Strawberry Festival

It was ok… I was a little disappointed that no vendors had strawberry shortcake! I did enjoy the strawberry Lemonade though. I tried the strawberry funnel cake, it was good but cold… Like not fresh cold. Oh and my corn dog and straberry/​caramel popcorn was yummy!

I heard bout this festival on groupon and before doing any research on this place i bought two tickets for 8 bucks on groupon. Ey what the hell i’ll get out for a bit and see all kinds of strawberry recipes and unique ways to eat a strawberry. Thats what i was thinking, man was i wrong! What once is full of vendors and produce was empty and could hear crickets throughout the flee market stomping grounds.
There was a few strawberry things for sale they had a few carnival rides, they had some food vendors but for the most part it was a snooze fest. When u walked jn they gave u a ticket to grab a pint of strawberries. When i grabbed the pint of strawberries i was like HELL YEA! Hella bomb but after i took 3 of the top the bottom ones had mold on them smh that was a fail.
Parking places were available i will admit tho that there was this lady there selling fudge, cookies, corn nuts and other stuff she was pretty damn cool! I cant remember the name of her business but she gave me a card. Her business is out there in galt. Will i come next year? Hmmm idk maybe if i get a deal on groupon again and if i have free time over all i wont say it was great but i wont say it was bad they should sell other stuff tho most of the vendors had a lot of the same stuff.

DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME! I have seen this «strawberry» festival advertised every year and was finally able to attend. I was so excited… until I got there — HUGE disappointment. NO STRAWBERRY vendors — nothing. I was expecting strawberry shortcake, strawberry ice cream, maybe some chocolate dipped strawberries — strawberry ANYTHING would have been nice. Not even the lemonade was strawberry — it was raspberry. Not easy to find — no signs, saying «Strawberry Festival This Way» — no I know why — Galt should be TOTALLY embarrassed by this event. I wish I could give this a «negative 5 star rating» — I would. Do yourself a huge favor — listen to the poor ratings (I wish I had read them before I went — I would not have wasted my time) and skip this one.

Pretty sad state of affairs here folks. $ 12 admission for this thing? Yikes… LUCKILY while we were in line a nice lady gave us free tickets that her family wasn’t going to use, because if I would have paid $ 12 it would have been a major disappointment. First off, where on earth were all of the strawberries? There were maybe three stands on the entire fairgrounds where you could get a thing of strawberries, but there were not strawberry desserts or ice cream or cake or anything. All you had was just the basic fair food like tour funnel cakes, corn dogs, and bbq… it really should not be called the strawberry festival.
Please make changes to this event… we would really like strawberries next time. If you’re looking to just do something different on the weekend then this is a nice place to just get outdoors and do something different, but pretty embarrassing event for the city of Galt. Good luck getting people to continue coming to this event unless you revamp the entire thing.

This was more like a BBQ/​Taco/​rides kind of festival. Come to think of it, I totally forgot that it was a strawberry festival just before we left when we bought a fruit cup of mango and strawberries. It was an ok outing; just something to get out and do something on a Sunday afternoon while the weather was still beautiful. Many thanks to the kind gentleman who gave up his Groupon to us because he had to leave!
Rides for kids and a petting zoo. Bathrooms were big. Festival not packed at all. Toys for kids (awesome prices).
For $ 20, we bought 4 taquitos ($ 2 each), a windmill thing ($ 2) for my kid, a fruit cup ($ 6?), and tipped the taco stand.

