Belgium

Tomorrowland is the festival that backpackers spend years trying to get into and entire paychecks preparing for, and most of them still show up underprepared. Set across two weekends every July in the small Belgian town of Boom, it draws over 400,000 people from nearly every country on earth, but the crowd inside feels nothing like a tourist trap. Here is what actually happens, what it genuinely costs in 2026, and how to stop the most common disasters before they ruin your weekend.