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À la Park is the most delicious festival of the summer, taking place in Meripuisto — a beautiful seaside park next to Kaivopuisto in Helsinki. This unique two-day festival redefines the traditional festival concept by combining top-tier live music and first-class restaurants in a stunning natural setting. À la Park is a two-day feast for all senses. 

The festival offers a carefully curated lineup of Finnish artist alongside international talent, a high-quality and diverse drink selection, and the most interesting and current restaurants. The restaurant selection is curated by renowned chef and catering entrepreneur Pipsa Hurmerinta. 

À la Park is an idyllic indulgement: two performance stages, spacious restaurant and terrace areas, and a lush park environment. The restaurants and services are spread across Meripuisto, allowing guests to enjoy the experience at their own pace. The event is for adults only, so there are no restricted bar areas. Visitors can enjoy food and drinks both seated at tables or while strolling through the park. Between concerts at the Main Course Stage, there's time to explore the area and catch the Side Dish Stage program, which will be announced later. 

At its core, À la Park is about relaxing and enjoying quality time in a beautiful park. Gather your friends and indulge in a weekend full of sensory delights — À la Park brings together everything a perfect summer weekend is made of!  

À la Park brings the most interesting and current restaurants to the visitors’ fingertips. The menus of the restaurants are built around tasting-sized portions, allowing you to experience a wide variety of flavors and sample a wide range of dishes from various top restaurants. 

In addition to the extensive range of food restaurants, the event will feature an exceptionally interesting and high-quality selection of wines, cocktails, and beers, not forgetting non-alcoholic options. Discover the full food and drink selection here. 

All products and services can be purchased on-site, excluding tasting packages and the Koti restaurant's exclusive fine dining experience. See all add-on options here.

Plenty of vegetarian and vegan options are available.

Meripuisto is loated in Ullanlinna between Merikatu and Merisatamanranta (postal code 00140). The easiest way to arrive is by walking, cicling, or by using pubic transportation. The closest tram lines are numbers 3, 3N, and 9T, and the nearest bus lines are numbers 20 and 30. The nearest city bike stations are located at Kompassitori and Tehtaankatu.

There are paid street parking spots near the venue, but we recommend prioritizing other ways of transportation. The festival does not provide a dedicated parking area.

Merikatu will remain a two-way street, while Merisatamanranta will be temporarily changed to a one-way street with traffic allowed only in the westbound direction, from Kaivopuisto toward Hernesaari.

Festival area opening times
Friday 1.8. 15:30–00:00
Saturday 2.8. 13:30–00:00

Please note that festival tickets are not exchanged to wristbands. This means you can only enter the festival area once a day. 

Payments:

À la Park is a cashless event, meaning that only card and contactless payment methods are accepted at the festival. Our payment solutions are provided by our partners CoreGo and Verifone.

To make your restaurant and bar visits smoother, you can purchase food and drink packages in advance from our ticket store. At the festival, these can be used by using the QR code you receive.

Toilets:

There are plenty of toilets placed around the event area, and the locations are marked on the site map. People with a toilet pass are entitled to skip any potential queues.

Cloakroom:

Cloakroom is located in the festival area near the gate, and the location is marked on the festival map. Please note, that no prohibited items are allowed in the cloakroom.

Cameras:

Photography and bringing DSLR cameras to À la Park is allowed, but please leave flashes, large equipment backpacks, and tripods at home. Please respect the privacy of other guests. Filming concerts or performances without specific permission is prohibited.

À la Park and its partners will take photos and videos during the event and the footage may be used in the festival’s or our partners’ content. If you do not wish to appear in photos, please notify the photographer.

Prohibited Items:

You may not bring your own drinks, glass bottles or cans, firearms or bladed weapons (including multitools), fireworks, spray cans (including aerosol sunscreen), or other similar dangerous items into the festival area. Please also leave umbrellas and camping chairs at home. You are welcome to bring a picnic blanket. Security checks will be conducted at the gate, and security staff have the final say on whether an item poses a safety risk.

Small bottles of hand sanitizer and sunscreen are allowed.

If you need to bring prescription medication, please bring the prescription or original packaging with you and only carry the amount needed for the day. If you need to bring a larger quantity, please contact the organizers in advance at info@fullsteam.fi or report to the head of security at the gate before entering, to ensure a smooth entry.

Bringing your own small snacks is allowed if it is medically necessary. Please inform a security staff member about this when arriving.

Water Bottles:

You may bring one empty bottle of up to 1.0 liters into À la Park, which can be filled at water stations. Please note that glass bottles and cans are not allowed, and the bottle must not be one originally intended for alcoholic beverages.

Earplugs:

We hope you protect your hearing especially near the stages. If you don’t own ear plugs or forget them home, they can be purchased from a moving vendor at the venue.

