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Camping
Camping
You can only enter the camping and festival area with a festival wristband. These bands are available in exchange for the valid entrance ticket.
Camping is only possible with the Southside Festival Pass.Please note the following:
- Keep the marked escape routes in the camping area clear.
- Open fires are strictly forbidden on the entire grounds!
- There is a noise curfew between 2.00 a.m. and 8.00 a.m.
- It is forbidden to bring and/or set off Bengal or any other fireworks! Infringements will be punished at least by a yellow ribbon.
How much space can I use?
5 sqm per person! Here is a small illustrative example: 10 sqm correspond to the need for a comfortable two-person tent plus canopy and two camping chairs.
Groups
If you want to camp with a group, you should arrive together – please understand that our security staff are not responsible for bringing individual groups together.
Toilets & showers
The sanitary facilities on the campsites have showers and flushing toilets. In addition, numerous mobile toilets are also available. The use of all sanitary facilities on the entire festival grounds is free of charge.
Power at your tent
Your phone is dead and your power bank is also empty? No problem, simply rent a power station for the duration of the festival.
Click here to book now!
Cash & cashless payment:
On the concert grounds, you can pay with cash and preferably also cashless at countless bars and drinks stands as well as at the merchandise stands. All common mobile payment methods (such as Girocard, Mastercard, Visa Card) including Apple Pay and Google Pay are accepted - excluded: American Express is not accepted. Here you can find an overview.ATMs:
ATMs are located at the Info Points near the WEST and EAST entrances to the concert grounds. There are also ATMs on the concert grounds not far from the Ferris wheel. You can find the exact locations in our site maps and in the app.
A local fee of EUR 5.99 per withdrawal will be charged for national withdrawals. The fees for international withdrawals may vary.
Biotopes & nature reserves
Many of the areas around here are major biotopes and nature reserves. We would like to preserve these areas and the animals and plants who live there and protect them as best as possible during the festival. Anyone caught entering, littering or vandalising the restricted areas, will risk at least a yellow card, if not being evicted.
Deposit collection ban
The commercial collection of recyclables (especially deposit bottles, metals) on the festival grounds for the purpose of marketing recyclables is only permitted with the organiser’s prior written consent. Anyone violating the ban on commercial collection may be punished by confiscation of the collected recyclables. In addition, they may be evicted from the festival site immediately. Usual quantities for festival guests in terms of type and volume will be accepted.
Liability
Each guest shall be liable for any damage they cause.
Decorations
We put a lot of heart and soul, time and effort into decorating our festival grounds to make the festival a great experience for you. Therefore, we would ask all guests to please pay our work the respect it deserves. Anyone who defies this rule and removes, misappropriates, defaces or in any other way destroys our decorations will at least face a yellow card.DOs & DON'Ts
What is allowed on the festival grounds?
There are security checks at the entrances, where your luggage will be screened. Please bear in mind that these checks are also for your own protection.
+ Bring it!
- Tents and tent materials
- Tent accessories such as camping chairs, camping tables, a normal pavilion (3 x 3 metres) per camp (applies to around 10 people – if larger groups are camping together, more pavilions are allowed accordingly)
- Disposable barbecues, small tripod barbecues, charcoal lighters
- Gas cookers with gas cartridges (cartridges up to max. 450 g)
- Beverage kegs (up to 5 l), beverage cans, plastic bottles, tetra-paks
- Locksmith hammer up to 300 g and rubber mallet up to 400 g
- Jars up to 500 ml with cooking and food products (e.g. jam/Nutella/pickles)
- Leave it!
- Glass bottles/glass containers
- Big gas cylinders
- Outsize structures such as party tents or similar
- Furniture such as sofas, armchairs, big tables
- Building materials, bulky wastes
- Power generators, electricity units, external car batteries
- (Car) trailers
- Dry ice
- Liquid barbecue lighters
- Refrigerators
- Megaphones, laser pointers
- Firearms, knives, daggers and weapons of any kind
- Saws, axes, hatchets and similar tools
- Fireworks, sparklers, catapults and other pyrotechnical items of any description (incl. Bengal Fire)
- Animals of all kinds
- Locksmith hammers over 300 g and rubber mallets over 400 g and all other types of hammers
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helgaa
Camping items directly at the festival and at fair prices!
Since 2010, helgaa has been offering you the opportunity to buy camping items such as pavilions, chairs, luma, sleeping bags, tents, etc. directly at the festival. If you want to be on the safe side, you can also order online in advance. You then only need to pick up your ordered items on site. You can also get accessories such as pegs, duct tape, etc. from helgaa.
You will find the helgaa stand directly on the campsite.And now helgaa has the camping chairs in the official festival design for you!
More information and the possibility of pre-ordering is available at www.helgaa-festival.de
Rent A Tent
You want to relax on your journey to the festival? Without rushing and time pressure, with minimal baggage and stuff to carry? You want to take part in the festival and sleep in a tent although you don't have your own camping gear? Then mein-zelt-steht-schon (My tent is already pitched) has got you covered! Simply book a tent and the stuff you need before the festival, and it will be ready-built and waiting for you on site.
SafeBOXes
Enjoy your Southside to the fullest - without worrying about your valuables. SafeBOXes lockers keep your valuables safe in an easily accessible location. Built-in power outlets let you power your tech gadgets. The entire locker system at Southside will be attended and monitored on the day of the event until the end of the event. We recommend you to book your locker online before the event. If there are enough lockers left, you can also book them on site.
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Camping in a tent
The tent camping areas are divided into the regular campsite and the Greener Living area for tent accommodation as well as the resort (with your own tent or in pre-erected tent accommodation).
Greener Living
People who love rock’n‘roll at the concerts but prefer some calm and cleanliness when camping, can stay at our Greener Living area during Southside. The Greener Living area is is a separate area that gives our green-minded guests an opportunity to sleep in a clean and calm environment.
Resort
Want to camp in your own tent but with more space and other amenities to make your festival experience more pleasant? Then pitch up at the resort.
Resort with tent accommodation
Don't feel like lugging a tent around? Then check out the resort. Here you can move into a super cosy tent.
