I came here for a bachelorette party since the bride loves country music. First I didn't enjoy that the tickets were expensive for general admission and you didn't get the best view for the stage. Plus it includes an $8 for shipping a little plastic bracelet that shouldn't cost $8 to ship and they need to switch to scanning the tickets to your phone and providing you your wrist band at the door. 2nd the bathrooms at the concert were unsanitary and had shower curtains for doors. That didn't provide a lot of privacy especially if it was windy. 3rd the main act Miranda Lambert was suppose to the headline and they had horrible communication about moving up artists before her causing people to miss them. Also, they cancelled after an hour of waiting because of storms and high winds when honestly she could've played half her set before the storms came in. I'm not a big country music but the staff weren't the best and friendly. It's not something I would attend again. read more

WE Fest - Venues & Event Spaces Near Me - Detroit Lakes, Minnesota

I absolutely LOVE WEfest! I look forward to it now, every summer. VIP experience is amazing. however, the reason I'm giving 4 stars instead of 5 is the vip drink lines and food lines are horrendous! I paid all this extra money to get premium gold tickets, plus pit passes and there were 4 lines (bartenders) serving the entirety of all of VIP for drinks? I wound up paying for my drinks everyday because they are NOT set up to accommodate the large amount of people in VIP. other music festivals I have been to, have 10 times the amount of staff and areas to get your complimentary drinks! irs VIP!!! we should have no problem accessing the drinks we all paid for! WEfest needs to get it together. same with the line to get into the VIP banquet hall. 500 people in line, all single file. dumb. this year, I'm going pit passes and purchased the country club lounge instead. see how this goes. y'all should take notes from TORTUGAFEST! it's a 3 day country music festival in Fort Lauderdale, FL, also run by front gate. now they are the most organized and well run venue I've ever experienced in my life. read more

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3rd time going here. The last time was probably in the 1990's. My mom got free General Admission tickets as their group worked there for 6 days cleaning, etc. Friday night, we rode a shuttle bus and waited over an hour to get in as there were 2 people scanning people with wands. Sit down with lawn chairs then were told to evacuate now as bad weather was coming. Back on the shuttle bus. Downloaded the app for updates. 830 pm was a positive update then nothing til 1030 pm canceling Miranda Lambert. We left for home anyway as it was lightning. This year you had to add a credit card to these wristbands as it was cashless. Absolutely no mention of 7% fees and automatic tips. I bought a flannel shirt and thankfully the guy said 7% fee on wristbands or 1% fee using your own credit card. I bought my mom and aunt a $14 gyro, with fees these were $18.33 each! It was nice to refill water bottles for free. Riley Green, Ian Munsick and Luke Bryan were great! It was fun people watching all the skanky people and rednecks. There are flushable toilets with shower curtains as doors. Lots of pot smoking everywhere. General Admission seating you watch a screen the whole time. I went with my mom and aunt. It was fun but not really worth the cost. No refunds. Maybe I'll go next year if Luke Combs is there or I get free tickets again. read more

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Need more staff, bathrooms were very full, needed more John's bought in. Very under prepared this last year, there was a lot people feeling the same thing !!! read more

