REDDIT FESTIVAL NEWS Attending Rock en Seine this summer and it says phone batteries are prohibited… is this common at festivals / how am I to stay safe if my phone dies since I’m travelling from overseas?

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Attending Rock en Seine this summer and it says phone batteries are prohibited… is this common at festivals / how am I to stay safe if my phone dies since I’m travelling from overseas?

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Attending Rock en Seine this summer and it says phone batteries are prohibited… is this common at festivals / how am I to stay safe if my phone dies since I'm travelling from overseas?
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13 responses to “REDDIT FESTIVAL NEWS Attending Rock en Seine this summer and it says phone batteries are prohibited… is this common at festivals / how am I to stay safe if my phone dies since I’m travelling from overseas?”

  1. Hellchron avatar
    Hellchron
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    Nawh, that’s crazy. What’s even the point of banning headphones? I’ve started bringing my portable battery bank/ car jump thing to fests. Keeps the whole camp’s phones charged for days!

  2. TheWeirdShape avatar
    TheWeirdShape
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    It would really surprise me if that was actually enforced.

  3. Clean-Ad1652 avatar
    Clean-Ad1652
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    Most likely cause they have portable battery pack for rent/ charging stations there and they’d rather you pay for the use of theirs than bring your own and they not make any money. The sad capitalism we live in these days

  4. pineapplepeople69 avatar
    pineapplepeople69
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    Very odd call. Never seen that before and I’ve been to heaps of festivals.

  5. Randy4layhee20 avatar
    Randy4layhee20
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    That’s absolutely ridiculous

  6. mpsamuels avatar
    mpsamuels
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    This is a city festival with no camping so everyone is either only going for one day or will have somewhere to stay overnight outside of the festival. If you have somewhere to stay overnight, just charge your phone there each night.

    If you are on a day trip and genuinely worried about your phone battery as you’re coming from oversea just keep your phone use to an absolute minimum. Power saving mode, disabling location tracking/auto sync/Bluetooth/mobile data or even turning the phone off completely when not in use is your friend. Sure you’ll not be able to update reddit/insta/facebook etc through the day but I’m sure you’ll be able to sacrifice that in exchange for knowing you’re phone will have battery should you need it in an emergency.

    Sure, the rule seems a bit extreme but there are ways to cope with it if you’re genuinely concerned about safety. I doubt it’ll be particularly strictly enforced anyway as security searches at these sorts of things are generally pretty slack and phone batteries are probably only included in the list as a catch all in case someone tries to bring in some daft sized piece of kit that security believe is genuinely unsafe.

  7. VAisforLizards avatar
    VAisforLizards
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    Who the hell still has external phone batteries?

  8. chewbekkers avatar
    chewbekkers
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    How about one of the battery cases? It would be worth it to me to purchase just for this.

  9. aditya00 avatar
    aditya00
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    ahh thats a bummer, i’m going and was planning on bringing one. in any case im going solo and would be down to link up !

  10. Nosokvolosok avatar
    Nosokvolosok
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    Actually for me Small external phone batteries is in Authorized Items section. Maybe they’ve changed it

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  12. LaidBackLeopard avatar
    LaidBackLeopard
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    Meanwhile, you can’t have a bag bigger than a daysack. What are you supposed to bring a weekend’s worth of kit in?! Is this some kind of prank on English speakers?

  13. rainbowzend avatar
    rainbowzend
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    I haven’t seen that before either, bilut I have only been to festivals here in America. Could it have to do with bomb 💣 parts?

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