V Festival

First time to V in Hylands Park this year.

1. From Car park to camping to arena is MILES.....takes at least 45 mins to get to each.

2. Filthy toilets. Nowhere to wash your hands, only alcohol gel.

3. Food overpriced.

4. Loads of amusement rides around the arena; so loud that they interfere with the artists playing. Terrible.

5. Never seen filth like it, rubbish all over the place.

6. 80% of the festival goers are under 25; its loud, they are drunk and on drugs acting like idiots. It's disgraceful.

We left on Sunday and missed the main 2 acts because the crowds poured in and kids were drunk and taking drugs with no concequence. Did not feel safe on Sunday.

Will never be back and won't ever allow my kids to go. Shameful.

I was a carer for 2 disabled persons we could only get ther by public transport,no security or staff new were the disabled area was and to get your carers wrist band you have to go to the back entrence to v fest, so i had to leave disabled people to go in main entrance and I have to make a 2/ 3 mile hike.otherwise v was great but on leaving the exit,luckely one of the persons I care for had a go pro camera on her hed and cort me going out of the festival, then I got attact by the security unbelivebley,wich I have for all to see if eny one is interested

VFest 2014 was my first festival ever and after reading all the awful reviews on the web I was slightly dubious to say the least.

We arrived into the carpark at 9am on the Friday morning and there wasn’t a massive queue to get into the car park, if you have a lot of stuff or a massive tent I would recommend a trolley and lots of bungee ropes, the walk isn’t that bad from gold to the arena however I wouldn’t recommend it with a load of gear – especially if you have a couple of trips to do as you are looking at 20mins minimum and that’s with nothing to carry.

At first the queue to get past the sniffer doggies looks horrendous but isn’t that bad and we were through within about 15mins. We turned left into gold camp as soon as we got through because we didn’t want to be up all night and did have a couple of trips to be doing.

We pitched up, had a few drinks and went to the box office to exchange our tickets this was about 4pm and there are burger vans, toilets and ice cream vans along the way.

The box office queue was non-existent and so was the queue for the lockerhouse. Off we went for food, there are loads of places to eat that are reasonably priced – for a festival I thought the whole place was to be fair.

We upgraded to VIP for the weekend and I was so glad that we did, the toilet queues were long at times depending on what acts where on but we had a full view of the MTV stage, no rubbish on the floor, a heated bar with a DJ on all day until 2am ish, nicer food to eat, cash bar, tables, inflatable couches, massive beanbags, hammocks and generally away from the hustle & bustle of the main arena.

The normal toilets were appalling! If I hadn’t of upgraded prior to going the second I opened the cubicle door and got a wiff of the stench from the toilets I would have been straight to the box office anyway.

I was worried about things being stolen etc but I didn’t see any of that happen, there were a few idiots in camp but the only thing they did was have music on super early and that’s hardly crime of the century and to be expected in all fairness.

The only downside is the weather, it rained & rained on the Monday morning, I could not be bothered putting the massive tent I took down and having to do a few trips to the car in the mud but then again hey ho – we were going home so it didn’t matter that we were soaking. Loads of people pack up on the Sunday morning and leave Sunday night so’s to avoid the monstrous queue to exit the car park in the morning.

We did go and get our things out of the locker on the Sunday night to avoid a 40 min walk in the morning as we were already in the arena – so that’s worth doing. We also packed everything away ready to be loaded into the car so we had less to do when we were leaving half asleep.

Monday morning we were up at 7:30 and in the car for 9:15, luckily we saw a gap in the fence and got out there but my friend didn’t move from her car parking space for 2 hours so if you have had enough of drinking by Sunday night that really is the time to go home.

Festivals cost a fortune but where can you see so many acts in 1 place for £210?!! People are just whinging for the sake of it I think, everything goes up each year, that’s just the way it is, suck it up & enjoy it.

I had an awesome time and cannot wait until VFest2015, I am going to upgrade next year as I had total VStyle envy going on every time I sat in VIP.

Be wary but just roll with it :)

I paid £65 in total to use the luxury loos at weston park V festival for my sister and I for 2 days. We used them once because they were just constantly over crowded.

There were 10 women toilets, a queue of over 45 mins at any time, the "attentive attendants" were stood around smoking not trying to help get the queue down.

In the end we used the portaloos because there was no queue (max 5 mins) and not all that bad.

I've complained to the organisers and they have ignored me which is unacceptable.

For any one who goes for V thinking that this is the answer to your toilet problems think again - take tissues and hand sanitiser and rough it with everyone else.

Luxury loos are one of the worst companies I've ever used and I wouldn't recommend them to anyone!

since being a regular V festival goer since 97 ave watched it going down hill the past few years,,there far to many pop bands or diva's that its starting to feel like a smash hits type of festival not an indie festival & as for the cost of everything from parking to there beer tents is absolutely disgusting,, V sort this out before your festival will be just full of rich teeny poppers which seems you have no way of controling & you will lose all of us regulars who love & repect our suroundings!!!!

Why the hell can't the stewards organise the egress from the car parks, as well as thew access. On leaving, we waited 1.5 hours to get out of the venue and travelled a mere 750 metres in doing so. Meanwhile, the stewards stood around in groups, completely oblivious to the traffic chaos around them.

Anyone thinking of camping at this festival be warned!! There is the longest walk ever to the campsite. You may think that it wont be a problem but when you are carrying a tent,sleeping bags,beer and other amenities for 50min in the rain you may have wished that you had thought this over. Also tent spaces are limited so get there early. In the afternoon we spoke to people sat on their belongings as they could not find anywhere to pitch their tents.

There is nothing that really happens on the Friday night apart from a DJ set in the tiny Strongbow Cider tent and this closes at around 11ish. After that you are left to your own devises.

We also had an issue on the opening day where we had to queue for 50 minutes to get through security to get into the arenas!!

There is also a very small quantity of toilets and yet again results in queuing!!

On the plus side the people who attend the Weston Park Festival are the best bunch of festival goers ever. This does help with all the negatives that V Festival has to offer. I had a brilliant time but most of that is from the bands I watched, people I met and the people I went to V Festival with.

After three years of attending the festival this one was the least organised it has ever been. Instead of being greedy and taking all our money they should start to listen to peoples suggestions.

I did speak to some people who advised that Glasto is far better organised than V Festival.

After 3 years of V the standards have slipped and I think I will try a different festival!

not good value for Money. Not enough information security staff and information points all lacking. Toilets ridiculous for the amount of people. I had access to posh loos (Joke) 30 min queue on average.

bands didn't enagage with the audience. Camping facilities a joke. Poor value for money

Having been to v festival since it started i used to love it, however, go to another big festival and you will see how they are supposed to be run, in my last year there (2009) i paid extra for the closer campsite which was 45 minutes walk away, there were barely enough water facilities for the campers (we spotted two water taps for about 50,000 campers) but thats okay because the ice cream vans seemed to be open all hours where you could purchase a small bottle for £3.50 a pop!!, the tents were touching each other everywhere(fire hazard) where the organizers tried to herd people in, on two occasions my friend caught on camera fire officers asleep in the watchtowers.

The security firms contracted hire in loads of last minute staff clearly without proper training as four guards we approached coming out of another persons tent did not speak english at all, a basic requirement for the job i would assume, they managed to get away before we could establish they were going through peoples tents robbing of valuables, you would think when you see a security guard they would be the safe ones!!

i would never return to v as they have a lot to improve when you compare their standard to other festivals, far too money orientated.

I go to V every year and always really enjoy it but every year more people attend but the facilities do not increase - i.e massive queues for the toliets and huge queues for the bar. Next year please can we have a few more toliets and more bars - the bar by the JJB stage was very small for the amount of people in that area.