The festival follows sound level limits set by the authorities.

Smoking:

Smoking is prohibited in front of the stages. A designated smoking area is located close to the wine bar number 11 and is marked with a sign on site. 

Please only attend the healthy and remember to wash your hands. We also ask that all festival-goers behave respectfully toward one another.

The event area is mainly grassland with gravel paths running through it. Most of the area is flat, but some parts of the festival area are sloped. The festival has an accessible viewing platform for customers who need it and their possible assistants. The capasity of the viewing platform is limited.

For taxis, the nearest drop-off point to the main gate are Kompassitori or on Merisatamanranta. Please note, that during the event, Merisatamanranta will be one-way westbound from Kaivopuisto toward Hernesaari. If you arrive from Merikatu, note that the path running from the street to the maingate is a sloped gravel path.

We kindly ask, that customers who do not suffer from any mobility impairment, would be dropped off a bit further from the event area.

You already know À la Park is a celebration of all things local – from Finnish bites and beats to familiar faces and fresh energy. So when it comes to where to stay, we naturally turned to the hotel that lives and breathes that same spirit. Enter: Hobo Helsinki.

Hobo isn’t just a boutique hotel tucked into Kluuvikatu – though it does have that dreamy central location, beautiful rooms, and vibe-checked interiors. It’s more than a place to sleep. It’s a place to live, create, eat, dance, connect. It’s a space that evolves with the city around it.

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If you’ve got an extra special idea for your staycation, or just want to ask which tram gets you from your bed to the festival in 5 minutes send us a message: stay@hobohotel.fi

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À la Park festival was born out of its creators' passion for music, food, and drink, as well as for producing high-quality event experiences. 

The event is organized by Fullsteam Agency. The team behind the event has organized for example Sideways and Provinssi festivals, as well as numerous other concert and festival events across Finland. 

The restaurant lineup of À la Park is curated by chef, catering entrepreneur, and Top Chef Finland judge Pipsa Hurmerinta.

À la Park’s accreditation is open. Accreditation is for press representatives, music industry professionals and others entitled to entrance due to profession.

You can fill the application form here.

Please let us know in the application if you have scheduled meetings or interviews. The applications will be handled latest in July and all applicants are contacted via email.

Press photos for media use can be downloaded here: https://media.fullsteam.fi/Media/

In case you have something to ask, you can contact us by email (iida@fullsteam.fi).

All guests are required to pay a fee of 15 euros. Accreditation fees are donated to the John Nurminen Foundation and their work in protecting the Baltic Sea.

First Aid:

The festival has a roaming first aid team. If you have difficulty locating them, please contact the nearest member of security staff. If necessary, the first aid team will guide customers to the emergency care area for further treatment.

In cases of minor injuries, always contact the first aid team or security staff first. In life-threatening situations, always call the emergency number 112.

Possible Disruptions and Emergency Evacuation:

In unexpected situations, please follow announcements from the main stage, instructions displayed on the stage screens, and any directions given by security staff. Emergency exit routes are marked throughout the area with guiding signs and on the fences by large exit signs.

Safer Space Principles:

In addition to providing an unforgettable and genuinely service-oriented festival experience, it is important to us that everyone feels safe at our event and can focus on enjoying the festival experience as themselves. À la Park adheres to the principles of a safer space, and we expect every festival-goer to strive to create an equal and respectful environment.

Principles for a safer space:

• Don’t assume. It is natural to make assumptions about other people, but we strive to be aware of our own presuppositions and we are open to different kinds of topics and people. We don’t define experiences on behalf of anyone else and we don’t generalize our own experiences to others. We don’t make assumptions about anyone’s sexuality, gender, nationality, religion, values, socioeconomic background, health, appearance or ability to function, but we respect everyone’s right to self-determination.
• Don’t degrade. We don’t degrade or embarrass anyone by their externals. We treat others as we would like to be treated.
• Don’t reproduce. We don’t reproduce racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, or ableist stereotypes in our speech, actions, or behavior. We strive to use language that doesn’t exclude anyone.
• Intervene. If we witness any offensive behavior, we will not remain silent, but we will intervene.
• Respect. We respect other people’s physical, mental, and emotional personal space. We remember that we cannot know the boundaries of one without asking from them and we don’t touch the other without permission. If necessary, we ask for space for ourselves as well.
• Give space. We make sure everyone has space to participate in the discussion and we treat sensitive topics with respect.
• Give and receive feedback. Everyone is allowed to give appropriate and constructive feedback from inappropriate treatment. If someone gives you feedback on your actions, please listen to the feedback provider. We are open to the feedback we receive and we will take the feedback into account in our own activities in the future.

You can reach the event’sharassment liaison during and after the event byemail safety@fullsteam.fior by phone +358 40 707 2293.