Has anyone on here been to this?
Me and my wife are heading up to celebrate my 50th (Yeh I know I don't look it) but are not sure whether to buy tickets for the street party and/or the concert or not. It looks good, but we were wondering if it might just be a better atmosphere on Carlton Hill or in the pubs in town.
All (sensible) advice gratefully received
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Was at it in 2012. Only arrived for the last hour got a bit carried away elsewhere but it was brilliant, took a load of chinese burds home :smiley-laughing002:
A lot will come down to whether you like the bands who are playing, we were in to it so found a similar crowd and the atmosphere was really good. Chaos when the bells went.
I'm in no position to give a decent account but from what I remember, and if it's not too expensive, i'd definitely recommend trying it out. Something different. -
I went a few years ago. I thought it was a bit * tbh. I only went to the street party, concert might be alright. Would hae rather been at a house party.
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Been once, Woke up next a random car on the other side of Edinburgh with like hypothermia and what i thought was a broken * leg was tha painful.
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Have done the Edinburgh hogmany a couple of times. First time we got accomodation but its normally brutally expensive with inflated prices and a minimum 3 night stay - even in B&B. Personally I think the best bit is to get in really early and do a daytime crawl around so you are already inside the barriers. It gets a bit too packed later and pub crawling becomes no fun. Outside is OK but depends on the weather.
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It's all changed now thought, initially as a result of the mad crush that was in about 1999 I think, it was scary stuff. All of us were just carried along Rose Street with the crowd panicking.
I think I am right in saying that you now only get access in to a specific area, even on Princes Street. There are stages on the street and a couple in the gardens.
For accommodation I would go away from the city centre, LRT (local buses) usually put on late buses (by late I mean they run until about 5am) to get folk to the outlying towns. There's also the trams now but I don't know if they'll be running.
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Thanks for theadvice, we have already got the accomodation in the city centre which was pricey but cant be arsed with getting buses when too *, any anyway, yer only 50 once!
The only thing we are undecided about is whether to get the concert tickets or just get a few cansandgo upCarltonHill. -
It's good craic I would go for the tickets if i were you. Good fun to be had round about the stages
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Night busses for hogmany are free aswell
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Worth it of you are in the Gardens.
Standing out freezing your balls with 75,000 strangers on Princes Street is pointless.