Festival Gadgets: You always have to have these things with you

As beautiful as a concert marathon outdoors may be, each festival also harbors its pitfalls – triggered by limited hygiene, a lot of noise, inconsistent weather or in other words: little comfort. In order to be able to enjoy the time to the fullest despite all restrictions, it doesn’t need much. You just need to know which gadgets are indispensable at a festival. In the following we present a small selection that our author (after ten years of festival experience) would recommend every open-air concertmaker.

If there is no thing at festivals, then it is free sockets. However, since most events go for several days, the cell phone can only be via an external battery – i.e. a mobile – to be loaded several times. However, since these capacities are also limited, it is advisable, a portable To choose: In this case, just use the power of the sun to recharge the power bank. Then you can use your smartphone as usual and therefore always remain mobile (provided you have reception on the festival site).

Unfortunately our author discovered this Only after her active festival time, but still swears by it – after all, it can also be used for every “normal” concert: these are special earplugs that dampen the noise, but still receive the ambient noise in the same sound quality. In other words, they were still taking their favorite band at a healthy volume. On the other hand, if you want your peace at night (spoiler: it is 24/7 at festivals), you should be ordinary set. Unless you have a firm sleep and can hide all noise.

Even if it stays over the lights all the time on the entire festival site, it gets really dark in the tent sites (depending on the location) – especially in the tents, but also in the sanitary facilities that are becoming increasingly dirty over time. If you don’t always want to use your cell phone light and thus want to empty the battery, you are looking for practical . These can be attached anywhere with a carabin hook and shine the way in the darkest hours (with the help of batteries).

Yes, there are showers on the festival site. However, what many do not know: sometimes the water is too cold – or too hot. Or in early morning, meters of snakes are already formed, so that with a little luck they only enjoy fresh water. Apart from the fact that there are not always individual cabins, but also like to show collectors for men and women. It is much easier and better planned if you simply have your own (including the hose). This heats up with the power of the sun and grabs 20 liters: enough water to wash yourself.

If you don’t arrive by car, you are forced to carry your entire camping accessories to the campground. In order to take your luggage with you as possible, our author recommends one . It can be folded up very small and still offers more comfort than a thin ISMATTE. In addition, you do not have to carry air pump to blow up to inflate the mattress. There are different models that are different: 60 centimeters are the cheapest, offer even more comfort. Of course there are also appropriate to this .

One might think that festival goers are able to simply hold their cups with their hands – but far from it. In the zeal of the battle loses, buried or forget your drink. In addition, the prices for water and soft drinks on the festival site are usually just as high as for alcoholic drinks, so you do well to take your own drinks to the concerts. In order to have your hands free when dancing and still don’t have to thirst, has a practical one proven. There are simple models or unusual ones .

It is not without reason that a headline was called “Hurricane via Scheeßel” in recent years after the festival was surprised by a storm and literally flooded. In fact, it was not the first time that open-air events like the Hurricane or also were accompanied by torrential rain showers – and the concert meadows turned into muddy fields. For this reason belong With the most important utensils that festival goers should always have with them. Alternatively there is too that you can carry over your normal shoes.

As beautiful as a normal terry towel is, it still takes up a lot of space in the backpack. However, a significantly smaller is one which can be folded up very small – and can dry in the fresh air much faster. This advantage will benefit them, especially on rainy days, if the humidity is so high that a normal towel would only dry very slowly. But if we are honest, the topic of body hygiene is not at the top of the list for most festival visitors anyway. A small towel is still better than none.

You are now wondering why a should be more suitable for a festival than a rain jacket. Clearly: it is not. But: In contrast to a (warming) jacket, the poncho can be folded up to a minimum and can be easily stowed away in any bag or backpack. Because the fact is that the weather on festivals is usually so inconsistent that you should be prepared for everything: rain and sunshine, heat and cold. Since the poncho can be carried above the normal clothing (including backpack) due to its size, they are always on the safe side.

There is enough drinking water on the festival site, but it is idle (and little space -saving in the backpack) to have an empty bottle with you. Here are on with a capacity of 500 milliliters. These can easily be stowed away in any bag and can be filled with water or other drinks at any time if necessary. This set contains four different colors. And of course the BPA-free bottles are also reusable.