Sausageandciderfest Reviews 

All these 1 STAR ratings are fake?
Guildford Sausage & Cider fest was easily 5/5 Stars.
- Queuing at main entrance was standard 20min wait.
- Quite a range of ciders, but they also had your basic beers, and spirits! Something for everyone!
- Shops, Axe throwing, Silent disco, Stage/Area for the children.
- Plenty of Port-a-loos, so no queuing.
- Funny entertainment between some sets/bands like: Sausage eating comp & Live Karaoke that was hilarious.
- VIPs had their own section & own bar, benches and shade!
- Staff were lovely.

I don't know if other places were just terrible, hence their ratings- where they toured. But Guildford was an flawless experience!!

You’d think something billed as a sausage and cider festival would sell sausages but no, the only ones available were from a hot dog stall. I also expected a variety of ciders from a variety of suppliers but no, it seemed just one supplier and what a sampled could hardly be classed as cider. Mojito cider?

2025 was terrible compared to last year.

The line up was poor, frankly, not helped by the sound engineering - we were sat 2/3rds of the way back from the main stage, and the noise from the kids stage drowned out the main stage.

And the staff in the main bar were terrible, and kept trying to rip us off. Every time one of my group made an order they messed up the prices.

Very disappointed, frankly.

I wasn’t given a wrist band on entry and therefore got taken away to check my pass and to get a wrist band. They then surrounded me with 8+ security guards to check my ID, bank card and my social media as they didn’t believe that I was 18+. horrid experience from this place as i’ve been harassed more than once about them not believe i have a real ID

Went to guildford 2025 version.
Ques were terrible i qued for 30mins just for them to let 68 people behind us to walk in first.
Staff running festival dont know what there doing I kept getting sent to a different person just to get a simple question answered.
Security took away our blanket said it was for safety reason. But I seen half of the people sitting on blanket they bought from home.

On a positive note once your in food is lovely and beer is nice but all is expensive

Sausage and cider festival 25. Slow long ques, very small entrance with limited staff, for the size of the event. Bags checked as no food and only a bottle of water aloud in. Disgusting.😡

How can you put on a summer function and have NO ICE ? Warm Beer ! Plus the food stands were very very very expensive and not particularly good. The Bands were very good, if you could bare to stand in the Marquee. It was not a hot day 22-24 degrees, but in the tent it must of been 36/40 degrees. If it was a hotter day like it has been this year I'm not sure how the bands could perform and how any one could stand and watch them. they need a rethink and a way to cool the Marquee. they could have at least open some of the sides ? Dangerously too hot in there ! SO the only good thing was the music

We only went as got the flyer which gave us 4 free tickets so only paid an admin charge. We parked our car and returned 45 minutes later. Was no atmosphere, queues for food were very long so we didn't bother so we just bought an overpriced can of cider each. One of the band said 'hello Tunbridge' so couldn't even get the name of the place they were playing right. So glad we didn't actually pay for tickets and I couldn't even give away the extra 2 I got for free!

Tunbridge Wells shafted people this year. New location that changed after booking, and then to only discover you have to pay £5 each way for a free shuttle was insane. The vibe this year was not as good as last year, really bad co-ordination around transport - misleading details about buses etc. Overall this was poor compared to last year, less food places and wasted money in my opinion

Horrific treatment by the groundsman!!! Very intimidating for a single mother of a young boy.

After a long hot day in the sun, the event was nearing an end (9:30-10pm) Two groundsman came over to me asked where my wristband was, i explained that my son had ripped his off and had a melt down so i gave him mine, but this seemed now to be lost but i had proof of purchase. He we was not satisfied with this and after few of us frantically crawling on the floor in the dark trying to find it, the man escalated the incident and had a further 3 men approach me. As a single mother of a young boy I find this totally unacceptable to have 5 Asian men approach me to throw me out. I am disgusted at this treatment, it felt targeted and racist.

Absolutely disgusted by the treatment of a paying customer. No respect, no common sense, no decency.

Colchester Castle Park: Awful event. Not family friendly at all. Nothing to do with Sausage or Cider, just a few food stalls charging an arm & a leg for the same old booze and hotdogs. £7 for a can of cider, £15 for an 8 inch pizza. I basically paid for a ticket to a boot sale. Bands & entertainment was poor. Water refills, if available were not forthcoming. They give away lots of tickets to get you through the gates then treat you like cattle & rob you blind.

Worst organised event I have ever been to.

