Getting booze into the arena

[Flaminglippy]

Get a box of wine and romove the cardboard so you've just got the silver bag and shove it down the front of your trousers.

Works a treat and is also quite funny to stick the tap through your flies and start "pissing" into a friends mouth in the middle of a crowd.

Edited April 12, 2010 by Flaminglippy

[redmad1971]

what about remote control helicopters?

[adeleandgaz]

Be even funnier if you did that but took the wine bag out when your friends weren't looking and see how long it would take them to realise...if they did 'bags' of Carling and you did it with that I'm guessing you could safely empty your bladder before they clicked...not a bad idea actually, you get to have a pee and your friends get to drink something stronger than the pish they serve there...

[bigc1978]

what about remote control helicopters?

[al_coholic]

They were REALLY strict last year - I even had the waist band of my trousers checked (by a bloke!!).

[indie-rocknroll]

We take the bags of wine/cider from the inside of the boxes and the girls go through different gates to each other with the bags strapped to our stomachs with masking tape (would look a bit weird with 5 or 6 pregnant women all walking through) we all then meet up once through the gate and have a lovely sit down and a drink, no one ever asks why we are taking our own plastic wine glasses into the Arena

[indie-rocknroll]

The lads with us used to do the bag of wine down the zips but it looked dodgy and they satrted to get caught when they cottoned onto it. We also used to do the drinking wien through lads zips but sometimes I got it wrong

[adeleandgaz]

To airlift the booze in? Bit of an overkill methinks!!

[farewellandgoodnight]

Just don't get angry if you get caught, its part of the festival experience, just walk off and try another entrance.

Edited May 10, 2010 by farewellandgoodnight

[TheNewUnion]

This comes up every year and I have to say (as I do every year) it's really not that difficult. Last year I had a liter carton of wine in the bottle "pouch" on the side of my daysack. Walked up to the security guy, opened my rucksack, let him have a fish round inside and went on my way.

All I did was hold the daysack, bottle side to me. I also had a half bottle of Vodka (in plastic of course) in the zip pocket at the top of the bag, I opened the bag and I held it whilst the guychecked the bag, he didn't even consider looking in the top of it.

All that said, I/We have even walked in with liter bottles full of vodka and coke in our hands before now, sometimes the best place to hide things is in plain sight.

Good luck

[clairetelche1]

Vodka Haribo is the way forward: Just found a recipe and will be trying it this weekend!!

Put Haribo into a shallow dish and add vodka. Apparently they soak it up over a couple of days and you just keep adding voddie. They expand into huge Haribo monsters then you put them into the freezer. Vodka doesn't really freeze so they just go back to normalish consistency!! Yey!

These will be freely allowed into the arena so you can chomp yourself drunk without the hassle of smuggling cans down your pants!!

xx

[adeleandgaz]

Vodka Haribo is the way forward: Just found a recipe and will be trying it this weekend!!

Put Haribo into a shallow dish and add vodka. Apparently they soak it up over a couple of days and you just keep adding voddie. They expand into huge Haribo monsters then you put them into the freezer. Vodka doesn't really freeze so they just go back to normalish consistency!! Yey!

These will be freely allowed into the arena so you can chomp yourself drunk without the hassle of smuggling cans down your pants!!

xx

[farewellandgoodnight]

Vodka Haribo is the way forward: Just found a recipe and will be trying it this weekend!!

Put Haribo into a shallow dish and add vodka. Apparently they soak it up over a couple of days and you just keep adding voddie. They expand into huge Haribo monsters then you put them into the freezer. Vodka doesn't really freeze so they just go back to normalish consistency!! Yey!

These will be freely allowed into the arena so you can chomp yourself drunk without the hassle of smuggling cans down your pants!!

xx

[Shadowcon]

Vodka Haribo is the way forward: Just found a recipe and will be trying it this weekend!!

Put Haribo into a shallow dish and add vodka. Apparently they soak it up over a couple of days and you just keep adding voddie. They expand into huge Haribo monsters then you put them into the freezer. Vodka doesn't really freeze so they just go back to normalish consistency!! Yey!

These will be freely allowed into the arena so you can chomp yourself drunk without the hassle of smuggling cans down your pants!!

xx

[Joey Hilton]

Im Defo going to be giving this a go!!!

[mammamia27]

Does anybody know if you can still take in more than 1litre if you have a 'medical condition'. It used to say something along those lines (with drs cert) on the website, but can't find it now.

Ignore me..found my answer now lol, you have to contact a steward who'll contact their supervisor.

Edited May 23, 2010 by mammamia27

[bobbalo]

The best thing i've found is the capri sun orange drinks with a screw top lid. Got a tiny funnel from wilkies and refill wiyh vodka or anything else. Then just buy coke, sprite 500ml bottles and top up with spirits. Sits in the bottom of a bag or in a pocket. They hold 330ml, just under half a normal size bottle.

[Elaine Holdsworth]

Vodka Haribo is the way forward: Just found a recipe and will be trying it this weekend!!

Put Haribo into a shallow dish and add vodka. Apparently they soak it up over a couple of days and you just keep adding voddie. They expand into huge Haribo monsters then you put them into the freezer. Vodka doesn't really freeze so they just go back to normalish consistency!! Yey!

These will be freely allowed into the arena so you can chomp yourself drunk without the hassle of smuggling cans down your pants!!

xx

[Elaine Holdsworth]

I am liking this cheeky suggestion, ta x

[AiiShotTheDJ]

I've never had a problem getting it in, I mix vodka and coke in 500ml coke bottles (max size allowed in arena) and vodka or archers/lemonade in water bottles. Vodka in the wellies, that sort of stuff. Sounds really daft but if it works! I'm not paying 3.50 a pint! Top tip females:go through a gate with a male steward as they can do nothing but look in your bag, and go through at peak times i.e. at 12 when the arena opens.

[theenvy]

if you get caught with cans in your wellies etc. can they through you out or anything? or just take them off you?

[craig-g]

if you get caught with cans in your wellies etc. can they through you out or anything? or just take them off you?