Arty

We are a 60 year old couple that likes to hang out where fun loving people and good music is present. It was the very first time we ever attended a ball and we can honestly say we had one (a ball) as well. The area was large enough to never feel 'closed in', the creativity of some of the costumes were simply fascinating. The ability to buy tickets for refreshments removed long lines, the artists in another room, together with their own DJ, were top notch and the choice of DJs follows the good taste that Talking Stick Resort is displaying over the course of 2015 with its pool parties, presenting top ranked DJs at a reasonable price, something we enjoyed in the summer as much as we could. And here we arrive at the music: Canadian DJ Overwerk took us on an electro- and complextro journey that had people shuffling within a few minutes and our arms and legs followed shortly thereafter with involuntary movements that my wife and I are calling dancing. Arty was Arty, one of the best DJs there is and he did an incredible set with his own music as well as his remixes of other popular songs and DJs such as Porter Robinson, even some glitch was included in this glorious set (pun intended). In summary, we will come back because we know we will have fun!

Amazing time. Great show. Will come back next year. We bought the VIP just because they came with 6 drinks, and we would pay that much extra in drinks anyways. This gave us more seats and it was a little less crowded,

I entered the event trying to be in the contest and they didnt have any place telling you where to be judged at and the winners were horrible, except for the top 4. It sounds like i am be a sore loser but over 100 people came up to me and i took over 50 pictures with people. Everybody said my costume was amazing since it was a real replica ghostbuster costume with all the accessories. Im very disappointed i attended this event since my sole reason for coming was to have my costume judged. If you want to go next year for being in the contest, just forget about it. Now if you want to go to see alot of cool costumes them its worth it.

The venue was perfect but the music was disappointing, and there wasn't any apparent connection with the radio station. We were kind of expecting more traditional dance music and different music in each room. It seemed the same in each room and no announcements or energy driving activities.

like the great costume look on everyone that attended. great ideas for the future. disappointed on the selection of music. due to having three areas of dancing music, there should have been in one section --80's music, another section--today's music, and the third section- the techno/house music that was being played. This would have given everyone a choice of what they wanted to listen to. I seemed like all three areas were playing the same music. There was only the small balcony area playing today's music (hip hop, top 40) stayed until appox 0130hrs and did not hear any announcement for the costume contest (or I might have missed hearing it) did not particularly care for that someone who decided to smoke weed outside on the balcony area. not very pleasant.

We had a great time on Halloween at Talking Stick Resort's Wicked Ball. Greatly improved over the 2014 Halloween event there. Decorations, DJs were great. VIP areas were well done providing ample seating and a place to view the crowd in the ballroom. Downside: Music was too loud to enjoy - next year we're bringing earplugs to save our hearing! Also, 2014's VIP Lounge included snacks, i.e. popcorn, nuts, candy, etc. that were not available this year, and greatly missed. Needed more thorough security bag check at wristband stations. My purse wasn't checked at all. **More closely monitoring the use of e-cigarettes in the ballroom, and removing the users, would be appreciated.

I can see what they were going for with this event, but it failed. There were three huge rooms with different types of music with plenty of space for dancing and mingling, but most people did the latter. There were hundreds of people, but they stood around all night and only a handful of people were dancing, even after midnight. Not worth the money for everyone to just stand around.