Looking at July 2025 and wondering where to point your van without ending up in some overpriced field full of Instagram posers? You’re in luck – there are actually three proper van life events happening this July, though two of them have managed to book the exact same weekend, which is either brilliant planning or a complete disaster depending on how you look at it. Whether you’re after a classic VW festival, a full-blown vanlife party with Chris Moyles behind the decks, or a motorhome show where they’ve decided to throw in some tribute bands, July’s got you sorted. Just don’t expect it to be simple – nothing in van life ever is.
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June 2025 is shaping up to be the ultimate month for van lifers across the UK! Whether you’re into music festivals with dedicated campervan fields, VW-specific gatherings, or relaxed vanlife meet-ups, this June has something incredible waiting for you. From the legendary Glastonbury Festival to intimate coffee mornings in East Sussex, we’ve uncovered 7 fantastic events that welcome campervans, motorhomes, and the entire vanlife community. Pack your wellies, charge your leisure batteries, and get ready for the best month of festival season – here’s everything you need to know about June’s unmissable van life events.
Read moreBooked on a whim and in the midst of a great depression, I booked a last minute ticket to a van life event in Skegvegas. Ok so it was nearer to Boston but it turned out to be Lincolnshires Biggest Vanlife event. Here’s my video of what was like
If you dont want to watch the video was ti any good. Hell yes. Despite having I would say a couple of thousand van’s there it still managed to retain a certain charm and atmosphere but that was no doubt helped but the good, if somewhat windy weather.
It’s definitely worth going to and indeed getting there early unlike me to really make the most out of the weekend as theres no staying overnight on a sunday. This is friday to sunday event.
Will I go again. For sure. Despite it not being a event I would say you would make friends at due to its size and the hipster nature of it, read the cliche of guys wearing baseball hats, short sleeve Teese and a long beard is becoming a touch cliche now, it’s well worth a visit if you are in the vicinity.
Other than me ripping on the hipster style of things the only bad thing I have to say about Skegvegas Vanlife is the fact it’s so far away from where I live.
After last year’s unforgettable van life uk festival (check out my review here), I couldn’t contain my excitement and anticipation for the next instalment. Promised to be the UK’s largest van life event, I wondered if scaling up would compromise the genuine festival atmosphere and allow sponsorships to dominate. Well, let me regale you with tales from Vanlife Fest Festival 2023, where the vans roamed free, the traffic jams were epic, and the laughs were aplenty.
Read moreIn an effort to attract a more diverse (and younger crowd) the Camping and Caravan club teamed up with the Warner group UK to host the Campervan Campout. Can the old school Caravan and Camping crowd attract the van life community or was this just a cash in?
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2022 was the first year of this festival, funded by the European investing fund and billed itself
Gwên Gwen is an independent music + art festival held in the historic market town of Kidwelly, on the beautiful Welsh coast.
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The Gwen Gwen Festival is an annual event that takes place in Kidwelly, a small town located in Carmarthenshire, Wales. The festival celebrates the local Welsh culture and heritage, with a focus on music, art, and food.
Gwen Gwen Festival 2023 Tickets
The festival will be back for 2023 from Fri, 11 Aug 2023 18:00 – Sun, 13 Aug 2023 23:00 BST. Tickets can be purchased via eventbrite.
This is it, the van is ready to go and I’ve been wanting to go to a vanlife festival for a number of years. So when I saw the self-build campervan event in Stroud, at a brewery, I figured it was a perfect way to get help and advice with my own van, learn from others, and it’s at a brewery. Surely a perfect win-win scenario, little did I know how wrong I was going to be.
Stroud Brewery Parking Costs
Nice and simple here with 2 price tiers
Showing off my nice van Stays will be equivalent to £10 a night at £20 weekend ticket (you will receive 2x beer tokens for showing your van)
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Looking at nice vans – Weekend Camping Stays will be equivalent to £10 a night at £20
After booking a follow up email was received asking for the dimensions for my van so that pitches can be allocated which makes sense. However after emailing I never got a reply back to say thank you for your email nor when I followed up just to make sure the first email was received . Not a biggie but some automated reply would have been nice, however this was some MAJOR foreshadowing on what was to come.
Parking At Stroud Brewery
To be fair there was plenty of parking but that’s only if you arrived late. Yes you read that right, if you turned up late you had the better option of parking!
Let me explain,tThe keen types amongst us who got there in the afternoon pulled up, met by 2 members of staff, checked my reg no and said, let’s just put you over there. So why bother to ask for details for the vans?
The parking was nothing short of horrendous and borderline dangerous.
To get into the car parking space relied one someone moving out so I could get in. One van who had parked as far back as he could to make space was entirely boxed in.
Should there have been any problems, none of us was getting out of there in any quick fashion. This was made worse by an extra long wheel base being in the car park space that really should have been for the med wheel base type vans. We quickly referred to our parking spot at the goal.
The good news is that we had a portaloo.
Car Park Rating 0/10
Overall
I really don’t have much in terms of positive things to say about this “event” and left feeling more like we all were renting a car parking spot on a first come first served basis, rather than this being some event.
The parking in our area was dangerous and if there had been a need to get out quickly, that wasn’t going to happen. Yes it’s something that I’ve harked on about time and time again, yes it was cheap but in the event someone needed to get out that wasnt going to happen
I’m a patient person but when you’re waiting 20 minutes for a pint thats a joke, apparently the upstairs bar was open, but with no signage or helpful staff to say how were we supposed to know.
The staff in general I found rude, the cup of tea incident still sticks in my craw again again I am a patient person, it’s not like I’d been drunk or rowdy but serving me a £7.50 bacon roll (which was nice btw) seemed to be beneath this one member of staff.
I had several heated debates to cut Stroud brewery some slack because it was their first event like this. However they have events at least 3 times a week, so no slack is to be given. This was more evident during the presentations where they had a mixing desk, plugged in and yet the brave souls were having to shout so the people at the end of the room could hear.
Taking away some very small positives. I met 2 great people @bearfootandgus and @heather_n_bella who we’ve agreed to meet up and do Stratford Upon Avon