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Mr.S wrote: »

Wednesday @ 8am/9am!

The campsite is huge, but last year they had to open another one down the road as the main one got full.

Also, expect longggg ass ques from around 11-4PM on the wednesday (when the bulk of everyone arrives) Last year was horrible queing in 35degree heat!

God it was torture when we got there last year! It very hard to know what to do when we arrived. We had to first queue for aaages in sweltering heat to even get our tickets, which meant our group had to divide into two so that half could get the tickets and the other half mind all the bags, tents etc.

Then when we had our tickets we had to make our way across the road to the campsite and then queue to get in there. Then we had to queue to get a spot in the campsite, the Pukkelpop people had a big rope to prevent people from camping where they wanted and to keep everyone as tightly packed as possible. They would move the rope forward every few minutes and when they did everyone scrambled for a spot.

You'll really need your wits about you when the Belgians start popping open their pop-up tents in the spot you're trying to salvage!! Some of our tents were quite big and trying to make room was so difficult some of our tents ended up completely arseways (some of us couldn't open out the porch part of the tent, some of us were a bit away from the other etc.)

As you can imagine this didn't go down too well with sweaty, tired Irish people

So be warned that on Wednesday it won't be a case of just sauntering into the campsite and picking a spot, it's pretty bad organisation to be honest.

But once ya get over all the hullabaloo of setting up (and once you don't die of sun stroke!) you'll have a great time

hey do ye reckon that there'll be good craic at the festival. few of us thinking of going at the end of 10 day interrailing. just wondering is it worth? pretty impressed by the lineup but like would the language barrier be much of a problem??
otherwise we'd just head to oxegen or electric picnic here. but thought it'd be a good idea to finish up with it.

thanks for any help!!

It's mostly Dutch speakers being in the Flemish region of Belgium but like the Netherlands they are generally very adept at English. I've never ran into significant language troubles over there.

Just got my ticket there. First time going and I can't wait.
Think we're planning on flying to London and getting the eurostar to Brussels.

Is there somewhere nearby where I'd be able to get a tent or would I be better off bringing one?

foxy_19-89 wrote: »

flights are like 179 with aer lingus at the mo

any other ways to get there or are those the best bet?

Really? I checked earlier on today and they were €100. That's ridiculous.

StevieTheAssin wrote: »

Im headin over with a few mates and was just wondering whats the best way to get from Charleroi airport to the festival site. I know you can get trains to it, but just need help in actually gettin to the train station,

Thanks

There's a regular bus service from Charleroi airport to the city centre, which will leave you at the train station. Takes about 15-20 minutes and costs about €3 one-way if I remember correctly.