This is the best camping festival experience I’ve had(although keep in mind I’ve yet to attend Forest, but have attended Mysteryland 2014, and Hudson 2014 to name a few). If this is the best, why a 4 star? There are a few things they could work on which I get into, here we go. Getting in & out of the venue: 4 stars We arrived Thursday morning, got to the line around 11:15am, and we were in around 1:00pm which I found reasonable. The last bisco 2013, my friends were in the car for something like 4 – 6 hours which sounded terrible(I did not attend). But I think with 15,000 people camping, 2 hours is reasonable. It took roughly 1.5 or 1hr 45 minutes in the car, and then another 30 – 40 minutes to wait for the wagon that took us to the camp grounds– all things considered I thought it was fine. I understand ppl were frustrated you must take a wagon to the grounds, no walking allowed but the wagons moved pretty fast and I was happy with that. Getting out of the venue, I was out within 15 – 20 minutes! Granted, I left around 9am of Sunday morning, but I waited in line for 3 wagons worth of people, and I was out of there! I think the wagons helped keep the people staggered, so that not thousands of people were leaving at the same time(ppl also wake at different times last day), so that was wonderful and very unexpected. Security was okay — I didn’t see anyone getting arrested, but there were multiple people that got some green thrown out due to onsite dogs, some of which that jumped into peoples cars, but you bring it, you risk it right? Not their fault The venue: 4 stars The venue itself has pluses and minuses. I love that there’s a water park, love it. It’s great for summer festivals to help cool you down. Being able to relax in the water right next to a stage, is pretty darn awesome. One big downfall is how far the camp site is to the furthest stage — Steamtown. I’m honestly not sure if there is anything they can do, due to the design of the venue. But it’s one big straight line, so to get from one end to another is a lot of walking(rather than a circle/square or rectangular design). The campgrounds themselves are very«hilly», so you may camp on a slant — but hey it’s a mountain. I did like that they let you camp anywhere and everywhere. And at least in my area, I loved all my camping neighbors– great vibes and I love that we were all on the same page. Miscellaneous — Food was rather pricey depending on the place. One pizza place had $ 7 per slice for plain, and it must have been $ 9 for buffalo chicken or something. regardless 2 slices cost $ 17 that’s highway robbery festival or not + The beer prices were fair as hell! $ 5 beer, including Flower Power IPA, Twister Tea, Coorslight or 25 ounces coors/budlight for $ 11.50 + CLEANEST porta-potty I’ve ever experienced, camping fest or not! I don’t know if I have the best luck or what, but I didn’t enter not even one dirty porta-potty. They were damn clean, and always had toilet paper. how often did they clean these?! 5 stars on that front — Security«check points» — really slowed the walking down. They were basically only checking for outside alcohol, but it really killed the walk from the water park to Main Stage, again it’s the internal design of the place. It all funnels down to a small walkway, but the walk to Big Gigantic took like 20 minutes due to that security check. — Line-up I obviously loved, sound system was great no complaints Overall — I LOVED this festival, thank you to a great return of Bisco. I honestly will be livid if I ever have to wait longer than this to get in or out of a festival because this was the smoothest I’ve ever experienced, and now that I know it’s doable, I will definitely look down on any festival not able to replicate this type of efficiency.
