Omroep Flevoland – News – Lowland campsites open; crowds on roads around Walibi
It’s busier on the roads around Walibi Holland in Biddinghuizen on Thursday morning. The 31st Lowland Festival kicks off on Friday. Festival goers staying at the campsite can head there from Thursday morning.
At 8am on Thursday morning, the Walibi parking lot is already full. Cars are driving in a column one after the other. They are festival visitors who are going camping. They will be setting up their tent on Thursday. This is possible from 9am, and parking is possible an hour before.
Volunteers show visitors the way.
Many festival-goers come by car. This means that it can get very busy on the roads around the festival site near Biddinghuizen. Lowlands therefore deploys over 400 volunteers to direct traffic. These volunteers are stationed along the access roads and in the car parks.
The word is one of those volunteers. She directs festival-goers to the right path to the parking lot. “Then I can go to the festival for free,” the volunteer says. “You have to work three eight-hour shifts, you have to work half the festival, but you get a free ticket.”
“Festival goers, follow the yellow signs.”
Visitors arriving by car are asked to follow the yellow-signed routes. There is a separate route for campers, and the same applies to shuttle buses. The municipality of Dronten invites people who are not attending the festival to avoid the roads surrounding the event site in the Lowlands.
The festival is expected to attract around 65,000 people. The first artists will play in the Lowlands starting on Friday.