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Review of Club Class Luxury Pass at Kendal Calling
won't upgrade again , there was not enough club class toilets to cover the area !! had to walk miles to get to them , then few times i used them the generator had gone down , shower ques were at least 50 people each time i went .. wasn't worth the money and wouldn't pay it again ..feel like we should be refunded ! what a waste of £40 . toilets werent even clean and no toilet roll in toilet most times i used them
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Review of Club Class Luxury Pass at Kendal Calling
won't upgrade again , there was not enough club class toilets to cover the area !! had to walk miles to get to them , then few times i used them the generator had gone down , shower ques were at least 50 people each time i went .. wasn't worth the money and wouldn't pay it again ..feel like we should be refunded ! what a waste of £40 . toilets werent even clean and no toilet roll in toilet most times i used them
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Review of Club Class Luxury Pass at Kendal Calling
won't upgrade again , there was not enough club class toilets to cover the area !! had to walk miles to get to them , then few times i used them the generator had gone down , shower ques were at least 50 people each time i went .. wasn't worth the money and wouldn't pay it again ..feel like we should be refunded ! what a waste of £40 . toilets werent even clean and no toilet roll in toilet most times i used them
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Review of Club Class Luxury Pass at Kendal Calling
won't upgrade again , there was not enough club class toilets to cover the area !! had to walk miles to get to them , then few times i used them the generator had gone down , shower ques were at least 50 people each time i went .. wasn't worth the money and wouldn't pay it again
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Review of Club Class Luxury Pass at Kendal Calling
Club class was extremely poor value for money. The facilities outside the main arena were oversold, had to queue for ages. Receiving an email after having paid for the 'upgrade' to inform me of the busy times was ridiculous - should be informed in advance of paying. The toilets inside the arena were not indicated on any map and nobody could tell me where they were. It took me all the first day and evening to find them, in the meantime had to use the standard portaloos which in fact were fine. The location was missold, they were supported to be near the main stage, they couldn't have been further away. I feel totally ripped off and would certainly never book these club class toilets again and would seriously consider not using Skiddle again.
Review of Club Class Luxury Pass at Kendal Calling
Club Class/Miss Polly was situated in 2 locations at Kendal Calling but wristbands were only available from one location. Not all Kendal Calling attendees were staying at the wristband location causing inconvenience for those camping elsewhere when they needed to collect their wristband
Review of Club Class Luxury Pass at Kendal Calling
The Club Class Luxury Pass was a complete waste of money - a *really* muddy entrance to the area and around the toilet cabins / shower area.
Can't believe something couldn't be done to put decking or wood chippings downs to improve experience.
Consequence was that toilets, whilst flushable, were muddy inside.
There was limited water pressure in the toilet unit I used so couldn't wash hands properly.
Facilities lacked hand towels on the occasions I used. Toilet paper was available but sitting on the muddy floor.
You could shower but cubicle lacked hooks to hang clothes / towel - the move from shower to bench for changing meant clean feet now muddy.
No evidence of anybody attempting to control the mud levels between the wellie boots and showers.
Kendal Calling was a good event, if challenging to move around due to mud! Club class facilities a severe disappointment.
Review of Club Class Luxury Pass at Kendal Calling
This was not worth the money at all. The toilets were proper ones yes, but some of the ones I used smelt worse than the portaloo's and you were lucky if there was toilet roll inside them. We also got the miss polly access but they weren't close to a lot so we're hardly used...thy should have been more central in the arena so you didn't have to walk across the whole thing to get to them. As for the showers, I've had better ones at festivals in the past which didn't cost extra, and although they got you clean, you were instantly covered in mud again once you got to the changing area. It could have been so much better! Finally the pamper room was ok, I got my hair dried which is all I wanted, but again...mud everywhere! i definitely wouldn't recommend this, maybe a day pass for the showers is ok for £5 but paying £40 is just a waste of money.
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Review of Kendal Calling 2017 - venue not bands
We can all go and see these bands separately if we so wish, so what makes a great festival at £143.50 per ticket?
Music: the music was great, but this review is not about the bands, it is about the venue
Location: the location is awesome, surrounded by the most stunning mature trees, some of which are an attraction in their own right, and views to the Pennines.
