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£350 does include the parking! £250 without parking. Reckon we'd get 3-4 Vango Halo 300s on a 5mx5m pitch? Makes it 80 odd quid each if so. Not that bad really for a parking spot close to camp...really depends on what the trek to PGD is like every day. Looks like a handy enough spot though. Never bothered with boutique camping as the tents aren't as good as my own, but this is a bit tempting as I won't get to the festival til Wednesday afternoon and it looks like Lime Kiln has gotten very popular over the last couple of festivals! To be honest, if they actually opened up these fields as general camping, I reckon they'd be popular.

Ah, thanks! It’s an area that seems to keep on changing!

ah, it appears some of wicket was also allocated as accessible camping in 2023, so would expect that to remain the same and fair enough tbh.

Ah, that explains lots. We always camp in Lime Kiln, but I missed out last year and my mates said it was rammed by lunch on Wednesday, whereas normally there’s plenty of room til much later…but at the previous few festivals, some of the field below the road and down into wicket was outside the family camping fence. Looks like they pushed it back up to the road last year. I too hope they move the fence back down a bit this year!

Getting lost and arriving late are the two biggest determinants in getting the jammiest parking spots! Was at a different festival last year (local), had to delay going down to go to a removal so didn't get there til very late, and ended up stupidly following my satnav down a bunch of country lanes in the back arse of nowhere in Waterford. Finally parked up (after avoiding a collection of tractors hammering the opposite way down these various country lanes) and saw a sign about 20 feet away...Figured I'd take a picture of it so I could find my car on the Monday morning. That's when I realised it said "Main Entrance!". 😁

😁 I just got lucky really, just to the left of hospitality parking is where the temporary parking for press credential collection is. They let international attendees park there while picking up tickets from the box office. After I got my ticket, I asked where they wanted me to bring the car to park it. The girl there said sure I could park in staff parking if I wanted, but I didn't want to get her into trouble as my parking pass was a punters one, so she opened a gate for me and let me into the field right behind hospitality parking!

No worries...I actually managed to get a jammy parking spot right behind it in 2022! Shortest walk into the festival ever!

right here beside PGA

I missed out last year (we have two core groups that always go, other group got in last year, mine got in this year...typical!...though I guess we've had the best part of 20 years with us all getting in so can't really complain). Like you, I previously voluntarily took a couple of years out when my daughter was born, but watched it all the same. Anyway, knowing people there last year certainly kept my interest up, plenty of texting back and forth about various sets and feedback on what it was like in the field. I went to Pulp (+ Richard Hawley), Depeche Mode (+ Young Fathers) and Blur (+Self Esteem) in the run up to the festival (with Blur on the Saturday night of the festival), all in glorious sunshine and it certainly dampened down the disappointment! Ended up thoroughly enjoying watching it at home. So, I say embrace it, go to the party, drink, watch it with your mates, have fun and enjoy!

yeah, that was brutal, not even a hint of add regs for anyone in our groups.

Ah, I guess we all just take our own experience and read too much into it. Really it’s mayhem as it always is!

Out of upvotes/likes (resale day, like t’day means I run out quick!), but delighted for ya!

Honestly, was like that from about 4 minutes in for us!

I think the big difference from last year was none of us even got past the holding page in the resale last year. At least this year there were technically tickets there, but gone when it got to payment. Thought once selected they were allocated til payment went through, but obviously not! Anyway, on to Sunday for the stragglers in my group.

Yeah, I was in as were a bunch of our group by about 6.03 and we still weren’t able to get any tickets through.