Reading Festival

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Hello,

My 16yo and his friends are all booked for early access to pitch their tents at Reading Fedtival on Wednesday, but plan not to sleep in them and come home for the night so that they can be home for the GCSE results release on Thursday morning. They plan on returning to their tents on Thursday evening and carrying on with the festival.

Does this sound wise? Any red flags? Or is this standard festival practice? I've got visions of them returning on Thursday to their campsite cleared and tents gone!

Any other Reading Fest tips on this thread would be most appreciated too...

Bumping because I have some questions too!
My dd and her friends aren’t going till Thursday - how early should they arrive? What is dropping off like? Is there a particular place I can drop her and her friends? I have never been to a festival nor to Reading so can’t picture it in my head.
OP - maybe get this moved to chat or to another board where it will get more traffic?

Don’t know if you saw this thread op
www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4603249-what-does-a-16-year-old-need-to-take-to-the-reading-festival

Yes I'll try and move it! I'm new to Mumsnet so wasn't sure which topic to put it under. Any suggestions for max traffic?

Try Chat - we can bump it because it is fast moving ~or used to be~
Read the link above that I linked to - some good advice on
there.

Drop off will depend on which colour site they've been allocated. I live very near the festival and the traffic is always horrendous, so I'd aim to drop off near the station or the Aldi car park, and they'll have to walk the rest of the way along the river path

OP I haven't been to Reading festival but I have been to quite a few festivals. At any given time of day or night there are vacant tents so I think their empty tents would go unnoticed. I would strongly recommend making their tents easily identifiable though as when they get back the landscape will have changed with hundreds of new arrivals. Decorate their tents with fairy lights and streamers, plant flags, hang bunting do that they are east to find again.

We have a ticket to sell. Ds has decided not to go. He’s struggling to get it back on ticket master which he’s supposed to be able to do. Does anyone know of a telephone number that actually gets through to a live person?

So, to give anyone peace of mind, my daughter went with group last year post GCSEs. They went on the Thursday afternoon and headed to the White Campsite. It was very safe, mostly girls in that campsite- all post GCSEs. picked up Sunday morning to avoid all the tent burning. 🥳

I wouldn't not leave a group of tents overnight at a festival.