Review #30: Hulaween 2026

Hulaween review: 

HULAWEEEEEEEEN. 

This festival is home. The energy here is absolutely magical. I never have a bad time at this festival. The energy is so healing. 

Let’s get into it. 

The stage production and designs in my opinion could have been a little better. I think the amphitheater could’ve been a little bigger. I think all of the stages could’ve definitely been louder. The sound was not that loud at any of the stages at any point of the night. I thought that Thursday was low just because of the sound ordinance which it was significantly lower than Friday and Saturday, but still Friday and Saturday wasn’t that loud. The only stage that was a little louder was the DEF stage. 

Speaking of the DEF stage, I absolutely love what they did with it and they made it way bigger and like almost like this maze that when you went into it was a pretty crazy experience to get to the front of it, but I did like it all. 

Spirit Lake was amazing. I definitely think they could have went with more art. There’s a lot of things they used to have that I feel like they could’ve added more throughout the lake but nonetheless it was awesome to have it as a 360 and there was a lot of things to look at. I feel like they need to stop spending money on big dubstep artists lol.

I think that they need to bring back the art gallery that they had where people set up their booths and showed off all their art cause I do miss that and that was really nice to walk into too. 

Yeah, I feel like the art was really awesome but I feel like they really could do more cause I’ve seen them do more so I’m not really sure if it was because they didn’t sell out or what but I do know that everything is expensive now too. 

I liked that they moved the food, all the food at HULA is pretty decent obviously everything is expensive but everything that I got was really awesome. Outside an 80 acres they had raviolis. I’m eating a ravioli at Hulaween LOL 

Medics were on it. I sprained my ankle like a goofball on Saturday night and Sunday. I couldn’t really walk on it towards the end of the night and I had to go to medics. They were so nice to me and helped me and I asked them if it had been a crazy weekend and they said no that this is one of the chiller festivals that they all work. The only thing I will say is that I’ve had to run out of the amphitheater multiple times to grab a medic to get into the amphitheater and every time I run out of that crowd there’s only cops at the top of that hill. They used to have medics right off to the left of the stage facing away from the stage and they moved medics which now is a problem for that stage. In my opinion I don’t really like bringing a cop into the crowd like that so I just feel like a medic should at least be standing up there or somebody that they can radio two medics to get down there, especially when they have all the EDM artist over there.

Everybody got there very early. This is definitely one of those fastest that you’re gonna have to plan ahead to get there early. I mean we got there Wednesday later in the evening and it wasn’t that bad. We were a little bit of a walk, but it was not a far walk like Lost Lands. Even though I do feel, I’m meant to be a boonie Bitch this year. Lol

I did like the lineup. I do think that they need to stop bringing so much dubstep here I like the trippy wubby shit better for HULA. I don’t think that excision is a Hulaween artist. I don’t think that that was a good move to be honest. I hope that they actually come balance it out a little bit more next year. I do like the EDM artist and how they spread them out this year, but I would like them to not make it an EDM festival. I feel like they could book smaller artist that would slap harder and make more art than to spend a shit ton of money on artists that don’t even fucking try when they’re out of festival like that. 

Like we don’t need Excision at Hulaween tf lol. Seriously. And I didn’t even like his set. He didn’t try at all.

The restroom situation was honestly fucked. I don’t know what’s going on or if it was just a budget thing this year, but where I was camped had two porta potties for the entire area over there.  Why am I waiting in a Griz merch line to use the restroom? Inside the festival too they had them spread out and the areas that had them multiple were really good but over on the right side facing the meadow where all that food was, they had literally too fucking porta potties over there like, what are we doing guys? 

Campgrounds could’ve definitely had more. There’s no reason why there isn’t one on either other side of the camping over there. 

There’s so many activities to do unfortunately I’m so fucking tired by this festival. I don’t really wanna do anything but relax at my campsite and then go out. I’ve done Yoga a couple times and it’s all amazing. I really wish I did one more of the workshops this year but like I said, I needed this festival to just kind of relax this year. 

You definitely could feel the difference in people there Saturday and Sunday when they sold the two day tickets in a single day tickets. 

I saw a lot of crazy vandalization on Reddit too that I was really upset that I was even seeing what I was seeing. People were stealing from people’s campsite. People were literally destroying peoples decks and campgrounds.  Not really sure what the fuck was going on there super weird. 

But yeah overall loved Hulaween this year. I’m hoping this festival can come back to its roots next year. I’m really excited for everything to come. Next festival is Edc Orlando. It is my 10 years of EDC!!