Begginers help!

[OKB]

Or for having a posh w*nk, That's probably all he does all weekend.

[kev1664]

Yep Alcohol is the main drain on funds.

I budget £35 per day in the arena for alcohol. Thats because a pint is £3.50 and if I were to drink 10 i'd have enough cash to cover it. If your in the arena from 11:30am til 12:00 midnight thats a decent amount to take for alcohol.

£150 ish for drink accross the weekend. £60 or so on food, and extra for t-shirts, hoodies, program and lanyard (even though they were crap in 2010, lost half of my pages).

One thing I will say is if you plan on spending all of the day in the arenas from start to finish don't take much food for your camp. We left loads between the three of us last year. Remember your stomach can't handle as much to eat when you've shrunk it through a load of alcohol.

Oh and another thing, don't stay sober, especially on the Sunday (if your around the mainstage), I did this last year as I was driving back Sunday night. The amount of drunken fools who stumble about and bump into you, or in general talk over bands etc is unbareable, it just pisses you off if your sober, its best to have a little drink and you won't get to hung up on it.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

Yep Alcohol is the main drain on funds.

[Vacant0]

Yep Alcohol is the main drain on funds.

I budget £35 per day in the arena for alcohol. Thats because a pint is £3.50 and if I were to drink 10 i'd have enough cash to cover it. If your in the arena from 11:30am til 12:00 midnight thats a decent amount to take for alcohol.

£150 ish for drink accross the weekend. £60 or so on food, and extra for t-shirts, hoodies, program and lanyard (even though they were crap in 2010, lost half of my pages).

[OKB]

I'm going to correct myself actually, in saying that you are only allowed to bring bottles of sealed water into the arena, so Jagermeister or any other 'brown coloured liquid' will not be permitted. I remembered being told to throw my bottle of 'Pepsi' away last year but I got my re-sealed bottle of 'water' through without any hassle - and they won't piss about opening it up just to smell it when 15,000 people are fast approaching them all wanting to get through the gates. They'll just glance at it so long as you make it clear that you have it on you and don't make ay attempt to conceal it.

If you want to get any other kind of alcohol in, you may struggle, though there are ways such as by using a Freedom Flask (not advised, just because it looks dodgy pissing into a cup and drinking it) or by storing it inside your body beforehand by drinking it and getting pissed at camp. Hip flasks are also an advisory and you can get these in no problem.

Alternatively, don't drink and experience the festival through the eyes of a sober person.

[rexclark]

haha one day you will learn the real use for them

[OKB]

Well I'm glad you know what they're for. The thought of you reproducing sends a chill down my spine.

[harderfaster]

I stewarded at Reading last year and we were allowed in through a different gate with one guy manning it. He didn't check bags at all so we were taking in 4/5 cans of fosters a time, saving £30 a day. That may be the sole reason I'll steward this year. Well that, and the £200 saved on the ticket.

[kev1664]

How the f**k do you manage to spend that much?

Anyway, noticed the arena toilets being mentioned a couple of times - go in as soon as the arena opens and ye, they're nicer - but come the evening and they're usually more disgusting than the long drops.

Edited February 21, 2011 by kev1664

[Bisque]

Normal rule of thumb for me is take as much money as the cost of the price of the ticket. I always come back with change & feel much better about it. I'd rather take too much than run out & be stuck in one of those bollocking long queues.

Plus I find the best food to buy is one of those Yorkshire puds with beans, sausage & mash. It seems to give me enough energy to last all day & really fills you up if you brown nose the girls serving it. It costs the same as a pork roll. This is at Reading (in the Arena facing the main stage) but should be the same at Leeds.

[Bisque]

Plus sneaking in alcohol into the arena saves you a fair few pounds if you don't mind a warm cans.

[Vacant0]

£35 a day Fri/sat/sun = £105

Wed/Thurs = £40 probably less than that tbh more like £20 so maybe £125

[jump]

Best piece of advice I can give is don't waste your day collecting cups for 10p's and enjoy the bands!

