Meidum Festival — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

27–29 Nov 2026 (3 days)

Location

Pat Busch Mountain Reserve, TBD, South Africa

Sound

Disco · House

Crowd

around 1,100 people

Tickets

€55 · 1 tier tracked

Nearest airport

Cape Town International Airport

Nearest station

Robertson Station

Venue type

Natural site

Best nearby base

Cape Town · 120 km · about 120 min

On-site camping

General camping included with tickets and glamping setups available.

The story

Meidum Festival is a boutique electronic music festival founded by Elan Schnider, taking place at the Pat Busch Mountain Reserve in Robertson, South Africa. The festival features a unique 25-meter-wide, 4-story pyramid structure as its main stage, designed to create a striking aesthetic that combines industrial and natural elements. With an emphasis on house, indie dance, techno, and disco, the festival offers a high-energy atmosphere and a second stage near a swimming dam. Meidum Festival is strictly for adults aged 20 and above, offering both general camping and glamping options.

Meidum Festival is a 3-day disco, house festival at Pat Busch Mountain Reserve in TBD, South Africa. The November 2026 edition runs 27–29 Nov 2026. It draws around 1,100 people.

Expect stages split between Disco and House.

At around 1,100 attendees it stays on the intimate side, which usually means shorter bar queues and a crowd that is there for the music rather than the spectacle. Everything happens at Pat Busch Mountain Reserve, in TBD. Cape Town · 120 km · about 120 min is the organiser's practical nearby base for accommodation and transfers to the festival site. General camping included with tickets and glamping setups available.

Meidum Festival keeps the same calendar slot each year: November 2026 for this edition, opening on a Friday 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 TBD 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.

• 25-meter-wide pyramid stage
• Second stage run by The Tropical Roast
• General camping included with tickets
• Glamping options available
• Sophisticated sound systems and architectural designs

Venue, camping & access

Venue type

Natural site

Best nearby base

Cape Town · 120 km · about 120 min

Camping

General camping included with tickets and glamping setups available.

Getting to the gates

Travel by car is recommended from Cape Town.

What the trip costs from Paris

Door to door from Paris, a trip to Meidum Festival works out at roughly €1,353 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.

The ticket is only 4% of that: the rest is getting there and sleeping somewhere, which is exactly the part most ticket sites leave out.

Cheapest travel we price is air · 16h 4m each way, at €1,100 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Meidum Festival are sold in waves and the cheapest wave is gone long before the line-up is complete.
2. 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.
3. 3Reserve 4 nights rather than 3: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4If you fly into Cape Town International Airport, check the transfer time to TBD before booking the earliest departure — the airport bus is usually the cheapest leg of the whole trip.
5. 5Follow Meidum Festival 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.

Past editions

Dates are the event's recurring calendar slot, so treat them as approximate — the organiser keeps the official archive.

• 2025

  27–29 Nov 2025 (approx.)

• 2024

  27–29 Nov 2024 (approx.)

• 2023

  27–29 Nov 2023 (approx.)

Travel tips from Paris

• Fly into Cape Town International Airport, the closest airport to the site.
• Rail arrivals come through Robertson Station; shuttles usually run from there.
• The site itself is Pat Busch Mountain Reserve, in TBD.
• Travel by car is recommended from Cape Town.
• Book a bed in Cape Town early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.

• air16h 4m · €1,100