Gilroy Gardens Holiday Lights Worse Than Expected
Earlier in the month I wrote about the Holiday Lights event at Gilroy Gardens and my frustration with the cost/benefit ratio. Well, we decided to go in hopes of getting photos with the Peanuts gang (which we did). However, other than the character photos (which we paid an additional $58.96 to purchase) we got almost nothing for the $43 we paid to enter the park for a scant five hours. In fact, my original concern was that five hours wasn’t enough time to get $50 value out of an amusement park. Turns out I was worried about the wrong thing as Zaira was ready to leave in under two hours!
The only reason we stayed an extra two hours was that we needed to wait that long to see the much hyped “A Charlie Brown Christmas” show imported from Knott’s Merry Farm. Actually they were advertising two Christmas shows, but only had one and a half. How do you have “half” a show? Well you pull bits (songs, dialog, etc) from one show and perform it elsewhere with the exact same characters/actors, but call it a separate show. ::sigh:: What a ripoff.
The “holiday lights” themselves were nice, but not any more impressive than we’ve seen around town on private homes. Less than half of the rides were operating leaving the only thing of interes the Quicksilver Express roller coaster. Zaira rode that five times and then we were ready to go. We also walked through the rock maze and circled the park looking for anything of interest two or three times. The skating rink was okay, but, again, an additional $8 charge was required to participate.
