Festival Packing Guide
what to pack for a festival – Our interactive Checklist
We don’t want you starting your festival hunting down a missing essential in the nearest town. So we’ve put together this interactive packing checklist covering everything you need; whether you’re doing two nights at a boutique festival like Moovin or the full week at Glastonbury, just check off the items below and even add your own before you go. (As long as you don’t clear your cache, it’ll automatically save as you check things off, handy eh?!)
+ Add your own item
🖶 To print: File → Print in your browser. Checked items will show as ticked.
Just Some Handy Festival Camping Tips
Use What3words: Trying to find your tent in a field with 5,000+ other tents in dark is a bit of nightmare, especially after a few drinks! Once you have your pitch, pin your tent location with What3words. It’s a lifesaver when you’re stumbling around guy ropes at 2am.
Space Management: Every inch of space is at a premium on any festival campsite, so try and not take too much extra stuff. And for the love of God leave that gazebo behind! The last thing anybody wants is for that thing to take off and come crashing down on some poor soul, minding their own business, half a mile away.
Base Camp: Don’t stress too much about finding the perfect camping spot. You will find that most of the time, you’ll be away enjoying yourself anyway. So treat it like a base camp, it’s a spot for resting, changing and keeping dry if the weather takes a turn.
Know your tent: Don’t turn up in a brand new tent without knowing how big it is or how to put it up. Have a practice the evening before leaving for the festival, go down a local park and have a go putting it up and packing it away again. You’ll thank us later if you have to do this in the rain!
Always pitch your tent facing downhill: When choosing that camping spot, check the lay of the land, even a slight slope can make a massive difference. You want your tent door pointing downhill, so any rainwater flows away from your entrance, not straight through it and into your sleeping area. Also, double check for stones or debris, nobody wants a ripped groundsheet on day one.
Leave No Trace! :Whilst the organisers have done brilliantly to encourage people to take their tents home, hundreds of tents are abandoned every year. If you were going to spend 40-50 quid on a tent to throw away anyway, you might as well check to see if you can hire a decent one instead for around the same price. It’s less hassle than you think and you don’t have to pretend you’re not part of the problem when you see those fields of abandoned tents on the way out.
Sleep Easy, Party Hard
Our mission at Earthrise Camping is to end tent waste at festivals, which is why our hire is the cheapest alternative to buying a tent for any festival.