Tag: ProTip
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EDC ProTip: You’re Never Too Old for Electric Daisy Carnival
Think you’re too old for EDC? You may be right, but the longer you wait, the older you’ll get. EDC is a three-day overnight festival in 100-plus degree weather. The music is loud. The desert is brutal. Here are 10 tips for how to have a good time when you’re likely older than everyone else attending the…
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EDC ProTip: Buying EDC Vegas Tickets Using the Payment Plan
Over the last couple of years festivals have started offering payment plans when purchasing tickets so that more people will purchase the tickets and pay for them over the course of four to five months. You’ll want to be cautious though and follow the small print or you can end up never receiving your tickets…
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EDC ProTip: Rent a Locker With Friends
You’re going to a three-day festival with thousands of people and you don’t want to carry a lot of stuff around with you, so what do you do with it? Rent a locker! Lockers are approximately 8″H x 12″W x 18″D, so there should be plenty of room for a few friends to share a locker…
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EDC ProTip: VIP Versus General Admission Tickets
For Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas you have the option of buying either a general admission ticket or a VIP ticket. Is VIP worth the additional cost over general admission? Is there one that’s better than the other? What are your friends buying? Every year there are people who only buy VIP and then there are others who…
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Beyond Wonderland Bay Area ProTip: How to Make a Festival Totem
Love them or hate them, totems are a big part of the atmosphere at Insomniac festivals like Beyond Wonderland, Bay Area. They are a fantastic way to keep tabs on your group, enabling everyone to be able to venture off, and easily return to the group. Let’s face it, no one wants to spend all…
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EDC ProTip: Removing a Wristband You Put on Too Early
As you receive your ticket package and shuttle wristband in the mail there’ll be excitement to just put it on and raise your hand in the air in victory but we suggest you wait. Do you really want to be wearing it for several weeks before the festival? Unless it’s already too late… oops! Or…
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EDC ProTip: 14 Essentials to Bring to the Speedway
Whether you’re ready for it or not, festival season has arrived. So are you ready or are you absolutely lost? If you’re lost don’t trip my fellow festival goers, I’ve created a list of essentials ranging from ChapStick to my favorite accessory the fanny pack. I’ll also provide the reasoning behind each of these coveted…
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2014 ProTip #17: A Festival Hotel Room Needs Air Fresheners
There’s some topics that just don’t get talked about but should and this one is the stink. It’ll happen and you’ll need air fresheners. You’ll be in a hotel room for at least three nights and four days if not much longer with a number of people in a hotel room and for three of…
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2014 ProTip #18: Chap Stick is the Most Essential Item
When we started protips in 2013 the first one was chap stick and anyone who’s an EDC veteran, lives in Las Vegas or visits often can tell you that chap stick is one of the most essential items you’ll need. Don’t just travel with one stick either, bring many. The first time I went to…
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2014 ProTip #19: Your Hotel Room Needs Cold Drinks
You’re traveling to a hotel room for anywhere from three to seven days, have you thought about how to keep your water cold? What about your beer? Chances are that your hotel room does not come equipped with a fridge and the standard ice bucket isn’t big enough to keep a six-pack cold for very long. It’s Las Vegas,…
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2014 ProTip #21: Call Your Credit Card Company and Bank
This is tip that applies to any sort of travel to another state or country and especially a large city. Plan about 15 minutes over the next week and look at the back of your debit card and credit cards and call the 1-800 number on each and every one of them and tell them you’ll…
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2014 ProTip #22: Bring a Power Strip and Portable Router
This tip can apply to just about any vacation when you’re travelling whether it’s to a hotel or even a friend’s house. We all have phones and often travel with tablets and computers as well which means they’ll all have to be charged. How many people will you be sharing a room with? Probably more…
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2014 ProTip #24: Make Smart Decisions Before a Festival
Every year before any festival whether it’s EDC, Ultra, Coachella, Bonnaroo or any other festival there’s often stories about someone getting into some sort of trouble or problems in the weeks before and they aren’t able to go. It could be spending too much money going out in the weeks prior and going broke or…
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2014 ProTip #25: Removing a Wristband You Put on Too Early
As you receive your ticket package and shuttle wristband in the mail there’ll be excitement to just put it on and raise your hand in the air in victory but we suggest you wait. Do you really want to be wearing it for another three weeks? What if you put it on too tight? Unless…
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2014 ProTip #26: Choosing Festival Meet Up Spots
Over the last few year one of the biggest questions I have been asked is, “What are the best meet up spots inside the festival if you break away from your group?” The easiest way to pick your meet up spot is to find something stationary and agree on a time. Countless amounts of people…
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2014 ProTip #30: Plan a Sunset and a Sunrise at EDC
There’s one thing that sets Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas apart from a majority of the other festivals around the world and it’s the fact that it runs all night long where you can dance under the electric sky. This isn’t a festival that ends once the street lights go on. Let’s take a…
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2014 ProTip #31: Don’t Throw Balls at DJs
This one is pretty simple and it doesn’t matter if you’re inside or outside, don’t throw balls at DJs! There should never come a time where anything is thrown at a DJ but saying don’t throw balls is a better headline. As beach balls and any other inflatables start flying in the air you’ll feel…
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2014 ProTip #36: Learn How to Edit Video
So you’ve bought a handheld camera or you’re thinking about it (GoPro, Sony Action Cam) to record all of those festival experiences but do you know what to do with the video afterwards? Or are you going to let all of those recordings just sit on a memory card like the hundreds of pictures and horrible sounding…
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ProTip #37: Rent a Locker With Friends
You’re going to a three night festival with 130,000 people and you don’t want to carry a lot of stuff around with you, so what do you do with it? Rent a locker! The lockers are only $75 for three nights and can easily be split amongst a group of people where it’s pocket change…
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2014 ProTip #38: Tips for Buying Sold Out Tickets
Tickets for Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas 2014 sold out faster than ever before but that doesn’t mean you’re out of luck trying to get tickets if you weren’t able to get one. The first part of this protip is to start planning now to be able to buy a ticket for EDCLV 2015 when…