Chapter 1: What are Bec and Jess's initial thoughts on returning from Coachella?
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Hey guys, it's Bec Judd. And Jess Roberts. And welcome to Vayner. We are back. We are back from Coachella. Coachella cough incoming. I love it that we've come back and then everyone's trying to test themselves for COVID. They're like, oh, we've all got COVID. Like, no, they're all negative. It's the Coachella cough.
Yeah.
a real thing.
Yeah. It's the dust at the polo club because Coachella's at the Empire Polo Club, which is like the ground is full of grass and horse shit. Yeah. And you breathe it in because it's so windy. And yeah, that's your Coachella cough. How are you feeling, babe? I'm rubbish. Yeah. I am so rubbish. I'm still a little bit like dizzy and I feel fuzzy.
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Chapter 2: How did they plan their Coachella trip and what were the costs?
Yeah, no, I'm... As I said, I don't really need a lot of sleep. I feel fine. I was just angry because I finally fell asleep really early last night, like 9.30, and then my daughter decided to wake me up at like 12 to ask me a question if she could have a sleepover at a friend's house. She woke you up at midnight to ask you if she could have a sleepover?
over.
Yeah, but she poked me, poked me, couldn't wake me up. So then she shook me. So I'm only just pissed off about that. I actually feel okay. I'm just angry because I'm like, she woke me up and then I couldn't get back to sleep. Because then you're on LA time. Now I'm back on LA time. So anyway, I'm feeling okay.
I'm just like, I just obviously got home and just the cleaning and just back to parenting and adulting. And it's more of like, I've got like the Coachella Blues because I want to go back.
Do we, Kenta? You know what? It's always the best time. And sometimes it's not even about the artists, the music, the performers. It's just about being in the desert with all of your mates. And every time I've been there, that was my fourth or fifth time. I can't even remember. But every time it's with a slightly different crew. Yeah. Like I've been with you twice.
I've been with my husband twice. I've been with my mum three times. I've been with Steve and Michelle three times. There's always slight crossovers. Yeah. But it's the memories you have with your friends and it's your friends experiencing that together that gives you all the vibes. And that afterwards when it's over, it's actually so depressing because all you've got left is memories. Yeah. Yeah.
I just feel like my life is really boring.
Yeah.
Now that I've come back, I'm like it was really fun over the weekend and now I'm like reality has kicked in.
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Chapter 3: What fashion trends did they notice at Coachella this year?
You've got lasers, lights. It is just like you are on another planet. I know.
I'm so sad to be home right now. I feel fine. I can go back.
I can go back and do secret work. If we get on that 9.40pm Qantas flight, we will land Friday morning LA time. Yep. And then we need a PJ. Go straight to the desert, get a PJ, call Paul O'Brien, admin, air charter, A-V-M-I-N, walk us up, we get to the desert and we'll be seeing Sabrina Carpenter. Tonight. Oh my God, we're doing it. We're doing it.
Should we do it? Should we do it? Go find me a page, guys. I've been begging Jess to go back to Coachella.
Chuck some fake pictures up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Literally, literally. But yeah, look, it was, do you know what though? Having like, it is, it's the best time. It's the best time ever. Everyone needs to go, even if you're not, Even if it's not really your vibe, people are like, I'm not really into festivals. I'm not really into EDM. I'm not really into... Like, there's every genre of music.
There is pop. There's country. There's rock. There's rap. There's R&B. There's heaps of dance music. There's something for everyone. There's country. David Byrne played, who's the lead singer of Talking Heads, which is my all-time favourite group. Road to Nowhere and... Psycho Killer, all of those songs. He's like 70 on. He played. Iggy Pop played. You can find a genre that suits you.
But even if you're not about the crowds and the vibes, you can still go and have fun. You still can.
I have to say, this year's Coachella at 2026 to 2025, Coachella was very, very different though. Like last year we could walk from stage to stage and it was easy to get to. In and out in half an hour. Half an hour from the hotel transport.
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Chapter 4: What beauty tips did they share for surviving the heat at Coachella?
And then there's also like the acts were kind of more spread out. So you got to see everyone. Well, this year I feel like a lot of the acts were on at the same time. We missed a lot. We missed a lot. And then also like to get in, it wasn't a half an hour. It was like two hours in the bus.
Two to three hours. Some people staying in Palm Springs, which is, we stayed in a place called La Quinta, which is like the suburb over. So it's like five minutes. Yeah. It's meant to be really, it's five miles. So it's like eight kilometers or something. So by the time you get in and out, like, and then you do the walk, there's a big walk. So it's about half an hour usually.
