The calendar is thin outside those anchors. This row has the fewest genuinely travel-generating editions of the three reenactment brands.

Late January for the largest American invasion festival, which is a single-city spectacle with a krewe structure behind it. Summer for the British and American coastal festivals.

Visiting attendance is decided late, weeks rather than months. Neither behaviour produces the booking pattern the pass model assumes, which is the honest problem with this row.

Krewes, which are formal local institutions and function like clubs, festival social groups, costume communities, and the tall-ship and maritime-heritage circuit which overlaps at the edges. Krewes meet all year, build floats and costumes, run social events, and stage a single annual spectacle that is the organisation's whole purpose.

Festival regulars form looser crews, meet at events, and coordinate costume. The January Florida invasion, the November Cayman week, the summer British seaside festivals, and the regional American pirate weekends.