Garden Brothers Circus Tickets

The circus was not worth the money. It was very short and not priced for families. There weren't a lot of animals at al. I have been to much better circuses here in Rockford.

Spend your money else where! This was not worth it. There's was mostly acrobatics and very little clowns. Don't get me started on the pricing, a container of popcorn for $20?! No. The kids were bored about 15 minutes in an it seemed very unprofessional. I'd recommend th Ringling Brothers before I ever recommend them again.

If your able to pay to upgrade to Vip ring side seats I recommend doing so they not only keep you intertained the whole show but the interact which the one who have are ring side. It was deffinatly worth the extra $10. Plus your Like 2 feet away from the ring so you don't miss a thing you get to see ever detail of the circus!!

Wasn't for sure how it would be, being a small show. But I'm kids loved it as did us parents!

The circus ring was too small. We could barely see anything. The acts weren't interesting. My 5 year old daughter who actually loves the circus did not enjoy this.

This was one of the poorest examples of a circus I could imagine. Two tired elephants and 5 dopey camels comprised the animal portion of the circus. A good reason to rid circuses of animals and rely on human talent. This patchwork quilt of gymnasts, two aerialists (one mediocre, the other good), and some other gimmicky stunts constituted the program. Throughout hawkers were trying to sell overpriced souvenirs to the audience. The circus ring was poorly placed -- not in the center among the three sections of viewers but to the far side of the audience. Ridiculous.

I didn't expect the show will be so horrible and there were 2 animal shown for the entire 1.5hrs show. Don't waste your money.....

Great show! Very exciting! My girls(4 & 6) loved it. I think it would have been even better if there were more animals.

Simply the best CIRCUS I have ever seen! Thank you We will see you next year!

The show was pretty good, although I've seen much better performances. The issue I had with it was that they were so money hungry. The great majority of the time (after starting 45 minutes late) was used to make extra money by kids riding the elephants, camels, etc. Having those accessible is awesome, but they wouldn't start the show because people still wanted rides. Then, their entire 40 minute "intermission" was bringing all of that out again. The "second half" consisted of 15 minutes and 2 acts!

We left at intermission. Really disappointing. Very shabby and entertainment was subpar.

For a show aimed at children to start 35 minutes late and then have an equally late intermission was unacceptable. It was almost 10:00 pm when the second act started and my daughter was so tired, we left. The website said an hour and a half. We should've been gone by 9:30, not starting a second act at 10.

Was a phenomenal show. Would give 5 stars for all performances. Can't remember when I had so much fun at a circus. The clowns were laugh out loud hysterical. Everything was first class show. The animals were an added bonus to show. Loved every minute of show Friday night

When you have a General Admission event, usually the event goers show up around an hour early. With kids in tow, we showed up at 615 for a 730 start. We expected to wait an hour. When that hour turned in to almost two... we got a little irritated, mostly cuz the kids were irritated as well. Suggestion. START ON TIME.

We got our tickets early, so it only cost $30 for me, my wife, and my daughter to go. At that price you can't complain to much. If we had paid full price, which would have cost us over double that, I would have felt ripped off. In previous years we had gone to the Ringling Brothers show. Ringling Brothers was far superior to Garden Brothers. First off, both had a pre-show "Party". The Ringling Brothers party allowed you to go back stage and see the animals and they had a clown dancing and playing games with the kids. The Garden Brothers "party" was a few bounce houses and animal rides that you had to pay for and were not cheap. The performers at the Garden Brothers were good. Not as good as the ones at the Ringling Brothers, but still entertaining. In a way you felt more fright at the Garden Brothers because you seriously thought someone might get hurt, because they seem to be uncertain themselves on what they were doing. Over all the performers were good. But, the sound guy needs some work. The music and sounds for the performance seemed to be malfunctioning the whole show. Music was randomly stopping or change abruptly. The lights seemed to some times turn off when they weren't suppose too. There was a lot of down time between scenes. The show didn't move smoothly and you spent a lot of time just watching them setup got the next thing. At the intermission they setup the bounce houses and rides again, and they had someone dressed as a Minion. My wife took my daughter down to meet the Minion. There was no line to meet the Minion and my wife quickly found out why. They wanted $12 just to meet the Minion. I think the entire time only one person actually paid to see the Minion. I think lots of people would have paid a dollar or two to see the Minion, they would have made more then $12, and people would have been happier. But greed stopped all of that. (The Minion wasn't that great of a costume either, I'll attack a photo) Again, for the price we paid it was worth it. But many people their paid much more than us. My three year old loved it since she had never seen anything like it before. And again, I don't want to pick on the performers. They work hard and did a good job. Just the whole setup seemed poorly put together. If the same performers got jobs at a better organized circus I think they would be great.

It's a good thing this was my daughter's first time at the circus because she would have been disappointed otherwise. The 1 ring was in the middle of the area and was too far to see much. Then the acts were really lame, like ladies spinning umbrellas with their feet. We left at intermission. Save your money and go to Ringling.

ABSOLUTELY THE WORST PERFORMANCE I HAVE EVER SEEN. I WATCHED OVER 60 PEOPLE INCLUDING OUR GROUP OF 5 GET UP AND WALK OUT. SEATING WAS TERRIBLE, COULDN'T SEE ANYTHING, ALL OF THE ANIMALS WERE IN THE VERY FRONT ALONG WITH A CART SELLING ITEMS AND THE LIGHT AND SOUND BOARD. UNLESS YOU WERE SITTING ON THE VERY FAR SIDES YOU COULDN'T SEE ANYTHING. SO DISAPPOINTING FOR THE AMOUNT OF MONEY SPENT.

Well planed , organized and executed. Ringside seats were wonderful and put us a matter of feet from the action. I don't know who enjoyed it more, me or my grandson. I have it 4 stars but only because it was a small circus, but it had all of the elements of the big top. Clown, animals, high wire, balancing acts, and rides on the elephants and camels. The performers were skilled and very professional. Two shows on this one, several hours each. I highly recommend.

Show was fun! As always, once inside, food and extra events were overpriced, but tickets were cheap and the show was exciting!

I had more of a expatiation's than what we saw. The flyer advertised Elephants and Elephant rides. We showed up early to ride the Elephant and they did not have any elephants. Only Camels. Everything for the children was overpriced. They should have had the prices at $5 but instead charged $10. It is a CIRCUS, you expect to see clowns but not one clown was there except for maybe one who was in the show. Would I take my kids back to this circus, NO would be my answer. Not at the VIP price I paid anyways. I paid for VIP seating, I was on the corner and they put the chairs to close to the other row. Leg space was very uncomfortable for me and the other guy on other rows corner.