Jay T.
Google
Base31 camping is not ready for campers.
Lacking showers and washroom facilities for campers. The showers are actually green rooms for the performers in the event halls, so there are very few to serve campers and a very long walk from the designated camp sites. My shower reservation was 5pm the next day.
Washrooms are closed in the morning, so hold your shits and forget about brushing your teeth at a sink.
Portable toilets are available, but gross.
No water station facilities to fill water bottles even though it was advertised, you can buy the $4 Flow water from the bar.
Camp sites are small, and really expensive for what they give you. It's an airport, so the grounds are flat and comfortable. No trees or any shades so it can get very hot. Someone had a heat stroke while we're there.
All the driveways and parking lot is full of broken asphalt, raised drain grates and tons of pot holes. Unpaved roads adding to the dust, my stuff was covered in dust by the next morning.
A few pop up shops serving meals at the commissary, but they get overrun by the crowd, can't keep up with the orders, and often run out of food. We have been refused to take our orders 2x while we are there. Be prepared to find alternatives.
No vending machines nearby, so even if you need any kind of essentials, need to drive back to town.
Lots of security around, mostly to keep people out of the concert halls or access to the washrooms in the morning.
We booked a premium camping site and said it comes with a goodies bag... It has a couple of maps of the base and PEC, and a bunch of advertisments, I wouldn't say it is a goodies bag, it was junk mail in a bag.
Base31 is a good idea for events but just not quite ready yet. Hope they will improve, until then, better off going to Sandbanks or check in at a local motel for the next event than to camp at Base31
