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Hey all...Attended my 1st music festival last year, lollapalooza 12, and loved it! I keep hearing about bonnaroo so im on board to make the trip in 2013! Can someone point me in the right direction on where to get started to make this trip the best experience possible? My only real questions at this moment are about tickets. How much do they usually cost? How do the presales work? What am I expecting to pay presale vs. regular price? How fast do they sell out? If any friends decide to tag along last minute, what would they expect to pay at the door? Thanks!!
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Tickets can be upwards of $250 for general admission 4-day passses. They sell them in price tiers (small amount for cheapest prices, more for expensive prices) and so the cheapest ones will sell out fast but regular tickets will be available for months.
Post by Delicious Meatball Sub on Oct 22, 2012 10:56:55 GMT -5
The discounted pre-sale tickets go fast (should be around Thanksgiving), but the full-price tickets (~$275) will be on sale for a while with plenty of warning before they sell out.
Wow thanks for the quick replies! Sorry I'm sure you get these questions a ton...$250ish. Very reasonable. What is the presale prices usually like? Whens the line up usually released? I'm sorry I can already foresee that you guys get asked this daily
Post by Delicious Meatball Sub on Oct 22, 2012 11:23:47 GMT -5
Lineup usually comes out in mid-Feb, about a week or two before tickets go on sale, but if you hang around here the headliners and several other acts are usually figured out by some point in January.
Wow thanks for the quick replies! Sorry I'm sure you get these questions a ton...$250ish. Very reasonable. What is the presale prices usually like? Whens the line up usually released? I'm sorry I can already foresee that you guys get asked this daily
Don't worry, dude. As long as you just genuinely want an answer and we're not really, really bored we won't belittle you for just asking something. If you came in here calling us all hippies and telling us how Band X sucks or Band Y (who sucks) should be headlining, then we're ridicule you.
Also, the Bonnaroo website is actually really user-friendly and informative. A lot of these types of questions can be found there. This board is great for insider tips on how to survive the weekend, what to bring/not bring, etc. (as well as general questions), but you might be better served hitting up the Roo website to get this basic info down and come back to inforoo when you're in the planning stages. Even as someone who has been to quite a few Roo's I still pick up new stuff to try at Roo each year from this board.
Anyway, hope you find the info you're looking for and make the trip, it's definitely worth it.
We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
Bonnaroo also offers a "payment plan." So you don't have to pay it all at once. I did it last year. There's a little bit of a down payment, and then it's around $50 a month. The ticket price includes your camping spot as well. I recommend bringing food, even if it's only snack food. The food there is priced a little high, just like you assume. It also upset my stomach when I ate it last year. I brought enough food to feed my girlfriends and our four male, Canadian neighbors = bonding time, happy tummies, and more $ for other things! (All are welcome to my tent in '13. I love to mingle and cook). Bring water! Or just bring empty bottles/gallons. They have a lot of watering stations, but do not underestimate how much water you are going to want.
Also, BATTERY OPERATED FANS, ear plugs, and, if you can, an air mattress and shade for your tent. All of the above helped me sleep in until 10ish every day, when everyone else is up at 7am in a pile of sweat. When you're not going to bed until five am and you've been dancing all night... Every bit of sleep helps.
When you're looking for friends to go with you... bring the ones who don't complain often! And, friends who care. Things happen and you might get hurt or sick. Make sure your friend(s) will not ditch you, but help you.
Also, if you like to weave your way through the crowd to get close, Walmart sells flashing glow stick lights, with a flashlight at the tip. It's helpful to get through a crowd and for your friends to see where you're going if it's tight quarters/get lost. Use the flash light to walk back to your tent at night, use the porter potty at night, ect. The glow stick part can flash, so if someone needs to go get water or go to the bathroom, you just hold it up and they will be able to find you. There's also a whistle... It never came in handy, but it was fun! They're great for making friends too, because people love them and will talk to you about them. I brought a few extra and would give them to people.
I feel bad for writing so much, but those were things I was grateful to have had on my first trip. You are going to have many, endless questions the closer Roo gets. Google the quack out of Bonnaroo camping tips, things to bring, things NOT to bring, watch YouTube videos that campers made. You will get lots of ideas on how to pack, what to pack, what to expect when entering, what you CANNOT bring, ect. Also, everyone has different experiences, so definitely just go with the flow.
So cool to see a noob be treated so well, nicely done gents.
I was thinking this too. When people ask this stuff in mid-Feb they get condemned for not reading the entire board before posting a question.
Typically because they ask a question that has been answered multiple times already and can be answered by looking through the left navigation links or by checking Bonnaroo's official site.
If that's really her in the pic for her signature and twitter account, we'd all eat her alive A-N-Y-T-I-M-E.
1) That "eating you alive" wasn't directed towards myself 2) That is me, but I'm a brunette now.. I went to the dark side
Custom Chrome is like a drunken sailor and just whisks through threads spraying opinions like ejaculate at a porno theater.
Speaking of our resident head-trauma patient, are you ever going to change your profile so it says you're a guy? I think we're all past the "well, this is my g/f's account that I just post on," no?
