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The 22nd Annual Arizona Renaissance
Festival 2010 
Family fun at the
Arizona Renaissance Festival
Looking for an uplifting good time?
Pinal County, AZ (2010) – It’s
easy! Take a day trip out to the wildly popular and
entertaining Arizona Renaissance Festival. The annual
faire begins at 10 am every Saturday, Sunday, and on
Presidents’ Day Monday, from February 6th through March
28, 2010. Today’s audience wants to be more then
spectators. They want to participate and be surrounded
by their entertainment as they seek to escape the
everyday world. At the Festival, the audience is a
special guest in another place and time. This
Festival transports visitors to an European style
country fair filled with an agreeable rabble of knights,
rogues, royalty and craftsmen, all roaming throughout a
30-acre charm filled village with 200 quaint shops, 12
stages of non-stop entertainment, an arena for
full contact armored jousting, kitchens, pubs, and
people powered games and rides.
All the Festival is a
stage with a cast featuring more than 2,000 brightly
costumed actors, dancers, and musicians. These are the
amazing people who populate this bustling fair to ensure
a good time for the nearly 250,000 visitors who mingle
into the endlessly wacky and unpredictable medieval
mayhem.
The Renaissance Festival
experience is meeting and interacting with these
colorful characters, shopping for arts and crafts, and
taking in a selection of over 150 shows every event day.
There is a great variety of food for feasting, and a
bevy of beverages including Medieval Margaritas, Da
Vinci Coladas, Dukes of Daiquiri, wine, honey mead,
beers and ales, along with soft drinks and lemonade.
Jousting Knights - photo courtesy
Arizona Renaissance Festival
A popular attraction at
the Festival are the live jousting tournaments held
three times daily, complete with knights on charging
horses, clanging weapons and a great deal of
braggadocio.
The 16th century Festival
is home to many popular traditions including chomping
down on a giant roasted turkey leg, and also features
demonstrations of time honored crafts such as weaving,
glass blowing, blacksmithing and pottery throwing.
A most special event
within this giant event is The Pleasure Feast. This is a
two hour six course medieval feast with live music and
comedy entertainment, all you can eat and drink, plus
festival gifts and souvenirs. With limited seating twice
daily, advance feast reservations are recommended.
When You Go:
What: The 22nd Annual Arizona Renaissance Festival
Where: East of Apache Junction on US Highway 60, near
the Superstition Mountains.
When: Eight consecutive weekends (Saturdays, Sundays,
and Presidents’ Day
Monday) from February 6 through March 28, 2010. The
Festival runs from 10a.m. until 6:00 p.m., rain or
shine.
Tickets: Advanced discount tickets available for
purchase and print at home on_line
www.RenFestInfo.com or at
Fry’s are $18 for adults and $8 for kids ages 5 –
12,children under 5 are always FREE. Tickets purchased
at the Festival Box Office are $2 more. Discounts
tickets for seniors (60 and older) are $17, only
available at the Festival Box Office.
Parking is FREE courtesy of Fry’s.
Information: www.RenFestInfo.com
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