Rock The Boat — festival guide
Various, Various, Australia23 Oct – 1 Nov 2026 · 10 days4 days to go
At a glance
- Dates
- 23 Oct – 1 Nov 2026 (10 days)
- Location
- Various, Various, Australia
- Sound
- Electronic · Dance
- Tickets
- €1,233 – €3,073 · 5 tiers tracked
- Venue type
- Festival site
- On-site camping
- Not listed
The story
Rock The Boat is a festival happening in Various, Australia from October 23 to November 1, 2026. It features events starting at 12:00 PM each day. The festival offers a variety of activities and entertainment along the scenic waters.
Rock The Boat is a 10-day electronic, dance festival at Various in Various, Australia. The October 2026 edition runs 23 Oct – 1 Nov 2026.
Expect stages split between Electronic and Dance.
Everything happens at Various, in Various. Various is the base for the trip: it is where the affordable beds, the late trains and the after-parties are, and where prices climb fastest as the dates approach.
Rock The Boat keeps the same calendar slot each year: October 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 Various 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.
- Festival dates: October 23 - November 1, 2026
- Events start at 12:00 PM each day
Venue, camping & access
- Venue type
- Festival site
- Camping
- No on-site camping is listed by the organiser.
What the trip costs from Paris
Ticket from
€1,233
Return transport
€1,781
air · 24h 32m each way
Place to stay
€510
Hostel / camping · 10 nights
Total door to door
€3,524
Door to door from Paris, a trip to Rock The Boat works out at roughly €3,524 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.
The ticket is only 35% 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 · 24h 32m each way, at €1,781 return.
See every ticket tier and travel option →Planning the trip, step by step
- 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Rock The Boat 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 11 nights rather than 10: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
- 4Follow Rock The Boat 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 Rock The Boat 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
23 Oct – 1 Nov 2025 (approx.)
2024
23 Oct – 1 Nov 2024 (approx.)
2023
23 Oct – 1 Nov 2023 (approx.)
Travel tips from Paris
- The site itself is Various, in Various.
- Book a bed in Various early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.
- air24h 32m · €1,781