Festival guides and tips: keep your group together at any event
All of Crewbeam’s festival guides and tips in one place. Whether it’s a festival, carnival or Oktoberfest, it always comes down to the same thing: keeping your group together in the crowds and finding each other again if someone goes missing. Every guide has practical tips for its occasion, honest notes on signal and battery, and answers to the most common questions.
Festival guides: friends, tent and packing list
For several days on the festival site and the campsite.
Find friends at a festival
9 tips from meeting points to live location, plus WhatsApp, Apple and Google compared.
Find your tent at a festival
8 tips for day and night, from a photo of the spot to a saved location.
Festival packing list
The camping checklist to tick off and save as a PDF: from tickets and tent to power bank and toiletries.
Carnival, Oktoberfest and other big events
Costumes, parade routes, big tents and closures: this is where groups lose each other especially fast.
Cologne Carnival tips
Stay together from 11 November to Shrove Tuesday, with a printable meeting plan and all the 2027 dates.
Oktoberfest with a group
Why the Bavaria statue and the Ferris wheel are poor meeting points, and what the City of Munich advises families.
Three rules that help at any event
- A meeting point with a time. A spot that exists only once, and a fixed time, for example on the hour.
- A plan B without signal. Where there are lots of people, messages often arrive late. The meeting point still works. There’s a printable template in the meeting plan.
- Whoever waits stays put. Only one person searches. Two people searching almost always walk past each other in a crowd.