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hi everyone....im gonna be new to bonnaroo this year and was just have a few questions....first of all when do they letting people in....i was thinking about getting down there thursday morning and was wondering if that would be tooearly....also how much room do u have to set up camp....my and 2 friends r going and i was just wondering if we had room to set up 3 tents....thanx alot for ur help
Post by skillfull87 on Feb 3, 2006 10:58:37 GMT -5
i was pretty much wondering the same thing. more specifically around the sort of room you are alloted. is it really really cramped? are the tents setup in a seperate area from the cars?
Short answer: I've always had plenty of space. Pretty much get there as early as you can (Wed. night even), but I've been fine every year arriving Friday morning. If I had an open schedule I would aim at arriving Thursday morning.
You will have room to set up 3 tents if they are all single person tents. I usually set up 1 six person tent and that usually takes up most of the room. I also usually go with two cars so we combine our space and make a huge shelter. My advice would be to park your car while giving yourself some space between the car next to you. They try to squeeze you in but you can give yourself some room. Also, get all your tent and camping equipment out and set up as fast as you can. I'm not trying to say be a jerk and claim all the space you can but you also don't want the people on both sides of you pinching in on your space. Just make friends with those next to you and if you need some extra space i'm sure they will accomodate you. Always had great neighbors.
Post by melikecheese on Feb 6, 2006 17:23:32 GMT -5
man we got put so close to everyone in the back camp area that I couldn't even get my car door open. The guys parking back there were yelling at everyone to pull so close. It was bull thats what it was. Luckly a lot of people left to camp elsewhere cause we had a big tent and really didn't have room to fully open it when we started setting up. We had an area about 10 feet by 10 feet at first.
Post by ziggyandthemonkeys on Feb 6, 2006 18:40:34 GMT -5
Thats rough^^^, i think regardless of what they say you just gotta give yourselfs some room, not much they can do about it. Where i was last year everyone just parked where they wanted to and we had a ton of room. This year with the lowered attendance there should be plenty of room, so feel free to use it.
When you're parking you gotta just ignore the traffic direction and edge your car in at an angle so you take up the maximum space between the two cars on either side. Then once the parking melee has calmed down, straighten your car out (even parking at a 90 degree angle to the other cars on either side, which is what we did last year). We set up a 12' x 12' shade tent outside the door of our van and had plenty of room all around.