I want to start out by saying I've heard such good things about this festival over the years and have been tempted to go for multiple years but couldn't put my money towards it until the year when an artist got announced. Now this year may have been different than any other year but for me it was my first. Morgan Wallen was scheduled for the first day, the only reason I had ended up pulling the plunge and getting a game plan to go. First things first, my dad decided he was going to buy our tickets for me, him and my sister. Now we decided cool we get to try out the military rate as he is recently a military veteran but served for 30 years. Now he paid for our tickets, paid for shipping and got a receipt email... but no follow-ups after that. After waiting until about a week and a half before the epic country music festival..our friends started getting their tickets. My dad unfortunately had ended up having to take a trip to Missouri and decided to let us go with one of our friends instead. But guess what.. no where in the fine print does it say, "Need to pick up your tickets at gate if purchasing military because we will need to see your I.D." Now you may be thinking, use common sense all people would buy military then etc. But he paid for the shipping cost...so why would he do that if they weren't shipping the tickets in the first place. Would have been nice to know right off the bat for military families wanting to go. OR at least send out an email a week or two before so we know that he could have went and picked up the tickets granted he would have had to drive 3+ hours to go do that and ticket offices (or wherever you pick them up - not stated) were only open Mon-Thurs 9-4pm so a little ridiculous if you have people traveling to pickup in the first place. Now we contacted them when we realized he wasn't going to make it because we wanted to know where the heck our tickets were and you're right the response we got was "must pick up tickets and see I.D." Well too bad my dad was already in the car on his way out of state. So he kindly asked if his daughters could pay the difference and pick up tickets and get his refund for shipping. No problemo right. It all worked when they said that was fine. UNTIL...we got to WeFest Thursday without knowing what the hell was going on because the line was miles long and people were passing out due to standing there for hours on end. With no communication what so ever what was taking so long, why lines weren't moving, or even how to get to other gates when they do have 3 of them, or why not send people to other gates so they could have avoided all the EMS calls. To your surprise staff communicated "we can't help you, we don't have that information..." Let's see. How does your walkie talkie work now? Or the golf cart and four-wheelers that you guys have and the staff riding around that could go check the lines and move some people to get people in faster. Kind of common sense if you ask me. By that point after 45 minutes, my friends and I decided to go on an adventure to try to get from the Main Gate to the East Gate. Not easy because the staff were very irritable and kindly didn't know the answers to our questions. Finally got some answers and walked a couple miles to get there. The line was much shorter but then had to deal with the fact we had to pay the difference and figure out wristbands etc. Now let me tell you I felt such compassion for the workers because she was so nice and didn't know how to work anything and was trying her best. Now after waiting in line for over an hour in all sorts of places we finally got in. But that didn't stop. We had to wait in another line to get a 21+ wristband...sadly the only 90 year old lady to wait in line for and have her check everyones I.D. and put a wristband on everyone which took another 45+ minutes. Then another hour+ waiting in line for alcohol to only get up there to the counter to find out one tablet could only take wristbands, one could take cards and wristbands but let's just shove people over in different lines because we couldn't put up signs or tell people. Super frustrating. By that point it honestly just didn't feel worth it. Now to wrap it up with the review. The artists themselves were amazing and all worth that but the event as a whole was completely disorganized and had plenty of unhappy guests despite what the articles say the owners thought. It'll take a lot of changes to get me to attend the festival again or another amazing headlining artist worth all the chaos. On a little side note and advice to the owners. Maybe hire a bunch of teachers to help organize and plan your event because we all know, we would have done a much better job of it :) read more

first time at We Fest, long lines everywhere with no one checking on us guiding us or telling us if we are in the right lines. everyone seems lost, had questions and the 2 ladies they did have tried their fastest. 2.5 hrs to check in my campsite. 2.5 hrs to go through only 50 guests. campsites aren't numbered..No wonder they oversold ..there's no numbers on grass to say so many workers just didn't show up. VIP booth running out of wristbands. Me being trained to do my job 15 min to Gates opening. No breaks, 10 hr shifts, wasn't told where to get food till last day, meals were provided to us workers and I didn't know. Vip seats sold twice, so people fought over their seat. my campsite didn't follow to 2am curfew and partied till 6am ..so I didn't sleep . More shaded areas for people waiting outside in 95° sun . no one called me back on the we fest app. employee just trying to figure out who my boss was and where I belong. This festival is thrown together, and after 40 yrs I'm shocked by how sloppy it was. I know it's big and growing. I understand. but get it together, hire twice as more people. more leaders not more sheep read more

My girlfriend and I have waited our whole lives to go to wefest. When we were finally able to save almost 700$ for a campsite and tickets we were SO excited. After a 3.5 hour drive to Detroit Lakes we arrived at 1pm on Thursday. We didn't even get out of the car at the campsite for FIVE hours. We missed the entire day of artists. After waiting in line for literally 5 hours plus with no restroom options, we FINALLY get into the north woods campsite and wouldn't you know it, there was not a SINGLE place that we could fit our tent. Thankfully we didn't bring an RV. There was no actual camping spots and we could barely drive our car through the campground. When we got into the festival it was so over sold and packed that we couldn't even hear the ONE person we got to actually "see". Even zooming with my phone I could not find Morgan Wallen on the stage. This was the biggest let down, waste of time, energy and money. My girlfriend is a full time college student so we really didn't have the money for this giant let down. What a shitty and disrespectful experience. We slept in our fully packed car and left at 830 am Friday morning. read more

Disregard the 4 year old review from whomever. LiveNation JUST purchased this venue! Yes 2 days before 2019 WeFest so now all of us who have been watching the previous company from the east coast run it into the ground and only hiring non MN help and vendors Well Live Nation the biggest and best company to operate WeFest and probably many more fests- are seeking locals advice on making this the BEsT country festival Again! Come on WeFest peeps amp up Soo Pass and let LiveNation know how to make this festival even more awesome!!!! Open all campgrounds, hire locals!, use local company's for vendors and sponsors!, keep great acts coming in for All ages!, make the bar setting more comfy, and for heavens sake turn up the music because acts couldnt be heard in the back! Open the HILL barn bar again! read more

So disappointed. We are 6 year veterans in a row of this event. Moved us back about 50 rows from previlus years. General admission is closer than us. Wow. Guess there is no such thing as valued customers. I pay over $1000 for my family to go to We Fest. To hell with your loyalty read more