Last year was my first year arriving on a Thursday. We booked through the coach sale, so out of our control really. We arrived at around 5pm Thursday evening, and as we started to walk through the fields the stewards told us everywhere was full.
We ended up camping next to gate A. By the evening they had made the camping area bigger, with some people camping right next to the toilets.
Were the other fields full, or were the stewards just being told to say that?
There were plenty of campers coming in all evening, they must have been setting up somewhere. There seemed a lot more space allocated to staff/hospitality, especially near gate A.