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[___S_o_m_a__]

I'll just leave this here...

[sifi]

There was some talk of it going up to £50, so in that context it's not so bad.

[ivan]

Leeds Festival is still free !!

    

[eFestivals]

no forces you to pay it.

[Alcatraz]

eFestivals, on 01 September 2010 - 10:20 AM, said:

no forces you to pay it.

Exactly. The price is going up for a reason. Its part of the strategy to get less people driving to the fest

[___S_o_m_a__]

Alcatraz, on 01 September 2010 - 10:21 AM, said:

Exactly. The price is going up for a reason. Its part of the strategy to get less people driving to the fest more money out of the punters.

Fixed for you.

[Badlands]

We hire a bus so the payments minimal anyway between us all... I don't know why more people don't consider it.... so much easier.

[___S_o_m_a__]

eFestivals, on 01 September 2010 - 10:20 AM, said:

no forces you to pay it.

No but if I want to go to the festival, which I do, then travelling by car is my only viable option. Therefore I do have to pay it.

[amfy]

___S_o_m_a__, on 01 September 2010 - 10:26 AM, said:

Fixed for you.

If that was the case then they would've started ripping us off some time ago for the £20 for the programmes we get for free.

Glastonbury Festival supports Greenpeace and Oxfam who both campaign regarding climate change, and Water Aid whose work is directly affected by the effects of climate change on some parts of the world.

The policy of charging more for car parking is clearly in line with Glastonbury's overall political and charitable stance.

If you don't like it get a bus - that's the idea.

[eFestivals]

___S_o_m_a__, on 01 September 2010 - 10:28 AM, said:

No but if I want to go to the festival, which I do, then travelling by car is my only viable option. Therefore I do have to pay it.

Then if you want to go to the festival and that's your only travel option (not that that claim is true), then it's not actually a rip off but it's a charge that's acceptable to you.

If it wasn't acceptable then you wouldn't go.

[al_coholic]

You lot should think yourselves lucky, Campervan tickets are still £75 compared to £20 at Reading & Leeds.

I have no idea how they can justify £75 quid it is a bloody rip off.

[TheNewUnion]

£20 is still cheaper than taking a train. In my opinion (and it's only my opinion) It's a pretty small price to pay, I've paid nearly that for a couple of hours at Kendals in manchester, or in the short stay at the airport.

I can see that it going up and up each year seems a bit much, but I guess it's the nature of the beast now.

[liamgazza]

ivan, on 01 September 2010 - 10:05 AM, said:

Leeds Festival is still free !!

    

I realised that this weekend! Fully expected us to have to pay something but nobody asked...is it always free?!

[___S_o_m_a__]

amfy, on 01 September 2010 - 10:32 AM, said:

If that was the case then they would've started ripping us off some time ago for the £20 for the programmes we get for free.

I wouldn't have thought that it costs £20 per program. How many get printed? Pretty sure they get a discount from the printers because of the volume and the per item cost wouldn't be anywhere near £20. Less than a fiver would be my guess.

amfy, on 01 September 2010 - 10:32 AM, said:

Glastonbury Festival supports Greenpeace and Oxfam who both campaign regarding climate change, and Water Aid whose work is directly affected by the effects of climate change on some parts of the world.

The policy of charging more for car parking is clearly in line with Glastonbury's overall political and charitable stance.

Clearly. How do you know this?

amfy, on 01 September 2010 - 10:32 AM, said:

If you don't like it get a bus - that's the idea.

It isn't practical for most people to use the no doubt great public transport that is laid on for the festival and therefore the majority of people will travel by car. Those people want to go to the festival and are therefore hammered with a £20 car park ticket.

The 2011 festival ticket price is £195 - a rise of just over 5%. The 2011 car park ticket has gone up by over 30%!

[River]

Cheaper than the train, I can take all my stuff with me and leave some in the car and im not made to leave on the Monday when a timetable says I have too.

When it breaches £50 then i'll have a think but hopefully by then i'll have a camper so as long as im not paying £150 for a campervan ticket it'll be 'reet

[LondonTom]

Its annoying but meh, its  only a tenner each for two in a car , and the more people you fit, the less it is

Although I don't really agree with the idea of rising prices to get people to do something else..

[Derby_Dave]

___S_o_m_a__, on 01 September 2010 - 10:28 AM, said:

No but if I want to go to the festival, which I do, then travelling by car is my only viable option. Therefore I do have to pay it.

+1

[llcoolphil]

___S_o_m_a__, on 01 September 2010 - 10:56 AM, said:

It isn't practical for most people to use the no doubt great public transport that is laid on for the festival and therefore the majority of people will travel by car. Those people want to go to the festival and are therefore hammered with a £20 car park ticket.

Derby_Dave, on 01 September 2010 - 11:08 AM, said:

+1

Why is public transport not a viable option for either of you?

[eFestivals]

LondonTom, on 01 September 2010 - 11:01 AM, said:

Although I don't really agree with the idea of rising prices to get people to do something else..

Do people change their habits en-masse without there being something to drive that change of habits?

[eFestivals]

___S_o_m_a__, on 01 September 2010 - 10:56 AM, said:

It isn't practical for most people to use the no doubt great public transport that is laid on for the festival and therefore the majority of people will travel by car. Those people want to go to the festival and are therefore hammered with a £20 car park ticket.

It's as practical as you want to consider it to be.

You need to do a journey: it's able to let to make that journey, so it's practical.

If you want to consider it as not practical, then that's simply a choice you've made, no different to a choice you might make to pay the car parking fee.

___S_o_m_a__, on 01 September 2010 - 10:56 AM, said:

The 2011 festival ticket price is £195 - a rise of just over 5%. The 2011 car park ticket has gone up by over 30%!

And the UK's carbon emissions are over 50% what they need to be to be sustainable (before looking at the extra emissions from imported goods).

You might not care about emissions, but Glastonbury Festival always has. If you want to go to Glastonbury then you have to accept how Glastonbury does things.