Ales and Eats Festival

Ales and Eats Food and Beverage Festival

Get ready to sample, sip, and taste the best of local flavors at the Ales and Eats Food and Beverage Festival, hosted by Heights Experience!

Join us for a day of culinary delights in a beautiful, open-air rural setting. You'll find a fantastic selection of distillers, brewers, food trucks, and farmers market stalls. Meet the talented makers, growers, and producers behind our region's finest food and beverages. Bring your picnic blanket and your crew to discover new favorites, listen to great live music, and enjoy a relaxed summers day out.

Want to experience the festival without the hassle of driving? Add a bus pass to your ticket to ensure you get to and from the venue safe and happy. Or, if you want to make a weekend of it, self-contained campers and caravans can get a camping pass and stay onsite.

Come hungry and leave happy—this is a celebration of our region's best!

GA Ticket Price Includes: 

• Entry to Festival
• Reuseable Festival Cup for the day.
• Access To Food and Beverage Exhibitors and Vendors
• Live Entertainment - Euphoria 1pm - 3pm; The Winsome Lost 3pm-5pm, Twisted 5pm - 7pm

WHAT CAN WE BRING WITH US?

Festival Chairs and Picnic Blankets, empty water bottles, reusable shopping bags for any of the take home goodies you purchase.

PLEASE NOTE:

Bus Departure Details

Departure Location: 

Feilding (from the Feilding Railway Station) & Palmerston North (from Platform 2 at the Regional Bus Depot by the Palmerston North Courthouse)

Departure Time: 

Feilding Bus will depart at 12pm, The Bus will then travel to Palmerston North to collect Palmy Passengers. The Bus will depart Palmerston North at approximately. 12.40pm.

Please arrive 15 mins before departure time. Buses will depart promptly, so don’t be late.

 Departure Location Levin: There are 2 buses from Levin. These will depart from the Levin Mall Carpark at 12.45pm.

Please arrive 15 mins before departure time. Buses will depart promptly, so don’t be late!

 Departure Location: Foxton Beach (from the Dawick Reserve, opposite Mr Grumpys Takeaways) 

Departure Time: Foxton Beach Bus will depart at 12.45pm.

Please arrive 15 mins before departure time. Buses will depart promptly, so don’t be late!

Return Trip

• Return buses to Foxton Beach, Palmerston North & Feilding will depart at 7.15pm from the designated bus area on site.
• Buses will depart promptly, so don’t be late!
• Return Buses to Levin - this will be a shuttle service making multiple trips back to Levin. Shuttle will depart every 25 min or so. The first departure will be at 6pm. The bus will make as many return trips as required to get all bus pass holders back to Levin.

Important Info:

• Camping is for Self Contained Campers and Caravans Only.
• This is an R18 event - ID will be required on entry.
• No animals are permitted onsite with the exception of working service dogs.
• No outside food or beverage may be bought into festival. We have plenty of goodies for purchase inside. Water Bottles can be filled at our water stations located thoughout the festival.
• Free parking available onsite