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Glastonbury 2019 - any advice?

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MustBeDueSomeBetterFeet · 23/01/2018 13:12

I will also post this in Travel...

My best friend and I have decided we want to go to the Glastonbury festival in 2019 but there are two main concerns:

  1. Neither of us have been before and know nothing about the experience; and
  2. We really don't want to camp; it's just not our idea of a nice weekend away.

Is it possible to do it 'nicely' ie mud minimised, sleep achieved?

Does anyone have any hints or tips about the ticket buying process? Accommodation options? How to coordinate ourselves?!

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Beetlebum1981 · 23/01/2018 13:20

You could hire a camper van? My pil chose that option last time they went. DH, friends and I stayed in a Yurt which was good, no having to put it up, lots of space etc however it was quite a long walk from the main site.
We're planning on trying for tickets next year and will probably get s camper van as will be taking DD's who will be 3 & 1.

MustBeDueSomeBetterFeet · 23/01/2018 13:23

That sounds interesting - where do you park it though?

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EggsonHeads · 23/01/2018 13:25

You don't have to sleep there if you don't want to. Have you applied for ticket purchase? It's difficult to get tickets if you have never been before and there is a process you have to follow to try to buy them. TBH I wouldn't go at all and pick a smaller festival. I went once and thought it was really overrated. But I may be a spoilt because I was used to Australian festivals which a much cleaner, middle aged, family orientated, generally nicer. Maybe try wilderness festival-I've never been but it looks quite special.

pontiouspilates · 23/01/2018 13:28

I'm pretty sure that Glastonbury is having an 'off' year and will not be happening again until 2019.

pontiouspilates · 23/01/2018 13:28

Whoops - just read the tile. Ignore me I'll get back in my sick bed!!

tendergreenbean · 23/01/2018 13:28

You can take a camper or stay in the glamping site there.
Camper a couple of hundred on top of ticket price if I remember rightly, glamping costs thousands.

You can stay in a B&B in town, but again, expensive and they book up quickly.

The festival site has an 8 mile perimeter, and depending on where you're put to park, it can be several miles walk to the stages/campsites etc.

It's also a decent walk between stages, and areas like shangri-la etc, and obviously along the paths between them all it's muddy as anything.

If you want quiet, some camping areas are better than others. But usually the quieter campsites are the furthest away from everything.

It's great fun and definitely worth doing, but it is noisy and muddy.
If you don't like noise and mud, and don't have thousands to spend on a tipi with a golf buggy to drive you to stages, then you won't enjoy it.
The fun is the noise and the mud! Stay warm, dry and just go to a concert if you really can't stand it.

Tickets - total nightmare!
Missed out on a couple of years despite camping out on their website for ages hitting refresh when they came on sale. Just have to be quick, get on the website early, and hope for some luck!

It really is fun, but you're gonna have to reconcile yourself with the mud. You will have to trudge through knee deep mud at some point if you go to the busy bits.
Our tent floated away one year too, my brother had to wade through the field it was previously in trying to find his crates of beer in what was by then a swamp.
Like I say - great fun Grin

MustBeDueSomeBetterFeet · 23/01/2018 14:13

Grin Pontious

EggsonHeads that's a good point. I have registered for ticket purchase but literally have no idea what my chances might be or how it works. I need to read up. I will look at Wilderness; thanks for that recommendation!

tendergreenbean that's super, thank you for that info. I definitely need to work out if we can deal with the realities of it all. I was looking at some tipi thing that was £10k!!!! Oh my word. I don't even think any golf buggy was included...

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tendergreenbean · 23/01/2018 14:18

@mustbedue probably worth mentioning that the first time I went, I hated mud and noise and "roughing it".
I had a blast and have been back since, a lot of wine helps. And unlike other festivals, glasto lets you bring your own into the main arenas and it just the campsites (as you can camp in main arenas, or could when I last went.) ;)
Those bags of wine from inside wine boxes make great pillows!

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