Here’s how local residents can still get Coachella passes
Getting your hands on passes to Coachella, at this point, might be a bit difficult. Unless, of course, you are a Coachella Valley resident.
Goldenvoice, the company behind Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival and Stagecoach, announced Tuesday the details of its local resident pass program. as it has in year’s past. Locals can use online forms to submit a request for passes both weekends of Coachella as well as Stagecoach, so long as they have all the proper forms of identification. Below are links to the online forms:
Coachella – Weekend One – (April 19-21) Coachella – Weekend Two (April 26-28) 3-Day General Admission Pass – $429 3-Day VIP Pass – $999 Any Line Any Time Shuttle Pass – $80 Stagecoach (April 26-28) General Admission – $349 Corral Standing Pit Pass – $1399 C1 Corral Reserved Seating Pass – $1399 C2 Corral Reserved Seating Pass – $899 Any Line Any Time Shuttle Pass – $75
“Order requests will be randomly selected and approved based on residency requirements,” read the Goldenvoice news release. “There will be a 4 pass limit per weekend per resident, while supplies last. Wristbands will be placed on the wrist of the resident purchaser and their guest by the box office staff – guests must be present. Resident passes may only be purchased for use by valley residents and their guests. Proof of residency must be shown in the form of a California driver’s license or ID card at time of pick up. Passes are non-transferable.”
The requests are not guaranteed and will only go through once the “order is approved and paid for.”
This is the second year that Goldenvoice opted for an online process, as opposed to an in-person one, which proved to be chaotic in 2017.
“Everyone said that last year [2016] was organized, simple, clean, single file line,” said Yazmin Castillo of Cathedral City “This year, people were crazy, probably because the line-up is so good this year that everyone wants to go. People were throwing down fences…and there was already a fight at 7 a.m.”
