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Keep the faith and keep hammering 🙂 For us it's never an option to not be there so we just persevered and it paid off. Good luck.

There is ALWAYS hope 🙂 Have the page open (and logged in to) at all times and check it randomly throughout the day ... or constantly if you have the head for it.

Hi there. We got Oxfam places in 2019 and again last year having failed to get tickets in the main sale and resale. Both years we got them long after the first spots went up. In 2019 (and this is no exaggeration) we literally had the Oxfam Festivals page open on our PCs all day during working hours for about 4 weeks in the May, just constantly refreshing the page. We managed to get 6 spaces during those 4 weeks. Last year Oxfam announced on their socials on 28th April (I checked back over my groups whatsapp messages :)) that they would be releasing some more stewarding places on the following Tuesday. The following Tuesday rolled around and they were gone within about 45 seconds. We refreshed the page constantly for the rest of the day and we finally got the 2 spaces we needed at about 3pm. So ... check their socials daily for announcements, you never know. And if there is another release of spaces be very prepared and even if there is a sold out message DON'T GIVE UP !!!! Failed payments can and do happen and the spaces will become available again. Best of luck .... I really hope it happens for you. Having been in your shoes those 2 times I feel your pain but persevere and be prepared to lose hours / days to this and hopefully it will pay off for you.

The current system favours the determined. We have been fortunate enough to get tickets every year since 2004 (bar 2 when we worked) but we are seriously determined, organised and focused on ticket day. It's just not an option to not be there and we will wear out the F5 button if needs be 🙂 As frustrating as it is for some people, it is the only fair way of doing things.

More like £90 I'm afraid. We paid that last year on the Wednesday evening.

You don't find out your shifts until you get there. Unless you ticked to say you were available for pre-festival shifts.

We were in a car accident on our way over from Ireland on the Tuesday morning in 2019. Missed our ferry over, nightmare of a day but anyway we rang them (in bits worried that we would lose our places) explained what happened and they were so sound. We didn't arrive until 11pm that night so we missed the briefing but they were ok about it. That was a pretty exceptional circumstance though and they didn't doubt our story as we were so upset when we rang them. They are usually pretty strict about it.

A thing of beauty for sure. If only my prize was to trade my Oxfam space for an actual ticket for myself 😞

It sure did. (I've obvs deleted her deets)

My friend in Dublin received hers this morning.

This sums it up for me ...

I remember being absolutely defeated come Sunday night of 2016. Got back to the tent after a shambolic attempt at staying upright (I was bananas too so not blaming the mud entirely) on the walk back to Paines from the Pyramid and saying to my mates that at that point it was the most miserable I had ever felt at a festival (and I had survived the wet misery of 2005 and 2007 and scorching 2010 years). Utterly miserable. Give me 2017 weather any day. It was perfection.

Got one for a friend of a friend around 1pm. Must have been that one! Keep trying folks .. they are still popping up ! We got lucky on Tuesday and got 2 places. In 2019 I got one on 31st May so keep the faith.

Hi Masterluke 🙂 I will try to answer your questions as best I can as someone who has gone for years from Ireland but never on a coach package but I have had friends who have. 1. You need a postcode to register for a ticket, regardless of whether you are going for normal tickets or the coach package. It doesn't matter that it's an Irish postcode and makes no difference if going for a coach package. 2. When you go for coach tickets, if you are lucky enough to get through you will try to choose your preferred location and day (coach packages are for Wednesday and Thursday). There is no guarantee that you will get it though. Locations can sell out quickly and Bristol, I would think, is a fairly popular location for people trying for coach packages. If Bristol sells out then most people will just scramble to get whatever location isn't sold out. This could, unfortunately mean, that you could end up getting a package that goes from Edinburgh for example. But that would be your own choice. Desperate people resort to desperate measures when it comes to Glastonbury 🙂 You don't get to choose the time of your coach at booking stage. The times for the coaches are usually emailed to successful ticket holders a couple of weeks before the festival. 3. You HAVE to collect your festival ticket on the coach that you have booked on the day you have booked it for. They are not posted out in advance. This is to ensure that people who have booked a coach actually travel on that coach. There doesn't seem to be any negotiations around this. So that's the story with the coach packages. You can always try for normal tickets and then fly over to Bristol at your own convenience, ie not having to worry about getting there for the exact time the coach leaves. The festival site is about an hour from the airport. There are regular buses from the airport to the festival site on the Wednesday and Thursday and possible early on the Friday. Plus ( and I've often done this in the past after flying over from Ireland) there are always people around the airport looking to share a taxi to the site. Taxis usually cost around £90/£100 although I'm sure this will have gone up considerably by next June like everything else. Anyway, hope that helps. Best of luck on ticket day !

Yep same with our crew. Although they are pretty far up in the queue so shouldn't have tooooo much of a queue at the box office. But that could all go to shit at any minute as we know. Did you get your own ticket in the end yesterday?

Sorry to hi-jack your thread but just in case anyone checks it out and is looking to share a taxi from Bristol Airport straight to site at about 8.45pm on Wednesday evening I'd be delighted 🙂 I'm guessing 8.45 would be too late to avail of your kind offer.

Hi. I have often got a taxi straight from the airport to site and often at the time that you will be going. I always found someone willing to share. Just look around for anyone obviously going to Glastonbury, ask around .. I think you will have no problem finding others looking to do the same thing. The great thing about getting a cab is you can ask the driver to stop off at a supermarket/off license if you need to stock up on booze or anything. This year I am flying in at 8.30 on the Wednesday evening and am also looking to find someone/people to share a cab. It's an awkward time of the day/evening so not sure how successful I will be but I think you, going at that time Thursday morning, will have no problems.

My order tracker has also changed back to box office collection. No email. At this stage in this whole shit-show I am not trusting anything they say or do and am almost expecting the email (if it comes) to say that they have been posted out. Absolute disaster.

Unbelievable !! What time do ye leave on Monday? Is your post usually delivered early? When did you email then out of interest? I emailed them earlier too but haven't heard back.

Also re-tweeted.

I'd say the box office will be absolute carnage. It feels like no-one at See Tickets this year knows anything about Glastonbury and how things work, where things are etc.

One of our group (who changed his from collection to delivery) had his despatched email on Thursday and he received his ticket this morning to his Dublin address. 2 others in our group (also changed theirs from collection to delivery but to an Northern Irish address) have had their despatched email today.

I'll be saying Mass in Paines each morning at 9.37am. It'll be a short one with no hand-shaking.

Yeah it said on my mates email to contact them if they haven't received their ticket 24 hours before. It also said :- 'Please do not contact us earlier that this as we will not be able to give you an exact answer until closer to the show' They must be sick and tired of people contacting them 🙂

Still is !! But at least there's finally movement.