24+ Awesome Ways to Sneak Alcohol into Festivals (or Anywhere!)

Once you add up the ticket, the equipment, the food and the alcohol, festivals are expensive. There’s no doubt that they’re worth every penny, but if you can work out how to sneak alcohol into festivals, successfully, you stand to save A LOT. 

I want to show you how to hide alcohol to help you bring the costs of festivals, cruises and events down. If you learn how to do this without detection, it’s a lesson to learn for life, and you stand to save many pounds!

– All this advice also works for sneaking alcohol on a cruise too!

Most of the weekend camping festivals let you take your own booze in, Glastonbury and Bestival included. There are always a few that are just out to make as much money as possible though, such as EXIT, Field Day and Eastern Electrics.

They charge an absolute fortune for a glass of wine, making getting drunk at these things, way too expensive. This is where getting a little sneaky becomes a necessity. I’ve been going to festivals for over 20 years, always on a budget so I’ve become somewhat of an expert at this. Trust me!

If you need to get alcohol into festivals…

1. Sunscreen lotion bottle

If you want to hide alcohol, simply empty a tube or bottle of lotion and refill with booze. Or if you want to be really crafty, and probably safer, put your booze in a food bag and push to the bottom of the bottle. That way if they open it up and sniff it or look at it, there will still be sunscreen on the top to throw them off the scent.

You could adapt your own sunscreen bottle, or buy these specially-created-for-smuggling bottles from Amazon for the easier option. This is one of the best ways to hide alcohol when you’re trying to get the booze into the festival. 

2. In the Pringles tube

Same idea, different smuggling vessel. Just add a food bag filled with booze in the bottom – weighs less than bottles – and stack a few Pringles on top.