This year, it was like two hours in and out for us, which is so hectic. But if you're in Palm Springs, which is even further away, it was taking these guys four hours to get in and four hours to get out. And that is all because of one person, Justin Bieber. This was Bieber-chella. But we're going to get into that.
We're going to explain what went down at the festival, how it was different, because we put a call out on Vainish Podcast Instagram for you guys to send in your questions about our trip. We can't wait to answer them. So let's get into it.
Hey gorgeous girls, it's Beth here and I'm such a huge fan of you guys and this incredible podcast. Girly Pops, Coachella looked sensational and I'd love to ask a couple of questions. When did you start booking Coachella? Where's the best place to stay? And how much did the accommodation cost? Because I heard that Coachella can be super expenso. Can't wait to hear your answers. Love you.
Oh, she's so cute.
Okay, let's get into it. So we actually booked Coachella, I reckon around May last year. So before they actually even gave us the list on who was playing. So Bec and I are just ready. We're going to go to Coachella every single year. We'll be the Susan Sarandon of Burning Man, but we're going to be the Coachella version. So we booked it back in May, do you reckon? Yeah.
Yeah, it was as soon as it came out, the tickets came out. Coachella is owned by Golden Voice and they also own this travel company called Valley Music Travel. So it's all on the Coachella website. You can book tickets by themselves. You can book shuttles by themselves.
There's so many different types of packages you can book, but I always book the Valley Music Travel packages, which is hotels plus your tickets- plus your shuttle passes, which is the buses. And they give you a whole range of hotels.
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Chapter 5: What were the highlights of the performances they attended?
So there's the cheapest hotel to the most expensive hotel. We stay at La Quinta Resort and Spa. That is the most expensive one. We also get the VIP tickets compared to the general admission because there's more space, more food, less lines for toilets. It's less crowded, right? And it comes with the shuttle as well.
And also, the main reason we booked this one is because it is the closest hotel out of all the hotels offered. I think there's about 20 hotels. Yeah, and it's the closest. It's the closest. So it's the quickest ride in, which usually takes, I don't know, 15, 20 minutes. This year it took us five hours. This year it took us five hours because of Justin Bieber. Justin Bieber.
So you can go on there. I would recommend buying from this site. Don't buy from resellers, even if it's a Coachella resale site. Get the package. Everything's included. And I think all up, this is for two people, and we always go for the four nights. You can buy a three-night option. Jess and I always like to go on the Thursday, so we're ready to go for Coachella on the Friday.
I think for the both of us, it was about $12,000. So $6,000 a head. For the best hotel at the closest. It's like a five-star hotel. It's like a cool resort. And they've got the pool where they have a DJ. Amazing pool, DJs. It's a vibe. It's really cool. Diplo used to stay there. Kendrick Lamar was at the pool one day a few Coachella's ago. Scarlett Johansson was there by the pool last year.
It's really cool. A lot of celebs stay there. So that's probably the best. So it's $6,000 a head for the four nights plus your VIP tickets plus your shuttles. And you can also go on a payment plan for it where they just take out some money every month.
It's like $1,700 every three months or two months or something like that.
Yeah, but there are way cheaper packages on there as well. Yes, they're one of the most expensive ones. But they're usually at Palm Springs, those hotels, and you've got to be really careful of the Palm Springs ones because it is such a drive to get in and out. It takes forever, so be mindful of that. So we started booking, yeah, like in May and we got tickets really easily.
Then a few months down the track when they announced Justin Bieber, that's when the tickets like literally sold out within half an hour. And then all of a sudden, all of our tickets, we were there. People were trying to buy our tickets off us, offering us like $6,000, $7,000 for our tickets each.
For our tickets, not for accommodation, just for our wristbands. They're like, we'll give you six grand for you. I think they were doing like even 12 grand at one point. Yeah, people were screaming. So desperate. And so if you go there and you decide you don't want to go, you literally can make money.
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Chapter 6: How was Justin Bieber's performance received by the crowd?
We just went to bed. Yeah. And my advice, if I could go back, would be leave before the last act finishes.
I think just get a helicopter in and out, let's be honest.
Well, there's no choppers.
All right, or a PJ.
