Dates and tickets have just been released. 
 

Appears to be a very Mexican flavour this year. 

Dia de los Muertos

AKA – Day of the Dead. Bold, colourful and dance-filled! Dia de los Muertos will have you celebrating life like never before! Be spirited away by a live Mariachi band, go loco over seriously delicious Mexican favourites in the Fiesta Feast, and wander through a sea of string lights, candles and flowers. If you’re a fan of all things Mexican, then this world is sure to be your numero uno. Travel your world at Sea World Carnivale

Fiesta Feast

Gather your family & friends for a lively celebration and a spread of delicious Mexican favourites with this themed dinner at the Dockside Tavern.

Go loco over a bottomless Mexican feast with beverages including soft drink, beer, wine, sangria & margaritas! Plus, enjoy roving entertainment whilst you dine! 
Build you own tacos, with all the trimmings; a selection of marinated meats, including chicken & beef, spiced shrimp, soft flour tortillas, chopped lettuce, jalapeno pickled pineapple slaw, pico de gallo, cheese, Mexican Rice, guacamole, house beans and sour cream. Plus, for those up to the challenge, there’s unlimited corn chips, salsa and queso to be had. 

Too mucho Mexicano? Never! Finish the feast with a delicious hot cinnamon churros and trio of dipping sauces including chocolate, caramel & Aztec dark chilli chocolate. Guests will also receive a Mex-cellent celebration gift during their dining experience. Holy guacomole! 

 

$69 adults  

$39 kids

Southern Snack Pack

Do y'all have a hankerin’ for fried chicken? Dig into this Southern Snack Pack including crunchy coated chicken breast pieces, dipping sauce, breaded mozzarella cheese sticks, seasoned chips, delicious pineapple cinnamon churros, PLUS a regular soft drink or water and a FREE Coca Cola Trucker cap. It’ll keep ya’ll happy ‘til the cows come home.

Redeem at Lakeside Café & Plaza Prime Burgers between 6.00pm and 8:30pm on event night. 

$18 per Snack Pack 

 

The most exciting thing about the website is that they seem to be moving away from the term "precincts". Worlds and Destinations sound a whole lot more exciting and a lot less clinical than previous years.

It'll be interesting to see what the rest of the food offerings are. The Mexican Feast does seem like a nice offering and the pineapple churros has certainly piqued my interest. I wonder what the chances of seeing Jambalaya on the menu once again...

Also if an admin can change the title to “Carnivale 2021”. Haha. My bad! 

1 hour ago, Brad2912 said:

Also if an admin can change the title to “Carnivale 2021”. Haha. My bad! 

It's Groundhog year

Edited December 3, 20205 yr by red dragin

13 hours ago, Brad2912 said:

Appears to be a very Mexican flavour this year

Well that's disappointing.

The original concept always struck me as being either very Brazillian Carnival (Portuguese) or New Orleans Mardi Gras (French), and switching to 'day of the dead' just hits a nerve for me. Day of the Dead is Mexican, (Spanish) and really has no connection to Carnivale, IMO. And given the various incarnations of Day of the dead \ Dia De Los Muertos is in November, it's not even the right season for it. Next they'll be moving Halloween to April.

2 minutes ago, AlexB said:

Next they'll be moving Halloween to April.

Zombie Jesus day? checks out.

1 hour ago, Naazon said:

Zombie Jesus day? checks out.

🎶 Praise be to magic Woody Allen zombie superhero komodo dragon telepathic vampire quantum hovercraft me Jesus 🎶 

ALL 4 WORLDS REVEALED!
 

Travel Your World at Sea World Carnivale as we bring you a celebration of cultures coming together, with stops to Mexico, Rio, Africa & New Orleans!

Rides for the night are vortex, castaway bay battle boats, jet rescue coaster and Nickelodeon land but storm coaster not open for the night

Edited December 17, 20204 yr by Rabbit2014

2 hours ago, Rabbit2014 said:

with stops to Mexico, Rio, Africa & New Orleans!

“One of these things is not like the others...”

Two actually?

2 are cities, one is a country, one is a continent.

Edited December 17, 20204 yr by Gazza

10 hours ago, Gazza said:

Two actually?

2 are cities, one is a country, one is a continent.

Also true, I was more surprised at the inclusion of Africa, not a region I'd typically associate with the idea of Carnivale.

Helps them justify the theme to have fire twirlers and other more culturally african performers.

Apparently Carnivale has a lot of roots in Africa too; thanks to Google for telling me this. It's not somewhere that immediately screams 'Carnivale' though

49 minutes ago, Jdude95 said:

Apparently Carnivale has a lot of roots in Africa too; thanks to Google for telling me this. It's not somewhere that immediately screams 'Carnivale' though

Sounds like I can justify attending as a learning experience now.

14 hours ago, Naazon said:

Sounds like I can justify attending as a learning experience now.

a tax write off for "educational purposes" 

On 19/12/2020 at 4:33 AM, Jdude95 said:

a tax write off for "educational purposes" 

Err...

