All Together Now 2024

Could be, i thought PPD was where the church is on that map but yeah, could be.

Copywrite strikes already

@grudgehugger the above was a reply to you, but somehow posting on mobile doesn't preserve that!

We took our 3 year old to Body and Soul last year....before I had always seen others with their smallies at a festival and thought it looked like a hard slog, but in reality it was absolutel magic!! Even with the downpours that hit body and soul last year, our little girl was happy to play in it and I was happy to play with her!!

As an earlier poster said, let the kids dictate the daytime, where to go, what to do etc...face paint and an ice cream or two and you will be a hero!!

Now my better half was well pregnant so was happy to take smallie at night time and let me go play....Still had to take it relatively easy as I was the mule for everyone in the daytime, but it was well worth it.

A totally different festival experience yes, but one of the most enjoyable I've had.

If your partner is pregnant shoot the organizers a mail with a letter from your Doc, and they will give you a pass for the accessible campsite. At B&S it was just a fenced off area in staff camping but it was a very short walk to the arena, and it had its own toilet. We were able to drive straight in too, so no Q'ing. The team at B&S dis an exceptional job in this regard and I'm sure ATN would be the same.

We went to a good few outdoor gigs early last summer, as we knew the rest of the summer was off the cards, and it was the same story. Everyone was great to deal with. While I'm at it I must give a shout out to the lady from MCD that ran the Accessibility platform in St. Annes Park last June. Someone clearly at the top of their game, with incredible awareness and respect for those that were essentially, in her care.

For sleeping, our camper was in bits in my shed at that stage, so we just took a regular panel van with a mattress and stuff for my partner and 3 year old, rigged up an "awning" out of a tarp for sitting outside, I slept in my tent under the tarp too.

I’m bringing a family to Podpads boutique camping. Was a bit paranoid that maybe it was adult only area so I emailed them so there would be absolutely no confusion that I was bringing kids , age 10,8 and 7 months old little girl. They were happy for me to book in , it’s expensive but I’m justifying it as we will probably only do this once ever.
the only downside I suppose is that there won’t be many (maybe none!) other families camping beside us but we will bring the kids to the kids stuff during the daytime anyway….and the 2 boys get a thrill to stay up late and see the Prodigy

Why would you hold off if you want to go? Is it the hope of getting a cheaper ticket or what? Be safe enough holding off anyway, usually a good few on toutless closer to the time.

Anyone stayed in 2 person tippee tent before in boutique camping? If so, are they comfy enough/dry? And would you need two single air beds rather than a double with the pole in the middle? We usually hire a campervan but trying to save for one and the trek last year was a bit much! Thanks

yeah.
probably headline ATN next year given POD bookings set up

I was looking at site layout applications for this year and last year, and camping locations look pretty different from what I could figure out

My uneducated guess is thst it will sit near Basecamp/family camping. Anyone any insights on this?

Im still undecided on what pre-pitch camping optio.n to go for, so dont want to fork on for PM and it be in a worse location than BaseCamp.

Also, if anyone has stayed in those basecamp 2 man tents id be keen to hear about their quality

Prepitched is basically just a section of general camping fenced off. The tents are just normal tents prepitched with some other offerings like matresses etc and no extra facilities, with the exception of it being in a good location closer to the main walkway to the arena and closer to the general showers, toilets, shop, food/coffee etc.

Pink Moon and the other boutique camping have their own facilities and, with the exception of the Pink Moon option to use your own tent, they have various levels of luxury tent options.

Edit: it looks like Pink Moon isn't offering a self pitch option at All Together Now but just their own various levels of tent options.

The Pink Moon website lists a range of services that are more akin to the boutique campsite than just the pre-pitch including their pamper parlour so I assume it won't just be like the Bass Camp or Camplight which is just a section of general camping without extra facilities.

Yeah they'll be great fun for an aul bop anyway, Now you Do is a great tune, really early 00s pop dance vibe from it. ATN do have a great record of booking fun pop acts. I'm glad everything doesn't have to be so serious all the time. The lineup has something for everyone as it did last year.

oh yay Neil Flynn

Out in the schticks beside Ping Pong.

There's a pathway down the side of the Schweppes tent that brings you to Arcadia. Go on past that and you end up at Ping Pong and ELG. You're at the Londis end of the campsite.

I think they did it deliberately to herd people away from the arena at night.

The year before last Ping Pong kept running late and had to be shut down