Accessibility
We have a camping area for guests with both major and minor disabilities, individuals with physical challenges and/or a need for tranquility, as well as for friends, family, and assistants. We strive to create calm surroundings and be particularly attentive to one another.
We have no access control – everyone is free to visit, and we like company.
If you have special needs, you can bring one companion or carer with you to Roskilde Festival free of charge.
You and your companion must arrive at Roskilde Festival together. As a volunteer, your companion has access to the same areas as you.
You can change companions throughout the festival – so when one companion leaves the area, another can enter and take over. When changing, your companion must hand in their wristband and state their name at one of our ticket offices. Your next companion can then pick up the wristband at the same ticket office.
As documentation for your needs, you must show one of the following:
- A companion card issued by Disabled People’s Organisations Denmark (in Danish)
- Or one of the following corresponding, foreign cards:
- Austria: Behindertenpass
- Belgium: EU Disability Card
- Cyprus: EU Disability Card
- Czech Republic: ZTP Card
- Estonia: Disability Card
- Finland: EU Disability
- France: Carte mobilité inclusion (CMI)
- Germany: Schwerbehindertenausweis
- Italy: EU Disability Card
- Luxembourg: Behindertenausweis – Carte d'invalidité
- Malta: EU Disability Card
- Netherlands: OV-Begeleiderskaart
- Norway: Ledsagerbevis
- Romania: EU Disability Card
- Slovenia: EU Disability Card
- Spain: Certificado de discapacidad
- Sweden: PlusPolare-kart (contact your local municipality)
- Switzerland: Begleiterkarte
- United Kingdom: CEA Card CEA Card eller Blue Badge
If you don’t have a card but believe you are eligible to bring a companion to Roskilde Festival free of charge, please send an email to accessibility@roskilde-festival.dk and make sure to contact your Team Leader as well.
Most stages have podiums to make sure that wheelchair users have a chance to be at the same level as the rest of the audience.
If you are not comfortable standing close in big groups, we recommend that you familiarise yourself with the individual stages’ podiums, sitting installations, audience density, location of big screens and sound conditions. The hosts in front of the stages are there to help.
We cannot reserve a spot on the podium for individual concerts. Here are the rules for the platforms:
- Make room. The platforms are intended for those who need them the most.
- Everyone on the platform must be seated. Sit down as soon as you find a place on the platform.
- Everyone is welcome on the platforms, but guests who cannot stand during the concerts have priority.
If you can stand but your festival partner has priority for the platform, you may accompany them on the platform if there is room. If others with priority arrive later, you must give up your place to them.
Crowd Safety can close access to the platform if necessary. They may also keep the platform closed after concerts until the audience flow allows it to be reopened. Therefore, you should arrive early if you need a place on the platform.
We recommend that you fill out our online accessibility contact form before the festival. Here, you can briefly describe your needs; then, we will contact you and tell you about your different options.
Fill out the accessibility contact form
If you have further questions about your upcoming festival experience – or you’re not sure if Roskilde Festival is for you – please contact us on email: accessibility@roskilde-festival.dk. We will get back to you as soon as possible.
We are also interested in hearing from you, if you have suggestions for how we can make Roskilde Festival even more accessible.
Contact during the festival
During the festival you can contact us from 8-24 on phone +45 46 36 66 13. We can help you with practical things such as finding a toilet, give you a hand getting back to the tent or mend a punctured wheelchair. If you are in urgent need of help, you can always contact our service hosts in the orange vests; they can help you – either themselves or by sending for their supervisor.
Participate in the conversation about accessibility
Finally, you can join the Facebook group, Roskilde Festival Our Way, and participate in conversations about accessibility and disability service. Here, you can ask questions and share your festival experiences with others.
You can park in the assigned accessibility parking spaces, if you have a valid EU parking card. The card is issued by Disabled People's Organisations Denmark and corresponding organisations abroad.
There is accessibility parking at all entrances.
Remember to issue the card to the person, not the car.
We are a big community partying and living together at Roskilde Festival, and we are diverse. This is why it’s important that we take care of each other and respect that we have different needs and ways to participate in the festival.
The Sunflower is a tool for you to share that you have an invisible disability or impairment. There is a plastic pocket attached to the Sunflower lanyard, where you can put a short description.
Everyone can wear the Sunflower. It doesn’t give you special privileges, but it is useful when you want to show your surroundings that you may need extra support.
When you see the Sunflower, you know that this person may need to be met with:
- Extra patience or maybe just a little more time
- Extra help and support
You can get the Sunflower lanyard at Soft Spots, First Aid Station and in Handicamp.
There are more than 20 accessibility toilets all over the festival. Most of the accessibility toilets are locked to keep them reserved for people with special needs.
You can get a key to the locked accessibility toilets by filling out the form below.
Sign up for accessibility toilets key
You will also find toilets and showers with lifts in the Handicamp Area.