Festival Packing Ticklist

Festival season is fast approaching and with all the festivals that are around now it’s hard to arrive at the festival totally prepared. You don’t have to be a seasoned festival goer to know that you need to pack a pair of wellies, but in all the festival buzz leading up to the big day it is certainly hard to remember every little useful tit bit. So we’ve done it for you, because less thinking time means more party time. Get packing, and get partying.

Wind up phone charger

For the super-organised, phone dependant festival goers, this contraption is a handy little number for keeping in touch with friends. Somehow it plugs into your phone, and charges it up for the moment when you’ve lost everyone and your phone is as tired as you are.

Walkie Talkie

The Walkie Talkie is a good second rate option to the phone, and a lot more fun to use. Pick the one person you really don’t want to lose , and give them one to make sure you always stay connected even when phones have failed. If you’re lucky you might even be mistaken for security.

Flag

The third and final straw if your phone has run dead and your walkie talkie fell in the mud. All you need to bring is the flag and duck tape, find a long item, stick your identifiable flag to it and shove it in the air. Then, your lost companions will see you miles above all the bleedin’ bobbing heads.

Duck Tape

For the previous item and any other bits that need seeing to. Bag ripped? Duck tape it. Tear in the tent? Duck tape it. Flip flop has broken? Duck tape it. Your mate is talking too much? Duck tape it.

Plastic Bags

Good for smelly socks, or keeping precious items dry in sad times of down pour.

Loo Roll/ pack of tissue

Everyone, with a shred of personal hygiene, knows they need to bring either a few bog rolls or a packet of tissue for a weekend festival. You can guarantee by the second day in, the toilets will look and smell like your worst nightmare, and there won’t be any toilet paper. So bring, wipe and enjoy.

Paracetamol

There’s no home comforts to help you out of your intense hangover, so at least help yourself a bit and pop a paracetamol.

Bum bag

No longer just for Mums and tourists, these waist bags are actually now almost fashionable. And more importantly of course, they are really practical, especially at festivals abroad. You can wedge in all the important stuff like your passport, money and phone and rave safe.

Inflatable bed

Might seem like a ball ache when you’re carrying it there, but by jove will you be happy you did when all that is welcoming you to bed is a sheet of cold plastic and some hard rocks.

Wellies and flip flops

You know this country, it could always go either way, so don’t risk it and just pack both.

Sanitising Hand Gel

Just because you’re at a festival it doesn’t mean you should throw all respect for yourself out the window. Your mates may well take the piss, but they’ll be laughing on the other side of their face when you aren’t spending days in bed, sick.

Poncho

It’s a blindingly obvious item, but you’d be surprised how many optimistic fools there are out there.

Torch

People tend to underestimate how long they spend in their tent once there is no sun to help out their vision. Even the simplest thing like putting on a sock or even identifying a person can be pretty tricky when you are practically blind.

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