Well this was my first ever Renaissance fair. Although I thoroughly enjoyed myself and thought it was a wonderful experience for some good family fun, the festival itself could use some improvement. The positives were the sheer amount of entertainment going on. I love to people watch and it was great to see so many las vegans gathering together in their renaissance era attire having a jolly good time. Although some costumes were a bit inappropriate and could be compared to stripper pirates of the Caribbean,and I can't complain :), many were very well done and must have taken much time and effort to create. Also there were many shows going on at around the same time so there was always something to see, here, and do. The 15 dollar price tag was reasonable for a day of fun and the fair itself was rather larger than I had expected compared to last years piratefest. It took nearly the 5 hous to see everything which was great.
However, the food was over priced. Drinks were overpriced. The array of flea market type stores were redundant. Most stores sold the exact same products, but again were over priced but despite these negatives I did manage to enjoy myself.