What/When is Fantasy Fest?
Fantasy Fest is an annual festival held in the streets and establishments of Key West. The Festival is best described as Key West’s Mardi Gras. There are parades, wild costumes (to no costumes), music, dancing in the streets and so on. Fantasy Fest is held the last week of October, with the main events happening on Friday and Saturday of Halloween Week. Each year the Fest has a theme. The 1994 Fantasy Fest was held Oct 24 – Oct 30. The 1994 theme is “Mystical Myths and Twisted Tales”. The 1995 theme is “Tinseltown Dreams … Lights, Camera, Fantasy” which should produce quite an show. The 1994 Fantasy Fest lived up to everyone’s expectations. The estimate for the Twilight Fantasy Parade was over 55,000 people lining Duval and Whitehead. The crowd was the densest between Sloppy Joe’s and Maragritaville with some locations so packed with people that the float that I was walking with had trouble getting down the street.
Fantasy Fest is an annual festival held in the streets and establishments of Key West. The Festival is best described as Key West’s Mardi Gras. There are parades, wild costumes (to no costumes), music, dancing in the streets and so on. Fantasy Fest is held the last week of October, with the main events happening on Friday and Saturday of Halloween Week. Each year the Fest has a theme. The 1994 Fantasy Fest was held Oct 24 – Oct 30 and the theme was “Mystical Myths and Twisted Tales”. The 1995 theme is “Tinseltown Dreams … Lights, Camera, Fantasy” which should produce quite an show. The 1994 Fantasy Fest lived up to everyone’s expectations. Most all the restrictions placed on the 1993 Fest was lifted for this years festival. The estimate for the Twilight Fantasy Parade was over 55,000 people lining Duval and Whitehead.
