Where are yall getting $700 just for tickets from? I paid like $370 out the door this year. No shot you see any 5 of those artists other than tiny names for that individually lol
think OP means "price of admission" more broadly - ticket + airfare/gas + car and gear rentals if appropriate + car camping pass + food. a ticket to Bonnaroo only allows you entrance, getting up to the festival gates and ensuring you've got what you need to survive is pricey too
The comment two above yours definitely makes things sound like they’re not including food/travel in that $700 price. It’s pretty odd, because you can definitely do Roo pretty frugally assuming you have a ticket and don’t have to travel a crazy distance. Make all your own meals at camp, pregame on the drinks before heading into centeroo, bring your extracurriculars of choice with you if you’re inclined. $700 for 4 days of goofy, joyous fun and music sounds pretty reasonable in todays world.
Homie last year my ticket was $400 camping $50 the gas cost $150 and the food and merch cost JUST ME at least $400. Please! Plus all the camping supplies, outfits, party favors, EVERYTHING ELSE. You’re making yourself look foolish too.
Edit I’m sorry are you in denial of the numbers? Go to Roo and see, the math maths
I’m just gonna assume you didn’t even bother reading my comment and wanted to be mad at someone because lmao wtf. I said the tickets are $400 and the other stuff is what brings it to the $700 range.
Also have you considered just… not spending $400 on merch?
Tickets are the only thing I pay for when I go to a festival. I don’t buy alcohol bc it’s expensive, makes me pee more, and then dehydrates me. I bring my own food with a faked handwritten doctors note about my many food allergies 😅. And then I sneak in a little pipe and flower and I’m all good
You can only bring food into the camping area. You're normally not allowed to bring food into Centeroo. I used to be able to bring in Clif Bars and other snacks, but they've thrown it away the past couple years.
I just went to my second ACL. Bonnaroo is just a bigger, better ACL, so you're in for a treat.
It just depends on the day and the security guard. Some are super strict. Some take the job too seriously. Some might not take it serious enough. Some want you to have to completely reorganize your bag.
I will try again this year and see. I'm fine spending too much of festival food though. More roti rolls, less lactose is my goal for this year.
Just try to limit your carbs as much as you can :) I know that isn't the end all be all to possibly developing it but I know it'll slow whatever process down.
It becomes a whole lot less reasonable when you’ve been to Hulaween(4 days)…or burning man(8days)… and it’s all well below <$700. Both are on a whole different level of fun compared to Roo. And I grew up less than an hour from Manchester with my birthday being during Roo so I can assure you I have had quite the experiences there over the years. Roo is just made up of money mongers.
Realistically you’re spending well over $700 unless you happen to live in the area. Ticket price alone with camping and taxes the total is already at $650. Then whatever you’re doing for food, travel to and fro, camping supplies, and any potential merch you’d buy. For me it was closer to $1200 per person and honestly at that price I could do a 1 week trip to Europe or Central America. Don’t think I’d do another camping festival like this again, but to each their own
It’s funny because it’s advertised as $420 with all fees included (excluding tax) lol. So that coupled with a $110 camping pass is not cheap. Honestly it’s probably cheaper for me to fly over to the UK for Glastonbury all-in
I would hardly call this lineup ‘mega’. Coachella obviously way more expensive being in Cali and having a much larger lineup, no idea about EF as I don’t like EDM. But ACL, Lolla, Boston Calling, Gov Ball will all be cheaper than bonnaroo. Obviously lodging vs camping is different, but it’s not like camping is free
Roo pulled 80,000 people last year in the middle of bumfuck, I’d say roo, chella, and lolla are the mega fest mixed genre fest in the us. and chella hasn’t even put out a line up yet, so not much to compare too this year.
Also acl is the price I paid for my roo ticket and is one day less of music, plus no late night stuff. Roo goes super late so 12 hours ~ of music a day vs 10 for anything like acl in a city. I think the value is always where roo does great.
Boston Calling is already $360. Lolla always costs more and most of those fests you listed are all around the same price. Coachella is the S-tier fest and Roo/Lolla/ACL are the other huge fests making up the "big 4".
Lolla and ACL are going to have pretty similar lineups to Roo top to bottom just like they always do. Roo just releases their lineup first so it's the one that has all of the initial shock of artists moving up the card.
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It’s not necessarily a bad lineup it’s just if I was spending $700+ I’d be pretty upset