Right onto Coachella grounds. They're all in cars. They're in cars. And they're stuck. I know. He's got a tunnel, mate. As if he's stuck in traffic. Yeah, from the Madison. They've all got tunnels. Yeah, they all stay at the Madison. They've all got houses at the Madison. They've literally got their own lane straight into Coachella. Unless you're at the Madison, you're cooked.
You're in the traffic, guys. You're in the traffic. So that was the only thing this year was that it was so oversold. It was like twice as many people as usual. Yeah. It was in, when Bieber was playing, like everyone was shoulder to shoulder. There were fights breaking out. There were people passing out. There were medics going into the crowd. There were, I've never seen a Coachella like it.
And it's the Justin Bieber effect. And do you know what?
I hope that Coachella has learned their lesson this year and gone, if we're going to announce someone huge like that, They just need to have a different system. And I'm sure they would because there is a lot of backlash of the crowd.
Yeah. There were a lot of people who weren't happy with, I think, because, you know, twice as many people, but it was twice as hard to get in and out and a few other things. It was the same system. There were stages where we couldn't even see the artists because they were overflowing with people that it's like, oh, okay, we tried to see Sean Paul. We couldn't even get into the stage.
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Chapter 7: What challenges did they face with transportation during the festival?
Go weekend one. If you just want to go about the music and have ā fun and to just go for the vibe, go weekend two. I've been both and I would say that weekend two is probably more enjoyable. Weekend one is a bloody scene. Weekend one is like everyone's competing to get to parties and why have you got more wristbands with me and you go to this party, you go to that party.
It's like, aren't we just here just to have fun and vibe with each other? If you want to do that, go weekend two. I think it's actually like a better kind of vibe. If you want to be part of the Influencer Olympics and try and do brand activations and make it like a work trip or try and like get yourself out there as a content creator, go weekend one. But it is very full on.
Now, because it's been, this is like my fourth Coachella, I think. I can't even remember right now. The way I dress and approach it has changed a lot. So the first couple of times I went, I employed a stylist. I had a specific look for every day. I had custom looks made. I had couture made. I did the fringing. I did the crochet. I did jeton. I did heels. I did wedges. Everything was custom.
And I did that the first two years and I realized that when you're actually out in the desert, you're wearing uncomfortable shoes, you've got blisters that are infected that scar your heels. I've still got scarred feet from blisters from Coachella's gone past. You realize that you're actually not having a fun time because you don't feel comfortable. You're freezing cold.
And also you just want to have fun and vibe with the music. You don't want to stop and do a photo shoot. And going out there in a custom designer that someone, you know, has worked so hard to make me an outfit, they want to see a photo of you in front of the Ferris wheel or the Rainbow Dome or whatever it is. So then you're kind of thinking, like, it becomes work. You've got to go and shoot it.
And so I used to do that. And now I just thought, because I've been there and done that, I just want comfort. I want pants. I want sneakers. I want a jacket. And I don't want to be doing a photo shoot in the middle of Coachella. Yeah, I don't want anyone to find out. photograph me. I'm there for fun and not for work.
Like I have changed and I will say that this Coachella was the most comfortable I've been. I don't have a single outfit shot of me at Coachella. Me either. I don't.
I've got one of me in the bathroom.
That was it. That's it. That's it. I'm at the hotel. That is it. I barely got a video and it was so good. I just shopped my wardrobe. Like I just wore old stuff or I bought a couple of new pairs of pants. On the Saturday, Tiger Lily did give me a dress and a jacket and I put a photo up from the hotel and it broke the internet. Everyone tried to buy it and crashed their site. It's not out yet.
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Chapter 8: What final advice do they have for future Coachella attendees?
No braids. Braids are kind of out.
Do you know what was in? Everyone was doing like the sprinkles in their hair, like little star sprinkles or little glitter sprinkles. I noticed that a bit. Yeah, bomber jackets were big. Bomber jackets were huge. Yeah. And like leather with fringing jackets. Yeah. Yeah. And jeans and parachute pants. Parachute silk pants. I lived in a parachute the whole time.
Really shorty, shorty shorts with butt cheeks hanging out. Oh, I didn't say that. Didn't you? Oh, I saw a lot of that.
Oh, did you? Yeah. Yeah. I always just look at the ground though, like trying to make sure I don't fall over. I'm like, and I'm just on a mission to get to a next stage.
I don't really kind of look. How many steps did we walk a day?
28,000 steps we did on Sunday and we're only there for three hours. We were literally there for three hours.
Yeah. And 20,000 of those were done at Fatboy Slimset.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He was so good. So good.
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