Our experience this year was top tier
So my friends and I all stayed in downtown camp orchid and honestly we couldn’t have been happier thanks to a group we spoke to whilst looking for a spot to camp We had SPACE around us! The closest tents to us were far enough that we could all play our own music without annoying each other. The people around us were all lovely and the showers and food spots were a short distance and not busy if you timed it correctly and clean for the most part. We enjoyed it much better than staying up the stairs in orchard last year bc that walk up and down every day multiple times would’ve taken us out in the heat and dust of this year. brought in all my own food and drink / shared with mates and managed to spend a total of £40 and then get back £20 for ecobond and I’m very happy with myself as opposed to spending hundreds years prior so would deffo recommend this! Camping downtown this year meant we could go back to the tents multiple times a day to refill booze, eat, shower /nap and it was an absolute life saver.
The hideaway was amazing! Was such a shout for getting out of the sun and the frozen margs were top tier.
Went to a lot of amazing sets like IVY Killamanjaro B2B Oppidan Ashnikko Anais One Da Skrillex the only one we saw that was a mess was bloody Donaeo from the sound issues to the constant rewinds don’t know what happened there 🤣
Sunday night after everything was done a group close to us were playing music out loud and a few of the tents came together for a dance! (Shout out to everyone there, coming together over my friend screaming at 5am because a mouse got into and then under her tent😭🤣)
the staff we found to be great this year with one guy specifically stopping my friend (with a bad leg) on our way in and getting another member to pull his 300l trolley up the hill.
Couldn’t believe the queue to get in, we got up the hill and into camp orchid within 45 minutes compared to hours last year, the security seemed to be a lot more relaxed which was great. We did find the way out to be a bit of a mess the queue for the public transport were insane so we waited it out in the heat with no shade for 3 hours until the queue went down as my friend physically could not stand in the queue for that amount of time and despite being reminded didn’t get himself accessibility help pre boom.
Overall we had a sick time and our already planning next year, I hope everyone had as good of a time as we did and we’d like to apologise to anyone that were affected by the multiple water fights we had around the site on Saturday 😭🤣💦
Did anyone find sweatbox this year? We found it every year before but couldn’t locate it anywhere this year 😭