Effectively-heeled punters are shelling out as much as £25,000 for luxurious glamping packages at UK music festivals this summer season.
When you have loads of money, you don’t have to fret about digging out that shabby two-person tent from underneath the steps. At some festivals there are an array of upmarket lodging choices accessible starting from yurts, tipis and Bedouin-style tents to “Gypsy caravans”, picket cabins and railway carriages – though fairly just a few are already totally booked.
It reveals that whereas the price of dwelling disaster could also be biting onerous, after two pandemic-blighted years, there are clearly loads of music followers with cash who're decided to spend no matter it takes to have a great time this summer season.
Equally, if you're eager to get to a pageant however cash is tight, there are dozens of cheaper and free occasions round, a few of which have fairly respectable lineups.
That is being lauded because the yr when music festivals will “return with bells on” after 2020’s wipeout and 2021’s patchy turnout.
The season kicks off subsequent month with the Nice Escape (11-14 Might), when tons of of up-and-coming bands from all over the world take over Brighton’s bars, nightclubs and live performance halls for just a few days. Scores of occasions will then happen, together with biggies akin to Glastonbury in June, Latitude pageant in Suffolk in July and the Studying and Leeds pageant in August, earlier than the get together lastly winds up in September, with Finish Of The Highway in Dorset in all probability the final of the massive occasions.
Pageant worth rises
Music festivals definitely haven’t been proof against the hovering inflation that has affected so many features of our lives.
Final yr a weekend ticket to Studying pageant – whose 2022 headliners embrace Arctic Monkeys, Megan Thee Stallion and Dave – had a face worth price of £215, whereas this yr it's £240. Or £261.95 when you add on the inescapable charges. It's on 26-28 August.
In the meantime, Glastonbury tickets for 2022 price £280 (plus a £5 reserving charge). In 2019, the final time the occasion passed off, the face worth worth was £248. It runs from 22-26 June, and the primary headliners this yr are Billie Eilish, Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar.
The price of a ticket to a kind of two occasions or Latitude – which is that this yr charging £235.20, plus charges for the 21-24 July weekend, with acts together with Lewis Capaldi, Foals and Snow Patrol – has elevated by a mean of just about 18% over the previous 5 years. Nonetheless, a fast go on an inflation calculator signifies the determine for the everyday improve in the price of items and providers within the UK over this era is definitely increased: about 22%.
The cash-no-object choices
Many festivals supply extra upmarket lodging choices for these in search of one thing slightly – or lots – extra luxurious. Usually there may also be firms providing pop-up glamping in close by fields, though chances are you'll discover these will not be authorised or endorsed by the pageant. Tickets to the occasion itself are usually not included within the worth.
Glastonbury provides just a few of its personal choices, together with tipis that may accommodate as much as six adults and value £1,150 to rent, though on the time of writing these had been totally booked. Nonetheless, as you would possibly anticipate, there are many firms focusing on Glastonbury attenders with deep pockets.
The Pop-Up Lodge provides a variety of packages together with the Tenthouse Suite, which prices from £24,999 for eight folks. That individual possibility – a large luxurious tent with 4 totally furnished bedrooms, a rest room with bathe, flushing rest room and basin, and a big furnished dwelling and eating space – was on the time of writing offered out however the agency’s web site options loads of others, together with the Raj Tenthouse Suite. After we checked out that, for eight adults to remain there for 5 nights, arriving on 22 June, you'll pay £20,997.
Different choices embrace a repurposed railway carriage costing from £7,499 for 2 folks, and a Gypsy caravan priced from £3,999 for 2 folks.
The Pop-Up Lodge lodging shouldn't be on the pageant web site – it says it's a 10-minute stroll to one of many most important gates.
Different firms providing luxurious packages aimed toward Glastonbury-goers embrace Yurtel, which has Bedouin-style tents, huts and different choices costing as much as £12,750, plus VAT and provides a bespoke journey service together with “helicopter and chauffeur planning”; and Lodge Ziggu, whose priciest possibility seems to be the Lotus Mahal, a grand-looking large tent that sleeps as much as eight and prices£10,500 to rent for 5 nights.
Latitude is one other of the festivals the place quite a lot of luxurious lodging choices can be found, together with shiny Airstream trailers (Pink Moon Tenting provides these at Latitude, at £3,200 for the weekend however on the time of writing they had been offered out).
Glastonbury’s web site says anybody considering of reserving unofficial off-site tenting must be conscious “we're not answerable for them and can't assure they received’t allow you to down”.
Prime ticket-buying suggestions
Some festivals supply cost plans, permitting folks to unfold the fee over a number of months.
In the meantime, if you're not wedded to a selected occasion, there'll nearly definitely be some particular provides, together with maybe some two-for-one offers, as we get nearer to summer season.
Monitor the web sites of the primary ticketing firms akin to Ticketmaster, take a look at the pageant on-line boards and hold a lookout for supply emails.
Low-cost and free pageant motion
In the event you can’t afford the hefty sums that among the higher-profile festivals cost, there are a selection of low- and no-cost occasions happening this yr.
Nonetheless, some festivals that had been beforehand free now cost, and a few free occasions – akin to Walthamstow Backyard Occasion in London – aren’t happening this summer season.
Right here’s our decide of the occasions:
The African music pageant Africa Oyé in Sefton Park, Liverpool, on 18-19 June. Free entry, and a lineup together with Oumou Sangaré, Fuse ODG and Kanda Bongo Man.
Pageant Too – a free, unticketed occasion held in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, over three weekends: 25-26 June, 1-2 July and 8-9 July. Extra particulars to be confirmed. Marti Pellow and Forged had been among the many acts who performed in 2019.
Coventry’s Godiva pageant in Battle Memorial Park on 2-4 September. This was free however now you need to pay. Final yr – when acts taking part in included Craig David and Supergrass – tickets price £17.50 for an grownup for the weekend, or £12.50 for early birds. Ticket and lineup particulars are but to be introduced.
Rochdale Really feel Good pageant in Higher Manchester on 13 August. Entry to indoor levels in venues can be free, whereas accessing the primary stage headlined by the Fratellis entails shopping for a £7 ticket.
Leigh folks pageant in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, on 23-26 June. Virtually all of the occasions are free, except some ticketed live shows.
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