Hellbound — festival guide
Departs Sydney, Sydney, Australia22–25 Oct 2026 · 4 days3 days to go
At a glance
- Dates
- 22–25 Oct 2026 (4 days)
- Location
- Departs Sydney, Sydney, Australia
- Sound
- Electronic · Dance
- Tickets
- €72 · 1 tier tracked
- Venue type
- Urban venue
- Best nearby base
- Sydney · 0 km · about 0 min
- On-site camping
- Not listed
The story
Hellbound is a 4-day electronic, dance festival at Departs Sydney in Sydney, Australia. The October 2026 edition runs 22–25 Oct 2026.
Expect stages split between Electronic and Dance.
Everything happens at Departs Sydney, in Sydney. Sydney · 0 km · about 0 min is the organiser's practical nearby base for accommodation and transfers to the festival site.
Hellbound keeps the same calendar slot each year: October 2026 for this edition, opening on a Thursday and closing on a Sunday. It falls in autumn, after the summer circuit closes, when flights and rooms come back down in price. That slot matters for the budget — flights and rooms in Sydney are priced for the festival weekend, not the week around it, so shifting your arrival by a day often saves more than any ticket tier does.
- Event dates: October 22-25, 2026
- Location: Departs Sydney
- Event timing: Starts at 10:00 am, ends at 4:00 pm
Venue, camping & access
- Venue type
- Urban venue
- Best nearby base
- Sydney · 0 km · about 0 min
- Camping
- No on-site camping is listed by the organiser.
- Getting to the gates
- Public transport options available to reach the venue.
What the trip costs from Paris
Ticket from
not on sale yet
Return transport
€1,983
air · 27h 3m each way
Place to stay
€344
Hostel / camping · 4 nights
Total door to door
€2,327
Door to door from Paris, a trip to Hellbound works out at roughly €2,327 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.
No ticket price is published for this edition yet, so the total below covers travel and a bed only. It updates automatically as soon as the organiser opens sales.
Cheapest travel we price is air · 27h 3m each way, at €1,983 return.
See every ticket tier and travel option →Planning the trip, step by step
- 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Hellbound are sold in waves and the cheapest wave is gone long before the line-up is complete.
- 2Then price the travel from Paris — Cinderella compares train, bus, car and flight for the same dates, and the cheapest option is not always the obvious one.
- 3Reserve 5 nights rather than 4: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
- 4Follow Hellbound on Cinderella to be emailed when a ticket price drops or a new tier opens.
Full line-up
Ordered as the poster reads it — headliners first, then most booked to least. Each name opens that artist's festival dates.
The organiser hasn't published the line-up for Hellbound yet. It appears here — with a page for every artist — as soon as names are confirmed.
Past editions
Dates are the event's recurring calendar slot, so treat them as approximate — the organiser keeps the official archive.
2025
22–25 Oct 2025 (approx.)
2024
22–25 Oct 2024 (approx.)
2023
22–25 Oct 2023 (approx.)
Travel tips from Paris
- The site itself is Departs Sydney, in Sydney.
- Public transport options available to reach the venue.
- Book a bed in Sydney early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.
- air27h 3m · €1,983