Festival fun … and what it costs

TRAVEL money company No.1 Currency has compared the costs of the most popular festivals across the globe this summer on a per-day basis, once ticket cost, accommodation, food and drinks are taken into consideration. 

When calculated on a per-day-rate, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California – said to be America’s answer to Glastonbury – tops the list as the most expensive, at £187 per day. Coachella has the highest admission charge, at £252. 

Tomorrowland in Belgium follows as the second most expensive, at £186 per day.

England’s Glastonbury is one of the longest-established summer festivals, but music lovers heading there in June will certainly pay for the experience. It comes in as the third most expensive at £113 a day.

Roskilde in Denmark will set revellers back £641, but for that you get eight days of festival fun.

British festival fans looking to make their pounds go further are best off heading to Slavic countries. The Exit festival in Serbia is the cheapest place to enjoy live music, with the daily and total costs for the four days coming to just £54 and £217 respectively. A beer there costs £1, almost a sixth of the cost of beer at Coachella. 

The Open’er festival in Poland closely follows Exit as the second cheapest, with a day costing just £57.

Simon Phillips, Head of Retail for No1. Currency, says: ‘As the birth place of British festival culture, Glastonbury remains one of the most iconic and celebrated music events in the British calendar but, as our research shows, being a part of this tradition will cost you. Tickets are not far behind those of Coachella in terms of prices, and neither is the cost of food and drink when you’re there – unsurprising considering the festival is famous for having some of the best festival food around.

‘It can actually work out much better value to travel to a festival in mainland Europe than to stay at home. Not only does your cash go further in Europe, where food and drink in particular are relatively cheap compared to the UK, but Brits heading to festivals in the eurozone this summer will enjoy the added bonus of a strengthening pound.’

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Picture Credit: "Lollobrigida at Exit, Serbia" by Yuppien (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons; "Against Me playing at Coachella" by R1vers (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons;