Mum and dad, 2 kids over 12 $1000 entry, plus travel plus accommodation, can't afford it, WAKSA need to rethink for families, sorry been there every year until now!
Went last year
An expensive flight to perth
Expensive car hire
the worlds most boring 4 hour drive
really hot and dry - no wind - flies - nothing to do unless you drive another hour for some surf
plus the world most boring town with no decent places to eat
thats why I am not going back
But maybe it will better this year- good luck
" not the first time" 
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for me i can't afford to be away for 4 days from my 10 month old . Wife won't allow it anyway . If there was say a 2 day option i would go as i could get an overnight pass from the wife .
can't afford it on a shoestring budget, will be doing my own personal downwinder though from k'stock to geraldton/coronation just to make you all jealous [}:)] plus 4days in gero if its firing it much better for kiting that 4days of kooks and chop
just jealous really, will miss the crazy party's and rocking up at 5am each morning, specially after last years shenanigans, phartay'ing down with the band
Just checked the website $250 entry not so bad
But still a lot of money to kite in a crowd.
Because everybody else will be there, Ill have Perth beaches to myself
and also I have to work on Thursday and Friday
This sounds a bit tight @ss but the only way I could do it is buy one ticket for myself and the wife and two kids ( young kids with picky appetites) fend for themselves.
I'll buy the wife a meal in the evening at the Priory and she can eat it while I look after the kids (who would have eaten their bake beans back at camp).
This is the only way I could afford goimg otherthan leaving the wife and kids behind which I only see generally on weekends due to work commitments.
Cheers
Rich (I've got my ticket)
can't afford it + I'm a newbie and don't wanna risk kiting in a crowd too much + wrong side of Oz
In the three years I went to Kitestock committee meetings there were lots of alternative ideas suggested for every different aspect of the festival. I can't be sure all the braincells I had at the time passed on their memories before they died, but none of the ones I have now can recall the idea being tabled of cutting out catering from the deal. Pricing is always discussed at length, and the general consensus was that broken down to a cost per meal the pricing was reasonable. The other driving factor was the simplicity it provides for the attendee. I'm looking forward to my first Kitestock as a non-committee member next week, and I'm certainly looking forward to three meals a day with zero effort from myself...
For families though, perhaps the price per meal is a bit over the odds, especially with a lot of young ones. Perhaps, for a change, next year's committee might want to try abandoning the catering, warn the pubs and shops in town, and put the onus on the attendees to feed themselves. That would bring the price per head down a bit...
