drinks prices

[cejx]

http://www.highvoltagefestival.com/info/drinks/

Is this expensive? hmmmm.

[MrHew]

http://www.highvoltagefestival.com/info/drinks/

Is this expensive? hmmmm.

[dan05delaney]

£4 a drink (beer / cider/wine/alcopop)....

£4 Vodka mixer...

£5 for vodka red bull...

that makes me appreciate student life a lot more

[Dav0s]

£4 for 440ml? thats not even a pint, so yes that is VERY expensive.

[thenorthernmonkey]

Think last year it was about £3.50 a pint but you dont dont mind when its a nice pint its when you pay £3.50 for a pint and your piss has a stronger alcohol content

[smiley4999]

that works out at £5.16 a pint and out of a can you must be having a giraffe!

[Rolf Harris]

Look at the sizez they are clearly cans and bottles as well.

What a joke.

[farewellandgoodnight]

Yeah, i'd be cancelling my ticket right about now if I was going. Notice that there's a COMPLETE ban on any alcohol being taken into site.

Even at V and the like you can go back to the campsite for a few cans. Utterly disgraceful and I hope the place goes bust!

[farewellandgoodnight]

I've also just checked on the website and it says that once you arrive on site there're no pass outs. If you leave you can't get back in until the next day.

So the equivalent of not allowing you to leave the arena to go back to your tent at one of the other big festivals. What a pile of shite! I quite like the lineup but I hate ahving the piss taken out of me like that!

[marktea]

And that is a serioulsy limited selection of very mediocre products. Would make that festival a complete non-starter for me.

[gizmoman]

This is an absolute joke, the festival claims it is 'custom built by rock fans for rock fans', since many of the fans of the bands playing are at the older end of the gig going public and would prefer real ale to canned supermarket lager you can see what a load of bull that is. The only reason (other than greed) i can see for these prices is to deter punters from getting drunk and causing problems in the area (not necessary IMO with an older audience). Glad I'm not giving them any of my money.

[jameshunt]

This is an absolute joke, the festival claims it is 'custom built by rock fans for rock fans', since many of the fans of the bands playing are at the older end of the gig going public and would prefer real ale to canned supermarket lager you can see what a load of bull that is. The only reason (other than greed) i can see for these prices is to deter punters from getting drunk and causing problems in the area (not necessary IMO with an older audience). Glad I'm not giving them any of my money.

[Frames]

If I couldn't drink at a festival I don't think I'd go

[farewellandgoodnight]

However, you probably missed this bit:

"(Please note these are NOT the prices for the VIP bar, the Classic Club Bar or the Real Ale Pub)"

[jameshunt]

I didn't miss that I just took it to mean that prices in those bars are likely to be even more ridiculous.

Edited May 20, 2010 by jameshunt

[gizmoman]

Not defending their prices, their lack of choice at the main bars, nor their anti-competitive practices such as not allowing you to take your own drinks in. All of that sucks.

However, you probably missed this bit:

"(Please note these are NOT the prices for the VIP bar, the Classic Club Bar or the Real Ale Pub)"

[jameshunt]

I did miss that, but now ive looked further the VIP package is £1200 for the weekend (extra if you want a hotel), if i'd paid that i'd have expected a free VIP bar all weekend! (with a selection of groupies thrown in)!

[robith]

Erm, everyone seems to have missed that it's in Victoria Park. So it's like Wireless a bit - there's no campsite to go into. The "arena" as it were is the entire site so you can't bring alcohol in.

The local council also doesn't allow pass outs for events in their licenses (remembering correctly from Field Day) because they don't want people constantly going out to local offies and getting ledgered in the park. Because (speaking as a former resident) the people who live near Victoria Park don't half like a moan!

EDIT: offies not offices! I'm sure they'd have no problem with that!

Edited May 20, 2010 by robith

[farewellandgoodnight]

Erm, everyone seems to have missed that it's in Victoria Park. So it's like Wireless a bit - there's no campsite to go into. The "arena" as it were is the entire site so you can't bring alcohol in.

The local council also doesn't allow pass outs for events in their licenses (remembering correctly from Field Day) because they don't want people constantly going out to local offies and getting ledgered in the park. Because (speaking as a former resident) the people who live near Victoria Park don't half like a moan!

EDIT: offies not offices! I'm sure they'd have no problem with that!

[chuckley]

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay cheaper than certain parts of LDN. defo NOT expensive at all.

[farewellandgoodnight]

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay cheaper than certain parts of LDN. defo NOT expensive at all.

Edited May 24, 2010 by farewellandgoodnight

[Rufus Gwertigan]

The alcohol situation at a lot of medium sized festivals (10,000) in the North is getting shite. A few last year banning your own booze in the arena and then to add insult you have to queue up for some f**king non-refundable beer tokens to them have to queue up for a pint of rancid dogs puke and pay £3.60 a pint for the priviledge.

If it was £3.60 last year you will be looking at nearly £4 this year for your foaming cup of spew.

Loads of festivals around 10,000 punters can still get in local licensees to do the bars with local beers and still only charge £2.50. Guess it all depends on way the festival was set up in the first place, as a money earner or a community event.

[Phil-itfc]

I cant defend those prices they are very high, but no one is forcing you to drink! when I have been to these 1 day in the city type 'festivals' I use the term festival loosely I have never seen what alcohol can do to enhance the experience.

[puppetmode]

Its WELL expensive. our locals got Guiness at £2.05 and real ale pints at £1.69.

I know its prime time festival but its no wonder people bring their own drinks in.

I guess it depends on the rental charges by the festival

[mikeb]

Looks well bl**dy expensive to me - £4 for 3/4 pint of recycled p!$$ I know it was way back in 2006 but I don't remember paying anywhere near that kinda premium for several most excellent full pints of Ale courtesy of that jolly fine chap Mr.Woodeforde at the first Hyde Park Calling. That's the only London 'festival' I've ever attended but excellent service, excellent ale and very reasonably priced I thought at the time given a captive audience in the centre of London situation - I was *very* pleasantly surprised at not being totally and unmercilessly ripped off it has to be said. I've certainly never paid what amounts to £5 a pint anywhere in Town even in recent times either and that's for a decent pint, not some watered down p!$$ ! Sure, London prices in general are expensive but that's just taking the p!$$ I reckon, significantly less than that for pub prices ... providing you choose your pub sensibly of course.

Edited May 24, 2010 by mikeb