Wonderfruit 2026: Five Days in The Fields Outside Pattaya, 3 to 7 December

Every December a stretch of fields beside a golf course in Chonburi grows a small timber city, fills it with music, art, food and 28,000 people from a hundred countries, and takes it down again. Wonderfruit 2026 runs from Thursday 3 to Monday 7 December, its eleventh edition, 20 minutes inland from Pattaya Beach and two to three hours from Bangkok.

This is the practical guide: what the passes cost and when they go on sale, where you sleep, how you get there without a car, and which of the two dozen venues to find first. The numbers are from the festival’s own pages on 2 November 2026, in the week before the November sale; the line-up is the first wave, with more to come.

What Wonderfruit Is

Wonderfruit started in 2014 in a field outside Pattaya as a festival of music, art and sustainability, produced by the Bangkok company Scratch First and its founder Pranitan ‘Pete’ Phornprapha, and it has stayed stubbornly itself: no headliner billing, venues designed as worlds of their own, a food programme run by chefs, a wellness programme that now fills four days, and a site that is replanted after every edition, with a goal this year of 100,000 trees across its four forests. The timber structures are built new each year by Thai and international architects and are works of art in their own right. The 2025 edition, the tenth, drew 28,000 people from 124 nationalities to more than 750 programmes; a 2024 study put its spending in the local economy at over 700 million baht. The festival caps its tickets and closes sales when it reaches capacity.

The site, The Fields at Siam Country Club, is 500 rai of grass, lake and woodland in Pong, Bang Lamung district, about 20 to 30 minutes’ drive from central Pattaya and 150 km from Bangkok.

The Five Days

Thu 3 Dec

Gates and the camping village open at 4 PM; the first music runs until midnight.

Fri 4 to Sun 6 Dec

Gates 8 AM to midnight. The programme runs around the clock: wellness and talks in the morning, live music through the afternoon, the sunset sets at Solar, the night venues until dawn. No entry between midnight and 8 AM; re-entry otherwise with the wristband.

Sat 5 Dec, 8 AM

The Weekend Pass starts.

Sun 6 Dec, 8 AM

The Sunday Pass starts; it runs through to Monday sunrise.

Mon 7 Dec

The last sets end at sunrise; camping check-out at noon.

Tickets and Passes

Tickets are sold only on wonderfruit.co, through Ticketmelon, in monthly sales that each cost more than the last, and the September and October sales both sold out. Prices below are before 7 percent VAT and the ticketing fees; four tickets per person at most; all sales final.

November sale, 3 to 9 Nov

Five-Day Pass ฿12,900. Weekend Pass, Saturday 8 AM to Monday morning, ฿11,500. Sales open at 4 PM Bangkok time on the 3rd.

Sunday Pass

฿5,000 for Sunday 6 December from 8 AM through to Monday sunrise (฿6,500 at the door).

Teen Pass, 13 to 19

฿4,500 for the five days, with ID.

Youth Pass, 20 to 24

฿3,900 for the five days, by application, entry only with the ID submitted.

Intro Pass, first-timers over 20

฿4,500 for one 24-hour entry between Thursday and Sunday, no re-entry, by application.

Family

5 percent off a bundle of one or two adults and up to four children or teens. Children of 12 and under come free with a parent and need no ticket.

At the door

฿20,000 for five days, ฿15,000 for the weekend, if any remain.

On top of the pass: the seated chef dinners at Wonder Kitchen, the Dog Pass (฿1,000, one dog per ticket holder), merchandise such as the Wonder Cup (฿690), and the camping below.

Camping, Tents and Hotels

General Camping is ฿1,500 for the four nights and is not included in the pass this year. You bring your own tent (no campervans or tent trucks), pitch where you find space, and share bathrooms, showers, charging stations and two shaded lounges; the village opens at 4 PM on the Thursday and closes at noon on the Monday. The ground is hard and dusty: bring a mallet, a tarp and a dust scarf.

Boutique Camping puts you in a furnished pavilion or bell tent in The Grove or The Hideaway, with a 24-hour reception, proper showers, toiletries, a private entrance and dedicated parking, check-in from noon on the Thursday. The 2026 prices load in the booking flow on wonderfruit.co; last season a bell tent for four was about ฿13,750 a night and a pavilion for two about ฿18,750, before fees and VAT. The Slow Wonder cabins, with en-suite bathrooms, air conditioning and breakfast, are listed at ฿235,000 for two for the four nights, tickets extra.

Hotels. Most people sleep in Pattaya or Jomtien and ride the shuttle. The three shuttle hotels are the Mövenpick Siam in Na Jomtien, the Centre Point Prime in Pattaya and the area around Terminal 21 in North Pattaya; the Royal Cliff runs its own free shuttle at 3 PM and 6 PM. Book early: the festival week and Tomorrowland the week after fill the city.

Getting There

From Bangkok it is about 150 km and two to three hours. By car, take Motorway 7 towards Pattaya, then Route 36 towards Rayong for about 8 km, U-turn at the blue Siam Country Club sign, pass the Bira Circuit and follow the signs to the Waterside course; the entrance is on Siam Country Club Soi 5 and the exit on Soi 3. A car park pass is ฿250 per entry online (four for ฿800) or ฿350 on the day, QR payment only, and the car park can turn you away when full. Without a car, take a bus or minivan from Ekkamai or Mo Chit to Pattaya, about two hours, and the shuttle from there; there is no official Bangkok shuttle in 2026, whatever the resellers say.

From Pattaya the official shuttles run every 20 minutes, or when full, between The Fields and the three hotel stops above: towards the festival from 7:30 AM to midnight, back around the clock. The unlimited pass is ฿1,800 and is sold online only, until 3 December; a single ride at the stop is ฿450. A taxi from central Pattaya is 20 to 30 minutes; coming back, use the festival’s taxi zone to the left of the box office, where the fares are set, or the ride-hailing pick-up beside it, and ignore the drivers who approach you.

What to Bring, and the Rules

No single-use plastic bottles or cups anywhere on site; refill stations are free and the Wonder Cup is ฿690. No outside food or drink, and flasks are emptied at security. The festival is cashless: you load the wristband at the on-site stations, and card top-ups are not refunded, so load little and often. Cameras beyond a phone, and all drones, need a permit applied for in advance. Under-20s wear a Teen wristband. The festival’s own packing list: a reusable cup, sunblock, a hat and sunglasses, a raincoat just in case, a warm layer for the small hours (December nights drop to about 22 degrees), insect repellent, a dust cover for nose and mouth, a swimsuit for the Bath House, and shoes you can walk in all day. There are seven medical stations on site, and the phone signal is poor: agree meeting points.

The Rest of the Season

Wonderfruit opens five days after the Pattaya fireworks on the beach 20 minutes away, and closes four days before Tomorrowland Thailand opens at Wisdom Valley in the same district, 11 to 13 December. In Bangkok, Vijit Chao Phraya lights the river until 13 December, and the season calendar has the rest.