Carols And Capers - Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band

Advantages: A thoroughly great night out
Disadvantages: Depends on your taste in music

...Maddy Prior has the most beautiful voice. She used to be lead singer with Steeleye Span in the 70’s and I always loved their music – remember the hit All Around My Hat? I saw Steeleye Span perform live at the open air concert at Cardiff Castle where 10CC were topping the bill. It had rained all afternoon and we were all soaked but as Maddy Prior took the stage the rain stopped! I didn't really know her at that time but the music was brilliant and her voice was so clear. Well, now she sings with The Carnival Band, a group of 5 musicians who can play an amazing number of instruments. As you take your seats for the performance the stage is littered with guitars, fiddles, drums of all sorts, bagpipes (Irish and Flemish), oboe and many instruments I’d never even heard of! Dave's boss had suggested that he went to... Read review

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Advantages: Entertainment, a great opporunity to see a few different places on one holiday
Disadvantages: food limited at night, slow room service, small-ish ship

...I was recently taken on a 4 day Carnival cruise on their Paradise boat, departing from Long Beach, Ca, and visiting Catalina and Ensenada, Mexico. We left Monday evening and returned Friday morning. It was my first experience at cruising. ~ Booking ~ I was taken as a surprise trip, so I was not involved in the booking process and can not comment on it, or on the price paid per person, as I do not know. ~ Parking and Baggage Drop Off ~ When we eventually arrived at the Long Beach ferry terminal (through our own mistake we first went to the San Pedro terminal? whoops!) we easily found parking in a large multi-storey car park and, just as easily, dropped our baggage off with porters. Prior to arrival, we had received luggage tags that we'd filled in our details on. These meant that our baggage would be taken to our rooms, and would... Read review

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Advantages: Great fun for all ages, good selection of games
Disadvantages: none that i can think of

...This game is absolutely fantastic, its so much fun for all the family. KIds love it and so do the grown ups. It includes some of your favourite games from the fairground or carnival such as buckets of fun, shooting gallery, ring toss, dunk tank, test your strength and many more. There are over 25 games so plenty to choose from. Play each game to tokens, win prizes and even unlock other games and goodies. You can exchange your tokens to play arcade alley games or even exchange them for wearable items. You can unlock super games which are bigger better versions of the smaller games such as super spilled milk. This is just a much larger version of spilled milk where instead of 3 bottles you get about 20 to knock down!! This is a great game to play when you have friends round as no one will be bored. I hope my review has... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful