Play dress up
Bestival takes costumes seriously. If you don’t bring your own, keep an eye out for the studio tents that can take you through the costume making process. There’s an annual theme, and they can help you fit in with the crowd.
Get hitched
Each year, hundreds of couples get married at the Big Love Inflatable Church on the festival grounds.
Give in to the carnival atmosphere
With marching bands, burlesque performers, big top tent events, and major musical acts playing across multiple stages, you can’t help but feel the joy.
Alternate Plans
If you can’t make the fall festival, organizers recently launched Camp Bestival.
Getting There
Anyone catching a train should grab a ticket to Wool Station, where shuttle buses will be laid on to collect festies and deliver them to the festival. Bournemouth and Southampton International Airports are closest while any seafarers should look up White Motor Boats who operate ferries between Weymouth and Lulworth Cove. They drop passengers on the beach in the Cove, and then it is a five-minute taxi ride to the Lulworth Estate.