What a wonderful experience!!!
Your ticket comes about 2 weeks before the festival no mater when you order it. Leave your hotel about 6ish to avoid the hours of traffic.
400,000 people went, they have an uber pick up area in case your phone dies and charging stations in the festival. People all dress up in crazy costumes, I wore a dragon ball z one.
There are tons of stages everywhere. Tons of food vendors and chalk stations, I brought my own chalk cause they always run out. Bring an empty water bottle and fill at the water stations, water is 6 dollars a bottle. The Luxor stage was really cool. They also have a full carnival with games and rides. Plus a parade.
I would get walkie talkies because there was horrible reception from all the people. It goes until 5 am but I left around 1am-2am and took 45 minutes to get 5 miles but I got an uber in 5 minutes. Wear comfortable shoes I did about 8 miles of walking a day. Also the bag checking was really poor lots of things were brought in. The best part is the music and the stages which must of took days to put together.
Can't wait to go again next year.