Did anyone buy VIP tickets for Ultra Music Festival in 2013?
What the above post says is correct. I bought general admission this year, and if I ever go again, I'll probably get general admission. here are my thoughts:-the multiple platforms are cool, but I loved the energy of the main crowd. the viewing platforms also aren't that close to the main stage-there were plenty of grassy fields to sit down on. i imagine this would be more of a problem if it had been raining and the lawns were super muddy, but that wasn't the case this year. -there were so many bars around the festival that I never had to wait more than 5 minutes to get a drink. -i usually arrived in the mid to late afternoon, and the lines weren't that bad. I think the longest wait was maybe 20 minutes? -I didn't get anywhere close to strip searched when I went. -the port-a-potties were pretty disgusting towards the end of the night, that I definitely agree with.-Another reason that I would get GA in the future: If I want to sell my ticket, it'd be much easier to get my money back (or make a profit) with GA.
Is it worth buying VIP tickets for the Ultra Music Festival?
I attended this year (2014) for the first time. I had regular tickets. If were to go again, I'd buy VIP tickets because of these benefits:VIP seating/standing/dancing area. For big-name performers, the VIP area was way closer than you could get in GA unless you arrived at the stage hours beforehand (or pushed your way through). Plus, the VIP areas were covered (and thus out of the elements-- either sun or rain). And besides, if the GA area is where you'd rather be for a particular performer, you don't have to stay in VIP land.VIP restrooms. By the end of the festival, many (most?) of the GA restrooms were little more than privacy shacks atop overflowing cesspools. There was no organized queuing for entrance, so you would have people standing for 10-15 minutes waiting in a makeshift line-- only to have someone barge in from nowhere and take the next opening.VIP entrance line. Waiting for an hour+ in the GA line to get groped/admitted while hearing a headliner play in the distance was a real drag.If you're an impatient heavy drinker, the bar service is probably better during peak times -- but I never had to wait more than a few minutes in a line to buy a drink at spots away from the main vending area near the entrance.So whether it's worth it to you depends on how much you value those benefits.
How many tickets were sold for Ultra Music Festival 2013?
They often sell 60K tickets at these festivals on many occasions. They did upgrade from Bayfront park to continue the demand for more ticketing fans. I know throughout the weekend, they sell more tickets but limit how many people fit into the capacity of each stage area. I think they sell about another 20k at the door with walk ins and another 5K for vip/guest.Regards,JonathanDreamBeamz
How fast does the Ultra Music Festival tickets sell? Also if anyone knows if one person can buy several tickets for the friends or just each buys his?
I'm not sure of the limit of tickets but you should be able to buy a few. And they tend to sell out within a couple of months that's how it was last year. I buy my ticket right away just to be secure and have a spot. So if you want to go snag that ticket soon there is also a payment plan. :) best of luck!
When are ultra music festival tickets on sale?
Ben, that actually depends on the festival. Some may be on sale six months or more before the show. Others only a few months as the final lineup isn't set until that time.The best advice I can give you is to track the festival (s) you want to attend a year in advance and sign up for instant notification when they place their tickets on sale. Be prepared to buy them immediately if it is rumored that it will sell out. I usually start following the Download Festival the day it ends for the next year show. Back in September I started checking my favorite band's websites for 2019 tour dates. You can also sign up on bands websites for texts when they post their tour dates.
How do undercover police operate at music festivals? How many undercovers are actually at festivals like Coachella?
I did this once and it didn’t turn out well, for all the reasons the other people answering have mentioned. This was a two day outdoor festival, country-western mostly, and the organizers asked for a “presence,” which my agency agreed to. That presence consisted of three agents, all of whom agreed beforehand that we were going to get good seats, enjoy the music, and not spoil the experience by making any cases.This worked out well for a few hours until the guys right in front of us opened up for business, selling small quantities of marijuana and the white tablets that were billed as “meth tabs” for methamphetamine but almost never were. Pretty soon, people were coming and going and we figured we couldn’t just ignore it, so I bought some. Then we waited for the seller to go off to the food trucks or whatever so he could get arrested where he wouldn’t be connected to me.We found out that THAT didn’t work out when one of his buddies comes up and says something like, “you f’n nark” and starts pounding on me. It took a minute but I get him down and start pounding on him, then get the handcuffs on him, by which time everybody in the place, including the band, which was Asleep at the Wheel, was looking at us. Sheriff’s deputies, who knew us, came in and got the prisoner and we all went down to the courthouse, so I missed Crystal Gayle, damn it, and Jerry Jeff Walker (Up Against the Wall Red Neck Mother), which got the crowd going. But our concert-going days were over, and the people who wanted a “presence” got it. The guy who assaulted me got two years to think that over.Now really, did we, the government, have to “trick people into committing crimes” here?” Not hardly. They were flagrantly committing them with anybody and everybody in the venue who wanted to commit them too. All we did was document it. As an undercover, I never induced a person to commit a crime he wouldn’t have otherwise committed, just documented crimes he was already doing and predisposed to committing. You can argue the validity of the law, but it’s on the books and picking and choosing which laws to enforce isn’t the way our republic was designed to operate.That said, we should have waited until the end of Day Two to collect that guy. Freddy Fender was coming!
Is there a better EDM festival than Tomorrowland? I live in Canada and going to Belgium for Tomorrowland would cost a fortune. Is there anything closer?
Hy mister,Well to give you an inside look. We prepare the festival 1 year in advance. We care about details... let's just say we are obsessed about details. We want everything to be picture perfect. Anywhere on the festivalside, no matter where, you will always find decoration like flowers, butterflies, the TML logo.That's why you don't see any (scaffing) building structures. Everything is covered with posters or decoration. We create a mythical and magical atmosphere. Since the beginning we were inventing new ways for SPFX playing with water/fire/acrobats/... There are 2.300.000 people that want a ticket. So not even 10% gets a ticket. The crowd is the most amazing part, they have history with the festival. Not to be cheesy but yesterday is indeed for many history (or legacy), today is a gift (we can work on something beautiful every day), tomorrow is mystery (even for us, we are still discovering new FX).Hope you can join us for our 10th mythical anniversary edition.