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| - I went as part of a family trip for my nephew's 5th birthday, so we got the Celebration Package, a $16 per person upgrade. Luckily for us, there was a promo code (30VD) that discounted the regular ticket price down to $30, so the packages were $46 per person instead of $51 for children and $80 for adults.
The celebration package includes:
VIP seating (we ended up in the first row)
Group Photo for Each Member of the Party (can be a pain if it's a family trip and you end up with several copies of the same picture)
Commemorative Program (has bios for the knights, etc.)
Knight's Cheering Banner (we didn't get one)
Slice of Birthday Cake for Each Member of the Party (the "slice" is a small square with sweet icing and a lone candle, nothing too fancy)
Personalized Announcement During the Show (they announce whatever you told them to say, get the crowd to cheer, no spotlight on you or anything like that)
"Behind the Scenes" DVD (one for the group)
In terms of food, there is the standard meal of garlic bread, tomato bisque soup, oven-roasted chicken, one spare rib, herb-basted potato, a pastry, and Pepsi or water. It's a fair amount of food, and all portion sizes are the same whether it's for an adult or child. I had the vegetarian option, and was given a meatless lasagna served with broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots instead of the chicken, spare rib, and potato. Oh, and I got to have utensils, unlike the hoi polloi.
The tomato soup was nothing special, and the garlic bread was quite hard. Dunking it in the soup made it much tastier, I'll admit. The vegetarian lasagna was actually pretty good. My broccoli and cauliflower were snatched up and eaten very quickly before I had a chance to taste them; the carrots were kind of mushy and flavourless. Definitely frozen veggies. According to my family, the chicken was better than it looked, and the spare rib was yummy. I swiped a potato off my sister's plate and maybe it was karmic retribution, but it was salty and a little overdone. I'd be lying if I said I didn't eat the whole thing. The pastry, an apple strudel, was hard and cold by the time it got to us, which made the birthday cake seem much more appealing. Tea or coffee is offered when the meal is finished.
Since we were dining with a soon to be five-year-old, we were offered cranberry or orange juice for him, which was nice since the drink choices are so limited. For the grown ups, you can pre-order alcoholic beverages for your table and there is a cash bar. A bottle of Jackson-Triggs Cabernet ran us $24.
For those with allergies, I would definitely recommend taking medication before attending. The show lasted about 90 minutes, which is just about the point where my nose started to get stuffy despite the allergy meds. It's also not the place to go if you're at all sensitive to noise. They want you to be as loud as possible.
I'd have to recommend skipping the ticket upgrades and saving that money for any souvenirs you might want. Getting the reserved VIP seating somewhere in the first 3 rows is a nice bonus, but if that's your goal, stick to the $10 per person Royalty upgrade since all the other packages have a ton of stuff you won't care about. For regular tickets, seating is first come, first served, so simply arrive early and line up early and you should be set.
On the whole the tickets were a decent value for the discounted price, which after taxes and fees was $220 for a family of 4 (plus $11 for parking). I can't imagine paying $340 for the same experience. Medieval Times is definitely something to experience at least once -- preferably with a coupon.
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