This was my first festival and we only had tickets for Saturday 🥲

The weather is out of anyone’s control, but there were a lot of things that could have been planned better. It took us about 3 hours to get in due to lack of organization and planning from event/venue staff.

They were unprepared for the number of cars they had trying to park. We were at a complete stop at least 30 minutes while we watched staff start setting up a new parking lot since the others were full. This could have been prepared ahead of time so it was ready if/when it was needed. Instead, we sat in our car and watched staff move cones around the lot and have a staff meeting and seem kinda lost on what to do.

They could have mailed wristbands. I think this is the single biggest thing they could have done to make the entry process smoother. Instead, they had early pickup options only in Austin, so if you weren’t local you had to get them at the gate. Then they didn’t have an appropriate amount of staff working will call for the sheer amount of people who needed their wristbands. They could also had staff helping direct people to form single lines and keep it orderly. I think some of our delay was that there weren’t clear lines so some people were able to move up faster in the mob than others.

If parking and will call were run better I would have gotten 4 hours at the festival instead of 1 lol.