Rock by day and rest by night. RIP areas are quiet campsites, so please keep noise to a minimum after 1am. Please respect your neighbours by observing the quiet time. Remember accommodation walls aren’t as thick as your walls back home!
The RIP campsites are in some of the closest areas to the Main Arena and there is a dedicated RIP entrance directly into the Guest Area of the Arena. All locations are subject to change.
Park Farm and Sleepy Hollow are camping fields where you pitch your own tent and park your car beside it. Please ensure you purchase the correct field for everyone in your group as you must camp in the area named on your booking.
DISTRICT 1 is a premium camping location in PARK FARM and only campers that have booked a plot there will be able to pitch/set camp. Each person staying in the District 1 pitch must have an RIP Park Farm ticket. There are three types of pitch:
Please note – Park Farm & Sleepy Hollow, as well as District 1, are sold out for 2025.
Following on from 2024, Metal Meadow is expected to continue to be split across two locations. Each Metal Meadow accommodation has its expected location stated in the title but please be aware that due to production requirements, locations cannot be guaranteed. Metal Forest is on sale as well and will be in the same location as previous years.
With a selection of hotel rooms in the local area, you can retreat from the festival each evening to sleep off the excitement of the day and emerge refreshed to do it all again the next day whilst enjoying all the perks of RIP such as entrance to the Guest Area and the ‘doggie’ bag. Tickets are available via Ticketmaster now.
The best place to set navigation for is Park Farm. There will be traffic control measures in place on the day, so please follow RIP signage on arrival. Routing maps will be released closer to the festival.
RIP areas will open at 12pm midday on Wednesday 11th June 2025 and we politely ask you to leave by 11am on Monday 16th June.
We usually have a limited number of RIP guest passes each day. The cost of these will be confirmed once the festival begins at RIP receptions. Your guests may not stay overnight in your accommodation.
Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult 18+. Every person in your party must have a valid RIP ticket to stay on the RIP campsites, including children.
Under 5’s can stay in RIP Camping / Accommodations for no extra charge but please note that not all accommodations can accommodate additional guests and no beds or bedding will be provided.
For any other queries, please email download@vipnation.co.uk.
Booking accommodation to stay in either Metal Meadow 1 or 2, or the offsite hotels, gives you access to all things RIP including; weekend RIP Tickets for Download, Guest Area and RIP Village access, proper toilets and hot showers as well as the RIP ‘doggie’ bag with exclusive merchandise.
A full site map will be released a couple of weeks prior to the festival. Although the locations of RIP areas are usually similar year on year, please note there may be changes due to production requirements.
In RIP, we aim to create a camping experience that is accessible for all our customers by providing the below:
For further information about accessible facilities at Download, please visit our accessibility page.
Please be aware that due to a high level of interest in our RIP packages, we cannot guarantee availability of your preferred accommodation as many are already sold out. If you have any specific accessibility requirements or concerns in RIP, please contact VIP Nation by sending an email to Download@vipnation.co.uk.
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Accessibility applications will open later in the year, more information can be found on our accessibility page. In the meantime, please secure your RIP package via Ticketmaster. All guests (including potential companions) should ensure they are included in an RIP booking.
Yes, all RIP accommodations and bookings include RIP Weekend Festival Tickets to Download.
No, car passes are included with all RIP bookings, the quantity varies by booking type so please see below for more information.
If you have purchased RIP Park Farm or Sleepy Hollow, you can choose to add 1 or 2 complimentary car passes to your booking after you have added your tickets to the basket. For RIP accommodations, there is one pass per 3 guests automatically included in your booking, i.e. a Bell House for 4 includes 2 car passes.
Any extra car passes will be charged at the price of standard car park.
RIP Hotel bookers are not sent a car pass, as they have parking at their hotel included in their booking.
Please ensure you have the access to the address that’s stated in your Ticketmaster account as that is where your car pass will be posted to. Guidance on how to update your address can be found on Ticketmaster. The address is linked to the billing method used to pay for the booking.
We encourage car sharing to minimise our impact on the environment so please share the journey with your friends where possible!
Generally, you should expect to receive them around 5 days before the festival. Please refer to your Ticketmaster account for the status of your booking. Please note, we will send out full arrival instructions a week before the festival. Tickets will be digital in the Ticketmaster app and car passes will be posted out.
These are all on sale now. Take a look at our RIP Hotel packages and the Metal Forest below.
RIP areas will open at 12pm midday on Wednesday 11th June 2025 and we politely ask you to leave by 11am on Monday 16th June. Please note that the RIP Hotels are available from Friday 13th June until Monday 16th June.
There are options available at the checkout which you can select to spread the cost of your booking over multiple payments.
Resale is not an option for RIP accommodations as it can result in partial bookings. Transfer will be switched on closer to the date of the festival, so if you have a friend who can attend instead, you will be able to transfer the booking to them at a later date.
Resale for RIP Camping in Park Farm & Sleepy Hollow is likely to be made available closer to the date of the festival.
Please log in to your account on Ticketmaster or find your booking confirmation email to see what you booked, you can then view the accommodation page to see what is included.
We do not offer upgrades as such but if you purchase an RIP package then we can refund the standard ticket for you, as long as it was purchased from the authorised vendor, and once you supply us with both order codes in an email to download@vipnation.co.uk. The deadline to apply for an upgrade will be Friday 30th May.
We usually have a limited number of RIP guest passes each day. The cost of these will be confirmed once the festival begins at RIP receptions. Your guests may not stay overnight in your accommodation.
Due to the overwhelming demand for space at RIP, gazebos will only be permitted for parties of 4 or more sharing a tent in Park Farm & Sleepy Hollow. Gazebos are not permitted in Metal Meadow or Metal Forest.
Lockers for your valuables and phone charging will be located in both Park Farm & Sleepy Hollow, they are available to all RIP guests and will be available to pre-book closer to the festival.
Please refer to our things you can and can’t bring page for this information as the same restrictions apply to RIP as the general camping areas. Generally, glass bottles have been allowed into RIP Park Farm in the past – we will give you final info on this point when we send arrival instructions in advance of the event.
The RIP campsites are in some of the closest areas to the Main Arena and there is a dedicated RIP entrance directly into the Guest Area of the Arena. All locations are subject to change.
No, these camping options are separate campsites and do not include RIP benefits like access to RIP or the Guest Area. Please note the Lounge is separate to the Guest Area but as RIP includes access to the Guest Area, we would not advise RIP customers to purchase the Lounge as well.
Melbourne Hall has a dedicated bar with craft beers, a tearoom in which to have a full English breakfast each morning and beautiful grounds in which to relax before heading into the main arena at Download. Visit Ticketmaster for more information on the Rock Retreat at Melbourne Hall.
If you have any further questions, please contact VIP Nation through at download@vipnation.co.uk.
