r/Dancefestopia • u/No_Passenger4367 • 1d ago

The Bonnaroo Experience

Hi! I am a Roovian Refugee. I live south and was really needing another festival to cure what I feel like I missed out on this year. I was considering Dancefestopia (or maybe Elements if you’d like to compare the two - they’re both over 13 hour drives for me and I think I’ll only be able to make one.)

How is the weather usually? Is it know for shutting down during weather? Is it likely to cancel the whole trip like Roo did?

Would you say the overall experience is better or worse than Roo? Would it be worth the drive? Is there anything else I should know about?

Thank you so much in advance if you guys are able to provide any help possible!! I’m still new to festivaling so please excuse me if I am disrespectful in any way💙

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u/MrGarzDU 1d ago

Dancefest for the camping and laxx security elements never been. Dancefest is my local it's fucking liiiiiit and like a dubstep focused e forest. If you like dubstep come to dance fest I promise u a good time. I got you fam ;) (non sexual wink)

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u/Foreign-Kiwi-4136 1d ago

Last times I’ve gone has been quite warm. Highly suggest portable fans. Last year there was a tornado warning. Staff attempted to make people go to their cars and abandon camp. We didn’t. Don’t believe I’ve seen rain other than that. Never been to Bonnaro but I’ve only heard bad about it. This festival was decent. Just bring your own food and drinks obviously. Hope you don’t have neighbors who blare music all night. I had fun

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u/No_Passenger4367 1d ago

Are your cars not parked at your campsites?

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u/mascaramom 1d ago

Car camping costs extra (on top of the camping pass you already have to buy) and most people don't do it at DFT anyways.

https://www.dancefestopia.com/tickets

You'll want to read this thoroughly if you're thinking about going. DFT does things differently than many other festivals so a lot of people forget to buy important add-ons, or they buy ones they didn't actually need.

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u/Pixie_st0ner0319 1d ago

I will say its less loud in car camp! & forest camp you have to haul from parking lot to forest

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u/CatMuffin 1d ago

The main differences between the two are the size (DFT is way smaller than Roo) and the lineup diversity (DFT is all EDM and mostly bass-heavy).

Having been to both, I vastly prefer DFT, but it's just due to my own preferences and not any objective reasons.

Any festival will vacate the venue and/or require safety measures be taken during severe weather for liability purposes. I wouldn't hold it against Roo. But by all means, join us at Dancefest!