The expectations and realities of your first koachella life: heat, queues, posture and lemonade at the price of champagne | Life
If someone sees the Norilsk circle, it is assumed that he works. That inside there are people watching the landscape, enjoying the trip. How it should be Coachella To look up, deceive your eyes and ask yourself: “But this noria, will it really be?” Attracting the most famous festival around the world is a form, with a palm tree in the center, at the entrance. But ask if it is genuine or pure courage demonstrates that this is the kingdom PostoWhere the famous wheel of good luck serves, first of all, to be the lower part of the photograph to clarify where you are, who you are.
Yes, yes, Norria works and costs about $ 15. Cheap, compared with the madness that is this festival. For those who live in the first framework – for a long time Los -anglesFace City, where there is – everything is exaggerated here. We warn: prices, queues, warmth. Some real messages of friends before the entrance: “It’s like going to war”; “No, it’s very expensive”; “I sell it to you as it is: you must be well prepared”; “Coachella, often interferes”; “They tell him Karmagedon“;”; I already told you when you arrive, you need to sit down ”; I think about it and give me laziness … ”Three days later this is confirmed: they were not disappointed.
When you are 20 years old (and, above all, a bulky budget), perhaps Coachella are fields, photos for Instagram, exaltation of friendship, with the ability to connect. When you are thirty people (thirty and almost all …), and your task is to see as many concerts as possible and run away from them again, paradise is far away. It is true that visiting the public is not the same as going to work, but in any case everyone agrees that it is overwhelming.
Per day of more than fifty concerts, From symphonic to DJs, from pure pop music to the Peruvian Amazon of Cambia. The space is huge, and from one stage to another you may need more than half an hour walk. In addition, the Indian, where he is, in the end, the city in the middle of the desert. Therefore, the first weekend in the Coachelle, especially last Friday, April 11, 42 ° C were exceeded. And walk an average of 45 minutes from parking Until the entrance to more than 40 degrees is simply tiring, if not madness. When, after several hours of the magazine, you came to see Lola Young – the first high scale of the day – in a greenhouse tent, his Sloppy (Disaster, in -Spanish). It will collapse you as if I personally devoted it to you.
Then there is a question about prices. It’s nice to have beer, watching your favorite artists … I think. People do not see too much alcohol, more than many girls hide in their boots cowboy To go through the entrance control, something is prohibited. Prices are as huge as space. Who writes did not try to try alcohol (with a scorching warmth and try to write, a bad combination), and in order to give compressed, crazy: refreshing lemonade, an ice glass with a good lemon stream of recently compressed lemon. It would not be so many, I suggested. And I was wrong: $ 17, that is, 15 euros.
Prices are destructive. To begin with, the entrance does not fall with $ 600. Get to the festival in bus buses Transfer It costs $ 150 of neighboring hotels. A piece of medium pizza only with cheese, $ 11. There is no hamburger with 20. All this is more than taxes and tips, that is, 25% or 30% more than originally noted. Hotels of the Indians, not being large, can exceed $ 1,000 per night during the festival, so many decide to sleep outside the city and ride at dawn for kilometers. What, after leaving the corps: leave When the head of the poster ends (Friday Lady GagaSaturday Travis Scott, Domingo Post of Malone) can lead to an hour or more to get out of the parking lot. Plus 45 minutes Dust Road to get from the stage, even more time driving … when there is not enough for the music for three hours to catch the bed.
Coachella has its good things. There is grass. It’s cool at night. They do not steal too much. Water is free. There are enough areas of replenishment of devices, even one, as soon as the controls – two bracelets, another double security. Of course, wait for the tails. Americans obsessed with hydration (that which is not bad for this occasion), they are loaded Camel And giant bottles that are filled with water without stopping. Stations are endemic in this thematic park of live music. Buy merchandising (Although the cheapest shirt does not get out of $ 50) to go to the bathroom (a space that is best not included in the details) to give them a free model of a moisturizer or ramen in some kiosks installed by brands. Even for concerts: at the main stages they cannot be seen in the first eight or ten rows, there are fans from hours ago.
For whom is Coachella? Of course, for celebrities who are released (or even sponsored), for those who leave at the door in carts, eat and eat for free in their areas VIP In the shade. And for the rest and in general, for very young people who do not mind suffering from the heat, to remain folded or in tents who want to see an eclectic musical poster or names or very popular or topics mainly known in TiktokTake a lot of photos and demonstrate that they lived a desert experience once in a life, posing with a bandana tied on my neck, and Noria behind. By the way, if they find out how they get up, let them know.
