Omana Festival 2026: A Group Trip Guide to Chalkidiki's Secluded Bay

A week is a long time to be somewhere with no ATM and 6 amps of power per tent. Omana Festival's third edition runs September 30 to October 6, 2026, at Kalamitsi Bay in Chalkidiki, Greece — seven days of minimal, house, techno, disco and downtempo across two stages, in a secluded coastal spot that's part of the appeal and part of the planning problem. If your group is going, the lineup will sort itself out; the logistics won't.

What Omana is#

Omana is a boutique gathering, not a mega-festival — public estimates put attendance in the low thousands, though the festival hasn't published an official capacity figure. That scale is deliberate: two stages, a genre mix built around minimal and house with disco and downtempo threaded through, and a setting (a bay rather than a field or industrial site) that trades convenience for atmosphere. Tickets and the full lineup are available through Omana's own site.

Tickets and where to stay#

Omana sells in tiers, and by late September most of them are already gone. Early Bird tickets at €199 sold out well ahead of the festival; the tiers above it climbed through Phase II (€219), Phase III (€239) and Phase IV (€259) up to a Regular tier around €299 and a Late tier near €329 — each plus a roughly €20 booking fee at checkout. Accommodation has been reported as nearly sold out across the board, which matters more here than at a city festival: there's no nearby hotel district to fall back on.

That's because Omana runs its own on-site camping operation, Thalatta Camp, split into six named areas. A basic self-camping pitch (bring your own tent) runs around €60 for the week; your own caravan is about €80. Above that sits a real range of glamping: bell-tent style setups from roughly €549, forest caravans and sea-view tipis from around €650-690, and forest huts or bungalows running €1,050-1,300+. That's a wide spread for one group to sort out fairly — the couple who wants a bungalow and the friend on a self-camping budget are both going to the same festival at very different price points, and that gap needs a plan before anyone books.

Off-site options exist too: the village of Kalamitsi is a 10-15 minute walk from the site, and there's a separate silent-camp area for anyone who wants distance from the stages at night.

Getting to Kalamitsi Bay#

The nearest airport is Thessaloniki International (SKG), about 140km away — roughly 2 to 2.5 hours by road. From there, the practical options are a rental car (budget roughly €29-45 for the trip), a bus (€35-55, closer to 3 hours), or a private transfer running about 2 hours door to door. There's no train or direct shuttle link, so a scattered group flying in from different cities will land in Thessaloniki and then need a plan for the last 140km — which is exactly the kind of leg that's cheaper split three or four ways in one rental car than paid for solo.

Parking is available just outside the festival gate and is free with an accommodation reservation, but private cars aren't allowed inside the campsite itself; caravans can only move in and out during daylight hours. Plan the last mile of the trip — who's driving, who's walking gear in — before you're standing at the gate figuring it out.

Living on-site for a week#

Seven days of camping changes what a group needs to pack and budget for compared with a weekend festival. A few concrete things worth knowing ahead of time: there's no ATM on site, so bring cash even though card and contactless are both accepted; tap water isn't drinkable, so bottled water (sold on-site, five vendors across the festival) is a recurring cost, not a one-time fill-up; and power at the pitches tops out at 6 amps, which covers phone chargers and string lights but nothing you'd plug in at home. Open flames, personal speakers, glass bottles, barbecues, drones and professional cameras are all on the prohibited list, worth checking against whatever your group was planning to bring.

Check-in opens 7am on September 30 and runs through 10pm; checkout is 11am on October 7. For a week-long stay, that's a meaningfully longer packing list than a three-day festival, and the festival packing list that actually works for a group is worth running through before anyone starts throwing things in a bag at the last minute — the shared-versus-personal split matters even more over seven days than over a weekend.

The group logistics that actually matter#

Two things are worth locking down before the group lands at Kalamitsi Bay:

The accommodation spread, split fairly. With per-person costs ranging from a €60 tent pitch to a €1,300 bungalow, plus a shared rental car, plus a week of bottled water and food from five on-site vendors, this is not a trip where everyone pays the same amount for the same thing. How Lumela splits trip expenses covers the mechanics of tracking who paid for what when a group's costs are genuinely uneven — which is the normal case here, not the exception.

A shared packing and gear plan. Six amps per pitch means a group is better off pooling one or two larger battery packs than everyone bringing their own charger and fighting over the same low-power outlet. Deciding in advance who's bringing what — and what's shared camp gear versus personal kit — avoids the week-three realization that three people packed a torch and nobody packed a bottle opener.

Locking it in#

Omana isn't the kind of festival you decide on two weeks out — tiered tickets are largely gone, accommodation is close to sold out, and the nearest airport is a two-hour drive from the gate. If your group is set on going, the booking questions (who's in what tier of accommodation, who's renting the car from Thessaloniki, who's covering the week's food and water budget) are worth settling before anyone buys a flight. The stages will run themselves for seven days; a secluded bay with no ATM and 6 amps a tent will not sort your group's money and gear out on its own.