Built by a raver. For ravers.
Travel Ravers started with a simple, infuriating problem. Standing in a field at Creamfields at 1am. 80,000 people around you. Squad scattered. Phone showing full bars that don’t actually work. Maps refusing to load. Messages queuing and never sending.
The problem wasn’t bad coverage. It was physics. Every one of those 80,000 people was doing the same thing at the same time, and the infrastructure simply couldn’t cope.
Every app failed at the exact moment it was needed most.
The Origin
Errol Jones, the founder of Travel Ravers, has been attending electronic music festivals for years — from small underground techno events in Scotland to Tomorrowland in Belgium. The moment of getting separated from your squad in a crowd with dead signal isn’t just frustrating. At 4am in a foreign country, it’s genuinely frightening.
Travel Ravers was built to solve that specific problem. Not in a theoretical “connectivity should be better” way, but in a practical “here’s what works when the towers collapse” way.
The core technology — Bluetooth mesh networking — has existed for years. Bridgefy’s SDK allows phones to communicate directly with each other without any internet connection. Travel Ravers takes that technology and puts a festival-specific layer on top of it: the squad radar, the offline maps, the pre-loaded emergency phrases, the SOS broadcast.
The Mission
Every festival app assumes you have signal. Travel Ravers assumes you don’t.
That assumption changes everything about how the app is built. Maps are downloaded before you arrive, not streamed in real time. Timetables are a local database, not a live API. Squad positions are broadcast phone-to-phone via Bluetooth, not via a cloud server. Emergency information is text stored on your device, not a web page.
The mission is simple: make the one tool festival-goers actually need work in the environment where they actually need it.
The App
Travel Ravers covers all 50 major EDM and techno festivals across 15 countries — from Creamfields and Terminal V in the UK, to Tomorrowland in Belgium, EXIT Festival in Serbia, Ultra Europe in Croatia, and EDC Las Vegas in the USA.
Every festival comes with:
- Pre-downloadable offline map
- Full DJ and artist timetable
- Emergency phrases in the local language
- Welfare and medical tent locations
The Bluetooth mesh gets stronger with more users. At a 50,000-person festival, the potential for a dense, reliable mesh network is significant. Every Travel Ravers user nearby is another node.
Contact
If you’re a festival organiser interested in integrating Travel Ravers, or if you have feedback, questions, or press enquiries:
Instagram: @travelravers
TikTok: @travelravers