Minnesota Scottish Fair & Highland Games — Local services in Saint Paul

As a born and raised Scotsman, this “Highland Games” was nae worth yer bother.

When we arrived on the Saturday at around noon, we wondered around trying to find the “heavy games”, which we eventually did without even being asked for our tickets at any point. (The couple we were with were looking to buy them and ultimately never were even asked to!).

The scheduled tossing the caber at 12:30 didn’t seem to be happening so we proceeded to go get food. We waited in line for 30 min before the rain started and we were asked to take shelter indoors. After waiting approximately one hour, we went back out and then was told again to take shelter due to another band of rain.

At this point we decided to leave as none of us had eaten and nothing seemed to be organized to make grabbing food easy. Without ticketing being verified, the food trucks were inundated with lines, no doubt due to anyone off the street just lining up to grab a bite.

Moreover, when I emailed the treasurer of the Minnesota Highland Games - Chad Esau - to ask for a refund, I was ignored. Even when I emailed him a second time.

Very poor show. I wouldn’t recommend. I’d prefer have given this zero stars for the zero of an...

This fair is a lot of fun! I love expressing pride for my Scottish heritage and watching the games. Nice vendors and good food. Great music! I just wish it were a wee bit bigger. I hope it grows more and...

AV for You was a vendor for MN Scottish Fair & Highland Games and we really enjoyed getting to work with Don for this...