The Hive

We're offering a lot of easy, comfortable and fast alternatives to the car. Avoid traffic jams and pick one of the alternative options. Whichever method of transportation you're deciding on, please take into account the following advice:

• Choose the right option for you to arrive in Werchter and get your tickets in advance.
• Depart on time. You are not alone on the road. Your travel time will be longer than normal.
• Follow the instructions on your ticket. Take departure times into account, use the navigation links, etc.

Your festival ticket includes one free train ticket for a return journey in 2nd class from a Belgian departure station to Aarschot or Leuven. From those train stations, free shuttle buses from De Lijn will bring you to the festival. On Wednesday, only holders of a The Hive camping ticket can use this service. From Thursday 7 am to Monday 2 pm, the De Lijn shuttle buses will run for all festivalgoers to and from Leuven and Aarschot.

Your bike is a guarantee for a swift and healty ride to Rock Werchter. From the directions of Leuven, Mechelen, Heist-op-den-Berg or Aarschot, you'll easily reach Werchter by bike. Near The Hive, you can store your bike free of charge in the supervised bicycle park BLAUW (Haacht side), on the Werchtersesteenweg. Would you like to come to Werchter by bike, but is the distance just a bit too far? Then choose Park & ​​bike. You can park your car there for free. You will cover the last part of the route by bike. You can park your bike in the bicycle park BLAUW.

Coming by car? The Hive's car park in zone BLAUW is accessed via the E19 Antwerp - Brussels. From the motorway follow the signs to the car park. Traffic on this route could be heavy. Prefer to steer clear of the busy zone BLAUW? Leave the E314 at exit 21 Holsbeek, and park in zone PINK, within walking distance from The Hive. Don’t forget to buy your parking ticket in advance.

For leisure and entertainment. For a drink and a bite. Central Park is centrally located in The Hive and accessible to people staying on The Hive, The Hive My Space, The Hive Resort or The Hive Mobilhome.

Facilities:

• Café De Welkom: the nicest pub of Rock Werchter. Café De Welkom is open every festival day from 8 am to 3 am. Enjoy a drink and a snack. Want to have breakfast at Café De Welkom? Get your breakfast voucher in advance.
• Drink and food stands
• Lockers: anyone who wants to keep personal belongings safe or wants to charge their phone, can use our lockers. No deposit is required for the use of the lockers.
• Camping shop: Have you settled in at The Hive, but have you forgotten a few camping items? No worries, visit the camping shop on site!
• Information stand
• Power banks for smartphones: empty battery? Come rent a power bank! This stand is open from Thursday to Sunday from 9 am to 3 pm and from 11 pm to 2 am.
• First aid post
• Albert Heijn and Jupiler pick-up points
• Our recycling shop

Activities:

• The Karaoke Sing a Long Showdown: want to properly warm up your voice before four days of Rock Werchter? We’ve got your back! Come sing along with Otto-Jan Ham, Senne Guns and their excellent ‘Amai zeg wauw!’-bandmates. (Thomas Vanelslander! Robin Wille! Nele Paelinck! Nils Tytgat! and Lara Chedraoui!), on Wednesday evening 2 July at Central Park (The Hive). Always wanted to be on a Rock Werchter stage? Come perform the show of your life and sing along to the best tracks from 50 years of Rock Werchter. Trust us, you don’t want to miss out on this incredible night!
• Euro 2025: support the Red Flames on Thursday 3 July from 6 pm. You can also watch the other Euro group stage games live.
• Party! Studio Brussel presents a great party program. The line-up will be announced soon.

There is an extensive range of catering available at The Hive/ The Hive My Space. There are various food and drinks stands in Central Park. Café De Welkom is the nicest pub of Rock Werchter.

You pay at the drinks and food stands and at Café De Welkom with Coins. The Coins from the Festivalpark are also valid for payments in The Hive. You can buy Coins in presale. More info on rockwerchter.be/cashless.

You can freely use the taps with drinking water at the sanitary blocks spread out over the festival grounds. In case of hot weather, we recommend everyone to drink plenty of extra water. Feel free to bring your own empty drinking bottle (not made of glass or metal) to the Festivalpark

Breakfast voucher

You can pre-book your daily breakfast at Café De Welkom at The Hive's Central Park. Buy a breakfast voucher and enjoy a breakfast buffet for 4 days during your stay. Breakfast is served every morning (Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday) between 8 am and 2 pm at Café De Welkom (The Hive - Central Park) where you can enjoy your breakfast in peace.

Please note: breakfast vouchers The Hive can only be used by campers staying at The Hive or The Hive MySpace. Order your Breakfast for The Hive/The Hive My Space voucher.

