Festival Camping List

With only a fortnight to go before the Sunflower Festival here is my guide to packing for a festival. Please comment below with your own suggestions.

This could of course be used as a basic camping list for an occasion when you want to travel light or may not have access to your usual transport.

The Sunflower Festival is on at Tubbys Farm, Cabragh Road, Hillsborough from the 31st July - 2nd August. Tickets available on the website.

The Sunflower Festival Website

Festival Camping List 

General

Tent of choice – choice of big (stand up height) or small (easier to carry) and don’t forget pegs and mallet

Bed of choice – foam mat or airbed or self-inflating mat

Airbed pump if using an airbed

Pillows, inflatable or from home

Three season sleeping bag

Waterproof backed Picnic blanket for sitting on and use as an extra overblanket at night

Eating

Cool box, non-electric and cheap. Fill with ice from supermarket and a couple of 1 litres of frozen milk. Use as an extra seat or use as a table for putting stove on (carefully)

Single stove with fuel canister

Collapsible water carrier or 5l sized bottled water from supermarket

Pan set with optional kettle

Tin opener/bottle opener

Mug per person

Disposable cutlery and paper plates

Roll of bin liners (tip – do not take a whole roll, take a used ‘thin’ one from home – bin liner can also be used as emergency poncho)

Tea/coffee decanted into a clip top plastic box

Leftover sugar, salt and pepper satchets from your local eatery in a Ziploc bag

Small Hand Sanitiser (lidl, 79p)

Matches or Lighter

Pot Noodles, rice crackers, breakfast bars, fruit, fruit loaf, bagels, plastic jar of peanut butter etc etc.

Personal

Lightweight back pack for day use (day pack – Decathlon do a lightweight one, £2.99 range of colours)

Ziploc bag with your phone inside it

Travel pack of wet wipes

Wad of toilet roll

Paracetamol / prescription meds

Smidge or other insect repellent

Sun cream

Camera

Head Torch

Wallet with one card (pre-paid credit card is safer) and cash
Ear plugs

Clothes and Toiletries

Wellies / second pair of resilient shoes such as trainers

Poncho or pack a mac

One change of clothes

Lightweight comfy clothes for sleeping

Jumper or warm jacket

Sun hat

Sunglasses

Dry Shampoo

Travel Wipes

Toothbrush/toothpaste

Optional

Folding chair, preferably one with a carrying strap

Toilet seat liners, ebay £1.30 for 10

Tip – if taking a car keep a clean change of clothes and shoes for going home in as you may stop off somewhere for a bite to eat on the way.

Tip 2 - check the weather and if there is any windy weather forecasted, take a smaller tent preferably a pop up tent which will be much more likely to survive gale force winds. The bigger the tent the more surface area which will just pull the pegs out of the ground. Take a selection of different types of pegs especially rock pegs which are longer and stronger than most.