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Endorset or Beautiful Days for kids?

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Edie

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Which do you reckon? It's quite a lot of money for a whole family, so we wanna get it right.

We're not looking at serious adult partying here. I'd like the atmosphere to be friendly, plenty to do in the day, some folky bands, not too many (or any really) people fucked on drugs wandering round during the day, and sunny.

Never been to either so would really appreciate your opinions!
 
They're both great festies for kids, but Beautiful Days has got tons more activities for children and it's on a larger, more sprawling site. Their family field even had a bookstore for kids.
 
There's not loads to do at Endorse It tbh, you kind of make your own fun. For me this was drinking my bodyweight in scrumpy then passing out. :oops:

There is a kids area but I've never ventured there.
 
I have been with a child to both. I went to BD about 3 years ago and it was good and I would probably say has a more child friendly vibe. I went to endorse it about 2 years back during the mud-fest so so that didn't help but I also found the site too dark at night.

Have you taken your kids to a festival before? My partners son who is nearly 9 has being going to festies since he was 2 and now goes to more than I do between his parents...:)
 
Edie said:
Which do you reckon? It's quite a lot of money for a whole family, so we wanna get it right.

We're not looking at serious adult partying here. I'd like the atmosphere to be friendly, plenty to do in the day, some folky bands, not too many (or any really) people fucked on drugs wandering round during the day, and sunny.

Never been to either so would really appreciate your opinions!
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Endorse it is cheaper and not run by the fucking levellers :D
both fairly friendly - more to keep kids occupied at BD i'd say, although Endorse it had pretty good kids stuff for such a tiny festival.
folk music at both as are people twatted on scrumpy/drugs.

sunny? lets hope so.

Endorse it is really on a much smaller scale so no real crowd issues and it'd be a lot harder to lose yr kid, i've taken mine - they liked it but their mum was less keen when it turned into a rainy mudbath.
 
Thanks a lot. I think we'll do beautiful days.

I was out drinking last night with someone who had been to Endorset. She said she's never seen so many people on ket. As I cannot STAND seeing people on ket, the thought of my kids seeing it makes me feel physically sick.

This is probably a bit unfair to Endorset, cos she was in the travellers field just outside the fence* (apparently there is a travellers field?), and was a few years ago so maybe the same wasn't true of the festie as a whole now.

*I was veeeeerrrrrrrrr drunk when she was telling me this last night, details are slightly shaky.

moonsi til- never done a festival with the kids. I am a little nervous about it now, them getting lost, it raining non stop, mud, weird people etc. But I am fucking uptight, so I'm sure it will all be fine :D What's your experiences been like with kids? My boys are 7 and 4.

So... who's going to Beautiful Days with the kids? :D Should be a fair sized group of us.
 
Edie said:
I was out drinking last night with someone who had been to Endorset. She said she's never seen so many people on ket. As I cannot STAND seeing people on ket, the thought of my kids seeing it makes me feel physically sick.
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Bought tickets, taking kid :(
 
vauxhallmum said:
Bought tickets, taking kid :(
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don't panic. it's not as bad as that sounds, although I don't doubt it's truth - i.e. bunch of twatted ket head idiots in vans outside the festival - in the 'arena' (if we can call it that) the vibe is much more church fair gone a bit awry
 
Edie said:
Thanks a lot. I think we'll do beautiful days.

I was out drinking last night with someone who had been to Endorset. She said she's never seen so many people on ket. As I cannot STAND seeing people on ket, the thought of my kids seeing it makes me feel physically sick.
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I didn't go last year, but have been to a few the years before and have never seen that.... I'd guess it was an isolated incident your mate saw. Endorse it isn't like that ime

Edie said:
This is probably a bit unfair to Endorset, cos she was in the travellers field just outside the fence* (apparently there is a travellers field?), and was a few years ago so maybe the same wasn't true of the festie as a whole now.
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There isn't a travellers field at EI, or at least there hasn't been for the last 4 years, and it's only been going a couple of years before that (when it was a lot smaller and someones birthday party). Maybe it was different then, or maybe your mate has confused it with somewhere else. :)

I'd say that you would be more likely to encountered munted people at BD tbh, just because it's a lot bigger. Then again, the police were OTT the last time I went there.

There's more to do for kids at BD, again mainly because it's bigger, but I'd imagine that there would be more chance of losing you kid there for the same reason.

Both are great friendly festivals tbh.
BD probably has the edge for kids because of it's size :)
 
I agree with the above, it's a shame that's what Edie's mate picked up from the festival because I've been there 4 times now and it's not been like that.

There are of course munted people and scrumpy sunday was pretty drunken last year but nothing outrageous.
 
What the other Endorse It vets said above -- plenty of drunkenness but nothing too outrageous neither drink related nor spannered related, IMO.

When your friend mentioned the 'Travellers Field' Edie, they probably just meant the normal campervan/live in vehicle field -- the people who park up there are just ordinary festival punters paying extra for a vehicle pass. Yes there are a few old time vehicles/inhabitants there, but the term 'Travellers Field' is pretty misleading for Endorse It -- no comparison at all to the real old school Travellers areas of certain old fests, which used to be awash with drugs and sound systems 'back in the day' ;)

EiiD perfectly respectable by comparison, no more than a little rough round the edges -- it's fine for kids, parents and anyone else.

mr steev has it about right ...

mr steev said:
I didn't go last year, but have been to a few the years before and have never seen that.... I'd guess it was an isolated incident your mate saw. Endorse it isn't like that ime
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My son and I loved Beautiful Days last year and vowed to go back this. We are billy no mates though as my mate who went last year can't make it this time.

We are going to go, but would love to have urbs to meet up with, esp with similar aged kid(s) (He's 8 will be nearly 9 then).

In fact he loved it so much last year it drove him to Violins.
 
Last year was fairly dry until the end, so bets would be on downpour + gale.
 
aqua said:
big black marker pen, your mobile number written on their arm :) just remember to have a charged mobile
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I saw some kids going round in kid sized worn high viz vests with their name and parent's number on the back at Sunrise last year, seemed like a good idea, and made them look pretty cool too.

Then again, maybe putting them in beaten up high viz clothing isn't the best way to avoid them being offered ket. :hmm:
 
Appears I have wrongly maligned Endorset, sorry about that. She was in a van with people from Bristol, so TBH I'm not that surprised about the ket vibe :D

Mr Moose- I'd love to meet up at Beautiful Days. Other half will be there too, and he's a good laugh. It's kinda more fun when there's a big group of parents and kids, gives you a bit more of a break and someone to drink cider with whilst the kids play.
 
I'll see ya at Beautiful Days as well Edie, in fact there could be a nice general meetup for the various Urbanz who'll be heading there :) :D

aqua said:
it will rain, at some point, it's just summer in the UK after all
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I'm resisting reality**! We're well overdue an overwhelmingly hot and sunny summer this time ..... :cool: :)

**for now :facepalm:
 
Good stuff, look forward to meeting a few people there. We have a few months to suggest times and meeting places on site.

Was there a meet last year? We arrived late and uncoordinated.
 
Well we met the odd Urban or 3 around the BD site. but just by bumping into each other while wandering, any advance talk of a proper beer tent meetup went a bit wrong in the end ... :oops:

We can rectify that this year though :).
 
Did I just dream I bought tickets for this?
No confirmation email, no contact telephone number, no idea when / if tickets might turn up.

I'd go on their forum if life wasn't so short :(
 
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