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Body and Soul 2013
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Mona Olsen wrote: »Hi
Anyone know how far the family campsite is from parking area? We have a lot of camping gear, a large heavy tent, and kiddies who will not walk far.
thanks!
Depends exactly where you end up parking your car, but I'd say prepare for a 10-15 minute walk if NOT heavily laden down.
To be fair to them, it is very close to the festival entrance (< 5 minutes), just matter of how close your car is to that. Main campsite is much further to walk assuming same layout....
Disclaimer 1: I'm assuming family camping is same place as last year
Disclaimer 2: I think there were problems with their original car park plans last year - so here's hoping the car parks this year allow us get closer to the entrance.
Final comment: The trek will be worth it - great festival
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Thanks! :DIt's our first time doing family camping at a festival, and as you can usually park beside your site in regular campsites I only just thought of the walk. 5 mins is doable. The 30min from regular parking to camping described in an earlier post would mean having to seriously downsize all our gear! :eek: We intend to be there early on Friday so hopefully can park as close as possible.grudgehugger wrote: »Depends exactly where you end up parking your car, but I'd say prepare for a 10-15 minute walk if NOT heavily laden down.
To be fair to them, it is very close to the festival entrance (< 5 minutes), just matter of how close your car is to that. Main campsite is much further to walk assuming same layout....
Disclaimer 1: I'm assuming family camping is same place as last year
Disclaimer 2: I think there were problems with their original car park plans last year - so here's hoping the car parks this year allow us get closer to the entrance.
Final comment: The trek will be worth it - great festival0 -
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bodhrandude wrote: »Well folks thats me down to Ballinlough tomorrow morning, working the pre-fest woo hoo
:D:D
Tell us what the ground is like?
That's a lot of rain we had last night!0 -
dia squish wrote: »Think I'd be missing much by going Saturday instead of Friday? Never camped before, thinking I might ease myself into it by going two nights instead of three
Stating the obvious slightly, but you'd be missing James Murphy and Donal Dineen, both of whom I expect to be excellent, and to generate an excellent atmosphere.
Also it'll probably be a bit less busy on the Friday, which is a good chance to wander around the woods and check out all the quirky stuff hiding in there.
If it's your first time camping and you want to "ease yourself into it", doing Friday and Saturday as your two nights would make more sense imo.
If you arrive on Saturday, all the best camping (and parking) spots will be gone and you may end up spending quite a while trudging through festival-goers looking for a spot to camp. If the weather's bad, this will not be fun. Particularly if it's very poor weather and there's already been one night of people tramping around and generating mud.
On Friday, lugging your gear and putting up your tent should be a bit easier - even if weather is sh1te.
Sunday morning, pack up your gear, lug it back to your car and then go enjoy the day.
That way not only do you get to pitch your tent in relative calm on Friday, you get to enjoy all three days of festival.
This plan of action does however depend slightly on there being someone in your group willing to act as designated driver for the Sunday. On the plus side, you can always decide on the Sunday morning to stay that night as well if you're loving the whole camping thing!0 -
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can you let us know if they mention over the next few days if they'll be enforcing the alcohol limits?bodhrandude wrote: »Well folks thats me down to Ballinlough tomorrow morning, working the pre-fest woo hoo:D:D0 -
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Haven't been to B&S before but we have taken kids to EP and wanted to try B&S this year also. We have camper and go to family campsite in EP as it allows campervans with a Family campervan ticket. B&S don't allow campers into family camping so just wondering if anyone has taken young children and what the campervan site is like.
Ta!!
Hi Linho,
Camped in the family campsite last year and we were right beside the campervan site. I know that because of the flooding the family camping car park wasn't where it was intended i.e. beside the family campsite {!} but I don't think the family campsite was moved. That being the case, there's not much of a distance between the two camping areas.
If you're lucky and get in early, you might be able to pull up adjacent to the family campsite area so you'll have the advantage of the quietness of it but you're in your allocated parking area.....if that makes sense.
The family campsite and the campervan site were lovely and relaxed last year. There is a little concession selling tea/coffee, breakfasts of pancakes, pizza's during the day etc., Nothing extravagant and reasonably priced. You can walk around the side of the Castle and down into the forest area so it's far enough away to avoid the mayhem at bedtime but not so far that you don't feel a part of everything.
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