The Las Vegas dance festival where you could pay $90 for a bottle of water
If you’re expecting some desert hydration, you’d best come with a full wallet.
A particularly upmarket Las Vegas dance festival has been the talk of social media thanks to its pricey drinks menu.
If you’ve been to a festival in recent years, you’ll know they’re hardly a cheap day out. Even day festival tickets can exceed £100 nowadays, and if you’re looking to camp at one you could end up paying as much as £400 for the most basic package at some events.
On the other side of the pond, things can be even pricier, and that’s before we even consider food and drink.
In Sin City, Nevada, one dance festival has caused quite a stir with its outlandish menu prices.
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The Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) in 2024, featuring no end of light shows to go along with its packed roster of dance acts, certainly didn’t hold back whilst adding zeros to its prices.
Macro Edge posted the drinks menu on social media, revealing some truly outstanding charges for alcoholic beverages.
A single bottle of Methuselah – a 6L bottle of champagne – was priced at $63,000 (£47,644). Looking for something less boujie? Don’t worry: a six-pack of Bud Light only cost $140 (£106).
If those prices knocked you into teetotality, you’d best brace yourself for the prices of non-alcoholic drinks.
Bottles of Smart Water and Prime were also marked-up to an insane $90 (£68). Even if you happened upon a bar in an uninhabited, undeveloped desert you would still expect things to be a little less expensive than that.
Commenters were quick to pounce on the outlandish menu.
"For $90 you think they’d at least offer better water than Smart Water," commented one person.
"Some of those are over 50x markup,” added another. “Insane."
"Actually decent for Vegas," a third noted.
EDC has previous for charging eye-popping amounts for its drinks. The menu from 2018 showed Smart Water priced at $75 per bottle, and Bud Light was charged at $80.
Apparently, this isn’t what the average punter will be expected to pay. According to Casino.org, these menus are for the ‘elevated viewing decks’ where bottles are served at tables with ‘prime stage view’ alongside VIP wristbands.
It’s nice to know that even the wealthiest among us are at risk of getting ripped off, right?
EDC is running again in 2025 from May 16th to 18th. It remains to be seen whether new economic conditions, such as the tariffs imposed by the US Government, have any bearing on ramping those prices up even further.
Topics: Social Media, Alcohol
Rachael Davis