{"id":394576,"date":"2023-08-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/?p=394576"},"modified":"2023-08-16T22:32:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T02:32:12","slug":"experiencing-tomorrowland-in-person-surpasses-any-and-all-expectations-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2023\/08\/experiencing-tomorrowland-in-person-surpasses-any-and-all-expectations-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Experiencing Tomorrowland in person surpasses any and all expectations [Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There’s still an incredibly vivid memory that I have of watching the Tomorrowland<\/a> livestream on July 26, 2013 in my childhood home. Hardwell had just come on right as the sun in Belgium started to set. And during that hour and a half of golden age bigroom<\/a>\u2014and one of the festival’s single most iconic performances in its near two-decade history\u2014I said that I eventually wanted to make the trip out to Boom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exactly a decade later\u2014almost to the day\u2014I was finally able to turn that bucket list dream into a fully-fledged reality. After taking some time to thoroughly process everything that had happened, I wanted to properly recap my first-ever Tomorrowland experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For full transparency, I was incredibly fortunate to attend as press through Dancing<\/em> Astronaut<\/em>. Obviously just the trip to Europe itself can be costly aside from the fact that it\u2019d already taken me 10 years to actually make it happen. To shed some light on some of the details of the trip itself (since we didn’t travel through Global Journey), we flew into Paris before taking a Thalys train to Brussels. That was the cheaper option at the time versus flying directly into Brussels, but we ultimately felt that we didn’t save enough money to justify the length and time of the commute, which was about nine hours from New York to the hotel. And while we didn’t have the opportunity to spend the weekend living at Dreamville, we were fortunate enough to stay at a hotel near the Brussels Airport, which was available for media by the Tomorrowland team. And I had just wanted to share a quick moment of appreciation for LunchBox, considering I brought along a LunchBox Hydration Pack<\/a> (after my original CamelBak of seven years finally gave out on me), which ended up as a saving grace throughout the weekend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leading up to July, I genuinely wasn’t sure if I’d ever have the chance to make it back to Boom considering it had taken me a decade to even attend once. I focused every second of the trip, not taking a millisecond of the weekend for granted. Not long into the first day of weekend two, I became convinced that if things worked out the way they did this year, Tomorrowland was something I wanted to do again. <\/p>\n\n\n

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