Vantastival
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Vantastival is an independent, family-friendly music festival built around campervan culture, held at Beaulieu House and Gardens near Drogheda in County Louth. The campervan focus produces a distinctive trading pattern: an audience that is fully self-contained, on site for the whole weekend, and cooking a good deal of its own food — which sounds like bad news for a trader but is more nuanced than that.
Festival facts
- Venue
- Beaulieu House and Gardens, Drogheda, Co. Louth
- County
- Louth
- Typical dates
- Early summer (3 days)
- Attendance
- Independent campervan-culture festival
- Operator
- Vantastival
- Application window
- Typically spring for the same-year festival
- Pitch fees
- Not published — indicatively €400–€1,500 for the weekend
- Official site
- www.vantastival.com/ ↗
A self-catering audience
Campervan and motorhome attendees arrive with a fridge, a hob and a week of shopping. They will not buy three meals a day from you. What they do buy is the thing that is inconvenient to make in a van — proper coffee first thing, something hot and substantial after a wet afternoon, a treat for the children, and the late-night food nobody wants to cook at midnight. Position around those moments rather than trying to be their canteen.
Coffee is the strongest single offer here
Of all Irish festival types, campervan festivals are the best for a coffee trailer. Van kettles make poor coffee, the audience is awake and mobile early, and the site has a genuine morning rhythm rather than the late start of a tent-camping festival. A well-run coffee unit at a campervan festival can outperform a food unit on margin.
Family-friendly changes the evening
Vantastival is explicitly family-friendly, which softens the late-night peak compared with an adults-only music festival and strengthens the afternoon. Expect a demand curve closer to a family festival than to Electric Picnic, and staff the middle of the day accordingly.
Louth logistics
Beaulieu House is just outside Drogheda, close to the M1 and within easy towing distance of both Dublin and the northeast — one of the more convenient festival sites in the country for an east-coast operator. Louth County Council covers casual trading for any public pitch in the county outside the festival agreement, and Drogheda and Dundalk both carry real year-round trade.
Frequently asked questions
Do campervan festival attendees buy food?
Selectively. They arrive with a fridge, a hob and a week of shopping, so they will not buy three meals a day. They do buy what is inconvenient to make in a van — proper coffee in the morning, something hot after a wet afternoon, a treat for the children, and late-night food nobody wants to cook at midnight.
Is a campervan festival good for a coffee trailer?
It is arguably the best festival type for coffee in Ireland. Van kettles make poor coffee, the audience is awake and mobile early, and the site has a real morning rhythm rather than the late start of a tent-camping festival.
Where is Vantastival held?
Beaulieu House and Gardens near Drogheda, Co. Louth — just off the M1 and within easy towing distance of Dublin and the northeast, which makes it one of the more convenient festival sites for an east-coast operator.
How does the family-friendly element affect trade?
It softens the late-night peak compared with an adults-only music festival and strengthens the afternoon, giving a demand curve closer to a family festival than to Electric Picnic. Staff the middle of the day accordingly.
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