King Richard's Faire (that's right not "fair") in Carver Massachusetts is a vivid recreation of a 16th century English marketplace at festival time. Actors, dancers, puppeteers, jugglers, minstrels, mimes, magicians, wenches and musicians perform each weekend for the favor of his Royal Highness King Richard.

Royalty and beggars, highwaymen and guards, knights and wenches, swordsmen and soothsayers roam throughout the 80 acre wooded village while artisans hawk and display a wide array of unique hand-made wares.

The Royal Chefs at King Richard's Faire prepare delectable edibles authentic to Renaissance times. Exotic animals, jousting knights on horseback, challenging games and Renaissance merriment round out a day at the Faire.

If you want to find out why we rate King Richard's Faire in Carver Mass a MassHotSpot, keep on reading!

King Richard's Faire Front Gates

The MassHotSpots staff visited King Richard's Faire over in Carver MA on it's opening weekend. This was the first time we had ever vistited and we were quite excited to check out this huge event. When we arrived at King Richard's Faire we purchased tickets at the front gate (see the pic above ) and then entered into the village. While we were waiting in line to get our ticekts, some actors dressed in old english clothes walked about exciting the crowd.

Once we were inside the village it was sensory overload. There was so much new stuff to checkout and so many interesting people to look at! About half the people at King Richard's Faire go dressed up in "garb". There is a range of people going for the Pirate look to the English Gentleman look.

We wandered around for about four hours and saw/did many things. The first stop we made was the food area. You purchase tickets (50 cents a ticket) that can be used at the food vendor stations. There was a large range of food. One of the highlights are the huge Turkey legs that people knaw on. A highlight of the beverages is the Yard of beer (you get to keep the glass) and also champagne and wine. There was also some good deserts at the faire.

Feeling hungry? Got Turkey?

We then checked out all the stores at King Richard's Faire. There were many different stores there. Quite a few of them sold medieval style clothing, including one very sexy store. This is THE place to get your garb, offering many choices. There also were quite a few weapons vendors who sold high quality swords and weaponry. One of the vendors was an actual blacksmith and was pounding out new weapons to sell as you looked at their wares.

King Richard's Faire also has some fun (and kind of dangerous) games you can play. Of interest was the axe throwing, knife throwing and archery stations. They line people up, give them axes, knives, or bows and arrows, and let you throw/fire at targets. Cool! There was also some other interesting games like the one where you try to hit the bell by slamming a mallet down, and also some game where you slide beer mugs down a bar top.

King Richard's Faire also has many shows going on during the day. One that we saw a little of was the wild animal show. They brought out various big cats like a white tiger, danced them around the stage, and so on. The show included scantily clad women marching the big cats around. They also have competitions - I saw that one of the weekends contains the Cleavage contest. Exciting!

The final piece of excitment at King Richard's Faire was the jousting exhibition. It really felt like we were in the old days seeing a live joust. Four men rode around on horses and performed various stunts inlcuding an obstacle course and a joust. There was also some good sword fighting. The crowd really liked this.

Want to fight?

In sum, The King Richard's Faire in Carver Massachusetts, was a great time. There was tons to do and it was something out of the ordinary. For these reasons we designateKing Richard's Faire a MassHotSpot.