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Sziget for dummies :D
8 Apr 2007, 12:54
Hey you all!
This is really not a typical journal entry, because I`m not gonna tell you anything - I`ll be the asking one this time.
I believe that there are quite some people who`ll appreciate your comments; experiences, simple pieces of advice and infromation - all at one place.
So, my list of wanna-knows:
1. How long does it take you to get from Óbudai Island to the center of the city by walk?
2. Is it possiblle to bring drinks&food to the island?
3. What are the prices like? How much costs a beer?
4. It lasts 7 days, which is like much more than Novarock or Frequency do. Does it mean that no similiar acts are ever happening at the sime time (for example, I missed Belle and Sebastian and Calexico because of Franz Ferdinand and The Prodigy last year at FM4)? Do you find time to go and see the city? Is it possiblle to find some time to sleep?
5. Is there happening anything else than concerts on 4 stages (mainstage, wan2, world music, hammerworld stage, party arena)? I mean, it is already a lot, but I heard something about street theatres and similar stuff and it nothing about it is written on the festival`s official site ...
Thank you all in advance for all the answers (& for feeling free to add your own "wanna-knows")!
This is really not a typical journal entry, because I`m not gonna tell you anything - I`ll be the asking one this time.
I believe that there are quite some people who`ll appreciate your comments; experiences, simple pieces of advice and infromation - all at one place.
So, my list of wanna-knows:
1. How long does it take you to get from Óbudai Island to the center of the city by walk?
2. Is it possiblle to bring drinks&food to the island?
3. What are the prices like? How much costs a beer?
4. It lasts 7 days, which is like much more than Novarock or Frequency do. Does it mean that no similiar acts are ever happening at the sime time (for example, I missed Belle and Sebastian and Calexico because of Franz Ferdinand and The Prodigy last year at FM4)? Do you find time to go and see the city? Is it possiblle to find some time to sleep?
5. Is there happening anything else than concerts on 4 stages (mainstage, wan2, world music, hammerworld stage, party arena)? I mean, it is already a lot, but I heard something about street theatres and similar stuff and it nothing about it is written on the festival`s official site ...
Thank you all in advance for all the answers (& for feeling free to add your own "wanna-knows")!
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Phryx wrote:
1. less than 10 minutes + 10 minutes by metro and you'll be in the centre of Budapest
2. yes and no, I thought last year it's not allowed but a lotta people (me included) brought food and drinks with them.. but I can tell you: Food and Beer is damn cheap (1,50 per beer) and you can choose between hundreds of snack bars (vegetarian, british, italian, french, bavarian, yugoslavian, hungarian...)
3.It's gettin' more and more expensive every year but it's still one of the cheapest festivals in europe
4.I missed last year Franz Ferdinand and Placebo cause I watched another band, but it's not like on a three day festival... you have a lotta time (also for visiting the city) and you can plan really good cause the mainacts are always on different days
5.Sziget is not a festival.. it's a city of art! There's no camping area like on other festivals, you can camp everywhere.. nearly the whole island is forrested, you can camp on a little hill, or near Danube, just like you want. Beside the main acts you can watch well-known jazzbands in the jazz tent, artists at a circus, theatre, blues stage... you can play footballer, parlour games whatever you want. You can also be your own artist: At The Circus, you can paint, create, figure sand sculptures. damn I can't stop telling you how amazing this is. Forget every festival you've been till now ;-) -
_short_ wrote:
Sounds really nice <3
Phryx, thank you for that :)
Gyzar - narocima karte se ta tedn :P?
(btw. lovdi Juliette and the Licks :)) -
spotkriszta wrote:
Well, there is a lot of false informations in Phryx's post. There IS a camping area since 2006, where you're not allowed to take place if you have a non-camping wristband. So you CAN'T camp anywhere you want.
You can't bring drink to the festival, if it's more than 1L (experience...). You can't bring bigger umbrellas with you. But you can bring foods, in a smaller amount.
Food and beer is quite expensive. So, if you want to have a dinner go back to the city to eat somewhere. It is worth to have better food for quite the same price.
But if you have more questions, wisit: http://www.sziget.hu/festival_english/programs
Cheerz
Kriszta -
spotkriszta wrote:
Erm... Visit, sorry. :D
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gyzar wrote:
@ Phryx, Spotkriszta: thank you both for comments.
@ Short: You are speaking my language sem poslušal v drugem letniku, ker sem ga dobil zraven rolling stone cajtnga. kr kul je, ja! in ja... karte bomo naročali ta tedn, enkrat se mormo sam skupi usedit ...
Phryx, Spotkriszta (& everyone else coming around who`s been to Sziget): how do you know when is happening what? do you get a kind of plan of the events (on Novarock we did but on Frequency we didn`t ...)? -
spotkriszta wrote:
There is a free magazine (PESTIEST) with all of the features and events, with maps, and everything that you need during the time of the festival. So you can underline the events you'd like to see and stuff like that. But there will be a chart or something at the sziget homepage, what you can fill with the events you'd like to catch and to be more up-to-date. There are other entertaining areas like funny labirynths, a cinema-place, markets, so you can find other programs between the concerts. I usually go there for one or two concerts, not for the whole week, but I can enjoy myself with anything there even if I don't have a plan what to do. :)
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marcgg wrote:
1. 2 hours of plane and then 1 hour from the airport for me ^^ If you are in the center of Budapest you should count around 30 minutes to find the place
2. Yes but no but yes. You can't bring alcool in, but in fact no one realy checks, so you can. You can bring food as long as it is not commercial (if you bring 100 bags of Twix you might get in trouble ^^)
3. It's VERY cheap. A beer cost less than 1 euro for 0.5L
4. You can miss big acts. For example last year I missed Robert Plant for another show I already forgot... You have to plan well sometime ^^
You can go see Budapest during the afternoon if nothing interest you. But missing the late mainstage show would be a big mistake ^^
It is possible to sleep, even if the place is very noisy. All depend where you try to sleep ! For example I will be next to the Jazz stage this year, so I don't realy intend to sleep before everything on this stage stop.
