Festival FAQ

The exact band times are in the running order, as soon as it is published.

At the end of the evening: for up to 30 minutes after the last band, you can get the remaining balance on your voucher (Verzehrkarte) and your deposit back.

Our ticket numbers are limited. In recent years, the festival has always sold out. So use the advance sale and check back here before you set off.

Swap your ticket for a festival wristband at the day or evening box office. You can only get into the concert area with the wristband.

If you bring your Friday and Saturday tickets on Friday, you get the wristband for both days. You do not need to queue again on Saturday.

The beer garden is also open to you without a wristband.

Take the A5 exit Weil am Rhein. Follow the signs for “Weil am Rhein Zentrum” and then “Dreiländergarten” (Three Countries Garden). The car park is right next to the ice rink (Eissporthalle). It is only a few metres from there to the festival site.

• Sat nav: Basler Straße 45, 79576 Weil am Rhein
• GPS: 47°35’13.6”N 7°36’24.2”E
• The car park is free and opens on Friday at 10:00.

Please park as close together as you can (side by side and close to the car in front), so everyone gets a space. The car park must be cleared by Sunday, 13:00.

Day visitors, and if the festival car park is full: Parkhaus Dreiländergalerie (APCOA), Europaplatz 1, 79576 Weil am Rhein, about 10 minutes on foot. At the cloakroom on site you can buy a discounted exit ticket for €10 per day. The car park is too low for motorhomes.

All details: Getting there by car & parking

Please do not park on the roadside or anywhere that is not a proper parking space.

• From Switzerland, Freiburg or Frankfurt: to Weil am Rhein Hauptbahnhof
• From the Wiesental or Lörrach: to Bahnhof Gartenstadt
• From Basel: tram line 8 from Basel SBB to Weil am Rhein Bahnhof, journey time about 25 minutes

It is about a 10 minute walk from both stations to the festival site.

Unfortunately, we still cannot offer camping. We are not allowed to pitch tents in the Dreiländergarten (Three Countries Garden).

Sleeping in your car is allowed in the festival car park and is free, as long as your car, including mirrors, is no longer than 6.0 m and no wider than 2.5 m. For larger vehicles, see the motorhome entry.

Campsite nearby: Drei-Länder-Camp, Grüttweg 8, 79539 Lörrach, tel. 07621 82588, dreilaendercamp.de. From Lörrach station, take the train to Weil am Rhein Gartenstadt.

Motorhomes are allowed. Where possible, they are parked on separate pitches.

Motorhomes and similar vehicles (2.5 m wide or wider, or longer than 6 m, including mirrors) pay €20 for the whole festival; small cars with a roof tent up to VW-bus size pay €10. Please have the exact amount ready if you can, and follow the parking crew’s instructions. The heavy metal club Keepers of the T.O.O.M. looks after the pitches. The fees go directly to them as a donation.

Hotels in Weil am Rhein:

• Carathotel, Alte Straße 58, tel. 07621 7070, carat-hotel-basel.de
• Hotel Central, Hauptstraße 216, tel. 07621 1610990, weil-hotel-central.de
• Hotel Dreiländereck, Hauptstraße 384, tel. 07621 71424, dreilaendereck.de

It is also worth looking at holiday apartment and booking platforms. Or you can sleep in your car in the festival car park (see Camping).

At the festival, you pay at all food and drink stands with vouchers (Verzehrkarten). You can get them at the box office, worth €20 and €50, cashless or in cash.

• You can get the remaining balance and your deposit back at any time, at the latest 30 minutes after the concert ends.
• Any balance not paid out expires when the festival ends and is not valid next year.
• Vouchers are not valid at the merch stands.

Since 2024, you can pay cashless at the festival. This covers food and drink vouchers (Verzehrkarten) at the box office and the Baden in Blut merch.

The external merch stands may not be able to take card payments. So bring enough cash for your favourite shirts. We cannot give you cash.

The nearest banks are about a 10 to 15 minute walk away:

• Commerzbank, Hauptstraße 293/1
• Sparkasse Markgräflerland, Hauptstraße 279
• Volksbank, Hauptstraße 381

You can look forward to a choice of food stands with different kinds of food. We try to cater for meat eaters and vegetarians equally.

For drinks, there is everything from beer to coffee, water and cocktails. We keep prices as fan-friendly as possible. The festival survives, and thrives, on your great thirst!

Per person, you may bring a maximum of 2 × 0.5 l of water in PET bottles into the beer garden and the concert area.

