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Donington Park is pretty much attached to the west side of East Midlands Airport. All rights reserved. Download Festival Join Mailing List. The UK's number one rock and metal festival. Headliners Iron Maiden. Biffy Clyro. The Distillers. Steel Panther. A Day to Remember. Use Clashfinder to help plan your itinerary.

Note that Clashfinder initially is just a guide and will only become accurate once official stage times have been announced. There are 6 campsites for standard camping. All identifiable by being named with a different colour. They are vast campsites with lots of room to pitch tents. There are also campsites for RIP ticket holders and camper vans and caravans. These are located quite close to the main arena.

If you plan to do some cooking, you will unlikely be allowed stoves with flames and gas canisters. Use a Solid Fuel Stove instead. The Car Park is a long walk from the camping sites so a Festival Trolley could turn out to be a good investment for transporting all your heavy gear and drink.

Travelling to Download by Car: Castle Donington is accessible from all parts of the country by road. Junction 23a off the M1 is the closest motorway exit. Once you start getting close to the festival site there will be plenty signs directing traffic. Click Here to Purchase a Parking Pass , either with your festival ticket or separate.

The Car Park is half a mile away from the camping site so be prepared for the walk and consider how you are going to transport all your camping equipment. A Festival Trolley could turn out to be a very good investment and many people use these. Travelling to Download by Bus: Castle Donington is on many local bus routes so you will need to look up the timetables and routes depending on where you are travelling from. On the journey to the festival, there are bus stops on the roads near to the festival entrance.

When leaving the festival, busses can be boarded at the Transport Hub. The queues for the busses get quite long as soon as the headliner act has finished. So it is advisable to start making your way to the Transport Hub just prior to them finishing if you want to be sure of getting near the front of the queue, and not have a long time to wait.

Coaches can be booked in advance from their website. They sell weekend return tickets and day return tickets. From both you can easily catch the direct festival busses to and from the festival site. No stopping is allowed on the roads in the vicinity of the festival site for drop-off or pick-ups. At the Transport Hub there is a designated area to queue for taxis.

In the evenings the queue gets long so if you want to catch a taxi you are advised to get to the taxi area outside peak times. It is sign-posted once you are close to the festival site. There are lots of Hotel and Accommodation options available close to Castle Donington and the festival site.

Mainly due to East Midlands Airport being nearby. Some of the hotels are either walking distance to the festival or a short bus ride away. Here is a selection of bigger hotels very close to the festival site. Jurys Inn — East Midlands. Holiday Inn Express — East Midlands. Radisson Blu — East Midlands.