More like, Coach-Hell-A. Going to Coachella this year has been more trying than usual, say festival -goers, as many go to social networks to complain about several hours lines to go to the car campsite on the festival field.
The traffic jams directed towards the festival are hardly new, but the Palm Springs journal The desert sun said it was “a difficult start” due to “massive” waiting time to reach the campsite area, some campers claiming that they waited until 12 hours without access to the bathrooms.
The local station based in Palm Springs, Kesq-TV, also nicknamed the “Carmageddon” traffic jam and cited some festival-goers: “It’s absurd, why we spend this money to spend eight hours in a car in which we are not even inside” and “I saw people vanish by heat, it was chaos.”
A Tiktok user published this detailed viral diatribe of his car on Thursday, declaring that she and her group have been waiting in their car since 10 am after presented himself at 3 am and called the safeguard of “a full shit”.
“It’s almost 1 pm at the moment. We have still not undergone security. It is 100 degrees outside. People ‘cars overheat, “she said. “They lack essence. There is no bathroom anywhere. People literally use the bathroom behind bushes like animals, and they paid more than $ 600 to be here. All this experience was so disappointing, and it was extremely dehumanizing. People are upset. “
On X, some reproaches are similar. “It will be the 12th Coachella and I have never treated this long line for camping grounds,” wrote a user. As another said: “8 hours online for Coachella campsite and still now. It is not unacceptable. You charge thousands of people and you can’t even manage basic logistics?”
A Hollywood Reporter The staff on the ground say that they waited four hours to enter a campsite, much less than the others on the social, but that the festival -goers nevertheless say that this year’s waiting times were longer than usual.
We do not know what has changed this year which apparently caused additional waiting times; A festival representative did not respond to the request for comments. Coachella should start on Friday afternoon and will take place this weekend and the next one. Lady Gaga, Green Day and Post Malone are headlining, with other notable acts, including Travis Scott, Missy Elliot, Charli XCX and Megan Thee Stallion.
Ed Sheeran and Weezer were added to programming last weekend, with Weezer playing on weekends while Sheeran joined two weekend. Weezer will still play the festival on Saturday, a few days after the bassist’s police Scott Shriner, Jillian Lauren, was killed by police on Tuesday while the authorities were pursuing suspects in a flight offense.
