Ostrich Festival — Attraction in Chandler

VENDORS BEWARE!!!! This event makes you pay a huge booth fee up front and 25% of all your sales. They make you use their POS systems which dont work alot of the time and if you take cash or use your own systems, they will kick you out. Two were asked to leave today already. Most of the vendors in my row were just sponsers or people selling windows and solar because they've lost so many vendors in the last couple years. Everything to get into the festival is super overpriced too. Customers already have to pay for parking, tickets to get in and completely separate tickets to ride rides as well. So to ask customers to jump through all these hoops to purchase our items on top of it is ridiculous. Especially when parents give their kids cash and let them run off to buy what they want or when all people brought at all was cash. You tell them you cant take cash and youve lost yet another sale. They charge us a ton to be here then expect us to lose profits as well... its insane. They also make it our job to teach people how to use the wristbands for their pos systems because most people dont know how. Ive been a vendor at this event for the last several years and we wont be back next year. Im tired of angry customers pissed off at me because I cant accept their money and especially tired of how greedy this event has become. I do shows across several different states all year long and this is the only one that charges a percentage on our products instead of a flat booth fee. Save your time and money. Find a different...

Normally don’t leave one star reviews but this experience was so terrible that I had to share with anyone who’s even slightly considering showing up to this festival. Upon arrival, I was hit with a ridiculous $20 parking fee. I planned on purchasing tickets at the gate when I realized they were $7 more expensive than the online tickets. Long story short, ended up purchasing my tickets online and making my way into the festival. At the festival gate, I overheard an extremely rude employee whistling and snapping at someone like a dog for leaving with the drinks that they purchased from the festival. That’s right, you aren’t allowed to leave with the drinks that you purchase in the festival. At this point, I was about $62 in a hole and barely made it into the festival, and was telling myself I should turn around. I then proceeded to buy some tickets for games/rides. Paid $20 for 18 tickets. Ended up playing one game and going on literally one ride with these 18 tickets until I ran out. Aside from the price and rude staff, this festival can actually be quite enjoyable. I’m not a very cheap person and am gladly willing to spend money if it’s worth it, but for almost $90, playing one ball-in-a-hole game and going on one ride was just simply not worth it for me. PLEASE PLEASE keep in mind if you want to come here and have an enjoyable time, you will be looking at around $150 per person (excluding food). However, I will not be coming back here because my money can go a longer...

I knew it was going to be expensive but I was absolutely blown away by just how expensive, especially after having been to many other similar fairs across the country that are MUCH more reasonably priced (like the OC Fair).

Here is the breakdown…

Admission (2 adults + free 4yo): $75 on Groupon, $83 otherwise Parking: $10 30 tickets for Crayola area: $25 (covered about 4-5 rides for our 4yo, lasted about 30 minutes) Soft pretzel: $11 and barely edible Orange chicken / chow mein / fried rice combo plate: $20 and completely inedible Hamburger: $20 and pretty edible Cotton candy: $9 18 tix for carnival area: $20 (covered only 1 ride - Ferris wheel - for the three of us)

Total cost: About $200 for three people for three hours

Not worth it. We basically left because we couldn’t stomach bleeding any more money for disgusting food and janky rides. 100% do not recommend.

Also, we would have loved to see Sublime with Rome but they didn’t go on until 8:45pm. A bit late for a Sunday night, especially considering most of their fan base are millennials and not at a point in their lives where they can pull off a late night concert on a...