The Great Benjamins Circus — Local services in Area E (Bonaparte Plateau)

I give it two and a half stars. Understand that this is a small tent circus and not Ringling Bros. or Cirque du Soleil. It's great for the kids, but adults familiar with circuses of the past might be disappointed. There are some very talented performers here to watch. The boomerang guy is excellent, and the one acrobat girl is fun to watch and is highly skilled. But there's a lot of sketchy stuff like no nets and people holding cables for certain acts that are attached to the poles and gaffing which tells me they don't care much about performer safety. The one rider dropped his motorcycle in the sphere, and thankfully the other rider saw this and got up above him, but they had to stop the act and couldn't continue it. Thankfully nobody got hurt. The finale was disappointing as the act was way too high towards the top of the tent you couldn't even see it. The sound system stinks, so muffled and distorted you can't understand a thing the announcer fellow says. Eat ahead of time as snacks are expensive, and I wouldn't want to be under that vinyl tent if it's hot out, we went for a cool evening show. I think they could make this an excellent show if they refine it a lot more. Show advertising should inform people if they are going to charge you on top of the tickets for parking. $10.00 to park in the crummy gravel lot at our local rinky-dink racetrack was a ridiculous surprise...

I am not one to review things on google. But honestly I attended a show last night with my 3 kids, and it was so painfully loud we ended up leaving. I could not even hear the words clearly when they were introducing acts because it was so loud. The combination of the dirt bikes and the music, made my ears physically hurt. The acts were very repetitive and at one point on of the girls dancing on the rope thing, she actually fell and it sounded like a hard fall. I give her props for continuing her act despite that though! The people were far from friendly that were running the food (which was SO expensive) The toys/merch was really "in your face" I paid $90 for a family pass and honestly we were so disappointed. It felt like the intention was to just get us there, put on a rough show, but spend a whole bunch of money on EXTREMELY overpriced food/drink/ and merch. Also I thought they advertised more performers. it was mostly dancing, very repetitive. The dirt bike at the end seemed to be having problems too. I felt honestly nervous for the safety of the performers, since the girl fell i felt on edge about the rest of the show. I think they need to invest some money into a broader range of performances, safety, and maybe a customer service course on being friendly to people. The staff...

I attended your Owen Sound show on April 16 and was very disappointed in the way it was organized! I ordered VIP tickets and fully expected what was advertised which was ring side seats! The show was supposed to be 4 to 5:30. The line up outside on a very cold day was enormous!!!! It was very late getting started in fact we were still lined up outside after 4:30. When we finally got in at close to 5 there were no ring side seats. We eventually got 3 seats after complaining but not beside one another but one behind the other. Why wouldn’t you start letting people in gradually say 20 at a time, check their tickets, seat them accordingly and then let the next 20 in! It was ridiculous and I am sure many of those people in the seats at ringside did not pay VIP price!!!!The dancers in the opening act were terrible! They were not synchronized in their routine at all! We enjoyed the majority of the acts but it was very disorganized as far as seating and nothing was ready for starting at 4 as was advertised. Tickets were oversold for this show as shown by your staff running around trying to get chairs for those of us that didn’t have them!!! Awful!!!! Don’t let people wait outside in the cold, let them in gradually, seat them properly as I am sure they would rather sit and wait inside...