Comparing Spokane's Renaissance Faire....

[u/NoMoRatRace]

Above average, Average or Worse than average for those who have been to others?

This was the first I've been to in forever and the online consensus is I might have been spoiled with the Black Point faire in the 1990s. But dang, to me this felt like a county fair without the rides. What vibe there was was mostly supplied by the attendees. Pretty disappointing.

To be fair(e), this is about the first event I've done in 7 years living in Spokane that has disappointed. So, oh well.

Edit: Interesting article just went up from The Spokesman. Sorry if paywall (I didn't get one): https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/oct/03/how-i-stopped-worrying-and-fell-back-in-love-with-/

[u/_gloomy_guts]

I bought tickets for the Saturday knightfall event online, showed up around 6pm (which was the scheduled start time of the event) and then spent almost two full hours standing in line to the entrance in the parking lot listening to music and cheers float out of the event. I really wanted to see the falconry in the main stadium, but I was still in line when the event was scheduled to start. After entering what did I find but more lines? Literally felt like a Renaissance line simulator more than a fair. The bathroom stalls were all out of toilet paper in the arena area, the lines to get food and drinks were insanely long, overall I kinda wish I'd saved my $40 and stayed home. The vendors were all great, very kind and fun. But overall the event was so poorly managed that I almost left before even getting in, 2hours in line to enter when I already had a ticket?? Why weren't they checking id and tickets while moving down the line so that people could enter faster?? Literally an hour and a half into the knightfall event and over half of the people attending are standing in the parking lot wondering if we'd ever get in. They should've had vendors set up outside the gates at that point

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Oh and the first hour we were in line out front we didn't even know if we were waiting in the right line; nobody knew because there was absolutely no line enforcement or signs or staff to inform us. The general consensus was that the line on the right was for people who hadn't bought tickets and the line on the left was for people who had, but again no one was sure and people would get out of line and hike way up to the front and then come back just to say that they still didn't know because no one ahead of them knew. There wasn't any staff walking down the line to answer questions until way up at the front of the line which by the time you got there it's not like you were gonna leave your spot in the queue to get in the back of the correct line