Visitors to the Tapiola Festival give feedback on the event’s water point arrangements on social media. Iltalehti reached out to the organizer to comment on the situation.
On Thursday, the Tapiola Festival featured, among other things, the Rähinä Group in the Uniikki, Iso-H and Timo Little Scam. Mikko Räsänen
The four-day Tapiola Festival began on Thursday in the Golfstar Range area in Leppävaara, Espoo. Previously held in Tapiola, the event moved to Leppävaara this summer.
On the hot Thursday day the organizer announced the event Instagram-The stories that there is no running water in the area. Instagram stories can be seen 24 hours from the release.
– That’s why you can’t fill your own water bottles! The information point distributes water to those who are interested! The announcement says.
Festival visitors have complained about the water point arrangement, for example, in the comment box on Instagram and Facebook publications and in the Jodel discussion application.
– This is bad when there is only one water point. There should be more of them.
– Let’s hope that tomorrow at the latest there will be a tank car on site. Not quite a working concept if there are more people on other days. Now was a 50 -meter queue.
– That water point is absolutely ridiculous. So much unnecessary waste because they didn’t get the hose in the area.
– There was some adjustment to be expected.
– I’m going to collect bottles and start selling water there.
The organizer comment
Event producer Vilho Riihimäki tells Iltalehti that there will be no running water in the event area. According to Riihimäki, the reason for this is that there are no water hoses or bets in the area.
– This was not the information at the beginning. We had the knowledge that there was one well here. But that well was much smaller, so we wouldn’t have had enough capacity to distribute running water at this size event. Then we ended up sharing free water bottles, Riihimäki explains.
– Yesterday we also divided water into the pints, but then we found it slowing down. Customers started pouring the lumps into their own drinking bottles. That’s why we switched to bottles, he says.
In the new area of the Tapiola Festival, only water bottles are available in water. Illustration. Aop
According to Riihimäki, festival visitors are still allowed to bring their own empty drinking bottles, but there is no place in the area to fill them. However, the event producer assures us that they have enough water available.
Riihimäki says that the feedback and critics of festival visitors have been responded to. According to him, another tent will be held at the area over the weekend, where only water is distributed to customers.
– We have also booked more staff to share these bottles, says Riihimäki.
Riihimäki does not believe that lack of running water would make people demand their money back from festival tickets.
– We have water points, as promised. However, everything else is very beautiful: the weather allows, artists are good and customers have a good atmosphere at all, he explains.
On Thursday, August 7, Loud’s Live Promotions announced that changing the event to the new area will allow for a “better festival experience”. Riihimäki is still signing that statement.
– This is not a problem, but people still get completely drinkable water. And in the area, this is nicer than last year because this is wide, smooth and on a solid footing, says Riihimäki.
– Here people have room to move. We got big toilet groups here that were not congested as we got them far enough from the pallets. In addition, we got a significant improvement in our VIP area compared to last year. So yes, I think this is an improvement last year, he will add.