AllTogetherNow Festival 2018

Ricosruffneck

danois wrote: »

I see no plastic bottles in the FAQ I assume that’s just disposable bottles. Was planning on bringing school bottles for kids. Also spotted no BBQs allowed hadn’t budgeted for feeding 4 kids on festival price food looks like they will be eating crisps and biscuits all weekend!!

premake salads, pastas, cheeses, breads, dips etc etc,

It'll be all good

ghostdancer

few hang sangwidges for them, be grand.

Eod100

eplady2017 wrote: »

In the FAQ's section on the website they say
" A shuttle service from Waterford City will be available. Details to follow."
Could be an option for ya..

Ah cool. Thought that might only be for during the day but if it brings people back at night could be worth a try! Anyone know capacity, 10k?

PabloAndRoy

Eod100 wrote: »

Ah cool. Thought that might only be for during the day but if it brings people back at night could be worth a try! Anyone know capacity, 10k?

Be aware that that w/e is also Spraoi in Waterford, so I would expect low availability / high prices for hotels in Waterford.

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Choochtown

danois wrote: »

I see no plastic bottles in the FAQ I assume that’s just disposable bottles. Was planning on bringing school bottles for kids. Also spotted no BBQs allowed hadn’t budgeted for feeding 4 kids on festival price food looks like they will be eating crisps and biscuits all weekend!!

I assume you can bring plastic bottles of water into the campsite. You just can't buy them there.

eplady2017

danois wrote: »

I see no plastic bottles in the FAQ I assume that’s just disposable bottles. Was planning on bringing school bottles for kids. Also spotted no BBQs allowed hadn’t budgeted for feeding 4 kids on festival price food looks like they will be eating crisps and biscuits all weekend!!

On the list of prohibited items it doesn't say plastic bottle.. I didn't think plastic was not allowed, just encouraging people to limit what they bring and be sure to recycle if they do..

Also, I'd have thought disposable BBQs were OK, just no gas ones..

Stillill42

Eod100 wrote: »

eplady2017 wrote: »

In the FAQ's section on the website they say
" A shuttle service from Waterford City will be available. Details to follow."
Could be an option for ya..

Ah cool. Thought that might only be for during the day but if it brings people back at night could be worth a try! Anyone know capacity, 10k?

I could have sworn they announced 10000 capacity but 15k figure given on latest promotional video.

Le Bruise

Stillill42 wrote: »

I could have sworn they announced 10000 capacity but 15k figure given on latest promotional video.

Was thinking the exact same thing so had a quick google and it says 10,000 on all the publications (RTE, Joe.ie, Golden plec etc..) so perhaps that chap just got his figures mixed up?

An area of that size could definitely take 15,000 but hope they don't go too much bigger than that. Hate the way EP has gone, cramming the campsites to within an inch of their lives.

Stillill42

Le Bruise wrote: »

Stillill42 wrote: »

I could have sworn they announced 10000 capacity but 15k figure given on latest promotional video.

Was thinking the exact same thing so had a quick google and it says 10,000 on all the publications (RTE, Joe.ie, Golden plec etc..) so perhaps that chap just got his figures mixed up?

An area of that size could definitely take 15,000 but hope they don't go too much bigger than that. Hate the way EP has gone, cramming the campsites to within an inch of their lives.

The chap they had in front of camera said 15 for this year and that they hoped to extend it to 20 next year.

Stillill42

Yeah, Will Rolfe from POD was the guy quoting that figure.
https://youtu.be/Aof5E5v-yns

Stillill42

Feck. Can't post links. Anyway, the clip is on YouTube, from this week.

Deisegodeo

Just a heads up, phone reception is very poor in Curraghmore. No bad thing really as far as I am concerned, might leave the phone at home for the weekend even.

Choochtown

Deisegodeo wrote: »

Just a heads up, phone reception is very poor in Curraghmore. No bad thing really as far as I am concerned, might leave the phone at home for the weekend even.

If that means less mobile phones being waved in the air then that is excellent news.

This festival just keeps getting better and better!

