How we pick

Which events

An event gets a page when someone has already decided to go and still has two decisions left: which days, and where to stay. That means events with a fixed location, a crowd big enough to move hotel prices, and a booking window long enough to plan inside.

Dates

Every date carries its status. Confirmed means the organizer, or the body that publishes the calendar, has announced it, and the badge links to that announcement. Then expected means no announcement yet and the dates follow the pattern of previous years. We never quote an aggregator for a date.

Districts and hotels

Districts are chosen for the trade-off they represent, not for how nice they are: walkable and expensive, thirty minutes and half the price, an hour out and always available. Minutes are door-to-venue the way most people will travel it.

Hotels are named because they are the clearest example of their district — size, location or price — and the note says which. We do not take payment for a listing, and no hotel can buy its way onto a page.

Crowd and price

Crowd (1–5) and the hotel price multiplier (×1.5, ×2, ×3) are editorial estimates based on how the event has run: its schedule, its size, the town it sits in. The multiplier compares a hotel on the event dates with the same hotel four weeks earlier. They are not scraped rates, and we would rather be usefully approximate than precisely wrong.

Affiliate links

Right Weekend earns a commission when you book through links on this page. It never affects which days or districts we recommend.

In practice: the verdict, the days table and the district order are written before any link is added, and no partner sees a page before it is published. Links go through a redirect on this site so a partner ID can change without the page changing. Official ticket links are never affiliate links.

Mistakes

If something here is wrong — a date, a walking time, a hotel that closed — write to [email protected]. Every page shows when it was last updated.