My Review of Sziget Festival in Budapest

What’s Sziget Festival like?

In a word: Crazy.

In a few hundred more: keep on reading.

Here’s my open and honest Sziget Festival review so you can decide if it’s the one for you. 

My first day at Sziget was their Day -1. The festival runs for a whole week from Monday to Sunday. Monday is Day -2, Tuesday is Day -1, Wednesday Day 0, and then it runs on normally up to Sunday.

Camping ticket holders have access to every day, while the weekend ticket-holders can come in from Wednesday, Day 0. I managed to get a camping press ticket at the last minute, although stood by my decision to stay in an apartment in Budapest to be with my friends, and to be comfortable.

This ticket meant, thankfully, that I could see headliners Queens of the Stone Age on the Tuesday. I’d made a faux pas in booking my original ticket and hadn’t realised you wouldn’t be able to see the first two nights of acts (Blink 182 were the others) if you didn’t book a camping ticket. Silly Bob.