Easter Show is Australia
The Easter Show is held at Sydney Showground in Sydney Olympic Park. Sydney Showground is conveniently serviced by bus, train, ferry and taxi services. You can catch train and get to Olympic Park and also you can use regular Sydney Bases, Liverpool to Parramatta and Sydney Ferry services.
In 2010 ticket's prices were:
Adult - $33
- Concession card holder - $26
- Person with a disability - $22 (plus one carer admitted free)
- Child (4 -15) - $22 (plus school aged children over 16 years with an ROA School Pupil ID card)
- Child (3 and under) - FREE
Each year hundreds of businesses benefit from participating in Australia’s largest marketing event with up to 900,000 visitors and an estimated $76,000,000 spent over 14 days.
You can see different pavilions, such as:
- The Zone
- Fashion & Style
- The Woolworths Fresh Food Dome
- Craft Corner
- World Bazaar
- Heritage Lane
- Sport and Adventure Alley
- Around the Grounds
- Kids World
There were some epic adventures on the carnival rides this year. In 2010, the rides were bigger, faster, higher. Many adults and children enjoyed Easter Show.
There were amazing Carnivals during Easter Show: Kids Carnival and Coca-Cola Carnival.
Admission to all rides was by coupons, not cash.
1 Coupon - $1
20 Coupons - $20
40 Coupons - $37
70 Coupons - $60
Senior citizens are the big winners at this year’s Sydney Royal Easter Show with two days full of amazing value and tailor-made entertainment.
Highlights for seniors
- Entertainment in the Big Top Amphitheatre
- Complimentary tea and coffee served between 9 and 2 at the Big Top Amphitheatre, courtesy of the Royal Agricultural Society of NSW
- NSW Seniors Card will be giving away free sample bags for the first 10,000 NSW Seniors Card members through the Show gates.
- Bring your grandkids along! On Seniors' Days, NSW Seniors Card holders can ride free with a paying child on all rides in the Carnival areas between 9.30am and 5pm, except for the Sling Shot.
- Purchase your ticket online during the pre-sale period (February 1 to March 18) and you receive a 10% discount on the standard ticket price, for a total of $23.40 each, Tickets purchased at Australia Post, CityRail, buses or after the pre-sale period ends cost $26.00
Food & Shopping
There were a carnival of cuisines, a festival of flavours and a shopping spectacular in store at the 2010 Sydney Royal Easter Show.
Woolworth's Fresh Food Dome for amazing products, cooking demonstrations, celebrity chef events and the chance to try some delicious creations from the kitchen whizzes.
Royal Deli for a mouth-watering array of cheeses, condiments, preserves and dips, all medal-winning products from the 2009 or 2010 Show.
http://www.eastershow.com.au/essential/show-maps.html
The Animal Walk starts on The Sunday Telegraph and finishes on Domestic Animals
Graze Stage
There was also a musical mega festival, a cultural cornucopia happening at the Graze Stage in 2010. It included several events: Country Ceremony, Show School Bands,
TAWFA Fashion Parades
This event was a showcase for the luxury, the style and the supreme versatility of the superfine Merino wools that are the pride of
Students from secondary and tertiary institutions competed for recognition and substantial prizes.
The 2010 Australian Wool Fashion Awards Presentation Night took place on April
Location: Fashion & Style Pavilion H14
Arts Pavilion
Associated with the Show, and displayed in same pavilion as craft competitions was an Art Show with classes for Rural subjects, Still Life, Watercolour and Figurative painting. There were competitions for sculpture, photography, silverwork and ceramic.
Planet Cake was sponsoring the Most Creative Cake Competition, providing prize money to the winner as well as the opportunity to attend one of their exclusive courses in cake decorating.
Kids World.
The entertainment culminated with firework.