If I could give this NO STARS… I would! If you hold an event, the ones advertising should post –EVERYWHERE– the limitations and rules of the event. I wasted my time and gas and just moved here to California without any knowledge of the rules unless they are POSTED. I assumed, because the strawberry festival is held at a PARK, pets were allowed. The way i was informed of this event was through Groupon and even they don’t and haven’t posted that pets/​animals were prohibited. Because of the misleading advertising and monies lost, I would rightfully like a gas refund. …to bad I cannot request time lost as well. I have emailed this department and called. There is no excuse for incompetence when someone else has to suffer for your own mistakes. Hell, when I called, even on a Saturday (today), someone answered the phone and didn’t even have the decency to apologize but rather continue to state the rules that are NOT POSTED. I am so angry right now also because when I called on my cell to complain some idiot with an accent answered until I complained just restating the NON POSTED rules without even an apology. LOL when I got home, I used my other phone to call and he answered but asked me to call back in 15 min! They are stupid, I have other numbers but I’ll simply wait till the office is open Monday. I won’t let this go and I want my dag on gas money for these non knowing how to set up an event knowing idiots. After speaking with someone in the parking lot, they went through the same thing! You’d think by now, they would be smart enough to post something on the Internet so buyers would be aware not even Groupon posted it. ***update*** groupon heard my story and worked with me. However, I am not done with Galt letting them know about themselves but thanks to Groupon I am feeling much better about this. To be honest, it’s really not Groupon’s fault. The fault really lies on Galt’s chamber of commerce. If you are holding an event, Groupon from what I know, can only post the information you give. Groupon also posted the Chamber of Commerce’s website so they did not prove to be negligent much although they should get more detail. The mere fact that Galt didn’t post no pets allowed on –ANY– of their websites proves yet again their ignorance.**an even more update** Vicky, the office manager (Galt Chamber of Commerce) 5÷23÷16 at 1:30 p.m. only excuse for ignorantly not posted the rules and regulations for the strawberry festival at a PARK (I have the original post) was that it wasn’t a park and it was asphalt. I called with another number because I knew they wouldn’t have picked up with the other two that I have. Before she rudely hung up on me, she even had the nerve to question what my issue was –after– receiving what she calls it, my ‘three’ emails. You dag on skippy I sent messages to this so-​called ‘chamber of commerce’ because they are responsible for my inconvenience and –money– wasted and they have the nerve to get all worked up because ‘I’ am inconveniencing them? WOW. Forget the emails and the responses, Groupon actually compensated me but I will have you know, I will be on –every– social media website I so choose informing people how stupid you guys are. I only called today, as I mentioned on the phone, to get the correct person to handle this rather than the random guy who cannot speak English well I spoke with on Saturday.

I remembered this Festival being pretty lame when I was a kid and wasnt really surprised that they stopped having it for awhile. Well we recently moved back to the area and thought I’d check it out. What a disappointment. The only good thing about it was the Strawberry Desserts. I am in no hurry to go back.

Pretty standard festival with lots of booths selling junk and really good overpriced carnival type food. There were lots of events going on, a nice family outing event.

This was a joke if you were an adult and for those 2 years old and young the joke would actually be funny. Not enough of anything including people. I’m not sure if there’s a planning committee or if ppl just show up and do whatever it is that they do.
I saw more potential gang members, parolee’s and wanna be gang chick’s then I’ve ever seen at one even!
I hope I never mk the mistake of driving that way on the next festival/​gathering.

Hadn’t been to the Strawberry Festival in Galt for yrs, so we decided to go this weekend. Besides the classic cars that were there temporarily the festival was disappointing. Food options were limited and poor, and hardly no strawberries or anything made of them. Hmmmm… shouldn’t a festival of strawberries have some for sale? How about some foods made with them as well? The entrance fee was pretty high considering the limitations. Won’t be going again.

I decided to go even after seeing the bad reviews and I wish I didn’t go. What a waste of money! Thank god the kids were free at least.
First we get there before it opens which is fine. We wanted to make sure we found parking. We came in at 10 am. The time everything was suppose to open. Almost all the booths were still setting up! That was ok though. So we start out trying to find some of the things that were listed in the festival newspaper. Mostly the strawberry bar which was suppose to have strawberry margaritas and beer. Nope nothing like that. The only beverages we could find was lemonade.
Next we decide to go to the carnival side of the festival for the kids. This was probably the biggest let down. First of all none of the ride were going to be ready until 11 am. Which the magazine stated it would be open at 10. All the rides were sooooo janky. There were barely any rides and they all looked like they could break at any minute. We bought discounted wrists bands the day before at the chamber of commerce. I didn’t even feel comfortable putting my kids on those rides. Thank god we were able to sell them to some other kids and get our money back. The festival magazine advertised bounce houses, mazes, and many other things and I did not see any of those.
All in all it seemed like it would of been fun if they had everything they said they were going to have. Probably won’t try to go again.

