Oh and some fab news: the lovely folks at Medieval Times Toronto gave me four tickets to give away to one, lucky winner To enter, just comment on this post (scroll all the way down to the Leave a Reply box) and tell me who you’d take with you and why. After that, we highly recommend you watch Medieval Times’ YouTube series, The Making of a Knight, which we are still patiently waiting to be turned into a full-length television series. New goal in life: visit all nine Medieval Times castles in North America. If you are unwilling to take the risk of entering a Medieval Times castle during a pandemic that is very much still happening, you can at least check out how weird the reopenings are thanks to some of the recent YouTube uploads. (Fun fact: Along with NASCAR and a handful of other events, the Myrtle Beach Medieval Times location was given an exemption in South Carolina’s ban on gatherings of over 250 people earlier this month.) The locations in Buena Park, Lyndhurst, Chicago, Baltimore, and Toronto currently remain closed. But it’s apparently a risk the Orlando, Scottsdale, Atlanta, Dallas, and Myrtle Beach locations are willing to take. Whether the new setup prevents any outbreaks remains to be seen, but considering that Medieval Times takes place in an indoor venue where guests are typically encouraged to scream and cheer on their assigned knight on his way to victory, it seems a bit risky. Of course, Medieval Times is a dinner theater, so regardless of how much the open locations enforce the rules and attempt to space guests apart with minimal contact, a glance at recent Instagram posts by guests at the Scottsdale location reveals that attendees are, obviously, taking off their masks while inside the show. The entire setup both before, during, and after the show has been reworked for “minimal contact” between the guests and staff - which includes no more autographs by cast members. Guests are required to wear a mask and get a temperature check prior to entering the castle, employees have been trained “on new health and safety guidelines,” shows are now booked at limited capacity so that parties are seated spaced apart (at Scottsdale, it’s at 50 percent capacity, according to a local ABC15 report). (All of the locations had previously been closed since March due to the coronavirus.)Īccording to the Medieval Times website, the company has put into place several changes in an attempt to make the experience of attending the show as safe as possible. Over the past few weeks, Medieval Times has been uploading videos to its YouTube channel detailing the recent reopening of several locations, and from the looks of it so far, Medieval Times 2020 is one very bizarre place to be. Plagues and medieval times go hand in hand, so it absolutely tracks that the dinner-theater chain and The Cable Guy scene-stealer, Medieval Times, has decided that the (indoor!) show must go on despite a pandemic with no end in sight. Photo: Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament/YouTube
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