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Photo from Nottingham Hill Carnival 2017

Ethan Winstanley – YouTube.com Aug 28, 2023


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Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlpD4xMZe5o

SHOCKED at Notting Hill Carnival – Dangerous Place!

Trip Adviser Review of London Notting Hill Carnival

When i looked at the TIMEOUT advertisement of Notting Hill Carnival it was stated that it is the best carnival in Europe!! Please be aware that this place is not for families or children! It was full of people smoking drugs, drinking at the very beginning (drunk at 10:30!!!) and people acting in unacceptable ways! I went with 1 friend and we were pushed and pulled around, we entered a few bottleneck roads where there were hundreds of thousands of people pushing you and they were all completely lost with drugs and alcohol! We got scared that we could get hurt. There was glass bottles broken all over the streets, people where pissing publicly on the middle of the street, and food was served by ‘strange’ people who just set up food huts in the middle of the road! There is no food inspection or regulation here, people where cooking food on the road and also some locals where opening their homes for business too. They put up signs on their flats ‘toilets’ £1′ and ‘come up stairs for some food’, clearly there could be so many dangers going into someone’s property without knowing who they are! This wasn’t regulated by Police well and anyone could have got hurt once entering someone’s property (with so many drunk people)! Around the whole Notting Hill area only 2 underground stations where working, the others where closed! So when we started having getting really anxious with the place and wanted to get out we realized that we couldn’t get on any underground around us because they were all closed! So we had to walk to the nearest underground which was 2 miles away! Please be aware this isn’t for any one who doesn’t want to drink all day and smoke hash! Its not a place to just wonder around and enjoy the day – this is a huge rave party similar to those in Ibiza but X100 more dangerous! There is not enough police or security to the amount of people (the proportion is 1:1000 = police to people)!!!! Good luck! And you will see a lot of fights! There we ambulances parked on sides of road prepared to take hurt people to hospital! It was like entering the Gladiators ring! AWFUL

Date of experience: August 2016

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