Synode

I'd be surprised if they didn't put up temporary mobile towers to cover the festival

SoundOfSilence

4 Weeks time, we'll be rocking up to Curraghmore House.

PabloAndRoy

Stillill42 wrote: »

Yeah, Will Rolfe from POD was the guy quoting that figure.
https://youtu.be/Aof5E5v-yns

https://youtu.be/Aof5E5v-yns

Site looks amazing.

I would expect mobile towers for phone reception. B&S had the mobile towers and 4G reception was perfect all weekend. (3 network anyway).

The licence definitely says 15,000 capacity.

Korvanica

They're banning plastic bottles, but does only mean for water ? How about soft drinks etc ?

I like the idea they all vendors have to serve in compostable containers. Hopefully theyll have enough brown bins around. Found that at Body and Soul there weren't enough of them.

danois

Korvanica wrote: »

They're banning plastic bottles, but does only mean for water ? How about soft drinks etc ?

I like the idea they all vendors have to serve in compostable containers. Hopefully theyll have enough brown bins around. Found that at Body and Soul there weren't enough of them.

It says on website fizzy drinks can be taken but only in cans. Not in plastic bottles. I wonder can I leave a 5ltr of water in the car and just use that to fill up kids school bottles. Mine only drink water. They don’t like fizzy drinks, oddballs I know!

Choochtown

Korvanica wrote: »

They're banning plastic bottles, but does only mean for water ? How about soft drinks etc ?

I like the idea they all vendors have to serve in compostable containers. Hopefully theyll have enough brown bins around. Found that at Body and Soul there weren't enough of them.

danois wrote: »

It says on website fizzy drinks can be taken but only in cans. Not in plastic bottles. I wonder can I leave a 5ltr of water in the car and just use that to fill up kids school bottles. Mine only drink water. They don’t like fizzy drinks, oddballs I know!

I don't think there's a "ban" on plastic bottles just that they are not for sale.

I think you can still bring in water in plastic bottles.

Anyone know different?

Korvanica

Choochtown wrote: »

I don't think there's a "ban" on plastic bottles just that they are not for sale.

I think you can still bring in water in plastic bottles.

Anyone know different?

This is what i thought too. Yet to find anything different. It'd be impossible to police along with everything else and the vast majority of plastic bottle waste generated at festivals is from vendors anyway.

dodo87

What about spirits for all the other festivals you have to transfer these to plastic bottles? They hardly can ban them

heebusjeebus

dodo87 wrote: »

What about spirits for all the other festivals you have to transfer these to plastic bottles? They hardly can ban them

The website does not say you cannot bring in plastic bottles.
They only state that they will endeavor to reduce the use of plastic as much as possible.
Even their own water containers contain a bit of plastic.

https://www.alltogethernow.ie/sustainability

eplady2017

With regard to plastic bottles I just got the following reply from ATN

"We are encouraging as many people as possible not to bring plastic onto the site. We however do encourage you to bring a stainless steel bottle which you can use for water and top up at the water refill stations."

So not prohibited just discouraged...

danois

Sorry for the confusion. I was just going by this glad it’s been cleared up.

Stillill42

Lads did we cover the crucial 'what beer is available' question in here yet?

eplady2017

Stillill42 wrote: »

Lads did we cover the crucial 'what beer is available' question in here yet?

I think we decided that it would probably be Bulmers run bars as that's what POD uses for FF... Not sure what exactly is served at FF and what price range is though!! If anyone could enlighten be great :cool:

ghostdancer

wasn't at FF, but B&S had Bulmers running the bars too. €6.70 a pint (with 20c of that refundable).
Five Lamps and Bulmers were the only two I can remember, there were probably other C&C brands too though.

Korvanica

eplady2017 wrote: »

I think we decided that it would probably be Bulmers run bars as that's what POD uses for FF... Not sure what exactly is served at FF and what price range is though!! If anyone could enlighten be great :cool:

Bulmers and Five Lamps is what they had at FF. So i'd expect the same at ATN.

Eod100

ghostdancer wrote: »

wasn't at FF, but B&S had Bulmers running the bars too. €6.70 a pint (with 20c of that refundable).
Five Lamps and Bulmers were the only two I can remember, there were probably other C&C brands too though.

Jesus that's pricey