In addition to featuring world-class concerts, this year’s VOLT Festival also promises to make its guests’ stay as comfortable and all-inclusive as a festival can, with grocery and drug stores set up on the festival site, phone-charging points, Wi-Fi spots, and a cash-free payment system. To have all necessary information ready, be sure to download the festival’s official smartphone app, too, featuring the festival map, schedule, and other useful know-how.
In addition to the ongoing world-famous tunes resonating from the major VOLT Festival stages, other attractions include an adventure park, the Sopron Eye (a 35-meter tall Ferris wheel), and plenty of other offbeat activities found throughout the shaded festival grounds.
As of press time, tickets for June 27th are sold out for this year’s VOLT Festival, but other tickets and multi-day passes remain available – for more information about prices, check the event’s official website. Getting to Sopron from Budapest is easiest by rail – there are direct connections daily from Keleti Railway Station at 7:10am, 9:10am, 11:10am, 1:10pm, 3:10pm, 5:10pm, and 7:10pm (see complete timetables) to Sopron Railway Station, where passengers can hop on the festival shuttle bus that takes them directly to the festival’s main entrance.
Sopron is not located along any of Hungary’s major highways, and getting there from Budapest by car takes about two and a half hours. Begin by taking motorway M7 to the M1 west from Budapest, continuing around Győr until reaching the turnoff for main road 85. Travel west on this road through Enese, Csorna, Kapuvár, and Fertőszentmiklós, until main road 85 intersects with main road 84. The city limits of Sopron lie just a few kilometers north of this confluence, and signs clearly point the way to the festival grounds from there – and of course, those with GPS can simply type “Lővér Camping, Sopron” into their robot navigators.
Once arrived and settled in – either in tents, wooden huts or caravans – guests can drift amid tree-shaded attractions in a happy daze between the diverse concerts. This year’s lineup features more than 100 different performances held on seven stages, with headliners including Linkin Park on June 27th, Paramore and Enter Shikari on June 30th, and Imagine Dragons and Knife Party on July 1st. In addition, there are many lesser-known-but-not-for-long acts that are well worth watching, including some up-and-coming Magyar musicians. To get a taste of the VOLT Festival’s sensations, check out the official 2016 after-movie below:
