Ohana Fest 2025 Pollstar Music Festival of the Year

GlowGirl

Yay! Got my tickets to my first Ohana.

JimmyV

Envious of everyone who can make this trip. Enjoy! Hope neiljam happens for you.

njhaley1

Friday and Saturday for us.  Still debating Sunday, we might just sit on the beach and listen.

devonfz

Damn can’t get thru

devonfz

Can’t get past i am not a robot any ideas?

illini1022

My tips for the fest as a local who has gone the last couple of years:

• If you're traveling from out of town, you have a lot more lodging options than the expensive ones right outside the fest. Laguna Beach is a very nice spot to stay but will also be expensive. You could find much cheaper hotels/airbnbs as far north as Huntington Beach if you want to be close to the ocean, or there are tons of hotels around John Wayne airport (also the most convenient airport to the fest.) It's quite an easy drive to Dana Point from that John Wayne/Irvine area. 
• If you're staying in one of these further away cities - it's easy to get dropped off in an Uber at Ohana, it might cost you like 60 bucks from Huntington though. 
• A sweet spot might be an AirBnb in San Juan Capistrano, also a nice little town. Quite close to Dana Point. 
• The suckiest part of this festival is getting back home afterwards... Uber pickups are almost impossible. The Shuttle is pretty clutch here - you can drive and park to a convenient transit station they set up about 10-15 min away from the fest itself. It's even worth just taking the shuttle after the show to get your uber from there as opposed to right outside the fest. 
• A lot of people camp out in the bleachers for a good view at this relatively small fest. Pretty good strategy if you're on the short side, but terribly uncomfortable if you're on the bigger side. It's easy enough to jockey for a decent view in the sand/grass if you aren't overly short. 

Edit: per TA243471 below, it sounds like they may have fixed the Uber issues that drove me crazy in 2022. Great news if so, maybe you can ignore the shuttle part if you don't have a rental car. 

RedMosquitoSmile28

I know the hotel packages might seem expensive, but I had booked a couple of these prior and it was literally $200 more for all of it. Tickets and whatever the goodies are. If you can hack it, seems like a decent enough deal.

TA243471

Last year we didn't have any problem getting a Uber heading home, it was just a little bit of a walk to get to the Uber lot, but we had almost no wait once we got there.  We had a group of 6 people.

 Much better than 2 years ago.

Go Beavers

GlowGirl said:

Yay! Got my tickets to my first Ohana.

You’ll love it. It’s such a great venue and a good time!

PhilLeotardo

Neil Young, Glen Hansard and Cat Power. Sounds like we’re getting a de facto Eddie set spread out over Saturday.

DEGBTI

got my weekend passes! Having to miss Vegas but this way my whole family can go!

CROJAM95

Wanna go, prob not in the cards this year

Great lineup 

ComeToTX

Alanis might push my wife to wanna go back this year…

intodeep

illini1022 said:

My tips for the fest as a local who has gone the last couple of years:

• If you're traveling from out of town, you have a lot more lodging options than the expensive ones right outside the fest. Laguna Beach is a very nice spot to stay but will also be expensive. You could find much cheaper hotels/airbnbs as far north as Huntington Beach if you want to be close to the ocean, or there are tons of hotels around John Wayne airport (also the most convenient airport to the fest.) It's quite an easy drive to Dana Point from that John Wayne/Irvine area. 
• If you're staying in one of these further away cities - it's easy to get dropped off in an Uber at Ohana, it might cost you like 60 bucks from Huntington though. 
• A sweet spot might be an AirBnb in San Juan Capistrano, also a nice little town. Quite close to Dana Point. 
• The suckiest part of this festival is getting back home afterwards... Uber pickups are almost impossible. The Shuttle is pretty clutch here - you can drive and park to a convenient transit station they set up about 10-15 min away from the fest itself. It's even worth just taking the shuttle after the show to get your uber from there as opposed to right outside the fest. 
• A lot of people camp out in the bleachers for a good view at this relatively small fest. Pretty good strategy if you're on the short side, but terribly uncomfortable if you're on the bigger side. It's easy enough to jockey for a decent view in the sand/grass if you aren't overly short. 

Thanks, I got tickets .....now i have to figure out lodging and transportation. This helps. 

wsimon74

Beyond PJ and Uncle Neil, am I the only one excited in the fact that Johnny Utah and his band Dogstar are going to be playing? "Utah, get me two!"

tbergs

Bummed I can't go this year. Sunday would have been my pick for nights. Usually go Saturday.

Just the most chill and lovely festival and SoCal is Beautiful. 4 years of exploring that great area has been a treat. Staying anywhere within 30 minutes is well worth it. Many reasonable AirBnB options and then driving to the venue and finding some street parking about 15 minute walk away makes for an easy in and out. 

curmudgeoness

wsimon74 said:

Beyond PJ and Uncle Neil, am I the only one excited in the fact that Johnny Utah and his band Dogstar are going to be playing? "Utah, get me two!"

I'm interested in seeing them. I'm also psyched to see Garbage again (saw them last summer -- they sounded great), along with Maren Morris, Black Pumas, Glen Hansard... very interesting lineup, I jumped right on those passes.

wsimon74

curmudgeoness said:

wsimon74 said:

Beyond PJ and Uncle Neil, am I the only one excited in the fact that Johnny Utah and his band Dogstar are going to be playing? "Utah, get me two!"

I'm interested in seeing them. I'm also psyched to see Garbage again (saw them last summer -- they sounded great), along with Maren Morris, Black Pumas, Glen Hansard... very interesting lineup, I jumped right on those passes.

Ya, there are definitely some draws here beyond PJ and NY.  I've heard Garbage is sick live, Glen is always a pleasure to see and Turnpike Troubadours are gonna blow people away. 

RedMosquitoSmile28

curmudgeoness said:

wsimon74 said:

Beyond PJ and Uncle Neil, am I the only one excited in the fact that Johnny Utah and his band Dogstar are going to be playing? "Utah, get me two!"

I'm interested in seeing them. I'm also psyched to see Garbage again (saw them last summer -- they sounded great), along with Maren Morris, Black Pumas, Glen Hansard... very interesting lineup, I jumped right on those passes.

Garbage is one of my favorites. I would have done this anyway, but when I saw that ... I also saw them last summer and they were great. Glen Hansard was one of my favorites last year. I am intrigued by Alanis Morissette. I saw her like 25 years ago and kind of didn't love her then (she did a lot of funky with the set, which can be good or bad), but interested to see how those tastes have evolved.

intodeep

For those that have been are there any hotels that run shuttles to the show? Seems unlikely but i thought I'd ask.