For the first time in nearly a decade, the price of a Wichita River Festival button is going up. The new price of an adult button will be $10 beginning May 8, 2015. (The child’s Riverfest button price will stay the same, at $3.)
I think $10 for the festival is still a great deal, but earlybirds can get their buttons at the soon-to-be nostalgic price. The last $5 Riverfest buttons are being sold through May 7. You can purchase them at Wichita Festivals office at 444 E. William, at the INTRUST Bank Arena Box Office, or by calling Select-A-Seat at (855) 755-SEAT starting today.
I remember when the festival first started…it was a great event for our family and friends…all the children were young and loved everything about he festival. We packed a huge picnic lunch and a cooler with pop and water and lemonade…spread a quilt on the riverbank and stayed all day and into the evening for the music and fireworks. Now we hardly go…it’s just a money pit….it’s all about making money for someone else, you can’t take your own food and the vendors are way to expensive, to few bathrooms, to few water fountain sources, to many people and terrible parking arrangements. It is a big draw for sure, but we have many friends over the state and neighboring states who have been and once was enough for them. This is my own opinion and I am sure others feel completely different about our festival…we just no longer find it to be a pleasurable and fun event.