The Suffolk Family Festival: 7th and 8th September 2013
Venue: Trinity Park, Suffolk Showground, Felixstowe Road, Ipswich IP3 8UH
Times: 10.30am-5pm
Website: www.suffolkfamilyfestival.com
The Suffolk Family Festival is an indoor-outdoor event. The indoor music stage will feature X Factor star and big brother winner/Presenter Rylan Clark and from Atomic Kitten Kerry Katona.
There will be a total of 17 music acts over the two days including Times Red and 2012 BGT finalist Molly Rainford.
There will also be lots of costume characters including on Sunday a special appearance by Katsuma & Poppet from the Moshi Monsters. In addition there will be a mobile petting Zoo, storytelling and a huge inflatables area plus a little shopping too.
Once inside all attractions are free you only have to pay food, drink and any shopping. There will be a bar and plenty of food options too.
Tickets:
Family ticket: £30.25 in advance or £35 on the gate – It admits 2 over 12s and up to 2 under 12s. Under 3s are free.
Single tickets: Over 12s £12.49 in advance £14 on the door. Under 12s £6.50 in advance £7.50 on the door. Under 3s Free.
www.suffolkfamilyfestival.com
This “festival” is far from a “fantastic day out” for the family, let alone for anyone I imagine. I am very passionate about music and in a band myself, the music there was not impressive, although the performers could sing well and were talented I left feeling sorry for them, especially when through the performance of ‘everyoung’ one of the members on stage said to the crowd “is this as cringey and awkward for you as it is for us?” I dont realy feel that any good “festival” should have that said to a crowd and it seemed to sum up the feeling of the room. The entertainment was equally as disappointing, the kids area was bland and too similar and inflatables were fairly boring. The petting zoo was good and interesting and the people were nice, this was actually the only good part of the “festival” what I enjoyed.one part of the advertised “festival” which I looked forward to was the sci fi displays and in costume displays, from doctor who and star wars, I am a fan of both especially star wars and the doctor who was disappointing, it seemed very unprofessional, and I did not even see the star wars group around the festival at all, and I was there for over an hour. Lastly the pricing was very high for what was there, the saying you get what you pay for, was wrong in this case. Maybe the pricing clouded my expectation too much, but the price of 50 pound for our family to go out to a disappointment is rediculous. Overall in summary I describe the whole event as bleak, bland boring unprofessional and disappointing, I applaud the skill to make sand orginise such a failure.
Hi Lewis,
I’m sorry to hear that you and your family had such a disappointing time at the Suffolk Family Festival. We weren’t able to go and check it out ourselves, but I do hope the organisers see your comments and take them on board for any future events they may put on. Have you considered contacting the organisers to make a formal complaint? See their website for contact details: http://www.suffolkfamilyfestival.com
Romany (Editor – festivalkidz.com)