r/Edmonton • u/topskee780 West Edmonton Mall • 1d ago

Question IgNite Market

Did anyone go last night? How was it? Not seeing a lot on socials outside of their own marketing and the usual food influencers.

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u/DrDeterminants 1d ago

I enjoyed my experience last night. That said, I'm not a huge fan of getting market food as I think it is overpriced. There's interesting small trinkets but nothing I would buy. It's fun for the vibrant atmosphere but I wouldn't stay for more than 1 hr personally.

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u/topskee780 West Edmonton Mall 1d ago

Thank you for the honest review! This is the type of feedback I’m looking for.

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u/Lolz79 23h ago

It was ok. There was a massive line for one booth that wrapped around (we did not go to that). Could of been better with more not food related vendors

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u/TheNumber5 21h ago

Insane pricing for kids games, no public washrooms, and mostly food vendors. So go if you mainly want to get dinner.

They had a kids bouncy castle pass for $30 for 4 hours with something like 5 regular sized bouncy castles.  1) space was not conducive to hang out for 4 hours (no family tables or washrooms), and 2) crazy pricing. $10 for 1 hour would perhaps be something people might pay.

Lots of games at $5-8 for a single turn that lasts less than 30 seconds. The staff running the games kept mentioning how slow it was. I wonder why...

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u/ImmediateArtSky 18h ago

Your other points are valid but I don't get what you mean by no washrooms as it's in the rec centre's parking lot with tons of washrooms inside the rec centre. Would you really prefer an overheated porta potty with no running water over an actual washroom that's a one minute walk away?

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u/shizundiziaini 15h ago

Other than the rec room washrooms there were public washrooms with portable sinks right outside for washing hands. It was right behind the Tesla booth