And you don't realy wanna sleep, sometimes. There are so much things to do !
5. There are a LOT of things to do. Bars, theatres, artshow...
I go for the concerts, but you can have fun and go to almost no concert at all ^^ -
marcgg wrote:
And...
So you CAN'T camp anywhere you want. --> Yes you can ! -
spotkriszta wrote:
marcgg!
From the sziget website:
It is possible to set up tents on the Sziget Festival site at the areas assigned for this purpose.
No, you can't camp anywhere you want. :)
(In Hungarian: A Sziget területén az erre kijelölt helyeken sátorozhatsz, amennyiben sátrazós hetijeggyel rendelkezel.)[ -
krople wrote:
and if it;s a ticket for a non-camping area,where do you go then?nowhere? :D -
spotkriszta wrote:
And you can't use the showers if you have a non-camping wristband. :P
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szem wrote:
You can camp at the camping area if you'd like to take your tent to a secure place but you still have the chance to camp anywhere you want. (Yes there are pickpockets on the island be careful.) We've been camping next to the theatre and circus every year outside the camping areas. -
szem wrote:
There are no tickets for camping area and non-camping area. If you have a camping ticket you're allowed to camp anywhere you want including the camping area and use the showers, and if you have a non-camping ticket you have to stay in a hotel 'cause you're not allowed to take a tent with you. (it was last year I hope they won't change anything)
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gyzar wrote:
thank you all!
do you think the line up will still change much? how did it evolve last year? -
antipunk wrote:
spotkriszta said:
10 Apr 2007, 13:15 marcgg!
No, you can't camp anywhere you want. :)
oh, come on! You really CAN camp everywhere! Nobody cares if you place your tent anywhere you want (of course, not in the front of main stage :) -
Feomatar wrote:
I have a few questions too... would be great if someone could answer it before the tickets get more expensive tomorrow. :D
1. Will there be tickets for single days later? Or do i allways have to buy for the whole week?
2. Could i go to Budapest without a ticket and buy it there? Or is the risk high that the tickets will be sold out or something?
3. After i pay the entrance fee... are ALL the events free or do i have to expect to spend more money (not talking about food and drinks)?
4. Is the risk high that it'll rain? Was that a problem at previos Szigets? I'd camp there in a tent.
If i go there than it'll be the first event like this for me.. so sorry for the maybe stupid questions. ;) -
frozen_tears wrote:
Yes, there will be daily tickets later. I don't know exactly how much they cost.
Last year was the first year that the festival was sold out, but that was on the end of the week. And you can only buy daily tickets at the festival, so I think you have no other options than go without ticket to Budapest if you want daily tickets.
Yes, almost all of the events are free after paying the entrance fee, yes. Maybe a single events is not free, like smoking waterpipe.
In general it doesn't rain in Budapest in August, it's the warmest month in the year. -
trip_ wrote:
we've ordered 4 tickets on the web page, and unfortunately, they (dunno why) can't send them to us (we're from Slovenia, that's the little country next to yours). they said we pick the tickets up, when we get there.
now, is that like totally safe or do we need to bring the guns, in case we get screwed? -
_short_ wrote:
Of course :)
It's not because we're from Slovenia or because we don't have outlet office here.. We have a voucher and I'll print it. That's the way they do it, I guess :P
When you arrive at the festival site, please contact the cashier booths. After you provide the printed vouchers with your personal identification your voucher will be changed for a wristband which allows you to enter the festival area.
But, it's on my name - I don't know what happens if I get sick or sth :/
Mmm, what about parking zone? Where is it? It's for free? -
szem wrote:
This year you can buy daily tickets in advance, slightly cheaper than on the spot, but I'm not sure if they're available from outside Hungary.
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marcgg wrote:
There will be one day tickets, but you will have to go there and hope you can get some ^^
If you live in Hungary, you may buy them in advance, but I'm not sure -
marcgg wrote:
Mmm, what about parking zone? Where is it? It's for free?
=> You can find secure (with a guard) parkings in the city for something like 30€/week.
You can also park around the Sziget... but ites not the safest place to leave one's car for a week.
You can't go inside the island with a car, only with trucks (and you have to pay to do so).
Don't hesit to ask me any other questions from my shoutbox or whatever -
majortom3000 wrote:
relax people.
you can buy tickets directly in front of the entrance. there are plenty of friendly people with tickets for those who didn't care to buy in advance. (i mean those guys lingering around with the mysterious stare in their eyes :)
anyway, there is a big supermarket outside of the festival area with lots of vodka supplies and lots of 0,5l water bottles... use your imagination :)
you will see, it will be alright :)
see you this year -
rheak wrote:
how much money is one supposed to bring to be safe and not end up doing something fishy to survive?
also, is there somewhere you can leave more important things and have them safe? like safeboxes or something?
How safe is the camping area?
so yeah, my concerns are safety mostly. :P
if you have a laptop or a big photocamera with you it's almost impossible to leave it in a tent duh, so i'm asking in such cases.
also, how does one get a photopass? is it allowed to take pictures/film and such?
