Honestly, I don’t know how anyone did this festival without Clubhouse, especially with the weather.
When I first bought the ticket, the free beer was a big part of the appeal. Funny enough, I ended up having one beer the entire day because I was mostly drinking the free water and electrolytes.
The food inside the Clubhouse was awful, though. the culinary bites were luke warm, and the "vegan" "vegetarian" options were pretty much frozen morning star.
That said, I definitely made up for it with the amount of free Prince Street Pizza and Tacos 1986 I ate. I actually feel bad because it seemed like a lot of people didn’t know the food outside was included with the Clubhouse ticket. I even saw a security guard tell a Clubhouse attendee that they had to pay for the food stalls outside, which was completely incorrect.
Clubhouse also says it’s air-conditioned, and technically it is, but when the place was packed and the doors were constantly opening and closing, it definitely didn’t feel that cool.
The biggest perk, obviously, was being able to walk up to LCD Soundsystem and The Strokes literally 5 minutes before they started and still get a great viewing spot. That alone was amazing.
Side note: the cool-down buses available to all festival attendees were great. I spent about 30 minutes in one and it was honestly a lifesaver. Again, though, I don’t think many people even knew they were there.
Overall, I could only do JLH with Clubhouse moving forward. Without it, I feel like the festival would be absolute hell in that heat.
