To take more alcohol than allowed to Wilderness Festival?

[Window1]

4 day festival with limit of either 12 beers or 2 bottles of wine.

Would I be unreasonable to take more than this measly limit?

I'd have to be creative in my packing and I guess being caught will depend on how thorough their searches are.

Has anyone been that can say a bit about security searches on entry?

@GrandTheftWalrus

This is a great thread to read as a member of security staff 😁

Yeah but even security staff aren't allowed to grope large breasted ladies to check they're not smuggling alcohol in their bras. My DD went to a festival looking like Katie Price (boob wise) and left looking like Keira Knightly. She had 500mls spirits in each cup of her bra.

Well if anyone from Wilderness sees this, they’re getting extra tips for their searches

@emmalinec of course we aren't but it's all the other tricks lol.

Once took a bottle of whisky off a guy who put it in a pringles tube. You can tell there is something else in it by the weight.

Also had 2 women who put red wine into a water bottle, that wasn't the brightest idea!

Pringles tube

My sister and lots of mine and DH friends work security at festivals, this is another reason why I feel so secure with my waterbottle trick. The biggest give away is the weight. A sandwich, wellyboot or can of pringles shouldn't weigh as much as a bottle of wine. It's amazing how much people try to smuggle in. Their confiscated booze often keeps us going through summer until Christmas 🥂

Well if anyone from Wilderness sees this, they’re getting extra tips for their searches

Oh, I'm sure they know that everyone ignores their petty rules. If they searched everyone's tents/picnic bags/bras they'd have to open the festival a week early to allow time, so you're just playing a chances game

I bought myself a see through shoulder bag for the last festival I went to, it had my camera, my phone, my purse and 2 tubes of suncream in, and I was waved through after a perfunctory pat down to make sure I wasn't hiding booze under my clothes. After that first time, when I went back to the car to top up the suncream, security didn't even bat an eyelid as I sauntered past with another litre of vodka.

@SirenSays

My sister and lots of mine and DH friends work security at festivals, this is another reason why I feel so secure with my waterbottle trick. The biggest give away is the weight. A sandwich, wellyboot or can of pringles shouldn't weigh as much as a bottle of wine. It's amazing how much people try to smuggle in. Their confiscated booze often keeps us going through summer until Christmas 🥂

Fair point!

Go a few weeks early and bury your stash.

Pringles tins are good for wine

Why in God's name would you even want to go to such a festival????

@FaceyRomford

Why in God's name would you even want to go to such a festival????

What aspect is annoying you?

It’s the debates and theatre isn’t it.

Empty part of a bottle of tonic/mixer/apple juice. Top up with gin/vodka/spiced rum. Or whatever.

Suncream bottles or bug spray 👍🏻

@FaceyRomford

Why in God's name would you even want to go to such a festival????

Cos it sounds good?

Why in God's name would you even want to go to such a festival????

What do you mean 'such a festival' one where people have a good time? I say that as someone who doesn't even drink!

Spare a thought for the poor Aussies who attend Bathurst race weekends, they’re restricted to 9 litres of beer per person, per day

@Window1 resurrecting this thread to see what tactics you successfully used? We're off to Wilderness this year....

Same here have 8 oz hip flask that fits in a hip pocket that would only get caught on a pat down or metal detector. If you are really desperate (I have done this at Latitude) is bringing in illicit hooch on each visit and hide it somewhere in the woods under a fern or some such. My partner will have a backpack and makes them look a bit shifty and then with hooch concealed under my clothes we go through together. You get waved through whilst they get the searched. Once through everything goes in the bag. Some festivals even have post bag check spotters catching folks who got through the gate and unpack too hastily so watch out for that !

It definitely tastes better when you haven't paid 8 quid for it 😁