[Dave The Hedgehog]

35 quid every day in the arena though without fail?!

Including drink brought with me I think 80 or 90 pounds is the absolute most I'd typically spend on alcohol over the weekend.

[Mariner]

How the f**k do you manage to spend that much?

Anyway, noticed the arena toilets being mentioned a couple of times - go in as soon as the arena opens and ye, they're nicer - but come the evening and they're usually more disgusting than the long drops.

[Bisque]

PETROV VODKA REFILL POUCHES!

I am smashing so many of these this year.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

The only way to avoid spending less than say £100 over the whole weekend is if you don't eat and drink.

[thetime]

Or just not go to the arena.

It's true though - it costs a f**king bomb to go to festivals, even ones that are free. You think about the cost but then you have to consider 'the cost'.

So yeah, take plenty of money but look after it like a nun would her vagina - anywhere between £100 and £200 is plenty as long as you don't go off an plan to buy rounds for people you don't know.

[jump]

To be fair its not just festivals gigs are ultra expensive to have a drink aswel. i went to the o2 acadamy birmingham week last saturday and it was £4.10 a pint.

[sjp_121]

Another amazing thing to do, if you can bring yourself to do it, is to wake up 8/9 ish and go to the shop.

There's maybe a queue of like.... 5 people, and you can get some food for the rest of the day/drink.

And then you go back to the tent, and sleep until you feel more alive.

Best idea I had all weekend, and my mates loved it when they woke up and there was a cup of tea with milk when they woke up.

Its the small things that count...

[allan14]

To be fair its not just festivals gigs are ultra expensive to have a drink aswel. i went to the o2 acadamy birmingham week last saturday and it was £4.10 a pint.

[matt123]

Leeds were lucky last year, we had a dry weekend so didn't have the problem of soaking clothes and socks. Be sure to take at least 1 extra tee than you think you'll need and a couple of pairs of socks.

The best advise I can give you is to pack light, took us 4 hours to get in the gate near orange and in the sun it's bad enough but with a massive bag on your back you'll feel the struggle.

I advise you to take plently of loo roll because if it does rain and it gets wet your stuffed! Also plenty of baby wipes. Don't overcomplicate things and take stoves or anything that costs more than £10, chances are if you take it a festival it's going to get either broken, stolen or burnt. If you can't afford to loose it, don't take it.

I survived on £100 last year and went from wednesday to monday. Granted I didn't spend much on beer in the arena because I deemed it more sensible to get lashed around midday at camp, go see some bands, come back to camp about 4 and have another session intime to be back at the arena for later bands and headliners

Most of all, enjoy it!

P.S - Orange is a good atmosphere at leeds! stayed right next to the DJ tent last year and had no trouble apart from someone playing Rusko - Woo Boost until 5am haha!

[PurpleFire]

The best money i spent all weekend was the 15quid for a locker from Lockerhouse!

Just brilliant money, you may think its expensive but we shared it, one person you can trust has the key, you only get one wristband per locker and one key and lock that you get to keep.

We kept everything safe, and belive me its completly safe as you have the key and your the only person who knows which locker you actually own. We used it to store keys, phones and satnavs which you dont need beacuse getting to leeds is simple.

It was our own ATM, just put all our money in wallets and then went and got some money out when we needed it, saved using the ATM's with huge Q's and expensive withdrawlal costs!

It saves anything getting nicked, if you leave ya tent and someone goes in they can only get ya clothes, booze and food...Simples (We had a tube of pringles nicked last year, but they left all the cider and beer? Strange? lol someone who had the munchies)

Get a locker!

[kev1664]

35 quid every day in the arena though without fail?!

Including drink brought with me I think 80 or 90 pounds is the absolute most I'd typically spend on alcohol over the weekend.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

It saves anything getting nicked, if you leave ya tent and someone goes in they can only get ya clothes, booze and food...Simples (We had a tube of pringles nicked last year, but they left all the cider and beer? Strange? lol someone who had the munchies)

Edited February 22, 2011 by Dave The Hedgehog