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Review of Boogie By The Sea

Review of Boogie By The Sea

when queuing to get into the venue it wasn't clear which was the vip & normal queue, it would have been good to have some signs up. Also more stalls selling different things clothes merchandise & tras coffees smoothies etc.

Review of Boogie By The Sea

We couldn't stay to the end as used public transport

Review of Boogie By The Sea

a great atmosphere and venue.

Review of Boogie By The Sea

Review of Boogie By The Sea

This has been, without a shadow of a doubt, by far the worst concert I've ever attended. Where do I begin? The mile-long queue to enter, Boney M starting one hour (yep, you heard that right - 60 minutes) late and then only singing 4 (four) songs, the sound system better suited for a living room than an outdoor concert... Let's not forget the neverending queues for everything (I waited 35 minutes to get two lousy cans of warm beer - and that was the best available option because, no offence, but whatever you were trying to pass as wine, I wouldn't give it that to my enemies), minimal food options and the vendors ran out of food after 2 hours or so. The overall vibe vacillated somewhere between sad and miserable. I've been to more entertaining remembrance services. Pathetic.

Review of Boogie By The Sea

Fantastic

Review of Boogie By The Sea

Boney M performance late and shortened to that promised and no explanation given

Review of Boogie By The Sea

Not enough food, water a ridiculous price, poor quality food, queues meant I missed the music, disorganised and dangerous when leaving venue. A shame as the music was really good but I won't be attending again and will warn others against going. Do many other better organised events...felt ripped off overall

Review of Boogie By The Sea

Felt that the artists should have been projected on the screen behind them.

Review of Boogie By The Sea

Boogie by the Sea was a brilliant concert. Absolutely Fabulous!

Review of Boogie By The Sea

Review of Boogie By The Sea

Review of Boogie By The Sea

The wine was £30 a bottle and frankly was revolting - really poor. Queues for food were SO long, we didn't bother. Lots of people said the same thing. Music second half great. First half diasappointing

Review of Boogie By The Sea

Seriously why do events use bars that massively overprice extremely poor wine options . Surely a local bar could offer a better service and decent drinks .

Review of Boogie By The Sea

Great event hopefully on next year as well

Review of Boogie By The Sea

The last admission at 6pm was unquestionably the stupidest idea in the history of festivals.
The directions from the station and town centre were non-existent - make an effort to make it easy for us to find and access the venue.
Sound quality was really poor.
Drinks were a joke - poor choice and outrageous pricing. You didn't even have disposable pint glasses.
You had nowhere near enough food stalls - queues were very long meaning people missed a lot of the performances.
The bands themselves were good and your staff onsite were generally friendly and helpful.
But the management team is clearly out of its depth judging by the poor show put on in Hastings.

Review of Boogie By The Sea

It was a lovely evening. The bands/singers were very good. Drinks were overpriced. Food was worse, so expensive and the queues were long. I queued at one stand for food, ordering and paying at one point, then queuing again to get my food. The wait was so long, the next band came on. I requested a refund in order to get back and see/hear what I had actually gone for.

Review of Boogie By The Sea

I loved the event especially Sister Sledge and Billy Ocean. Great line up but missed most of Boney M and sound issues on SoulIISoul. Danced all night at back of event as nearer front cramped and hazardous with chairs (and tall people!) in the way. Long queue to get in and for food which was very expensive and dodgy burgers. Very difficult to get answers to questions about disabled access, bringing camping chairs etc would have liked a contact no, email or live chat as faqs on Facebook did not cover anything about this. I'd definitely go again tho overall a brilliant night!

Review of Boogie By The Sea

I attended a music events, and found the queues for for very long, and as I was very hungry I decided to queue, which took roughly an hour and a half to actually get food. This lead to me missing one of the acts entire session. So based on that I would not recommend this venue to anyone.