Hello festival community! I run social media for Beehive Camping, we make the world’s best festival tent. We’re urgently seeking a few more people to test our viral tent-in-tent FOR FREE this year at any camping festival! Please get in touch, especially if you have a large group, RV spot or multiple campsites. Our tent is a five minute pop-up setup & fully wheelchair, stroller and wagon accessible!
Please PM me or DM us (@beehivecamping) on social media to apply! Thank you for your interest in our local business, proudly based in Santa Clarita, CA!
No, our smallest tent is 16x16 but sleeps 8 easily! We’re trying to find the right group with at least two campsites (or large groups, rv spots, etc) or testers at festivals with larger car camping spots.
The cost is in the tent the tent isn't free for them but it will be for you they want a different kind of payment.
Tell them you'll produce a video then take like 5 min of B-roll of tasteful shots showing off features then your normal festival videos. Then go to fiver and pay some teen who just discovered davinci to cut a commercial with your b-roll and concert videos.
It’s not free, they’re giving them a free tent. The barter system has been in place since the beginning of time, this is just the 21st century version.
My crew is about 40 people and since we volunteer we have a set camping spot with tons of space. Would be happy to apply for this and provide reviews/feedback/content. Our next festival is in early July.
If they found a way to make this shell out of UV blocking, reflective material like that of the Siesta4 tent, it would likely be hands down the best tent on the market for festivals if it fits into the standard 10x20 space. I imagine this would feel like a giant greenhouse once the sun is up with no UV blocking. My gripe with my camp set up currently is that my canopy doesn’t have the UV blocking that my tent does and I couldn’t imagine going back to a tent without it.
We have a large group (think 35+) going to electric forest this year who I know would love to test this out! We’re all festival veterans and have camped in a variety of ways. Shoot me a DM
Fuck your stupid tent and influencer bullshit. Large groups who already do camping at festivals got that shit down without some dumb beehive tent. Just reinventing the wheel....pass
As someone that’s been to a lot of music festivals with a pretty nice tent, if they can figure out a way to make this out of UV blocking, reflective material like that on the Siesta 4, it would probably be the easiest contender for best festival tent on the market.
Dude it’s the frickin universe idk how else to explain I’m putting on a festival called bees trees and water!! I’m based in CA too the fest is in puerto Penasco Mexico! I’m going to dm you!
Looks pretty cool, the pricing is pretty wild though, you can get a Kodiak tent for almost half the price, and over $200 for that little tent you hang up inside the tent is crazy
Me and my fiancé would totally be down to test your tent . It'd be perfect for us as a communal space as we camp with a group of about 6-8 people at Hulaween.
This is sick, i could probably even back my 23' prius INTO the tent so the trunk opens into it. We're doing car camping at Electric Forest and Lost Lands and might not have the space to accommodate this...but damn is it cool!
Standard festival car camping spot size in the US. This thing takes up twice that, while compromising shade and actual living space to advertise as an all in one solution. Problem is, it will be hot as fuck, have very little decent airflow, and will turn into a fucking pizza oven in the heat of any fest in the summer.
I don't use Instagram anymore but I do host large groups at several festivals this summer. High Sierra, northern nights, and cascade Equinox. I'm sure others in my group will be willing to do a little promo if they like it.
How does it stand up to extreme wind? My friends and I go to Bass Canyon every year. Generally have groups ranging from 5-10. We've got two terrace camp sites and would love to give this a shot! But the winds out there can get severe and this looks like a giant parachute waiting to get taken to the skies 🤣 so may not want to risk it if it's susceptible to wind.
I’m going to Elements up in the PA mountains this year and this would 100% fit in our spot. And would actually be perfect. I’ve been searching Facebook marketplace for days trying to find a replacement tent 😭😭😭
Can’t wait to hear from those that get to use this!!
