Ruissalo Camping is a campsite maintained by the City of Turku that, together with Ruisrock, offers festival guests a traditional festival camping experience close to the festival area.
Ruissalo Camping is a well-equipped campsite featuring, among other things, a beach, a minimarket, and a café-restaurant. Read more about all the services on this page.
The campsite is open during Ruisrock from Thursday, July 2 at 6:00 PM until Monday, July 6 at 12:00 PM.
Ruissalo Camping is located at the far end of the Ruissalo area, at Saarontie 25, 20100 Turku. The campsite can be reached either by local bus from Turku or by private car.
For all questions related to the campsite or its services, please contact the campsite operator, Ruissalo Camping. Contact details can be found at the bottom of the page.
Campsite Services
Ruissalo Camping is a well-equipped campsite with a wide range of services that ensure a comfortable stay during the festival.
Services at Ruissalo Camping during Ruisrock include:
- Beach
- Beach sauna (additional fee applies)
- Campfire sites (by the beach and in the tent area)
- Minimarket
- Café-restaurant
- Indoor showers and toilets
- Kitchen facilities in the service building
- Free shuttle bus transportation to and from the festival area
The minimarket offers everyday essentials and food items such as soft drinks, alcoholic beverages, sweets, and chips. The café, in addition to a wide selection of café products, also serves items such as burgers, sausage and fries, salads, and sandwiches.
The distance between Ruissalo Camping and the Ruisrock festival area is approximately five kilometers. Free non-stop shuttle buses operate for campsite guests between the campsite and the festival area during the festival’s opening hours. The journey between the campsite and the festival area takes about 20 minutes.
Guests may arrive at and leave the campsite during the campsite’s opening hours (see above). Arrival is also possible late in the evening or at night, but arriving while the reception is open between 7:00 AM and 10:00 PM is recommended. Outside reception hours, security staff will check guests in.
From the center of Turku, the campsite can be reached either by local bus or by private car. You can check the bus schedules here: https://reittiopas.foli.fi/
There is no age limit for camping. However, it is recommended that those aged 15 and under stay together with a parent or guardian.
Accommodation at the campsite is available either in a tent or in a camper van/caravan. Please note that, in addition to individual camping tickets, each group must also purchase either one tent spot or one camper vehicle spot. Every guest staying at the campsite must have their own camping ticket.
Tents may be a maximum size of 3 m x 3 m. Larger tents require multiple tent spots to be purchased. Each tent spot can accommodate up to five people. A passenger car or van may be parked next to the tent, but overnight stays in regular vehicles are not permitted.
Only registered camper vans or caravans are allowed for accommodation in the vehicle camping area. Up to five people may stay in one camper vehicle. Overnight stays in regular passenger cars are not allowed at the campsite.
Frequently Asked Questions
You can contact the reception (open from 7 AM to 10 PM), and during the night, the security staff on the area.
The campsite service building has indoor showers and toilets available for all guests staying at the campsite.
No, there isn’t. Please keep this in mind when planning the food and snacks you bring with you.
The campsite has four campfire areas where you can, for example, grill sausages.
There is also a kitchen area in the service building where you can prepare your own meals
Yes, for example, you can charge your phone in the service building where the kitchen facilities are located
No, there isn’t. Please take your valuables with you to the festival cloakroom or store them in a locked car. Please note that leaving belongings in your tent is at your own risk
No, there are no official quiet hours, but please respect other festival guests’ sleep during the night between 10 PM and 7 AM.
The campsite has a minimarket offering a wide selection of groceries and food items, including soft drinks, alcoholic beverages, candy, and chips.
There is also a café and restaurant at the campsite serving a variety of café products as well as burgers, fries, sausage and fries dishes, salads, pasta, and sandwiches.
The campsite offers, for example, a beach sauna (for an additional fee), a swimming beach, mini golf, barbecue facilities at the campfire areas, and playgrounds for children.
No, there isn’t, but mobile data works in the area.
No, it isn’t.
- Tent: Bring a tent if you have not booked a camper van spot. Please note that sleeping in cars is not allowed.
- Sleeping pad: An air mattress or a thick foam sleeping pad will make sleeping in the tent more comfortable.
- Warm sleeping bag: It may be warm during the day, but temperatures can drop significantly at night, so make sure to bring a warm sleeping bag.
- Your own pillow: Adds extra comfort for sleeping.
- Earplugs and a sleep mask: These help ensure better sleep despite noise from neighboring tents or the morning sun.
- Power bank: Charging points at the campsite may often be busy, so a portable charger gives you more flexibility when using your phone.
- Headlamp or flashlight: Finding things in your tent in the dark is difficult with just your phone flashlight, and this also helps save your phone battery.
- Sandals or flip-flops: Essential for shared showers and easy to slip on when stepping outside the tent.
- Reusable water bottle: You can refill your bottle at the campsite water stations.
- Painkillers and band-aids: Small scratches or headaches do not have to stop the fun. For bigger accidents, help is available from the campsite staff.
- Comfortable and warm clothes: Bring warm and comfortable clothes for relaxing at the campsite. Wool socks are especially nice in the mornings!
- Weather-appropriate clothing: Be prepared with clothes suitable for rain and/or hot weather.
Buying Tickets
Each guest staying at the campsite must have their own camping ticket, which will be exchanged for a wristband. In addition to the camping ticket, each group must purchase a shared tent or camper van spot. A group may include a maximum of 5 people. If your group is larger, please purchase multiple tent or camper van spots.
Example: If your group has 4 people and you are all staying in the same tent, you must purchase 4 camping tickets and 1 tent spot.
Single-night camping stays are not sold separately. The price remains the same for the entire festival weekend, whether you stay for one night or all four nights. However, you are free to stay for a shorter period if you wish.
A camping ticket grants one person access to the campsite for the full duration of the Ruisrock accommodation period (times listed above). In addition to a personal camping ticket, everyone arriving at the campsite must also have either a camper van spot ticket (1 per vehicle) or a tent spot ticket (1 per tent).
Camping tickets cannot be paid for using cultural benefit vouchers.
Camping Customer Service
For all questions related to the campsite or its services, please contact the campsite operator, Ruissalo Camping. Emails are answered within approximately one day, and if your call cannot be answered immediately, you will be called back.
More Information About Camping
Ruissalo Camping
+358 50 559 0139
ruissalo.camping@turku.fi