Jupiler six-packs

Are you staying on The Hive and do you enjoy a cold Jupiler? Pre-order your chilled six-pack of Jupiler or Jupiler 0.0 now. No more dragging your beer cans to the tent, and lukewarm beer is also a thing of the past. Exchange your voucher for competitively priced, ice-cold cans of Jupiler or Jupiler 0.0 on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, at the booth at Central Park, on The Hive. Please note: supply is limited, so be quick. Cheers! Order your six-pack.

Rock Werchter Tent and/or sleeping set

You want to go camping but don't have a tent? We've got you covered! Spend the night in an exclusive tent designed for Rock Werchter, with or without a matching sleeping set. Buy your Rock Werchter Tent and/or sleeping set now and pick them up upon arrival in Central Park at The Hive.

• Rock Werchter Tent (€145,00): a compact two-person 'black-out' tent (3.20 meters long, 1.60 meters wide) made of impregnated polyester. Weighs only 3.5 kg. Comes with a handy carrying bag. Order here.
• Rock Werchter Sleeping set (€100,00): 2 comfortable sleeping bags + double air mattress with built-in pillow. Order here.
• Rock Werchter Tent & Sleeping set (€235,00): Rock Werchter Tent + 2 comfortable sleeping bags + double air mattress with built-in pillow. Order here.

You decide where to set up your Rock Werchter pop-up tent at The Hive or The Hive My Space. The icing on the cake: after the festival you can take the tent and sleeping set home with you as a lasting memory of your unforgettable Rock Werchter experience.

Please note: these items are only available for campers staying at The Hive or The Hive My Space. In order to stay at The Hive or The Hive My Space, you will also need a camping ticket for The Hive/The Hive My Space.

Albert Heijn Swap bag

Order your exclusive Festival Swap Bag from Albert Heijn. It’s health and convenience all in one bag! Inside the Festival Swap Bag**: fresh fruit and vegetables, vitamin shots, tasty crisps and dips…Up to €10 cheaper than in-store and delivered straight to your temporary home at The Hive. You can pick up your purchased Festival Swap Bag on Thursday or Friday at the Albert Heijn pick-up point at The Hive Central Park. Order your Festival Swap Bag before 15 June.

There will be pat-down searches at The Hive, The Hive My Space and The Hive Resort's entrance. Backpacks and luggage will be searched extensively.

The Hive aims for quality and  comfort. That is reflected in more showers, more toilets and more water taps for campers. These facilities will be located in various comfort zones spread across the campground. A shower costs 1.5 Coins at The Hive, and is free of charge at The Hive My Space. Toilets are always free of charge and accessible 24 hours a day.

Each comfort zone has a small bar with a terrace. Campers can also cook/heat up their own food in the cooking area, which will have microwave ovens and boiling water. Lockers are available to store your valuables safely.

Opening hours showers:

• Wednesday evening: 6 pm - 10 pm
• Every festival day: 8 am - 4 pm and 10 pm - 2 am (evenings only in comfort zones 1, 3 and 4)
• Monday morning: 7 am - 11 am

Opening hours cooking area: 8 am - 8 pm.

In exchange for a valid camping ticket and upon presentation of a valid festival ticket, you can check in to the campsite. You will receive a camping bracelet showing which campsite you are staying on. The camping bracelet does not grant access to any of the other campsites or the Festival Park.

Do you wish to camp with friends on one of the festival campsites? Be sure to decide on the campsite of your choice in advance! Tickets cannot be exchanged after your purchase.

Campers with a camping ticket for The Hive, The Hive My Space or The Hive Resort can already exchange their combi festival ticket for a combi festival bracelet on Wednesday (until 11pm), at the entrance of their campsite.

One-day festival bracelets are only available on the day itself at the entrance of the festival.

Join us on the road to zero waste. There is still too much waste left behind at the campsite. That can be different, that can be better. Let's work on this together.

• Every camper at The Hive or The Hive Resort receives a recycling kit with bin bags upon arrival.​Full bags can be delivered to the various recycle/return points. Cleaning up is rewarded. Handing in a full garbage bag at a recycle/return point earns you a Zero Waste Coin. With this Coin, rewards (free Coins, sustainable gadgets) can be bought at the ‘recycle shop’ in Central Park of The Hive. Need an extra garbage bag? Just walk by the recycle/return point for a new one. You can also drop off broken camping gear here. We ensure that these are recycled as much as possible into new raw materials. On Monday, we provide extra drop points for different waste streams. Thank you for cleaning up and sorting.
• Every year there are those abandoned tents. The average tent weighs 3.5 kg and is mostly made of plastic. Take positive action, reduce your own carbon footprint and take your tent back home and keep reusing them. If that really isn't possible, give your stuff a second life and bring it to a recycle/return point. Where possible, we donate it to a good cause.
• Campers at The Hive can donate food surpluses to ‘de Voedselbanken’. You can find a collection point in each comfort zone.
• Drinks are served in reusable cups. You pay a deposit of 0.2 Coin per cup. If you return the empty cup to the bar, the deposit will be added to the Coin balance on your wristband or groupie card. If you return 15 empty RPET bottles or cans, you will receive a free Coin at the drinks stand.
• You can also donate reusable cups to charity. Drop them in one of our 'gitterboxes'. We donate the proceeds from the cups that end up in the gitterbox to the NGO Join For Water, more specifically the Waterwijs Werchter project and a project in the Andes (Ecuador and Peru).