This event had almost nothing to do with strawberries. There was a small carnival, typical fair food, and a car show. There were only a three or four places actually selling strawberry related food. One of them was simply scooping frozen strawberries out of a giant can.
If you are going to have a carnival attached to a car show, fine. But advertise it that way to the public. Please don’t gather a few vendors selling low grade strawberry related food together and call it a strawberry festival!

I attended the festival this weekend AFTER reading all the horrible reviews so I wasn’t expecting much. We had a really good time though. There was a nice little car show and a very entertaining hypnotist. We got to see miniature pigs and the food (although I admit there was not much to chose from) was easily a 7 out of 10. It’s GALT for goodness sake. I think that anyone who goes into it understanding the small town feel can have a very enjoyable few hours there.

We attended the Galt Strawberry Festival on Sunday and it was a big let down. I guess we were just expecting too much. However since it was called a Strawberry Festival… is it really unthinkable to expect strawberry-​everything?
On the website, tickets were stated as $ 5 but they were actually $ 6 at the door. $ 1 doesn’t break the bank for me but the senior citizens ahead of us in line at the door weren’t expecting it and had to scrounge up cash.
There just wasn’t that many strawberry things, I was hoping for lots of local made jam, maybe unusual strawberry wares like wine not just Budweiser with strawberry syrup and strawberries that are twice the price of grocery store fare but look comparable. The Frisbee dog show was cute but not really worth the drive from Sacramento. The only good thing from this fair was that I got my funnel cake fix
Save yourself a trip, it’s not worth going.

I agree with the other rating! Very poor in Vendors. If its a small town they shouldnt charge $ 6 for admission and kids over 5 years old is still $ 6!!! Really? Now that’s a rip off. There was hardly any Strawberry Vendors at all! Not even any strawberry pie or strawberry jam! At least we went and now know its terrible!
Oh and the same goes for the Elk Grove Chili Cookoff. It was $ 5 to taste a tiny little Salsa cup of Chili at 6 different Vendors but there were at least 20 Vendors that made Chili.

Wow ! What a disappointment this years Strawberry Festival in Galt. My wife and I have gone here many times in the past. We did not go the last few years because we were living in Idaho. But this year was a joke. Almost no vendors, food or retail stuff. They were so few vendors they had to space all of them apart at least two to three spaces away from each other. Even then it only took 20 minuets to walk through the vendors area. Prices for food was outrageous. Anywhere from $ 5.00 corn dogs to dinner plates ranging all the way up to $ 15.00… Pitiful.
We will not be going back.
On the bright side… Lots of great memories seeing the car show. Lots of great looking classic cars… But not worth driving from downtown Sacramento to Galt, then spending $ 12.00 to get in.
$ 3.00 for a small basket of strawberry’s? Come on now…

What a rip-​off and a bad joke! If I could rate this a 0 I would. There is absolutely nothing here except they take your $ 6 a head. Galt, CA you should be ashamed of yourselves. I will NEVER return to this farce!!!

This should not be called a festival and definitely not a STRAWBERRY Festival! This was really bad. A bunch of junk vendors, and dirty mini carnival, and very few food vendors. Other than them selling crates of strawberry’s at the door when you left, I have no clue how this had anything to do with Strawberry’s. Don’t waste your time.

C’mon, we’re talking Galt, CA. Not Sac state expo, not county fair, not even Gilroy garlic festival. So you have to keep things in perspective. For a small valley town, this maybe a yearly highlight. That being said, I did drive two hours hoping to find a strawberry food extravaganza. Bummed that I didn’t.
Buuut, I did find an awesome strawberry shortcake, a brat cooked on the world’s largest grill, free live music, $ 5 beers and games for the kiddies. For a day out in the valley, it’s hard to beat. There was also pony rides, carnival rides, bbq ribs and deep fried strawberries. A nice distraction but not worth the drive.
If they only concentrated on making way more strawberry foods, it could be awesome. Parking is free and easy

Drove down from Sacramento hoping for an anticipated 20,000+ full of (actually more like 200) people watching and strawberry induced imagined foods and arts.
Located adjacent from the Galt Flea Market Tues and Wed. It was a yawner. Sure there are about thirty food stands with chocolate dipped strawberries and BBQ but nothing more than an OKIE carnaval. A few rides a petting zoo, some t – shirts and face painting. With a $ 5 admission we spent a total of 35 minutes before heading back to Sacto.