I love going to music festivals and have been attending for many years, but I personally hate attending festivals in the hot summer months.
There are so many opportunities for heat exhaustion to occur! I caved and attended a festival this year in the summer, and I was pleasantly surprised to see this festival offer air conditioning tents.
It looked like a tent, but it was really a block of trailers that had ductless mini splits installed in them. To rent an air conditioning trailer, you had to have a party of five people and pay a good bit of money for it. It was just my boyfriend and I, so we found some other people in line that wanted air conditioning and agreed to split the cost with them. Once we stepped into the trailer after waiting twenty minutes for it, we were immediately greeted with the cooling graces of air conditioning. The ductless mini splits had probably been running all day long, but it looked like they were brand new so I’m sure they were able to withstand the demands. I think it was really innovative for the production company to come up with this idea because I’m sure a lot of people who are intoxicated could use the break in air conditioning after dancing in the heat all day long. It was really great to meet some new people in the line as well. We talked with them for a long time and ended up hanging out the rest of the festival!