"1"^^ . . "2"^^ . "2018-03-17T00:00:00"^^ . . "2"^^ . . "2"^^ . "This is not a cheep night of entertainment by any means. You start off with a pretty expensive base price ticket, but wait.. you can for $12 more upgrade to get to check in a faster, but for another $30 you get front row seating. All this online and all but the most savvy are thinking they are getting something special. Nope. After clicking and scrolling you get chicken, potato, bread, a piece of corn and a desert plus two beverages..\n\nOk, so it will be a fun. I guess as you are getting entertainment.. so you lay out your credit card and book. Oh yea, there is a $4 per person convenance surcharge (and the convenience actually is for the theatre owners and clearly not yours). And then there is the parking. In bold letting free parking but an asterisk for except the Toronto location .. btw, the parking is $12.\n\nSo you get inside after waiting in a line where the attendants are very ineffective and even though you have your tickets in hand that you paid your convenience charge for, they still need to something off to the side so you might as well bought at the door. And you get inside to a big hall where they are pushing you now to buy flashy light swords.. I swear it's just like going to the circus just 10x more expensive.\n\nSo you wait and perhaps even buy an overpriced beer to pass the time. Hope you paid extra for the VIP as you are now stuck in a mass hoard of bodies trying to get in through two small doors with confusing directions from staff. You eventually find your table row that is basically a long Woden table with people's gum stuck underneath because the staff likely doesn't clean it till someone complains, and folding metal chairs. Ok... but it's going to be a good show and a reasonable meal. \n\nThe show starts but you are left rather confused as where to look and inadequate sound system. You have a server who might or in our case might not bother to bring you food in a timely fashion.. like you are trying to watch the king at the other end of the massive hall but the server is standing in front of you asking d you want soup. yes I do. You do know you are using your hands, so try not to burn your mouth on the soup as you drink it, or you are smart and wait for the twenty plus minutes for the cold slice of garlic bread if you can call it that to show up. Then you get your 1/2 a dry chicken, and again get to decide if it's better to wait for who knows how long for the chunk of potato and 1/4 piece of corn on the cob to show up. As for the beverage, you can have wherever you want just as long as it's Pepsi. Guess that overpriced beer is looking better. But I don't want a sugar drink, what else's is there? You can have a glass full of ice with a splash of water...\n\nSo you get to force the food down, and then enjoy the show. The horses were nice. The feats of valor were in some cases rather predictable but the show portion was entertaining. They they come around with some really foul tasting coffee and a sticky slice of cake. Watch the last battle and have the server come by and tell you that even though the food was really basic and the service was shoddy at best, your overpriced meal didn't include any gratuity and we take cash, visa or MasterCard.,\n\nWhen I did the math it's five stars for the horses but negative three for everything else. If you don't mind indigestion and really want to see some horses and jousting, then you might like it. I'd suggest looking up a renaissance festival as you will likely have a much better time, or go to a horse show.. but it was what it was.\n\nPerhaps I just got the bottom of the pile hostess as the one looking after the VIP row in front of me got much better service, and come to think of it so did the row behind me. But the forgiving family did say they enjoyed themselves, so what can a dad do but go along with it."^^ .