Rock Werchter 2018

Rock Werchter 2018 - around the festival site (1)
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Rock Werchter 2018

Thursday 5th to Sunday 8th July 2018
Werchter, Leaven, Rotselaar, Belgium MAP
combi festival ticket: 238 euros
Daily capacity: 88,000
Last updated: Thu 21st Jun 2018

Celebrating its 44th year Belgium's biggest rock festival will be offering four days of varied international well known acts in a well organised commercial festival setting.

Rock Werchter takes place in the small village of Werchter in Rotselaar, Belgium, from Thursday 5th to Sunday 8th July 2018 with three stages of music.

Line-up

The full line-up has been announced, including acts Arctic Monkeys, The Killers, Pearl Jam, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Gorillaz, Queens of the Stone Age, Jack White, Snow Patrol, Eels, Fleet Foxes, Khalid and Marshmello, London Grammar, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Vince Staples, Angus & Julia Stone, The Kooks, Jack Johnson, MGMT, Stereophonics, Fever Ray, and more.

For the full details including day and stage splits, please see the line-up page.

Tickets

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Tickets are on sale priced as follows:-
combi festival ticket (valid from 5 July to 8 July): 238 euros
camping from: 27.5 euros
day tickets: 102 euros (Saturday & Sunday day tickets sold out).

Campsites

This year Rock Werchter will again open three campsites for Festival goers on the Wednesday, to cut down on congestion in Werchter and minimize inconvenience for the locals. The festival organisers will not be putting on entertainment on Wednesday evening, but the campsites will have food and drinks available.

A total of thirteen campsites are available at various points along the road to the arena entrance, which has been closed to vehicles. Most of the first ones are full by Thursday afternoon.

There are two types of campsite tickets are available: the regular campsite ticket and the campsite xl ticket.

A regular campsite ticket costs around 18 Euros (service cost not included) in advance. This campsite ticket is valid as from Thursday morning until Monday at noon. The regular campsite ticket is valid for use at the campsite of one's choice.

The Campsite xl ticket enables festival attendees to stay at campsites A2, A3 and A4 in the Haacht zone as from Wednesday at 4 PM. The ticket remains valid until Monday at noon. Please do keep in mind that only these 3 campsites will open on Wednesday, so the availability of campsite tickets xl tickets is limited. Campsite xl tickets are priced at around 25 Euros in advance.

On site

The line-up is usually well worth the trek, and the campsites are clean if a little noisy (a good festival really then). Like nearby festival Pukkelpop standard local bus and train travel are free with your festival ticket. Food and drinks are bought using a ticket system. The camping areas are around a ten minute walk away from the festival site, but they have clean showers for around two euros. For those who like to take in the sites Leaven has many beautiful historic buildings and is home to the Stella Artois Brewery.

Litter collection

There are two stages and the area is pretty clean, as the organisers have an incentive to litter picking. 20 used cups gets you a small (the only size they do) cup of beer or water. There is no drinking water available from the taps so it is best to take some along.

Drink/food coupons

Drink/food coupons enable you to purchase both food and drinks in the Festival Park. These coupons can be bought in advance. A food/drink coupon then costs around 2,4 euro. Presale coupons come in sets of 20, 40, 60 or 80. During the festival, coupons are sold at 2.50 euro/piece.

Alcohol

In Belgium, it is strictly prohibited to sell alcohol to minors under 16. So the festival is not serving any beer to kids under 16. Festival-goers are encouraged to carry some ID. If a staff member at the bar has some doubts about the age of someone who wants to get a beer, he or she can ask this person to produce some proof of age.

More information

For detailed information about various aspects of the festival see the Rock Werchter Information (includes detailed info on camping, travel, children, food & drink, and more).

More information will be here when available.

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