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luscious_purple) wrote2020-07-22 10:22 pm
luscious_purple) wrote2020-07-22 10:22 pm
Another one bites the dust...
Today the word came down about the MDRF:
The Maryland Renaissance Festival announces we will not operate the Festival in 2020. This decision is made after careful consideration following significant preparation to provide a safe experience for all of our guests and participants, acquiring all safety measures and reducing our attendance by half; unfortunately our preparation cannot overcome the many external uncertainties we are all experiencing. While many businesses can operate with restrictions the Festival we have always worked to put on is a variety of up-close and highly interactive experience for our customers and villagers. We cannot offer you the shops, entertainment, feasting and frivolity that has been our hallmark. It has been our pleasure to share our village with you for forty-three years and we look forward to once again visiting with you in Revel Grove with the 2021 Maryland Renaissance Festival.
Frankly, I'm not surprised because the place gets as many attendees as Disneyland with a quarter of the space. No way can "social distance" happen without a LOT of intrusive policing.
I've never been to the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire up in the Amish region, but it's a two-hour drive from here -- in the range of "do I really want to do this?" It still has plans to open with a strict limit on the number of advance tickets sold. We shall see if that changes.
The Maryland Renaissance Festival announces we will not operate the Festival in 2020. This decision is made after careful consideration following significant preparation to provide a safe experience for all of our guests and participants, acquiring all safety measures and reducing our attendance by half; unfortunately our preparation cannot overcome the many external uncertainties we are all experiencing. While many businesses can operate with restrictions the Festival we have always worked to put on is a variety of up-close and highly interactive experience for our customers and villagers. We cannot offer you the shops, entertainment, feasting and frivolity that has been our hallmark. It has been our pleasure to share our village with you for forty-three years and we look forward to once again visiting with you in Revel Grove with the 2021 Maryland Renaissance Festival.
Frankly, I'm not surprised because the place gets as many attendees as Disneyland with a quarter of the space. No way can "social distance" happen without a LOT of intrusive policing.
I've never been to the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire up in the Amish region, but it's a two-hour drive from here -- in the range of "do I really want to do this?" It still has plans to open with a strict limit on the number of advance tickets sold. We shall see if that changes.