We had a great time at this festival and the after party. I won 2 VIP tickets and while it was amazing, I do not know that I would have paid $85 each for them. It seemed that the only difference was the VIP area which was nice but not worth the extra money. Everyone got 15ish tickets which was very good and we didn't even go through them all. There are a ton of vendors to visit and they all did a really good job telling you about their products and lot so a little giveaways. The VIP area had 2 food vendors and they were both very good and our favorite drink of the night was in this area. Do wish there was more seating in the VIP area it was full all the time, even early in the day. We got to sample many different things, lots of which we hadn't even heard of. It was a lot of fun and the weather/area for this was perfect. I would go back just probably with regular tickets since we didn't even use all of those!