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Is the rumor true that 90% of the visitors of "Wacken Open Air" are male? Are there any figures on this?
I didn't find any actual statistics but anecdotally the audience is primarily male by a good margin. That appears to simply be a function of the music. Heavy Metal fans are primarily male. If you go ...
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How do I get a hotel room in the centre when everything is sold out (and more expensive) because of a big event?
It sounds like you're not going to find an inexpensive private room in the city center. Hotels don't have any reason to conceal their availability; if you're not seeing things on the normal booking ...
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How do I get a hotel room in the centre when everything is sold out (and more expensive) because of a big event?
While the chances of success are low, you can sometimes get impossible-seeming bookings by knowing when the cancellation periods are for people with bookings to cancel without penalty. If the hotel ...
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Is the rumor true that 90% of the visitors of "Wacken Open Air" are male? Are there any figures on this?
Granted, it has been quite a while since I last visited Wacken Open Air (2006 or 2007), so keep that in mind. But from my experience this rumour is not true. There's plenty of women around. Now, of ...
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How do I get a hotel room in the centre when everything is sold out (and more expensive) because of a big event?
You can search on hotels and check their own sites, but I fear you left it too late.
Usually I would advise to go to one of the other Dutch cities but this event is country wide and all cheap hotel ...
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How do I get a hotel room in the centre when everything is sold out (and more expensive) because of a big event?
When looking for cheap accomodation when I am slightly flexible with regard to the location (that might unfortunately be necessary), I often find it helpful to use booking.com's map view. If you zoom ...
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Is it appropriate to wear a knee-length yukata on summer festivals?
Did your yukata come with shorts (short pants)? If so, there’s no problem, just wear those.
Remember that yukata are effectively pajama and no one wants to really see your underwear or worry that ...
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Is it appropriate to wear a knee-length yukata on summer festivals?
It's not offensive, it's just a bit silly-looking. Summer festivals are very casual events, so friends may rib you a bit but nobody will seriously mind, especially after a couple of beers.
As an ...
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Facilities around the Loony Dook
From the blog post How to….. Loony Dook, it appears the local businesses allow you to use their toilets to change:
Fancy dress for the main event and people go all out for it so there
is no need ...
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An authentic way to celebrate Novruz in Azerbaijan
In Azerbaijan, Novruz is officially celebrated between 20th and 24th of March. When public holidays and weekends overlap here (which usually is the case with Novruz, because it lasts for 5 days), the ...
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Matsuri in rural areas: where to find information?
Try Omatsuri Japan: https://omatsurijapan.com/search/list/
You can search by region, by date, or by both. Japanese only, I'm afraid, but Google Translate works OK.
This still lists only major-ish ...
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Medieval Festivals in Portugal
I am not sure if what you are looking for exists. In these festivals you will usually have three groups. You can try joining one of them:
Artisans and food stands. These will be working or cooking on ...
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Does Korea have any mud festivals in autumn?
Unfortunately I don't think there is a mud festival held in autumn in Korea due to the cold climate. I did a quick search on Naver and couldn't find one in autumn.
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How can I find Midsummer (Juhannus) celebration spots nearby Helsinki?
Very few people are in Helsinki for the midsummer. Traditionally for midsummer people leave for their cottages and the Finnish cities are deserted. During midsummer you should be prepared for shorter ...
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How to improve the chances of getting a free ticket from a "Blue Girl" at the Bayreuth Festival?
As, according to the information in your question, it does not really matter what you wear, it has to be how you behave.
I would say, if you see one of the blue girls walking around who might have a ...
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Visiting the Edinburgh Fringe (events information)
There are more than 3000 events in a wide variety of categories happening this year. You can find details and book tickets at the official website.
Tickets are per-event, but you can expect an amount ...
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What's the best place to appreciate Lantern Festival in Beijing?
I would suggest going to any miaohui (庙会), which will be full of Chinese lanterns. You might have a tough time shopping there if you don't speak any Mandarin, though.
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Matsuri in rural areas: where to find information?
I am not aware of any exhaustive list of matsuri in Japan (estimates say there are 100,000+ of them across the country in a year). However, there is one trick that I often use and it may help you ...
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Is a ticket, in addition to Gadearmbånd, recommended for Copenhagen Distortion music festival?
Based on the 2017 program, having an armband will get you access to things like "luxury toilets" (LUKSUSTOILETTER), the Royal Distortion main stage, and free beer from 16:00 - 18:00 at Country House (...
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An authentic way to celebrate Novruz in Azerbaijan
In March 2019 we were to both Baku and Shaki, two main cities that had claimed to have a wide range of Nowruz festivities. There were some small concerts in Şəki on 20th of March, but we were too late ...
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What's the best place to appreciate Lantern Festival in Beijing?
This site highlights where you can go:
Qianmen Shang Yuan Lantern Party, Beijing Highlight: Lion dancing
performances
The Lantern festival party in Qianmen is held to restore and expand
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Where and how to celebrate Lantern Festival (last day of Chinese New Year) in Vancouver, B.C. area?
While Vancouver is home to hundreds of thousands of Chinese residents, it doesn't seem to have the Lantern Festival tradition yet, at least not on a massive scale. Google fails to turn up anything ...
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