myhab: For a festival experience free of camping disasters
You don't need to have been paying too much attention to the festival scene over the last few years to have noticed that, as idyllic as the picture in your head may have been when you booked your tickets, things can sometimes go a little bit wrong. If it's not tents being submerged in mud and water, it's the apparently insurmountable variety of problems associated with outdoor lavatoriums.
Well, consider such problems behind you, as long as you don't mind shelling out. Basically, myhab is a shelter made of recycled plastic and waterproof cardboard. Fear not, the cardboard is all inside the myhab, and having checked it out myself at the product launch the other night, I can confirm that this habitat is extremely durable.
Posted by Stuart Waterman on May 9, 2025 10:50 AM
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Eating at festivals is, at best, a pain in the arse. It's pricey and often awkward (finding somewhere to sit and wrestling with cheap paper plates and the like). Well, why not go prepared? For under £20, you can get your hands on this wonderful Eurohike Family Picnic Pack.
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As any festival fan knows, after getting all fired up by a cracking headline set the last thing you want is for the party to stop. Well, now it won't have to.
When you go to a festival, one of the biggest gripes is the price of food. £3?! FOR A BREW?! That's why, if you're a seasoned festival camper, you should invest in a camping cooking set. For a measly £14.99 you can get this great little set that contains 1 and 2 litre pots, an 18cm pan, a kettle and a strap. 
With more and more people taking the little'uns to festivals these days, it's worth having a look at some camping gear that will make their life a little easier and include them in the fun... after all, you can't expect them to stay up 'til 3am doing mushrooms and listening to Aphex Twin can you?
Whether it’s confusion over what season we’re in or cider’s surreptitious rise in popularity, the fact that they need to take tents with them to festivals seems to be eluding some people.
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For £29.99, you can get your hands on a great lantern to guide you around at the festivals... and they look smarter than a torch! This collapsible 360° lantern means you're never without a light source, even if you have no batteries or are miles from a power supply. 
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Although this wind-up light doesn't match 
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Orange (the people who make mobiles and all that... not the fruit) have gone all green with a wind powered phone charger for your tent
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