The entertainment wasn’t great and the food and drink was overpriced, which you expect at a festival.

However what you don’t expect is to be treated like cattle.

Everyone was made to queue for ages where the people at the gates went through everyone’s bags. And I mean every bag.

They were confiscating water when the temperature was 27 degrees with little shade. I saw no drink refill stations which are a legal requirement for a festival and bottles were taken away.

There was no regard for privacy checking chairs and bags with to take drinks and food away. Even checking in people’s purses I’m not sure what they thought they would find.

I saw one family had half a loaf of bread and a staff member was rooting through the bag spreading germs.

Absolutely no regard for people or for hydration.

You expect to pay a little over the odds and to not being in alcohol or your own food is understandable. But to take away water so you are forced to buy from them, to be given disgusting toilets and treated like an animal is unacceptable.

SAUSAGE and cider festival yet there’s 6 (six) savoury food vendors in the whole place, and only one of them doing sausages and it’s the kind of hotdog you can get anywhere ?? Could’ve been a really good event, with all the bands, but nowhere near enough food choice, especially for the name of the festival. I’m vegan so it doesn’t really matter to me (at least there was ✨one✨ option) but I’d be fuming if I’d come expecting a variety of good food. Would’ve been nice to see more stalls too, local/small businesses etc. Glad we only came for one day, though wasn’t worth the price of the ticket in my opinion.

What a disappointment. Bills itself as family entertainment but very little on offer for children.
Everything completely overpriced. Minuscule can of wine £8. Sausage 7.50. Chips with cheese sauce (ugh) £8. Totally exploitative
Where are the healthier and quality alternatives / decent soft drinks and water?
Couldn’t wait to leave

Got a letter and won 1st prize which it says is 4 free tickets. Entered code and it says 50% off only which is 2nd place.

I don't know anyone who hasn't won this. Seems a bit like false advertising.

No doubt in the Ts and cs there's something about prize changing at some point after 1 sale or something but not what was presented.

Don’t bother with it
arrived at around 4.30pm. Had a pint of cider from Lillies, in which they then removed the sign and closed the Lillies stall down. Basically the only reason we went. They’d ran out, We then found a cider we liked at sea cider stand. Forget it, sold out straight away with 2/5 ciders left before 6pm. Partner that with the 1.50 charge for the cup. If you go between a half and a full pint you have to pay the 1.50 every time even though you are still returning a cup, contributing to the green ethos of the festival . Sausages were pretty good . Music was pretty good. Would just be better if The already overpriced cider was actually available rather than selling out a couple of hours in. Pointless name for the festival . Just a couple of fairly decent tributes surrounded by decent food . Not worth the money

The Oasis and Queen bands were fantastic. The opening act was also fantastic. They really got the crowd going. We where dancing alongside others. However don't cross the line. A eight or nine foot line from the stage. What did managers think was going to happen. Have they a risk assessment? Absolutely ridiculous. I left the venue
Don't treat respectful well behaved people like idiots. I will not recommend or visit another Sausage and Cider festival again. If you have a risk assessment post it. Very disappointment how this venue was run. Again don't treat people like idiots.

Overpriced and completely naff
Went to the one in Newcastle yesterday. Not really a cider festival, more an afternoon of ok-ish tribute bands with expensive bars. Audio was bad, and the 'live DJ' talking to the crowd seemed to be a pre-recorded track they played between songs. Cider was overpriced and the bars were run by Events staff rather than cider people so nobody could really tell you anything about the different types, they just poured the drinks. I ordered a sausage, and after taking my £7.50 the guy told me they'd run out of the one I wanted, and I'd need to wait there for 15 minutes. He was just a young kid really, so when I asked for a refund because I didn't fancy waiting, he had to go and get his boss because he didn't know how to do it and the whole thing was pretty frustrating. If you've got deep pockets, are not really into cider, and just want to have a few drinks and sing along to an Oasis tribute band then you are probably going to love it. Otherwise, you'll find it disappointing and massively overpriced. I regret wasting my money on this.

No decent cider, overpriced sausages, dreadful entertainment.

In total agreement with many other reviewers - we attended in 2023 and enjoyed it - however, Warwick Sept 2024 was totally rammed, with the only place to sit being behind the vendor stalls next to the toilets. Dangerous for children and disabled folk. We witnessed lots of very drunk people with the only real security present at the gate.
Stayed for 30 minutes and decided to leave.
Won’t be coming again.