Organisation: mud, mud and more mud. You know the really funny thing? It barely rained all day Friday and Saturday! But hey, this is Cumbria, so the organisers know that holding the festival in one of the rainiest parts of England would require extra measures right? Wrong. Most of the festival site ended up as a quagmire of mud, often ankle deep. But the most disappointing aspect was how all the walkways were also in such a state. Bog mats are expensive to hire yes, but the organisers need to get this sorted. People talk about the legendary Glastonbury mud but that is nothing compared to the mess at Kendal Calling. Glasto has tracks and tracks of bog mats so you can always get around without that "wading" feeling that Kendal Calling serves you with. It clearly exhausted lots of people trying to navigate their way to, from and around the site. All the main walkways need to have bog mats, as do the front of high traffic food outlets (e.g. Noodle bar, Ghandi's Flip Flop which both had deep, deep mud outside them leaving people struggling to balance whilst clinging on to their grub).
Timings: timings of acts were not listed on the KC web site. This meant the only way you knew what time bands were on is if you walked up to each stage and wrote down the listings in front of each stage. This is absurd. Maybe there was a programme to buy but we didn't visit the merchandise stalls and did not see anyone with a programme and certainly weren't offered the chance to buy one on arrival. Some acts were streamed live on Twitch, and they had timings on there, but the mobile signal did not allow access to this whilst on site and in any case was only a few of the acts from across the site nowhere near all of them. Glasto had its own app making planning your viewing pleasure so much easier and enjoyable, at the very least Kendal Calling should have put them on their web site. Disgraceful.
Topography: the main stage was in a curious location. On one side the land was level from the front of stage, but on the other it fell away. Most outdoor main stages try for a bowl, with the stage down low so people further from the stage still get a reasonable view. At Kendal Calling stage left sees the ground falling away with the poor people struggling to see. There is a small bank at the back but this is cut short by merchandise tents.
Food: the food was mediocre at best and very expensive. For example the Japanese noodles were all noodles and virtually no veg, with the tempura "veg" being tempura onion, the mix veg curry at Ghandi's Flip Flop was a peas and minced cauliflower slop with the odd chunk of carrot if you were lucky all for £7. Again at Glasto they have amazing food outlets with really good Indian street food alongside the usual something-and-chips options.
Drink: the real ale tents were very good and something to be commended. Lots of local offerings and a broad selection, although a few were complaining about the scarcity of darker beers as most were of the pale golden variety - so perhaps more amber (Kirkby Lonsdale was the lone exception) and brown beers next time, but the ciders proved very popular. The beers were all £4.20 per pint. The smoothies were very good as they should be for £5 for a "large" which was really more of a medium.
Other facilities: not enough loos. Loads and loads of bloke urinating in the trees, up against the perimeter fences, wife saw two guys just peeing in pint glasses. Glasto is now doing an active job of trying to dissuade this kind of thing having being threatened by the environment agency. I can see the same thing happening at Kendal Calling. As it is a compact venue with the stages quite close to each other this concentrates the demand for a loo. This demand is not met by the loos available within the site. People were not going to wade through the mud back out to the campsite loos, so there needs to be more in the site, especially more mens urinals, freeing up the portaloos for the ladies, which there were also not enough of, resulting in long queues.
Arty stuff: whilst the wooded areas provided a nice area to wander through, there was little evidence of the promised walkabout performers. There was a brilliant yak led by a proper sounding bell and apart from that we saw a couple of ladies dresses in a kind of butterfly outfit. The c**ktail bar had a cage dancer. Otherwise the art installations were pretty poor, with the best being a fancy fire pit.
In summary if I were in charge of Kendal Calling I'd be having a complete re-think about the organisation. I'd look for locating the main stage elsewhere, spreading out the stages and freeing up space for more toilet facilities and spread out the foot traffic. I'd more carefully vet the food and merchandise stalls for quality even if I had to give a little on price. And I'd make sure that if I was holding a festival in one of the wettest parts of England I'd invest in lots more bog mats!
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Review of Club Class Luxury Pass at Kendal Calling
Terrible, absolute waste of money. The queues were appalling and once you were in there, it was was a total mud bath. The shower area was really badly organised so you couldn't get changed in the same place as showering, so you got muddy again after showering, there was no place to hang your towel where you showered, and the curtains flapped about while you were showering, one person slipped in the cubicle next to me and nearly took me out as well. Last time there were proper cubicles where you could change and shower in the same place, which was much better. Considering that they most have sold passes to half the festival, and therefore made a lot of money, they should not have skimped on the facilities.
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