 

No.

Bikassh Randawa just posted a sneak peak of carnival on his insta story. Check it out before it disappeares. 

 

https://instagram.com/stories/bikash_randhawa/2496504456737515251?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igshid=o3nybr22bnar

That actually looks pretty good! Very World of Colour esc.

14 hours ago, TomiJ said:

Bikassh Randawa just posted a sneak peak of carnival on his insta story. Check it out before it disappeares. 

 

https://instagram.com/stories/bikash_randhawa/2496504456737515251?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igshid=o3nybr22bnar

Screenshot it.

^thought that was a swear word around here?

7 hours ago, Gazza said:

Screenshot it. 

Even better, below is a video. I worked out how to record it. Once again thanks bikassh Randawa. Oh and portrait filming and photos are the future. 

Edited January 29, 20214 yr by TomiJ
Mmm..... Steak 🥩

Took the family to Carnival tonight for opening night with what I would call cautious optimism, I’d heard it was going to be bigger and better then last year, more immersive more entertaining more everything. My first thought was well yeah that’s hard, last year was so underwhelming half way through I thought about leaving and only stayed cause i felt like having a rest. 
The fact a ticket is included with our locals pass was the only reason we attended tonight after last year I wouldn’t have bothered paying for a seperate ticket. 
 

So fingers crossed we arrived at 5:30 to enter the park the usual “please mind your social distance” rang out everywhere and enforced random places. You enter and notice the size of the structure on the lake, impressive we have a little bit of hope. Gone is the stage area on the water from last year where dancers entered and hid for 15min to reappear and dance off. 
 

We make our way past the penguin area (Rio) and notice a food truck some dancers and couple games. Nice food already and we’re 50m into the park. The kids danced we played a game and moved on,

We head to vortex for a quick ride, long line but high load capacity made it quick to get on, even at night the views are amazing, and I was getting way to excited seeing Leviathan lite up in the distance and thinking about the sound and look of the coaster flying around the track at night,   
 

We leave vortex, head past the lagoon and arrive at Mexico, more food dockside tavern doubles as fiesta feast, more games, mask decorating and now fire twirlers and stilt walkers. 

We watch the fire play check out the giant skull and move on into New Orleans, we arrive as street party “parade” is dancing its way along, We got dancers, juggling acts, bands it’s really a hive of activity, all the normal food retail is open plus cocktails and couple more food trucks we decided to eat the burrito’s and loaded fries which were amazing surprise surprise I know but way better then park food, actually just good in general no complaints from anyone, 

Coctail down “also good” we moved on to Africa it was nice to see cast away bay used as I remember last year there was nothing there or at least that I seen maybe I missed it but I didn’t this year. African dancers more food and ice cream plus battle boats open we skipped Infinity “been there done that” and made our way back to Aqua Light Show. 
 

C’mon guys surely we can come up with a name better then the amazing Aqua Lightshow??? But here we are sitting almost centre about 4 rows waiting, kids eating ice cream waiting for 8:30 to roll around, then bang the flames go off the music starts and we get a couple of fireworks, this is new there’s anticipation, it’s buildings then bang more flames more fireworks and the water starts, everything in time with the music it’s building nicely. We get our first performers 4 drummers with lighted drums and water vibrating up with every hit, break dancers centre stage, the wife approved. All the while the music, water, lights, lazers and fireworks all timed together with the dancer, so far so good. 
Jetskis have arrived circling at first then rigged with fireworks the join in circling the island, perfoming some simple manoeuvres all in time and couple of near miss passes and side by side runs all with in time fireworks being set off from a setup on the back of the ski’s looks awesome. Drummers return dancers follow the music turns up the water effects are everywhere and it’s fireworks galore then bang the final major sequence of colour, fire and music and the place goes dark and the crowd erupts.
 

The kids 4,10,15 all loved it, I went in thinking so poorly I had no hope but wow what a show hats off to them from last year to this year %100 improvement I would pay to go again we enjoyed the entire experience that much.

Sure things could be improved from a Covid stand point, packed park lots of family’s and 1 ride attendant to load unload and clean the a ride makes for slow moving lines and a great excuse not to do the rides,

Some areas some quieter then others so don’t have the same atmosphere, Jet rescue was running but no music or anything carnival related around there, running the tmnt show is nice for the kids but would love to see something carnival or Mexican related seeing as it is in the Mexican area,  

Be interesting to hear what others thought, it’s not disney World of Color nor should we expect it to be but it was vast improvement from last year and I was pleasantly surprised!! 
I say job well done 

 

Thanks for the review. I was underwhelmed last year too, only benefit was it was a wet night so we just did countless laps on Storm as we were drenched anyway. Looking forward to going in a few weeks (actually we’ve booked the final date of the season )

Im taking the family on second night, tho it’s a shame storm coaster doesn’t run at night but it is my first chance to finally come to this event and it sounds like it will be a good event