Independent · checked against operator timetables
Where to stay, and how you get home
Travel guides for music. Most guides tell you an area is "well connected" and stop there. We publish the last train, the night bus number and the walk time — because that is the thing you actually need at four in the morning.
Festivals
Wonderfruit
Seven areas compared on drive time, price and whether anyone is awake when you get back — and the midnight rule that decides whether you should book a hotel at all.
Primavera Sound
Eight neighbourhoods compared on distance, price and how you get back on each night — including the Thursday problem nobody else mentions.
Concerts
Slane Castle
Two nights, 160,000 people, a village of 1,445 — and no camping anywhere on the site.
Scarborough Open Air Theatre
Show ends 22:30. Station is 25 minutes away. Last train 22:43. The post-show bus runs later than the train it cannot get you to.
Eden Park
Concerts until 11pm on a Sunday, in a city where Sunday trains stop earliest. Half the crowd leaves by rail.
Why this exists
Barcelona's metro closes at midnight from Monday to Thursday. Primavera Sound's late stages run until seven or eight in the morning. On the Thursday of the festival that leaves a gap of six hours or more, affecting tens of thousands of people — and almost no guide mentions it. One widely-read one gets it flatly wrong and tells you the metro runs until 2am.
Wonderfruit has the opposite problem and it is just as badly covered: the gates shut at midnight and do not reopen until eight, so leaving for a shower at 1am ends your night. The guides that mention the shuttle are quoting a hotel list that changed two years ago.
That is the sort of thing we go and check. Not because it's clever, but because it decides where you should book, and you will not find it on a hotel booking site.
Coming next
Guides in progress, in the order they'll land.
- Lollapalooza Argentina Buenos Aires · 12–14 March 2027
A racetrack 25km north of the city, and an event that ends after the trains stop.
- Amsterdam Dance Event Amsterdam · October 2027
Metro stops at 00:30, clubs run to 08:00, and half the venues are across the IJ.
- Lollapalooza Brasil São Paulo · 19–21 March 2027
Interlagos, 25km south, closing at 01:00 in a city of 22 million.
- Tomorrowland Boom, Belgium · Late July 2027
A town of 18,000 taking 200,000 people, half of them from abroad.