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Wannasee Festival weekend is the perfect way to enjoy a live music stadium experience, non-stop hits, from start to finish, and fantastic live music at affordable prices. You can come as a day visitor or for the full weekend and camping facilities are available if you want to stay.

Parking is FREE & will be available at a secure manned area on the main site only a minute’s walk from the festival site.

A free return shuttle bus will be available on both Saturday & Sunday, picking up outside the car park at Sainsbury’s Penrith, starting before the festival opens each day and running continuously back and forth between Penrith and the festival site, until after it closes each night.

Great Views

With great views of the stage from all areas of the picturesque festival site and, with plenty of room for those who prefer to sit, rather than stand, you are welcome to bring in blankets, folding chairs, picnic boxes, etc, if you choose. Picnic food and water or soft drinks in sealed plastic bottles for young children can be brought into the stadium.

Certainly! Wannasee is a family friendly event and children of all ages are welcome. Under 14s are free but must be accompanied by a ticket holding adult and there's a Family Zone area containing a number of free kids’ attractions, rides and face painting.

Absolutely! If you’re a day visitor and don’t want to drive there, why not take advantage of our free shuttle bus to and from the festival.

A free return shuttle bus will be available on Friday, Saturday & Sunday, picking up in Penrith town centre, outside Sainsbury's car park (there will be a bus stop sign), starting before the festival opens each day and running continuously back and forth between Penrith and the festival site, until after it closes each night. Pick up details and exact times are on the bus pop up image at the top of this page, next to the site map.

We have free secure car parks, clearly signposted, all within close walking distance of the stadium. Car parks open from 4pm on Friday and 11am on Saturday and Sunday.

Full details are on our Camping Page.
Simply click this link to access the page: CAMPING INFO

Yes! Wannasee will be running our own bar, as always, enabling us to offer very competitive drink prices that will not make a big hole in your wallet!

We will be offering a good selection of draught lagers, ciders and beers plus some real ales. To speed service up we will also have a can only bar. All our spirits will be recognised premium brands, and we will also be serving house cocktails, shots, and a range of soft drinks.

The bar will open on Friday @ 5.30pm, Saturday & Sunday @ 11.30am. Each night the shutters will come down at 11.15pm.

We operate a challenge 25 policy at the festival, so please bring a recognised form of ID if you are lucky enough to look that young.

There will be a fine selection of food stalls bringing you a great variety of World cuisine that makes up the wonderful British staple diet, such as pizza, pies, burgers, hot dogs, chips, curries, noodles, breakfasts (for campers), chocolate, ice cream, doughnuts, sweets, milkshakes and much more. Seriously though, we will have a varied selection of cuisines available at affordable prices.

Not all the food traders can guarantee to cater for all special dietary requirements, lifestyle choices (vegan etc), or those with allergies or food intolerances. Please ask the individual food traders for information.

You may bring food and drink to the festival for your own personal consumption within the designated camping areas only, if you are a camper.

Personal picnics can be taken into the main festival site upon arrival only (takeaways cannot be brought in or delivered to the music site) with water or soft drinks in sealed and previously unopened plastic bottles (one 500 ml bottle per person).

Free drinking water will be provided so you can bring in an empty reusable plastic or aluminium bottle for refills.

No alcohol is allowed onto the main site due to our licensing conditions.

No metal or glass utensils or cool boxes (for safety reasons) are allowed in to the music site.

The main gate will open at 5.30pm on Friday night & 11.30 am on both Sat & Sun. The event will finish approximately 11.00 every evening with the main gates closing at 11.45 pm.

Disabled parking is available in the main car park but you will need to be in possession of an official valid blue disabled parking badge. There is also a disabled camp site (blue camp site) that you can choose to camp in when you order your tickets.

The festival has full disabled access and a viewing section for our disabled patrons. If you have any special requirements, please do not hesitate to email us as at info@wannaseefestival.com and we will be happy to help.

Yes, we're green and reducing our carbon footprint. All our drinks are served in a hard plastic Wannasee drinking vessel, which make great souvenirs to keep.

All we ask is that you pay £1 for your plastic glass and keep it with you. If you need a clean one when you order another drink, then you can exchange your old one at the bar. If you don’t want to keep your glass simply return it to the bar and your £1 will be refunded. This will enable us to keep litter to a minimum and reduce rubbish that requires disposing.

Please note that it is a maximum return of 2 glasses per adult, once only, for the £1 refund. Large piles of glasses collected up at the end of the night cannot be brought back for refunds as you can only get a refund on your own glasses.

FROM THE NORTH

Heading south on M6, exit at junction 41. Take the 4^th exit to Hutton-in-th-Forest. Continue to Hutton-in-the-Forest.

FROM THE SOUTH

Heading north on M6, exit at junction 41. Take the 1^st exit to Hutton-in-th-Forest. Continue to Hutton-in-the-Forest.

FROM THE EAST

Heading west on A66, just after Penrith take the M6 northwards. Head north on M6, exit at junction 41. Take the 1^st exit to Hutton-in-the-Forest. Continue to Hutton-in-the-Forest.

FROM THE WEST

Heading east on A66, after Troutbeck look out for a left turn to Motherby, Greystoke, Blencow and Hutton-in-the-Forest (B5288). Take this turn. Continue through Motherby, Greystoke and Blencow to Hutton-in-the-Forest.

As well as all the brilliant live music, the Wannasee Festival will have a great range of entertainment, rides and attractions, for all ages, with some of the younger children's rides and entertainment and face painting, completely free of charge, and the remainder at very competitively reduced prices.