Optimus Alive 12

[ManchesterRob78]

Me and a mate have our tickets and flights booked, Cant wait for this!!!!! :-)

Any body with any useful info on Hostels with good locations would be a real help, we are going to research and do our homework but a heads up from people who have been before is always a help. We are looking to stay City Centre (any info on decent clubs would also be nice)

We've been trying to suss out the getting to and from the venue and it looks like for those who aren't camping staying in city centre and using taxi's is the best bet???

We are going for 7 nights (Monday to Monday).

Any info would be great, other than that.....see you all out there!!!!!!!! :-)

[TheNewUnion]

Don't know about hostels, but there are extra trains on from the Festival site to Lisbon, from what I recall when looking at the website there are "electrics" too, which I'm guessing are trams.

[AM91]

Booked up tickets for all three days with camping. If anyone's stayed at the campsite before, what's it like? and would it be easier buying tents etc over there? ... cheers.

[Homer]

If you want to stay in Lisbon, location wise you might want to know that:

Barrio Alto is the main party part of town (loads of cobbled streets with bars on but it all just swells out onto one big party on the streets well into the night - highly recommended!)

Cais De Sodre train station is the one that connects you to the nearest lively beaches (Estoril in about 20 mins then Cascais)

So somewhere near both these might be good (they're not a million miles apart - Lisbon isn't exactly huge)

[Kevin_gillett]

After getting a new job today, am seriously considering this.

Campsite sounds great too... pool and daytime lounging about is almost a holiday.

Sent the facers messages out to a few mates tonight, if one says yes i'll be booking asap, off to hunt down more info now, no real concerns despite having done no non-uk festivals before, bring it on i say (and less drinking comapred to uk ones might do me some good!)

[Homer]

You can still drink mate, just need to start at, say, 5pm instead of 10am!

[Blky]

Definitely interested in going to Optimus Alive this year.

Has anyone stayed in the bungalows at the campsite before? would you recommend, what's the campsite atmosphere like?

Also, do you still need to buy a camping ticket to get access to the shuttlebus, even though we're staying in the bungalows, or can we just buy the 3 day pass?

ps. I'm assuming you can't take your own alcohol into the arena

Edited January 12, 2012 by Blky

[pryce]

booked booked and booked ........ staying at the Corinthia .. 5 nights for 307 euros!

does anyone know if its legal to drink in public?

landing at 4 on friday so hopefully it isnt delayed by that much :s

[olliet101]

On See Tickets, the three day ticket without camping now says Call venue so I presume they have sold out their allocation of those.

If so, with the three day ticket with camping, does the price include a bungalow or do you have to pre-book that yourself? If so, where from? If you don't, tents it is then?

Sorry if it seems a stupid question but there isn't much clear information on it, e.g. what happens when you buy the camping ticket does it allocate a bungalow for you (and your friend if being en mass), where to book bungalows if you have to etc. etc. etc.

[pryce]

book tickets on last minute.com ......

[Homer]

You have to book the bungalow yourself: http://www.booking.c...ngalows.en.html

Though I think they're pretty much gone. So you can camp or get an apartment in Lisbon.

Re drinking on streets, in the main lively part of town - Barrio Alto - everyone takes their drinks out of the bars and then just drinks in the street. Also, when I was on a stag in Lisbon a few years back, there was a rule that we couldn't walk past an offie without buying a bottle of port to drink immediately and we didn't get into any trouble...

[roadrunner66]

There's no laws on drinking in public.

http://www.thecure.c....aspx?nid=37683

It looks very likely that The Cure will be playing Optimus Alive. If you look close enough, you might see Lisbon and Bilbao marked on the map. That surely means Optmius Alive and Bilbao BBK. That's the headliner missing for the day of Florence + The Machine.

Edited January 14, 2012 by roadrunner66

[TheNewUnion]

The Stone Roses, The Cure, Radiohead. I'll take that. Flight + Hotel booked, tickets booked, I can order two beers in Portuguese. I'm all set.

[dougal1]

really hope this cure rumour is true! the uk allocation has now sold out on seetickets boooo, how does it work if i buy them off the portuguese website, will they post them here or will i have to collect them there?

[stylishkids]

really hope this cure rumour is true! the uk allocation has now sold out on seetickets boooo, how does it work if i buy them off the portuguese website, will they post them here or will i have to collect them there?

[pryce]

although i do love a couple of bands announced so far .... i wouldnt mind a bit of heavier rock in their somewhere .... maybe 2nd stage on the sat

[Homer]

The latest Cure fest dates seem to show them crawling in the direction of Portugal at the right time - fingers crossed!

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

I thought Florence was headlining though? I mean she's headlining Benicassim & that's a bigger festival? Or is Optimus Alive going to be 4 days?

[Homer]

I've read conjecture in two separate places that Florence isn't headlining (here and on the Facebook page). The Chems subbed at Optimus last year, so they obviously get some pretty big sub-headliners, but who knows?

[zahidf]

Says florence are headling in the announcement and in the news stories

http://www.efestivals.co.uk/news/11/111206d.shtml

[pryce]

also the festival website i use 'openairguide' usually puts the headliners in Bold .... Florence are not in bold but Radiohead and Stone Roses are

[roadrunner66]

Says florence are headling in the announcement and in the news stories

http://www.efestival...1/111206d.shtml

[Homer]

efestivals' assumptions.

[roadrunner66]

The Cure are finally confirmed as headliners for July 14.

The organization is conducting a press conference at this time so more names can be confirmed in the meantime.

Edited January 19, 2012 by roadrunner66

[5co77ie]

The Cure have been confirmed as headliner - I can only presume there's something lost in translation with regard to F+TM