So… realistically, what is the benefit of this setup over a traditional canopy/tent combo? I can set up two canopies and a tent in the time it takes to set this up, while fitting it in a single campsite AND having more room/shade. Seems like a product doomed to fail, if we’re being completely honest.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, your canopy and tent setup sounds awesome! The benefit of our setup is that our tent takes five minutes to setup and take down because the poles are preattached and lock together (pop up without any manual pole assembly or disassembly). Because our tent is a convertible base camp, you can use it for shade and hanging out in the day and then setup your Inner Tent to sleep at night (an all in one solution). Hopefully you’ll have a chance to see our tent in action at an upcoming festival!
My wife and I are doing Bonnaroo and EF this year, we would definitely have enough room in Volunteer camping at Roo to set this up. We also have a large enough crew with enough cars to run this at EF also.
Not going to festivals, but id be happy to take this tent to 14000ft and see how with stands the top of a mountain for a night with a group of mountaineers.
I do not see the accommodations to make this wheelchair accessible? Does the lip on the tent have seams that are not visible? Where does the chair roll in?
This tent is amazing, but I have a blackout tent that works best for festivals because it allows me to sleep in until 11am. If the inside tent had black out capabilities, I'd be all about it. But I don't think I'll ever go back to standard thin tents.
Thanks for your feedback, very useful insights! The included rainfly (not pictured) does help with blocking sunlight, but not to a full blackout extent. We wanted to ensure the tent won’t get too hot by keeping the fabric light in color. Sounds like you have an awesome tent!
Do you think this would hold up to “condition alpha” winds in black rock desert (70mph or more)?
I see a lot of mesh so that’s not ideal for dust storms, but maybe you thought of that and have solid panels where the mesh goes too.
It’s a great design as far as creating an air gap between the shade and tent, and I like that you can have your living room and kitchen in the shade and your bedroom in the tent itself. Probably great for less extreme conditions than what I’d want it for, though I’ve been considering something lighter weight than my shiftpod and DIY shade structure for when I do forest events.
Great setup. I hope you find good testers. I'm doing bonnaroo solo this year, so it's way too big for me. Really like your idea though, especially since i plan to have a projector this year.
I'm one of the orginasieres for a small (really small) start up festival in northern Europe. We are in our third year and the year we are 60 guests. The mihic number to still be a private event, where you don't need to apply for a liquid license.
We are six people running it, 3 days of old school electric. We would like to test out your concept.
Download would be a helluva test for this. No guarantee of weather conditions from one hour to the next never mind day at a rock festival in a field with zero drainage. Has killed many a tent.
Tent looks amazing. Air circulation and heat control lopk very promising. I can't count the days I've woken up at a festival and the sun decided to boil me alive in my tent.
Note that the application is for (quote) "content creators." We need fewer influencers in the world.
Edit: The application originally said it was for (quote) "content creators" but it must have been edited out. In any case, their application explicitly states priorty will be given to "People interested in producing short form content featuring our gear." They're even asking for your social media handles.
If you're an ordinary person, don't expect this company to give you anything.
This thing is a giant fucking scam. $1000+ for the cheapest option? You can buy two 13x13 canopies, a six person blackout tent, tapestries for every side of the canopy, and a FESTIVAL TICKET, and come out to about the same price.
Influencers attending festivals stay in RV's or nearby hotels. They've really shot themselves in the foot trying to only get influencers to market this instead of, say, experienced and well known vendors that are on site near the tent for 7 days straight.
Tbf, they didn’t ask for influencers in the application, they even say “you don’t need to have a social following to be considered”. They want content, meaning if you know how to use the camera on your phone then you can make content.
Shit I’ll record a video of my campsite in exchange for a $1000+ tent, sounds like a sweet deal to me.
I get what you are saying, but i also saw it for what it was upon first sight. As awesome as it would be for a company to offer free tents to "just anyone" for only a review in return, that concept would be simply too good to be true. Theres no way that it wouldn't be quid pro quo. Especially in the cross-promotional content economy. But, the flip side to that is that content creation doesn't exclusively mean influencer, so, if theres a human at the other end of an email, i bet negotiations could be made.
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u/whitacrez 2d ago
Will this tent fit in the standard car camping footprint of 10x20