Electric Picnic 2017 **Discussion Only // No Ticket Sales**

D.Q wrote: »

yeah quite close alright!

cant remember specific walking times to or from the rave though

anywhere between 10 mins and eternity.

Likely eternity given the state I'm usually in.

glencurtis252 wrote: »

Its literally 2 min away

Hahaha jaysus

glencurtis252 wrote: »

Anyone hear head down from portlaoise.. I usually come from dublin early Friday morning but will be heading from portlaoise this year around the half 4 mark.. any ideas how long it will take driving from portlaoise that time of evening??

its the last 2km that take the longest. You could be quicker walking. (only half joking)

MJohnston wrote:

The queues for the car parks around that time will start to get insane though, they're bad enough in the morning.

Ah it's not giving me much hope.. I need the car though so that's out the question.. Are ya talking long over an hour at that time??

glencurtis252 wrote: »

Ah it's not giving me much hope.. I need the car though so that's out the question.. Are ya talking long over an hour at that time??

Could be yeah. Let me tell ye a horror story...

Last time I went to the car parks in 2015, the security/stewards hadn't quite woken up or something, so they were making really stupid decisions. It was sometime in the morning, and the traffic plan routed us down a country road directly into the north end of the Red car parks.

Problem was, someone in the car parks was clearly not aware of this fact, and they were directing certain cars exiting the same car park back up the very same country road. This road was, absolutely no exaggeration, barely wide enough for 1 car, small ditches on either side of it. It was impossible to fit a car coming back up the other way, but they'd been pointed that way by security, so that's the way they came. People were having to drive into ditches, up embankments, to get out of the way. Extremely slow progress. There were hundreds of cars trying to get into the car park, maybe a few dozen trying to get out, but that was enough to jam the whole thing up entirely.

I think I queued for close to 2 hours to move about 1km in all that.

Now, later in the day, most of the stewards have figured out not to decide things for themselves, maybe their supervisors have finally turned up or whatever. But at that point, the sheer volume of arrivals has gone up, and it doesn't matter how good the organisation is.

Often wondered why they don't commandeer a big car park in Portlaoise off of the M7 and run a high-frequency park and ride system. It'd be a massive improvement.

MJohnston wrote: »

This is actually probably correct. It might be slightly faster getting a taxi from Portlaoise, but I'd check out if there are some buses running from there, because there are bound to be a few.

There are actually shuttle busses that go from Portlaoise to and from the picnic. Not sure of the price but my friends got them after getting the train to Portlaoise last year

HairyCabbage wrote: »

How old is getting on a bit for it? :pac:

Just touching 30. Perhaps I should stay in the Hendrix madness for one last hurrah.

TheHumanHam wrote: »

There are actually shuttle busses that go from Portlaoise to and from the picnic. Not sure of the price but my friends got them after getting the train to Portlaoise last year

Yeah, I figured there would be, I'm just thinking of something more frequent, and more official, tied to a big car park.

Trying to figure how to get to the festival site myself a week before the festival on 27th August, either I'll get the citylink commuter from Galway to Kinnegad and hitch from there or get bus to Dublin and catch connection to Stradbally from there, whats easiest and cheapest. I'm also appealing in lots of car share and festival groups in Facebook.

BigMo1 wrote: »

Just touching 30. Perhaps I should stay in the Hendrix madness for one last hurrah.

You are in danger of being confused for a young wan. Just be careful when the teenager kicking session commences. Best look for a mentor to vouch for you.

Rigor Mortis wrote: »

You are in danger of being confused for a young wan. Just be careful when the teenager kicking session commences. Best look for a mentor to vouch for you.

I'll do it, need to give him 1 kick in the shins though.

bodhrandude wrote: »

C'mon guys help me out, what buses should I get pre festival to Stradbally from Galway, shuttle or special festival buses do not apply here.

Train from Galway to Athlone (towards Heuston), then Bus Eireann 73 from Athlone to Stradbally (towards Waterford).

MJohnston wrote: »

Train from Galway to Athlone (towards Heuston), then Bus Eireann 73 from Athlone to Stradbally (towards Waterford).

Thanks MJohnston can get Citylink commuter bus to Dublin at 7.30 am from Galway to Athlone, gets me there at 9 am giving me fifteen mins to get the Stradbally 073 connection at 9.15. Hopefully traffic ain't too heavy as that is a small fifteen minute window to get the connection as the next bus is at 3 pm. Ah balls I forgot I'm travelling Sunday 27th, so different times. So 6 pm from Galway (commuter) gets me to Athlone for 5.30 - 5.40 pm (there is two stops at Athlone so what one to get off at near BE bus station (B&Q Store or Garry Castle Road). I can get a connection then at 6.25 pm from the Athlone bus station getting me into Stradbally for 8.50 pm. A bit late for the Health and Safety briefing but I'm at least there to make the start of shifts for the Monday.

HairyCabbage wrote: »

How necessary do you think an air mattress is? Went once before when I was 19 and had an air mattress but it deflated every night! I'm only going with 1 friend so I don't want too have to carry too much but honestly I'd bring anything if I thought it'd help me sleep! ��

Camped last year without one and my back was in bits for the whole thing. Went halves on a double and a battery operated pump from Argos for 31 quid with my mate this year.

MJohnston wrote: »

They're very light though, being air mattresses! Personally I wouldn't go without one in a tent.

100% necessary for me. Makes such a difference