How to get UNTOLD tickets with your group

UNTOLD 2026 runs from 6 to 9 August in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, with Cluj Arena as the centrepiece and the festival spilling across the city around it. This is the 11th edition, billed as UNTOLD ONE, and the shape is unmistakable: four nights of stadium-scale electronic and pop headliners, a huge multi-stage bill, and a university city that treats the first weekend of August as its own carnival.

The 2026 bill runs from Martin Garrix, Kygo, The Chainsmokers, Carl Cox and Steve Aoki all the way to Sting and Lewis Capaldi, and the scale is real: the 2025 edition passed 470,000 attendances, and UNTOLD has sat at number three in DJ Mag's festival rankings three years running. Two things matter for planning: it is a cashless site, so wristband top-ups are part of the trip, and there is no on-site camping. The city is the campsite, from student-campus dorms to five-star hotels, which makes accommodation a first-class ticket decision rather than an afterthought.

UNTOLD sells through its official shop at published phase prices, and passes were still live and buyable when we checked in late July. That is the good news. The catch is what this close to the dates actually looks like: General Access is already in Phase 5 at roughly 1,155 RON (about 228 EUR), the shop shows an estimated final gate-time price far above that, VIP tiers such as Main Stage and Galaxy Backstage climb from there, and single-day tickets for the big nights are live but depleting. The shop charges in Romanian lei, so non-Romanian cards pay at their bank's exchange rate.

One mechanic is built for groups and worth knowing before anything else: the Friendship Pack. General Access bought as a pack of two, three or four costs less per ticket than a solo pass, and the discount deepens with pack size. At UNTOLD, a coordinated group is not just calmer, it is literally cheaper. There is also a separate Under-25 General Access pass at a lower price for eligible buyers.

The other constraint is the account layer. Every ticket on the shop states that online check-in needs an UNTOLD account created with the phone number used at purchase, and the pass lives in that account's wallet as a QR code that gets exchanged for a wristband against ID at the festival. A group that waits until the last week to sort accounts and check-in is adding admin, and as the next section shows, real fees, to the most stressful part of the trip.

• Phase pricing only moves one way: every phase that sells through makes the same pass more expensive, and the shop already previews a higher gate-time price.
• The VIP ladder is a real decision: Main Stage and Galaxy Backstage are different budgets, and all VIP products are 18+.
• Every attendee needs an UNTOLD account tied to a phone number; passes live in that account wallet, and paid orders are non-refundable.
• There is no official resale channel: the in-app transfer is the only sanctioned person-to-person route, and tickets bought outside authorised platforms can be cancelled.

This is the rule that stings groups, and it is written in UNTOLD's own FAQ. Every pass must be checked in by the person actually attending, in their own name. Online check-in is free only in the first 30 days after purchase. After that it costs 15 EUR per ticket online, or 25 EUR per ticket at the festival gates. The wristband is issued against the QR code in your account wallet plus valid ID or a passport, and under-18s need signed parental consent on top.

Transfers have their own small print. A pass can be sent in-app to another person's phone number, and the recipient checks in under their own name, but the terms list transfer fees from 35 to 250 lei depending on ticket type, and a ticket that has completed both online check-in and online top-up can no longer be edited or transferred at all. Run the maths before anyone says "we'll sort names later": a crew of ten that leaves check-in for festival week is quietly agreeing to pay 150 to 250 EUR in fees for admin that was free the day they bought.

UNTOLD does not publish a per-checkout ticket limit on its current public pages, so this guide will not invent one; verify the limit at checkout when you buy. What a group can control is the shape of the buy. Friendship Packs reward deciding together: a pack of four is the cheapest per-ticket General Access on the shop, but only if four people have committed before checkout. Beyond that, split the live routes so nobody duplicates work: official shop stock, single-day tickets, accommodation, and travel to Cluj.

Two and a half weeks out, UNTOLD goes wrong in predictable ways: someone buys the wrong tier because the group never agreed budgets, someone assumes a day pass will still exist on Friday, someone books a hotel across town from everyone else, and nobody checks anyone in until the fees apply. All of it is avoidable with one shared board and a few named owners.

The best UNTOLD memories are not made in the top-up queue, or at the gate paying a 25 EUR fee that was avoidable a month earlier, or on the phone to a mate whose pass is still in the wrong account. They are made when the wristband goes on cleanly, the group has a meeting point that survives patchy stadium signal, and the only decision left is which stage to close the night on.

None of this is queue-jumping or gaming the system. It is the boring, official admin, done early, so that four nights in Cluj can be anything but boring.

TicketSquad gives an UNTOLD squad one place for account emails, pass tiers, per-person budgets, accommodation choices, check-in status and who has already bought. Set the event up once, invite the crew, and the answers stop living in screenshots and half-remembered voice notes.

That matters for a festival like this because the failure mode is not losing a queue war. It is mismatched decisions: two tiers, three hotels, one missed check-in window. With the group aligned before anyone pays, the trip gets to be about the music.