Sziget Festival Accommodation
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Sziget Festival Budapest Accommodation ( Budapest Apartments for rent )
In August 2008 it will be the 18th time when Budapest and its green island in Óbuda will be one of the inevitable locations of the cultural and music life of Europe. During a week in the most pleasant month of the year Sziget Festival awaits students and young adults on vacation from Europe and other corners of the world with nearly a 1000 programmes and 60 venues.
Sziget is not only a festival, but a week-long opportunity to camp out in the temporarily built festival city on a gorgeous island where besides basic facilities posting and banking services, restaurants, pubs, shops and a number of other amenities provide comfort and entertainment. Budarentals.com offer you quality apartment accommodation for your stay at Sziget and there is considerably better value than comporable priced hotels.
Sziget is actually many festivals in one: each venue proposes a series of programmes, "individual festivals" are offered to the audience, to the lovers of the mainstream, hard rock, world music, electric dance music, alternative styles, blues and jazz. Visitors can enjoy a number of prosaic, dance and motion theatre performances during the week long festival at the theatre venue. The location also serves as a site of art exhibitions, literary events and classical music concerts. For the young, children's programmes are continuously offered and the older generations can also find favourable productions.
Sziget is more than just a festival: a place to meet, a place to make friends and fall in love; where one can spend a week self-abandoned, where parties and sporting programmes await the inquirer. The main venues of Sziget Festival:
Pop Rock Main Stage:
an out-door venue with the capacity of 40.000 people, where three international stars and one of the most well-known Hungarian bands appear every day between 4:30pm and 11 pm. The following artists will show in 2008. R.E.M, Die Ärzte, Sex Pistols, Kaiser Chiefs,
Róisin Murphy, Jamiroquai, Serj Tankian, Flogging Molly,
Anti-Flag, The Wombats, Mademoiselle, Babyshambles,
Alanis Morissette, Pendulum Live, Millencolin, Ziggi.
World Music Main Stage:
also an out-door venue, where 15.000 people can enjoy the best world music performances between 5pm and 9pm. Among others Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Goran Bregovic Wedding & Funeral Band,
Transglobal Underground & Natacha Atlas, Ky-Mani Marley,
Mercedes Peón will perform on this stage..
Hammerworld Stage :
Hammerwordl stage is a tent with the capacity of 5.000 people for the hard rock fans. Music is played from 4pm until dawn; Apocalyptica
Iced Earth, Avantasia, Exodus, Lacrimas Profundere, 3 Inches of Blood
Dew-Scented, Mass Hysteria, Pro-Pain
DanceArena:
DanceArena, the largest tent of Sziget Festival is 2.700 m2, presents the best known representatives of electric dance music. Programmes start at 10pm, and parties go on until 5am. Justice, Carl Cox,
Ferry Corsten, DJ Observer, Jack de Marseille, Lucca, Vitalic
WAN2 Stage:
WAN2 Stage is a colourful patch of Sziget Festival, during the week it thematically presents the different musical genres from world music to punk. This venue Danko Jones, Delinquent Habits, New York Ska Jazz Ensemble, Hocus Pocus, Les Touffes Krétiennes, Pete Philly & Perquisite, Brisa Roché, Che Sudaka, Izabo and others. In the WAN2 tent 5.000 visitors can witness the performances of eight bands every day from 4:30pm until dawn.
Audiences, longing for more melodious music, can find satisfaction in the tent of the Pop Stage from 11pm to dawn, daily. On top of all the above, further musical programmes, thematic musical tents from folk through blues to classical concerts guarantee versatile entertainment to the visitor for a week, every day, 24 hours a day. Nearly two-dozen "dance" venues with different styles are available for late night fun.
Naturally, Sziget Festival offers other cultural programmes. In the Theatre and Dance Tent (Színház és Táncsátor) ballets, operas, motion-and dance theatre entertain the audience; numerous exhibitions, performances, an out-door museum, a puppet theatre and a cabaret can be enjoyed at other locations. In the evenings movies are shown outdoors. Kids are welcome at the children programmes but if the adults decide not to take the children along to a program they can be left at the day-care under the attention of qualified personnel.
We have a range of Budapest apartments available for Sziget which offer unique and affordable Budapest accommodation for this festival.