Rhythm and Alps

If you're young and want to be part of an awesome party.....
Dec 25th, 2022

Dec 5th, 2022

Dec 5th, 2022

This review is based solely on the cashless system R&A use for in festival purchase. When you arrive at R&A and upon confirmation of your ticket you are issued with a wrist band, this then becomes not only your ticket but the only way to carry out in festival purchases. To add credit to the wrist band you first need to activate it, this comes with a $3 charge. Now considering R&A have chosen to run the festival in this way it's kind of a scam to then charge people who have already payed for their tickets just to activate a payment method they have been given no alternative to. No doubt R&A profit from this, as while I understand removing the cash element, why not just use paywave? As the festival went on the system didn't decrease que times at the bar or food vendors but instead just created new queues at the top up stations, so again other than profiteering, how does this system improve the festival experience? Finally as if to really take the p*** you have to wait until a refund link opens to retrieve money you've not spent on your wrist band and guess what, you have to pay for that pleasure too a $3.50 fee is deducted from your remaining balance, and if you don't have over the minimum $3.50 charge guess who's not getting their money back, so again R&A and associates scam an extra fee bucks. Oh and if you cut your wrist band after the festival or lost it, well sadly your wrist band has the required unique 14 digit code on the back to retrieve your unspent cash...so you lose again. Finally I would again stress this review is based solely upon cashless payment system and has no reflection on other elements of the festival.
Dec 29th, 2020

Nov 14th, 2020