'I queued for 12 hours to get into Coachella campsite - what I saw baffled me'

The 2025 Coachella music festival is underway, and attendees are flooding social media with their tales of woe about the chaos at the campsite entrance.

, renowned as one of the globe's most iconic music , annually draws a host of top-tier artists to the Californian desert, entertaining legions of fans across two weekends.

Famed for its eclectic music and fashion, this year's event has sparked a wave of complaints on social media, with festival-goers bemoaning what they describe as unprecedented disorganisation. Reports are surfacing of people stuck in their vehicles for up to 12 hours, desperately waiting to access the camping area.

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Among the disgruntled is Clancy, whose rant about the ordeal went , amassing over 1.5 million views in a single day. She and her friend disclosed their eight-hour plight without food or water while queuing to enter.

"So we're on hour eight of being in line for the f**king Coachella camping. If you haven't heard, it's a sh*t show this year," Clancy said at the start of her video.

She claimed: "We can't drink water, we can't go pee, they won't let us into any of the bathrooms. No bathrooms, except for the staff, and the staff won't let us in," Clancy explained. "Um, we're starving, but we don't wanna eat because if we eat, apparently people ahead of us were sh**ting in the bushes and the cops were called, so that stopped the f**king line for another half an hour, because people are sh**ting themselves in the bushes.

She continued: "So we can't eat, we haven't eaten since three - I ate four [mini] donuts at three o'clock this morning, that's it. I've drank one thing of water in eight hours," and her friend chimed in with: "I haven't finished my water."

She continued with frustration: "Can't finish the water, can't do anything but sit here in the f**king - our car is overheating, my phone has overheated twice," detailing the dire situation they faced.

In a video update, Clancy disclosed that their journey into the festival had surpassed 12 hours, with numerous vehicles suffering from overheating and running out of fuel, forcing attendees to push their cars for the final stretch.

The chaos wasn't unique to them. Another Coachella-goer, Kaela, also vented on TikTok about the seemingly interminable queue.

Kicking off her video, she explained, "We are currently in line for Coachella car camping, and it is 8.40am. We are in the middle of the line, we got here at 8.15am and we've moved like two feet. We are literally like on the street, like a mile away from the entrance."

Reflecting on her past experiences, she added, "I've been going to Coachella since like 2018 and you usually can just pull right into the lot where they do security checks, so I don't know what's going on."

In her next video, Kaela updated that after a six-hour wait for the security check, they were still at a standstill, trying to reach their camping spot.

"We're like blowing through our gas, I'm sure everyone else is, and it's just like a sh*t show," she exclaimed. "Six hours and counting, and we haven't moved and foresee us moving anytime soon which is insane."

But the chaos didn't stop once they reached their campsite. Kaela noted that this year's festival felt much more disorganised than previous ones she's been to, mentioning she struggled to find any staff to direct her to the toilets.

"Okay, first problems, but you pay a lot of money, and me especially, that was one of the pros of this like new-powered campsite was having flushable airconditioned toilets and I don't know where they are," she complained. "It also doesn't help that we were waiting in line for literally seven hours. Literally in the past, I have driven in, no problem.

Billboard has reported that insiders close to the event have identified two main causes for the lengthy delays. Firstly, the campgrounds opened to attendees on Thursday (April 10) at 9am this year, a later time than in previous years.

Additionally, the festival introduced a preferred camping spot program for the site nearest to the festival entrance. Insiders suggest that this new system, which replaced the old first-come, first-served approach, resulted in longer processing times.

Despite the queues, both Clancy and Kaela, along with their respective groups, have soaked up the atmosphere at the first weekend of the festival, fully enjoying the first action-packed day of Coachella and gearing up for the second day's adventures.

Clancy revealed in a : "At the end of the day, we do love it, that's why we come every year. For us, it's worth it. This whole experience is worth it, camping is worth it. I think everybody, if you love going to Coachella or festivals in general, you should camp because you're saving so much money [compared to staying in hotels]."

She also noted: "You don't have to do it, that's the best part about this whole thing. You don't have to do it if you don't want to."

After setting up at their campsite and chilling with some cold drinks, Kaela too was soon back in high spirits and managed to find everything she needed.

The has contacted Coachella for a comment.