Free WiFi is available in every comfort zone and in Central Park.

Don't:

• Gazebos larger than 3 by 3 metres, or tents of an excessive size*
• Glass, sharp objects, weapons.
• Spirits
• Large quantities of other alcoholic beverages (e.g. beer or wine). A maximum of 24 cans per person is allowed.
• Tapping equipment. Drinks are available at the campsites for a reasonable price.
• Large objects/furniture that don't belong on a campsites - sofas, kitchen tables, refrigerators, freezers, etc.**
• Gas burners and installations are forbidden by order of the fire department.
• Dry ice
• Drones
• Water kettles
• Generators, they cause extra noise and constitute an additional safety hazard.
• Fire (torches, candles, cookers, charcoal BBQ, etc) is dangerous, especially with so many tents crowded together.
• Pets, except for assistance dogs (either or not in training) for people with a disability.
• Music equipment making too much noise will be confiscated.
• Commercial activities: it is strictly forbidden to deal drugs, sell food or drinks, tickets and so on.
• Flyers: it is forbidden to hand out flyers or any other promotional material.
• Cars, motorbikes, trailers, caravans, camper vans, etc. They endanger camping safety. Hand trucks (trolleys) > 1m x 1m20 aren't allowed either. Motorhomes and campers are only allowed on the Rock Werchter Mobilhome campsite.

Do:

• enjoy your stay
• make friends
• respect your fellow campers
• get enough sleep
• brush your teeth
• wash your hands
• shower regularly
• keep the campsite clean, together with us
• take all your camping equipment with you after the festival.

(*) About gazebos (‘party tents’): only gazebos with a maximal size of 3 metres by 3 metres are allowed. Gazebos have to be set up to cover at least half of your tent. Gazebos cannot be set up next to each other. A maximum of one gazebo is allowed in between multiple tents. Any tents/gazebos not pitched according to the rules will be removed. Please follow The Hive campsite staff’s directions. May we ask to securely set up your gazebo, taking into account its wind sensitivity?

(**) About large objects/furniture: the camping manager decides in case of doubt.

If you wish to keep your personal belongings safe, use our lockers in The Hive's Comfort Zones, The Hive Resort, The Hive My Space or Central Park. You can rent a locker for one festival day or for the entire duration of the festival.

The Hive and The Hive My Space campsites are divided into zones with fire lanes in between. Tents at The Hive have to be pitched on the designated camping spots. Please follow the campsite staff’s instructions. Fire lanes have to be clear at all times. Any material in the fire lanes will be removed by the campsite staff. The Hive is surrounded by a service lane. Very convenient for logistics, but also necessary for quick interventions by the emergency services and evacuations.

Gas burners and barbecues are not allowed on The Hive. If you wish to prepare your own hot meal or snack, take a look in the comfort zones.

The Red Cross and the ambulance service from Leuven are permanently present. Need first aid? Call 112 or call for help through the App 112. Never hesitate to ask a (camping) crew member for help. There is a permanent first aid post of the Red Cross at The Hive.

The pharmacy in Werchter is located on Tweebruggenstraat 7. Opening hours during Rock Werchter from 10 am to 6 pm. Sunday from 10 am to 2 pm.

Do not hesitate to speak to the campground staff if you need help or information.

We aim for our festivals to be a place where everyone should feel safe, welcome and comfortable. A place where no one is exposed to discrimination, criticism or harassment. Everyone should be able to be themselves, and all are welcome, regardless of sex, gender, orientation, culture, religion, ethnicity or disability. We are committed to ensuring that our festivals and concerts are healthy and safe for everyone.

Our employees are trained, they stay alert to any problems and respond appropriately as needed. We have specialists in various fields on hand and festivalgoers can speak to a confidential counseler if they wish. The We Care A Lot hotline is available 24/7 during the festival. A WhatsApp message to +32 (0)478 51 15 79 is a direct line to quick help. You can also contact our We Care A Lot employees via the Rock Werchter app.

Read more about the initiative on wecarealot.be.