: the food is truly mediocre. Do Not eat the pizza. There are a few decent sandwich & salad offerings. The tacos are excellent; the only food item this year that would rate above "meh". The WiFi was excrable when it opened last year but it is improved to merely bad now; it works until the game starts and people start looking things up and sending pics. Then it may as well not exist. I shut down the WiFi and go cellular at that point.
The ugly: Getting out of the parking lot is a 45 minute process after you are back in your car if the stadium was mostly full and you stay to the end of the game. Use the restroom before leaving, because you will be in your car for a while. There is no way the LA Bowl will sell out (or come close), so this may not be an issue. There is still construction going on around the perimeter and I have hopes that this will get better but who knows at this point? The PA/audio system is unbelievably bad, and very little improved from last year. It is like Bill Cosby's old bus station announcer routine. My section of season ticket holders often holds our own huddle to try to agree on what has just been announced. The official's mikes are actually the best in the building; they are probably 70% or so understandable. The regular PA announcer is an every other word kind of thing unless the place is empty, with no background noise.
Thoughts: The Hollywood Park casino fronts the stadium, and it has a hotel. That makes it walking distance to the game and the hotel food is like most casino food; relatively OK. It is also relatively close to LAX. There are also some other, smaller (Best Westernish) hotels within walking distance. The downside of staying here is that you are in the middle of Inglewood, and except for the Forum, there is nothing else. It's not a huge crime concern, and I would not hesitate to walk up to a mile or so to the game, but in some ways it is an urban desert. If you want to sight see while in LA, you will be driving. The facility itself is the nicest stadium I've been in, but the tech side of things stinks. Hard to understand how the WiFi and PA system could be so bad in a modern stadium. My professional society rented it our for our annual officer induction, and after dinner in the club we went down on the field. It was really weird to walk down to where my seats were located and look up (almost straight up) at them. And the red rubber bits that make the green turf soft were also a couple of generations removed from anything that I'd been on previously. I will say that it is easy to understand how somebody gets turf toe or tripped up in what felt to my finger like an inch or more of that artificial, rubber detritus. Finally, you would expect Stan Kroenke (who owns Screaming Eagle, Jonata and Hilt, among other wineries) to have something better than canned Pinot available. The beer at Chargers/Rams games is also mostly limited to Modelo (the sponsor brewery), so I'd guess that will apply at the Bowl. You find Especial everywhere, but their dark beer (which is actually a pretty good light porterish beer) is only here and there. Worth getting there early to look around, and if you are a dark beer guy, watch for the dark beer as you walk around.