Alcohol you bring yourself is banned on the whole festival site. This includes plastic bottles and the beer garden, which you can enter without a ticket. We reserve the right to confiscate it.

Glass is banned on the whole site.

The LAGUNA Badeland is within walking distance of the site. There you can shower, cool off, jump from the 3 m board, chill, play beach volleyball and have breakfast.

• The open-air pool opens on Saturday and Sunday as early as 9:00. The Laguna team has breakfast ready for you.
• Since 2026, entry is included with the 2-day pass. Day visitors pay €6.

For more breakfast options and shopping, walk about 10 minutes towards Weil am Rhein Hauptbahnhof.

Please do not swim in the ponds and streams in the Dreiländergarten (Three Countries Garden). It is forbidden.

Bags and backpacks are checked at the entrance to the festival site. Backpacks are generally allowed there, as long as there is nothing banned inside. It is best to leave large backpacks in the car.

In the concert area (infield), these rules apply:

• Backpacks and bags up to A3 (about 30 × 40 cm) and drawstring bags are allowed. Normal handbags usually are too.
• Large backpacks are not allowed. You can leave them at the cloakroom.
• Umbrellas are not allowed. If it rains, bring weatherproof clothing.

• Weapons and throwing objects of any kind
• Glass, on the whole site
• Alcohol you bring yourself, including in the beer garden
• Fireworks and other dangerous items
• Sharp or pointed items (studs are fine)
• Folding chairs and similar
• Umbrellas in the concert area
• SLR cameras in the concert area

Our security staff collect glass bottles across the whole site.

Taking photos with a phone or compact camera is allowed. Filming and audio recording are not allowed. SLR cameras (digital and analogue) are banned in the concert area.

Dogs are not allowed in the concert area.

On the rest of the site, your dog may only be with you, on a lead and, if necessary, muzzled. If you leave it unattended, you must tie it up at a suitable distance from the site.

Dog mess is not tolerated on the site. Please find a suitable spot outside for your dog to do its business, ideally a dog toilet.

Since 2024, there has been a staffed cloakroom near the box office with 500 spaces, for €3 per item. Please still keep your valuables with you. We accept no liability.

Since 2016, the festival has taken place in the large Dreiländergarten (Three Countries Garden) in Weil am Rhein. It is the site of the Grün 99 garden show (Landesgartenschau), right where Germany, France and Switzerland meet.

The landscape park has many trees that give shade even on hot days. The site is split into the concert area (wristband only) and the beer garden, which is open to everyone.

Yes. The beer garden with merch and food stands is open to all visitors, even without a ticket. The same rules apply there: no glass and no alcohol you bring yourself.

You can get earplugs free at the evening box office. Higher-quality earplugs with a case cost €1 at various stands.

During the festival, the people at the evening box office are your contact for lost and found items.

After the festival, write to contact@metal-maniacs.eu. We may have found it while clearing up. Anything not collected by Sunday goes to the Fundbüro der Stadt Weil am Rhein (the town’s lost property office).

• No far-right scene: Anyone who shows clear signs of belonging to the far-right scene, with shirts, gestures or anything else, is removed from the site immediately.
• Damage to property, destruction of the park and aggressive behaviour lead to immediate expulsion and a report to the police.
• Please do not move the beer tables and benches.
• Put your rubbish, especially glass, in the many bins.
• Please do not pee all over the place. There are enough toilets.
• Leave the fences alone. We haul them around every year and know how heavy they are when they fall on someone.

German youth protection law (JuSchG) applies. Young people under 16 may only enter the site with an adult.

If you cannot bring an adult, bring this form, completed and signed: Parental consent form (Erziehungsbeauftragung, PDF). The form is in German.

Young people aged 16 and over may stay until midnight without a written declaration of consent from a parent or guardian. To stay longer, they need the signed declaration.

Details are in our terms and conditions.

• Up to and including age 8: free entry to the concert area
• 9 up to and including 13: half price
• From 14: normal admission price

Reduced tickets are available in the online shop. We check your proof at the entrance.

Remember ear protection for children.

We are a small festival. We do not have the infrastructure to make the whole site accessible.

If you need support, write to us at contact@metal-maniacs.eu. We will try to arrange something so you can enjoy the festival as much as possible.

With a severe disability card (Schwerbehindertenausweis) with the “B” mark, you pay the reduced admission price and your companion gets in free. Reduced tickets are available in the online shop. We check your proof at the entrance.