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These are the best festival hacks from seasoned festival-goers

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The festival season has really begun, and there is a multi-day festival to visit every weekend. If you were lucky enough to get tickets for festivals like Lowlands or Down the Rabbit Hole, it’s important to prepare well for your stay there so you can enjoy it to the fullest without running into too many hassles. Here are the main tips given by seasoned festival-goers.

  1. Slippers for the shower. With so many people and so few showers, the chance of dirty situations is quite high. If you don’t want to come home with athlete's foot, it’s advisable to bring cheap slippers that you can wear in the shower.
  2. Important to bring: toilet paper, wet wipes, antibacterial hand gel, dry shampoo, and more of those kinds of toiletries that ensure you can feel fresh and fruity at all times. There is often toilet paper available on the site, but if it runs out, you really have a problem.
  3. A lock for your tent. When you leave your tent or go to sleep, always bring your belongings inside. If you really leave your tent, it’s wise to also put a lock on your tent. There are sometimes people who enjoy taking someone else's sleeping bag or pillow. In any case, don’t bring valuable items.
  4. Make sure to have charged power banks and plastic bags for your phone. All those calls back and forth (‘Where are you?!’ ‘To the left!’) ensure that your phone is dead before noon. If you have plenty of charged power banks with you, you can charge your phone at night, but also while you’re happily dancing. Unfortunately, it can also pour rain in our little country, so it’s wise to bring sandwich bags to protect your phone and power banks from excess water.
  5. Don’t bring too many clothes. Think in advance about which items you can easily combine with different things so that you can have a different look every day and night with few clothes.
  6. Earplugs. This is really not a luxury. If you don’t want to wake up in the middle of the night because of your neighbors' afterparty, this is a must. Also, if your neighbor enjoys making someone feel good in their tent every night, it’s very desirable that you don’t have to experience all of that through those thin tent fabrics.
  7. Arrange a recognizable element for your tent. Do you have a tent with a nice eye-catching print or a cheerful flag or something similar? You will be very grateful for that when you’re trying to find your way back to your tent in pitch darkness.

But the most important: enjoy. Everything that can go wrong at a festival only leads to good stories afterward. You will ultimately be completely broken by the things you were really upset about at that moment.