Review #5: Lost Lands 2022

LOST LANDS REVIEW:

Hello my friends! The time has come for my lost lands review!

Super late but better late than never.

Starting off strong the camping was a disaster as far as the space you had to camp next to. I don’t know if it was more people this year but the spaces were SO small and people were over flowing into the spaces next to them all the way down. I had 3 car camping passes and barely had room for 7 of us.

The Village Market place was SO freaking cool. The stage was insane and it was already wild on Wednesday and Thursday night. Really loved this area and the there was a ton of vendors and food in this area as well as a general store and medic.

The food was super over priced but that seems to be every festival nowadays.

The venue was set up beautifully! The production was awesome and all of the stages were dope! The Forrest stage was the coolest, the lights on the trees were so awesome especially at night!

The sound camps were low, per expected but they were fun! It was super cool to chill after hours and listen to more music!

The staff was great but very misinformed. A lot of them had no idea what they were talking about, or where anything was. Inside the venue and outside in camping. Literally no one. I had multiple people tell me one thing and then multiple people tell me another. This is something that is very important to me, as if someone needed something serious, these people aren’t trained to know?

General store in the venue was awesome.

Lots of people, more than last year, but there was always room which was cool. Except:

VIP.

VIP was a disaster shit show. There was WAY too many people in VIP and the bathrooms were so bad. There was always the longest fucking lines, like this is why I paid for VIP???? Last year I NEVER waited in line in vip to use the bathroom. This year I was missing sets to use the bathroom. It was ridiculous. Wompy Woods was the absolute worst, they had food right near the bathroom which was disgusting. The Wompy Woods VIP area was shoved onto a hill, which I liked it being on that side but they need to move the stage over and make more room over there. It’s ridiculous. Main stage VIP was so packed, it you didn’t get there early for a spot you were fucked. Total oversold VIP, it was really sad to see honestly. We all paid way too much money to deal with that THEN

On top of that, last year we got free showers for VIP. The first day they told us we don’t but we can skip the line. Okay not too bad. Then the next day after that we weren’t allowed to skip the line either. I understand that in the terms of VIP it’s VIP for the amenities IN the venue but, don’t tell me one thing day one and then another thing day two??? Wtf??? And then for VIP to be over sold LOL ridiculous. The VIP food was good either.

The dinosaurs were awesome, so fun and they had them in the camp grounds which was dope.

A lot of the sets impressed me, a lot of them did not lol. Especially people I saw at Bass Canyon that were awesome and then came to Lost Lands and just did not deliver for me.

LSDream was absolutely incredible and the energy was different. Blew me away at Bass Canyon and then blew me away at Lost Lands.

A couple people told me they got their phones taken and someone even took my friends LSDream jersey off his waist?? I usually don’t hear this stuff at Lost Lands so that makes me sad, I guess it comes with more people. There was A LOT of people I talked to that were new to LL or had never been to a fest people which was an interesting observation for me.

The bathrooms were always clean and had toilet paper.

All in all, this festival will always be so amazing to me but, I can feel every festival I go to getting more and more tainted by the money. $80 fucking dollars for a chest bag? $18 dollars for 2 chicken fingers and fries? Over crowding a festival, ruins the festival. I really hope if he wants to keep expanding, he creates the amenities to do so. The space isn’t the issue, there is enough room, but too many people for the things in there.

I always have an incredible time at this festival. The energy is profound and everyone I met was just having a good time. 🖤

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