Twin Cities Harvest Festival — Attraction in Brooklyn Park

Bert the person in charge and staff definitely made it clear that people who look like us(Black) experience and money don’t matter. Imagine showing up for a family Funday with your family of six children and you pay for wristbands for you, your wife and your kids and they say you’re 2 smallest ones don’t need wristbands because of their size we all go in as a family at first and have fun in the activities part and Only to leave to go out and get food, Go spend more money at the bounce houses and slide which cost more money, for me to come back to the activities part where we previously where and all of a sudden they tell me my two littlest children can’t come back in because they don’t have wristbands when they were clearly let in the first time. And then you go to Bert who is in charge and he makes you out to be some type of person that’s just trying to get over on them and defending the girl at the entrance who had some type of clear bias to us all of a sudden. I tried at first to chalk this up as a small mistake that could be easily fixed but instead they made it very clear they didn’t care about our experience as long as they got our money and assumed after being told several times we all have wristbands they kept treating us like we didn’t, and didn’t pay for anything. I didn’t want to believe it was this kind of place but it’s just another case of they can take our money, but not respect us. So just a warning to anybody who looks like us (Black) be careful going...

General admission is free. General admission gives you access to pumpkin and wagons for transporting pumpkins. It also includes access to food trucks. If you go on a weekday, there is only one food truck open and none of the ala carte activities are open (dunk tank, slide, mini golf, etc. FYI the petting zoo/ animals did not return this year). Also, weekday price is $6/ per person for the kids adventure area versus $10/ per person on weekends. If paying by card, there is a $3.50 fee on top of cost so bring cash to avoid transaction fee. Weekday admission also do not include the corn maze that is otherwise included with the adventure area. Corn maze closed during weekdays except MEA. Sunflower hayride is included with the adventure area (it's otherwise $1 if adventure area is not purchased). However we went on Sept 27, 2021, and all the sunflowers were wilted and dying. Would not recommend the hay ride. Other adventure area activities include the corn pit, kid John Deere toy tractors and bikes, small corn maze, Rainbow playset and a dome climbing jungle gym. Kids had fun. Wished weekday admission had more things open but it was a trade off for no crowd. Two hours was plenty for weekday adventure considering less...

This year, I was surprised and delighted that there was no entrance fee but I soon came to realize that this was not an improvement. It was just an opportunity for them to make more money. For instance, most everything was paid for by tickets only, $1 per ticket, you can get 50 tickets for $45. Everything was 3 tickets for activities. So we go to send the kids on the big bouncy dragon at 3 tickets a piece. We stand in line and it was moving pretty fast, no big deal right? Wrong, it was moving fast because your $3 or 3 tickets each child bought - 30 seconds....one time up and then they were pulled out. When we said something, nicely, the response was "I don't make the rules"... I don't know too many people that are ok with spending $6 for 30 seconds of fun? So we came for the corn maze and corn pit - $12 a piece. The long and short of it - many things to do but bring your wallet cause everything costs and not just a reasonable amount. It turned a family fun day into much disappointment for our family of 5 cause we didn't want to drop $200 bucks to have a fun day.... but if all keeps coming and paying....they just keep getting to rip...