Black Isle Showground Muir Of Ord reviews by real event-goers

Review of Black Isle Belter

Festival was fab. Music was great! Bar not so great, hopefully this will be sorted for the next one.

Review of Black Isle Belter

Good wee festival. We went on Sunday with kids, didn't experience the queues they had on Saturday.

Vendors and bars were reasonably priced. Bands were great. Transport and parking well organised.

The only thing that put a dampener on the day were the overzealous security who were exceptionally rude on entry at the gate, and on site.
Not being allowed to bring in sealed bottles of water or snacks to a kids event is putting profit above anything else and created a bad atmosphere from the start.
When we did buy food from the vendors at 7.45pm, we were then rudely told to move from the bench we were sitting eating at, and asked to leave the venue.
A disappointing start and end, to an otherwise good day.

Review of Black Isle Belter

Review of Black Isle Belter

Perfect day out in the Saturday.
The bars were a problem but one that will be fixed next time.
Will definitely be back next year if they decide to do it again.

Review of Black Isle Belter

Had a brilliant weekend. The Saturday was spoilt a bit by having to queue for 2 hrs for a drink when it got busy so missed out on a lot of music because of that. I would suggest at least 4 bars round the site for the next one to help avoid this. The choice of food was good but prices were a bit much. My wife was £11 for a half tub of chips. For a portion that size should have been £3-£4

Review of Black Isle Belter

Only negative is lack of bars and a 2 hour queue for a drink is unacceptable.

Review of Black Isle Belter

We went on Sunday which was the family day and inside the main tent there were a few people smoking and a lot of people vaping if you have rules you should enforce them

Review of Black Isle Belter

Apart from the bar being way too small and there being too few toilets for the Saturday, it was a great event.

Review of Black Isle Belter

Review of Black Isle Belter

Brilliant

Review of Black Isle Belter

I would 100% recommend the event to everyone - however, this is only because I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt because it was the first time they'd held this event and there was bound to be teething problems. The music was fab, the food was good but the bar situation was horrendous. Over 2-3 hours queuing for drinks was horrendous. I don't know how they thought that a small c**ktail bar and one main bar would serve everyone, especially considering the fact that the first day was adults only.

Review of Black Isle Belter

Review of Black Isle Belter

Review of Black Isle Belter

Review of Black Isle Belter

The queues for the bar and toilets were far too long and apart from Peat and Diesel the bands (on the Saturday) were very poor quality.

Review of Black Isle Belter

The bar queues were far too long

Review of Black Isle Belter

Absolutely shocking event, couldn’t get served a drink at the bar on site. Que was miles long. Waited 2 hours then gave up. Waste of hard earned money. Needs better management and organisation if it goes ahead next year.

Review of Black Isle Belter

very friendly, great tent for music,good things for kids to do but maybe a few more to keep them entertained

Review of Black Isle Belter

Review of Black Isle Belter

Fabulous family event, great music, esp Vatersay Boys. Great parking, friendly and helpful stewards, great choice of food vendors. Please do this again!