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This is my very, very favorite quote from his blog: "would i do bonnaroo ever again? hell no, quacking blazing heat, over priced food, drinks,- vip? a total rip off.( see my thread on inforoo.com concerning the 'vip' rip-off experience)" Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Now for those actually interested in the topic, I've gone GA and VIP and VIP is not a rip-off, just outside of my means recently. The proximity, space, showers, and clean bathrooms really make it what it is. If you can't afford VIP, I highly suggest tent-only. The trek with all your gear can supremely suck (my chiropractor is getting some of my money this week because of it) but the energy you save the rest of the weekend makes it sooooo worth the effort. We were calling it "blue-collar vip" all weekend.
Yep Thursday was the suck getting to camp inforoo, once we were there though it was more than worth it. In fact since vip does not have a food option to me the only benefits would have been free showers/real toilets, and that is not worth 400$ more to me. I did vip in 08, but realized GA is still where I need to be for now.
Post by unregistered on Jun 16, 2010 14:10:03 GMT -5
I did GA in '02 & '03, RV in GA in 09, and VIP camping this year.
For me VIP was worth every cent. Camping with the VIP- Inforoo group added to the value considerably. Great bunch of folks.
It will be different for everyone but I can easily get the monetary value out of:
-- Air Conditioned bathrooms w/ running water. Nothing worse than using a portojohn and not being able to wash your hands w/ soap. Maybe I'm an OCD clean-freak but this benefit alone was worth quite a bit. Even at their worst at 5:00AM each night when they were overflowing the bathrooms were still 1000x better than GA porto's. I would easily pay $10 a shot to have my morning B/M in an A/C bathroom where I wasn't skeeved out to sit down + the value the other times just washing my hands or taking a leak w/ out a line.
--Viewing Stages at What & Which - I didn't know how I'd feel about these given how far they were from the stages but I'm glad they were available. It was a nice perk to be able to sit, usually with plenty of space around me, and still be able to see the performance even if from a distance. As GA you can sit whenever you want but then you usually can't see anything but the rears of the people in front of you.
-- Showers - What a great feeling to be able to take a shower whenever you want. Great to get energized for the late shows by cleaning off the sunscreen and sweat around 6pm and so much easier to sleep after taking a 4am shower and going to "bed" nice and clean.
-- Space & Smell - You have a lot more "green space" in VIP. You aren't piled right on top of each other and there are more large open spaces near the campgrounds including the A/C tents, various large shade tents w/ recliners, and just open fields around the gates into Centeroo. The extra space + showers + bathrooms all boils down to that oppressive Sunday smell not being quite as bad in the VIP area. I'm not usually a person bothered by crowds but by Sunday I'm glad to have an area to get away from the sweaty, stinking masses (no offense )
Thursday Night VIP Party - The free food, drink and extra private show are nice but to me not really all that valuable. Maybe what I would consider a $25-$30 type perk. Then again I didn't drink that much beer thursday night. Heavy drinkers could certainly find more value there by sucking down the free Magic Hat, Sierra Nevada, etc.
VIP Entrances - Worth at least a few extra dollars since the average wait time was probably about 2 minutes max each time I went into Centeroo. The longest single wait was maybe 10 minutes. Think about how much you would consider tipping to pass the line going through the searches from GA... $5? $10? Then think about how many times you would go back and forth if you were only 5 minutes from camp.... Which brings you to...
Location - Having a less than 5 minute walk to Centeroo also has considerable value for me now that I'm my 30's and having had 2 back surgeries. The energy I didn't spend on a 15+ minute walk was more energy I had to explore centeroo, see other shows, etc...Add in the ability to bounce back to camp to grab a beer, water, gatorade, snack etc. We could also still just about see the large screens from the what stage from our campsite so easy to listen to the bands playing the main stage while chilling in camp under some shade. I was able to sit in camp and fully enjoy Nas & Damien on Friday and then Jimmy Cliff on Saturday.
Safety & Security - This was a combined factor of being VIP and being with a larger crew while camping but I felt like our campsite was much more secure. We left our beer cooler in the middle of our campsite the entire weekend w/ no concerns and no issues. We had no wander throughs any of the times I was in camp and I never noticed anyone sketchy wandering around checking things out.
I'm sure I'll think of other things but all of that easily adds up to the extra cost of VIP tix.
Post by indigrainbowlove on Jun 16, 2010 14:25:28 GMT -5
^this
I really like your detailed post, it has me considering VIP. The only thing I have to say is about the security. Half the time the secuirty dudes for GA and VIP were sitting texting and not even looking at people. There was even some random guy without a GA wristband or anything, just a regular patron wristband and a Guy Fawkes mask going all though the GA and VIP areas but hardly anyone seemed to notice. I would say it was much more secure and there were much less thieving wooks about, but I don't know that I would go so far as to tout security with enough badges to consider it a perk for VIP. I'm just saying that security was a mixed blessing back there and was not reliable. Sometimes they did what they were supposed to and sometimes they didn't. I never got harassed or made to feel the security was TOO tight, and I see what you are saying about a definite lack of sketchy characters back there. I can't really comment on VIP because I wasn't actually inside that area, I'm sure anyone willing to steal or cause problems thought twice after spending so much on VIP, but I still don't know that I'd just leave things laying around. Glad nothing happened to your RV site, though. Thanks again for the well thought out post! Very handy!
A tour bus in artist camping, infinity passes, food and drink, chauffeured golf cart service, and onsite concierge. It ends up running about two grand per person.
Actually the tour buses were by VIP in a gated area under trees. But you can go pretty much wherever you want including the guest/artist areas.
Wow Monkey... Looks like your a Big Doosh.. Anyway this was our first Roo and we had an incredible time. Next year we will go VIP, but we would really like to have reasonable access to the bands. Can anyone tell me how well yu can see or how close you are? Can you at least find an uncrowded area to put a blanket down? Has anyone ever done the full access? I very curios about the Areas that hang above the stage. How can I get there? Wow.
Are the bathrooms really air-conditioned in VIP? Do they toilets actually flush, or is it just another pit nearly overflowing with feces?
Are there lines to get into the air-conditioned tents?
Is there VIP RV?
After nearly passing out from the heat this Bonnaroo, the allure of air-conditioning is hard to resist.
Yes the bathrooms are air conditioned, yes they flush. There is never a line to get into the tent that I saw, and plenty of room to sit down. Many people do VIP RV and it's a good option.
Are the bathrooms really air-conditioned in VIP? Do they toilets actually flush, or is it just another pit nearly overflowing with feces?
Are there lines to get into the air-conditioned tents?
Is there VIP RV?
After nearly passing out from the heat this Bonnaroo, the allure of air-conditioning is hard to resist.
ROLF yes the allure of ac!!!!!!!! We're RVing it next year we have prices on a sweet 7 passenger RV with all the goods - now all we gotta do is: UPGRADE IT No more sun stroke.