It promises to be a busy festival weekend with Pentecost. All kinds of festivals are planned in the region throughout the weekend. But partly due to the bad weather forecast for Sunday, people are offering their tickets online en masse.
For Amsterdam Open Air alone, there are 1,770 tickets for sale on Friday morning on the resale site Ticketswap. There are more than 1,100 tickets for sale for Spring Cabinet, which also takes place on Saturday and Sunday. Both festivals are completely sold out in regular sales.
Cheap to festival
If you don’t care much about the rain and thunderstorms that are forecast for Sunday, you can party in the rain for a pittance. It might be useful to bring boots and a poncho. But then you can go to a festival for about 20 euros that normally costs twice or sometimes even triple. Tickets are also offered at dump prices for a number of festivals that take place tomorrow, if the sun is still shining. Tickets for ‘Pleinvrees’ and ‘Nobody Is Not Loved Festival’ are offered for about 18 euros.
The Spring Cabinet organization is not afraid that the site will be empty on Sunday. They heard from the judge this afternoon that the festival can continue, after Hart had instituted summary proceedings for Twiske. “People have waited three years to be able to go to a festival, we as a team also have to wait three years. A little rain won’t spoil the fun,” says festival director Boye ‘t Lam.
Still sold a lot
A spokesperson for Ticketswap, a platform on which tickets can be resold, indicates that more tickets are being offered than ever. But more tickets are also being sold than in previous years. “The ‘Dutch weather’ will certainly play a role for most events,” the spokesperson thinks. “But at the Spring Cabinet this is probably also due to the summary proceedings that took place this afternoon. There was doubt whether the event could go ahead, as a result, many more tickets were offered than usual.”
According to Ticketswap, it is the first really big festival weekend with multiple events in multiple genres. The supply is therefore very large, but the demand is almost the same. In previous years, 90 to 92 percent of the tickets offered on Ticketswap were sold for festivals De Zon, Amsterdam Open Air and Lente Kabinet. At the moment it is approaching 98 percent. The company therefore expects that almost all tickets will be sold.
In previous editions, before corona, the tickets offered were on the website for an average of three days before they were sold, at the moment that is within 2 hours. Organizers therefore do not have to be afraid of empty fields on Sunday. It’s going to be fun dancing in the puddles.