Bell Tent Hire for Festivals: What to Expect

Festival season is not just one big weekend each summer. Bell tent hire for festivals is something we get asked about from spring right through to the last outdoor events of the year. If you have ever queued for a shower block at seven in the morning wrapped in a towel, or woken up on a flat air bed with your neck at an odd angle, you will understand why more people are choosing a fully dressed tent over a battered two man tent from the loft.

We have watched festival glamping grow every year, and once people try turning up to a dressed tent instead of a bare pitch, they rarely go back to camping the old way.

Why festival glamping beats a standard tent

A festival weekend is tiring enough without wrestling with poles in the dark or discovering your sleeping bag has soaked through overnight. We turn up before you do, pitch everything properly, and leave your tent ready to walk straight into. You will not touch a single tent peg all weekend.

It also changes how you experience the festival itself. Instead of rushing back to a cold, damp tent between sets, you have somewhere properly comfortable to rest, get changed and regroup with your group before heading back out. That extra bit of comfort tends to be the difference between a weekend you enjoy and one you just survive.

What's included in your bell tent

This is luxury camping hire, not a budget upgrade. Every bell tent arrives fully dressed and ready to sleep in the moment you unzip the door.

• Proper beds with real mattresses, fresh bedding, pillows and cosy throws

• Fairy lights and lanterns strung up throughout for that evening glow

• Full setup before you arrive and full takedown once the event wraps

Whether you are after festival glamping for a small group of friends or a bigger camp for a work trip or milestone birthday, we can scale the setup to suit however many of you there are.

Not just for music festivals

We are seeing more bookings now for things that are not music festivals at all. Company away days, team building weekends and outdoor conferences are increasingly borrowing the same idea, a cluster of dressed bell tents where a team can properly switch off together rather than driving home separately at the end of the day. If you are planning something for work rather than a weekend away with friends, the same setup and takedown service applies, we just dress the tents a little differently depending on the occasion.

How the day works

We agree a pitch time with you or the site ahead of the event, arrive with everything needed, and have your bell tent fully dressed and ready before anyone arrives. When it is over, we come back, take it all down, and clear the site completely. You simply pack your bags and go home, no boot full of soggy canvas to deal with.

We leave no trace either. The pitch is left exactly as we found it, which matters more than ever with festivals and event sites under growing pressure to reduce abandoned tent waste each year.

Planning ahead

Glamping slots for next year's big festival weekends tend to get booked out well before tickets even go on general sale, so if you already know where you are heading in 2027, it is worth getting in touch now rather than waiting for the new year. The same goes for any autumn work trips, away days or outdoor events you have got coming up before the year is out.

Get in touch and tell us where and when you need us. We will sort the rest, so all that is left for you to do is turn up and enjoy it.