Lavender festival is the last festival I’m attending in Albuquerque after attending a few here. Consistent lack of basic planning and forethought between festival planners and city/sheriff makes events like this a nightmare to attend. Community streets should have been managed with traffic directors for neighborly politeness to people living and passing down Rio Grande. You need to offer shuttles and have people managing cars parking in an organized fashion in diagonals on streets. Or just pick a better spot in town with less congestion.
I thought we would be in lavender fields hence the inconvenient location- nope! Just soaps and lotions and random cut overpriced bundles brought in from elsewhere.
Saying “no street parking” on the website is a joke. In a town where everyone drives massive trucks and roads are small, how have event and city planners not come together on this?
Other detractions: call it like it is- a ticketed craft show of the same vendors that attend all craft shows and sell in all stores in ABQ. The educational part was not obvious or easy to navigate and frankly, if a medical emergency happened on site there weren’t enough responders/support staff and I don’t know how you’d even evacuate someone given the chaotic mess of traffic.
Lay down hay on the waking paths, put paper cups or biodegrading cups out at the water stations so people can drink water- just basic things that make a nice seeming idea stay in the nice zone instead of encroaching on a cruel layer of purgatory. Honestly it was a waste of time and money and unsafe and unfun. I’m sad to say that, but it’s just the truth.
Unfortunately this checks out as par for the course in ABQ because events seem to be run with profit interests in mind only, while avoiding basic safety or maintaining high community event standards. Total hell. You couldn’t pay me $100 to attend this again.
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