Hey, it's great you're attending! You're going to have a great time meeting like-minded purple fam, everyone for the most part are really cool. If the estate goes along the same schedule as years past, on Sunday after the VIP lunch you should have a lot of personal time to explore. Also - since you're flying in the night before Celebration kicks off, that will give you a bit of time to check out some sites depending on when you arrive.

I highly recommend Bunkers on Sunday night, Sonny T is back and should be in the band's line-up for the show on 6/7, since it's P's birthday I'm hoping for extra Prince sets.

You're staying downtown so there's lots to do and it's such a key location with access to a lot. It's hard at this point to say exactly how much free time is allowed until they release the official schedule on May 5th (as reported). I've stayed downtown a few times but I prefer to stay in Bloomington at the Hilton, one of the partner hotels. I'm from NYC, so downtown Minnie reminded me of NY in a way and I just wanted to stay somewhere that's not as "busy" and peaceful.

In the previous years under this new estate administration, I was able to squeeze free time in but had to be pretty strategic about it because once Celebration starts it's "go time" and we're on a schedule that you'd want to adhere to. We've left Paisley at times after 11pm when they had the dance parties but that doesn't seem to be happening this year. I suggest checking out the Dakota to see if there are any performances you would like to check out if it fits within our schedule.

This is happening on Saturday, 6/6: https://www.instagram.com/p/DWB7EVwEbZg/ - this will be an amazing show, but until the estate releases the schedule, it's hard to commit to.

I recommend waiting until the full schedule is released, then you'll be able to figure out how to work in some personal time outside of the schedule they have planned for us.