Festival guides: where to stay

The bed problem, solved for Europe's biggest rock and metal weekends — camping reality, hotels near the grounds and the smart city bases, festival by festival.

Wacken Open Air

Wacken, Germany · Late July – early August · 4 days

The world's biggest metal festival takes over a village of 2,000 people — around 85,000 fans, a dozen stages and a week of black-shirt pilgrimage in the Schleswig-Holstein countryside.

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Hellfest

Clisson, France · Mid-June · 4 days

France's extreme-music cathedral in the small wine town of Clisson — 60,000 fans a day, six stages and the most spectacular festival scenography in Europe.

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Download Festival

Castle Donington, United Kingdom · Mid-June · 3–5 days

The UK's home of rock and metal on the hallowed ground of Donington Park — Monsters of Rock's heir, with 80,000+ fans and the loudest weekend in Britain.

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Graspop Metal Meeting

Dessel, Belgium · Mid–late June · 4 days

Belgium's metal meeting: a compact, brilliantly organised 4-day festival in Dessel that regularly books the genre's biggest names on one bill.

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Rock am Ring

Nürburg, Germany · Early June · 3 days

Germany's legendary twin festival on the Nürburgring race track — 90,000 fans, three days, and one of Europe's strongest rock line-ups every year.

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Copenhell

Copenhagen, Denmark · Mid-June · 4 days

Metal with a skyline: Copenhell fills the post-industrial Refshaleøen docks of Copenhagen — a city festival where you headbang by the water and sleep in a real bed.

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