Tomorrowland

So earlier this year I was lucky enough to secure myself a ticket to Tomorrowland, a music festival in Belgium which is being held in July, so fits in perfectly to my European holiday plans. I was extremely lucky to get these tickets, in 2013 the festival sold out in just one second! So I wanted to share a couple of tips with you to help you secure your ticket in the future.

1. Pre-register early
In order to be able to even buy a Tomorrowland ticket you need to pre-register. Use an email address that you check regularly and put the date that you can pre-register in your calendar so there's no way you'll forget. 

2. Organise a group with four people max. to go to the festival with
You can only purchase four tickets at a time if you're lucky enough to be able to connect to the website and buy a ticket once it goes on sale. It makes it a lot easier to have a group that's four or less so no one gets left out, and you can have four separate people trying to buy the tickets at once, so hopefully at least one of you will get through. 

3. Decide what ticket you want to buy in advance
Talk to the people you're going with and decide whether you want to purchase Dreamville tickets and camp at Tomorrowland, or whether you just want to purchase the three day festival access passes, or just a day pass. This just makes it more simple when you get through to the choosing ticket stage. If you do not get Dreamville tickets remember that accommodation in Boom sells out very quickly, so you should try to book as soon as you buy tickets, or if you want to take the risk, purchase in advance of getting a ticket. 
tip: when you get to purchase the tickets you can also purchase 'boozebags' which contain the Tomorrowland currency - if you plan on drinking or eating food at the festival purchase at least one of these per person, it works out cheaper in the long run.

4. Tips for getting through to actually purchase your ticket
Pre-register as soon as it opens, then you have the chance to purchase in an international pre-sale, so are pretty much guaranteed a ticket (this is what I was lucky enough to get). The first 10 people from each country are allowed to purchase tickets first, then Belgium, then the rest of the world, so it's in your best interest to pre-register ASAP. To be able to connect to the website to pre-register you will need multiple computers / devices connected to the site, do not give up, persist until you have successfully pre-registered. It took me maybe 15 minutes to pre-reigster, I had my iMac, a laptop, iPad and my iPhone all refreshing the website. The same goes for purchasing the actual ticket, if you don't make the top 10 to pre-register then you'll have to buy with the rest of the world, keeping hitting refresh and have as many devices refreshing as possible! 

So I haven't actually been to the festival yet, I'll be going in two months time, so I don't have any tips for what to do when you're there, but I've done a bit of research and have come up with the following for when you're at the actual festival:

• remember you're ticket & ID (duh)

• buy lots of water

• make sure you wear shoes that you can party in for a long time

• slip, slop, slap - protect yourself from the sun

Good luck for anyone attempting Tomorrowland 2015! For anyone going this year, hope you have the best time, cannot wait to party with you and 180,000 other EDM lovers!

Laters,
Maddy