Grab your eye patches and perfect your best pirate lingo mateys, because Pirate Days are coming to the Maritime Museum of San Diego.
The two-day event includes kids costume contests, cannon firing, weapon demonstrations, sword fights, real parrots, a mermaid grotto, live music, and a scavenger hunt for pirate treasure!
Swashbucklers even have a chance to win a family four-pack of tickets to an advance screening of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales, which opens May 26.
Tickets are $17 for adults and $9 for children ages 3-12; kids 2 and under are free.
Pirate Days tickets include general admission to the Maritime Museum of San Diego and all pirate activities.
Those who wear pirate or mermaid costumes will receive a $2 discount on admission.
A 45-minute Historic Bay Cruise on San Diego Bay aboard the San Diego Harbor Pilot, with pirates on board, is available for an additional $7 with purchase of Pirate Days tickets.
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Tickers to the popular live pirate performance Boarded aboard the Californian, the official tall ship of California.
Pirate Days will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on both Saturday, May 20 and Sunday, May 21.
Adults with replica weapons must have them secured. The replica weapons cannot be drawn, organizers said.
