Burning Man Tickets Sell Out in 44 Minutes: Would You Like to Go to Burning Man?

Question

It's a festival held in the desert, yet its populairty grows more and more every year. This year, tickets for Burning Man sold out within 44 minutes, at $380 per ticket.

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The New York Daily News writes: "Burning Man runs from Aug. 25 to Sept. 1. For one week, people flock to the Black Rock Desert to make and experience art. This year’s theme is dedicated to the network of roadside inns — or caravansaries — along the Silk Road from Europe to East Asia. The event brought more than 69,000 people to Black Rock City last year, according its website.

This year, to reduce traffic, road damage and because of greater pressure from the Bureau of Land Management and the Nevada Department of Transportation, the event is requiring $40 vehicle passes. With so many denied a chance to attend so soon, Craigslist is already seeing posts from people desperately seeking Burning Man tickets. There are a couple of other ways. While festival organizers do not encourage ticket scalping, for those unable to get one through official channels, some are reselling tickets on websites like Stub Hub — at extreme prices from $700 to about $1,500."

What do you say *********? Does spending so much money to go to Burning Man make sense to you, or are you stunned it's so expensive? Have you been to Burning Man? If so, what was your experience? Would you go back?

Answer 1

Been there, done that. Awesome time. A once in a lifetime experience. The dust can be a pain in the ****, as well as everywhere else. Literally

Answer 2

It a gathering of the type of people I love being with man. I would go in a flash.

Answer 3

just to see the freaks

Answer 4

That's one expensive trip into...the desert. I could find my fun elsewhere and I prefer to attend whatever for a few hours and then leave. I'm not a fan of an extended event like that.

Answer 5

Too much money.....

Answer 6

Dang is it that time of year again!!??

I went many years ago and I'll never forget it.

Answer 7

Absolutely no interest or desire...

Answer 8

I have been there a few times...

Answer 9

Too many hippies.

Answer 10

Me. Desert, Sandals. Canteen. That's it.

Answer 11

I think thats more then a feeling and more of a definite along with molly and other ecstasy like drugs.

Answer 12

Not at that price.

Answer 13

I'll see it if it's on Discovery,National Geographic or something.

Not going mess around in the dessert..

Answer 14

No, one should never mess around with their dessert. ;-)

Answer 15

Especially not in the desert... ;-)

Answer 16

Not even if it was free, don't need to see the stupid.

Answer 17

By the time I can get to go it will be all commercialized and not what it was when it started.

Answer 18

It's already there. It hasn't been Burning Man for the past 2 decades, really. Too many people found out about it in the '90's and the original purpose of it has been lost ever since.

Answer 19

Is it me or does the guy getting branded look a little too into it?

Answer 20

I have a feeling their is more than a man burning in the desert

Answer 21

Nope.

Answer 22

And I would totally pay that much, too. I think I've procrastinated too long, though, and gotten too old. I'm not sure I'd survive it. LOL.

Answer 23

How could they sell out? is the dessert too small?

Answer 24

yes but it is kind of ridiculous to charge 400.00 for an event like that.. you have to pack everything in AND out... but had hoped to go one year.. though it appears to have become too commercialized and vast... the original concept is good, but it has become to big, to mammoth and tooo tooo mmmmm mainstream.. http://www.sfgate.com/art/art...

Answer 25

Like many other posts...I would loved to have gone when it first started, at Baker Beach in the city. Just my two pennies...

Answer 26

Yes!! I'm huge Inkheart fan and would love to see something like that in real life!! Even this picture s amazing! Wow

Answer 27

My days of picking up attractive stoned hippy girls ha passed me by.

I found that out at Soundwave this year.

Answer 28

To just check it out once, would be an experience. It should be free since its held out in the middle of a frickin desert.

Answer 29

YES! SO MUCH YES!!

Answer 30

burning man

Answer 31

Just to experience it, once.

Answer 32

Too many pagan luciferic maniacs there. It's Bohemian Grove for lunatics.

Answer 33

I wouldn't be interested even if it was cheaper.

Answer 34

I would have liked to have experienced it back in the 80s when it was just an informal gathering of a couple hundred people. The concept sounds like fun, but I'd rather go to a similar event that's obscure and small.

Answer 35

Americans spend up to $1500 USD to go into the middle of a desert for a week and burn things? That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard of, what completely decadent garbage...

Answer 36

bro that 1500 will buy you things you will never get with monetary value again in your life.

Answer 37

Nah.....no interest, but seriously, you now have to buy a ticket? How laughable considering it was such a remote idea and happening at one time. Let me guess, corporate sponsors.

Answer 38

Burning Man? No thanks. I can think of at least a thousand better ways to spend $380.00 plus the cost of airfare and whatever else and that's just off the top of my head.

Answer 39

I'd rather go to the Tomorrowland Festival


Sepaking of which, Tomorrowland sold all 36,000 of its tickets in under an hour as well.

Answer 40

That has already began...to get the real/best idea of Burning Man, you would've needed to go before the last 5 years :)