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Thought I would create this for people to put the tents in they have bought and ones they recommend for the festival and any deals that are currently available.
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1 minute ago, p.pete said:
2nd isn't too bad - it was a rough / tough year last year. I felt a lot of the time that the fact it's massive and there's so much going on was wasted on me because I was mostly too knackered to venture as far as I'd like. That said, I've been when walking is easier, and it's an amazing festival - I hope you get to see it again, sounds like you live your life in a fairly 'glasto-spirit' kinda way anyway.
Re. the road usage - as people have said, last year really was a one-off for how it's been post-2009. One reason was lack of tracks which were stuck in download fest, and with the state of the ground a lot of larger vehicles needing to be towed on and lots of fields that would normally take traffic being write-offs. Hopefully the weather isn't as catastrophic again, and even if it is I think they've taken steps to improve access at a number of points e.g. putting down permanent hard surface at some of the key points, so their not reliant on availability of temporary tracks. Even if the weather repeats, things hopefully won't ever be as bad again (fingers crossed)
Yeah it did feel like last year it was too big for its own good. I hope i can go again but getting a ticket works so weird.
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Just now, kalifire said:
I'm sorry if I came across as pissy. Wasn't my intention. And I fully respect that it didn't work for you. I guess I got a bit defensive because as far as I'm concerned, the place is incredible. I should remember it's perfectly fine that others don't agree.
I don't disagree that it is an incredible place, I have been to a lot of festivals and it is the 2nd best weekend i have had at a festival. It is only 2nd to the first ever time i went to a festival and experienced live music like that, and that moment will never be topped. I would like to be there again this year but at the same time i am also not massively disappointed i'm not going
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8 minutes ago, kalifire said:
The "Glasto vibe" isn't something that just happens to you. It requires active participation. Saying hello to strangers (start with your neighbours), dancing with randoms, getting to know the people around you in the crowd, pushing yourself to be less introverted and trusting you'll be met with kindred spirits, which you usually (not always) will. It also requires a mental adjustment. Social perceptions of hierarchy and class end at the gates. Inside, everyone is your mate. Almost family. People are just people. Yes there are business owners inside, of course there are. Yes most sell food at higher prices than you'd expect to pay. That's an inevitable by-product of large gatherings, but it doesn't define it, for goodness sake.
I did all that, i do that without having to be at a festival... and im not saying that the people there aren't some of the nicest people i have met, i'm just saying that I could have seen and experienced more while i was there. So there is no need to get all pissy just because i said something that i feel from my first visit.
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Just now, Hotchilidog said:
That was the worst thing about the mud last year. It did make getting around a nightmare.Shame you had to encounter it on your first visit, it's not normally like that for the whole five days.
Yeah we did try for tickets again this year so we could hopefully experience it without the constant mud, but got no luck so didn't bother in the resale, going Reading instead
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Just now, Stu H said:
I was just pulling your leg.
Everyone has a slightly different experience at the festival, there's so much going on.
If you watch the main acts on the Pyramid, sure, you can get a similar thing at other big festivals.
But I could be here for hours listing the other stuff Glastonbury has that others don't. Which is why we all tend to keep coming back!
I think it was because it was so wet with sticky mud, it made it really hard to travel round and experience everything i was hoping to
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Just now, Stu H said:
You didn't do it right.
yes we did, i just think my expectations were too high, it was the a great festival i'm not taking anything away from it. It was the 2nd best weekend i have had at a festival
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4 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:
How, exactly? Given the way it eschews sponsorship and advertising I'm a but curious as to what you mean.
dunno it just didn't feel as independent as i was expecting, i'm not saying it wasn't a great festival, it was, when the headliners performed and there was a sea off people it was awesome and i will be going again. and it is up there with the best festivals i have been to
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Just now, Simpo said:
So it wasn't something you could call the best weekend of your life, or anything like that?
i mean it was good, but the way everyone was talking about it i was expecting something immense and different and less commercial from other festivals, but i just didn't feel that, and i have felt that feeling before at festivals
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8 minutes ago, Smeble said:
You missed your first opportunity of experiencing the Glastonbury vibe by jumping the queue, we made friends with the guys in the car in front of us and the Dutch guys in front of them had a BBQ on the go.
A bbq at 5 in the morning in pissing down rain... ill pass
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Just now, Smeble said:
Well you obviously thought the signs didn't apply to you, you admit you just ignored them, must be special.
it was are first time, and no we just saw the one sign saying 12 hour delays, no sign saying dont go that way, so we just thought why not go around
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Just now, stuwilky said:
Fair enough - Im more suggesting that you really dont need to use them this time around. Should be the usual drive straight it at that kind of time
we arent going this year anyway, didn't really get that glosto vibe everyone talks about and seemed just as commercial as all other festivals and the line up isnt very good.
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3 minutes ago, stuwilky said:
There isnt usually much by the way of stupid ques any more. Last year was a "one off" certainly in the time Ive been going. Usually we get to site around 8-9 on the Wednesday morning. Slow down a little after Glastonbury town, but pretty much keep moving slowly until we get there,
Daft country road routes should be left for the locals to go about their business to protect the festival.
well it was like 5 in the morning so the country roads were pretty much empty
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23 minutes ago, Smeble said:
If we hadn't been going in our Motorhome it would have been quicker to walk across the fields, it took us 20mins from home to the back of the queue and then 9 1/2 hours to get in.
the problem with ignoring the signs and doing your own thing is it doesn't take many people doing it to fuck those roads as well, making life harder for the locals who complain more and jeopardise the future of the festival but I guess the 'I'm alright jack' attitude is all that matters nowadays.
well it was our first time going so it wasn't an 'I'm alright jack' attitude thank you very much! We just didn't know and seemed sensible to just drive around instead of waiting 12 hours.
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33 minutes ago, Ducky89 said:
This is quite funny.
I've got some local knowledge having lived around the Dorset / Somerset area and friends have often broken the journey from London up by stopping over the night before, then plugged the postcode for the car park into their satnav's and swore blind the satnav has guided them via a shortcut down country lanes and brought them out right by the car park - when asked which route they have taken, they have no idea.
When i've driven, I've used my local knowledge to cut through either by Ditcheat or somewhere else and come unstuck, how does that work..
The power of the sat nav
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8 minutes ago, Deadendfriends8 said:
See this country road method is much less attractive at 330am and its pissing it down haha
Leave at 5 then and go down the country roads
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4 minutes ago, Slugworth said:
Im pretty sure it's massively frowned upon by the locals.
Yeah but it is mainly just country roads, so I dont see the massive effect this will have on locals, bearing in mind there are people in 12 hour long ques blocking everything up.
I do understand though that if everyone did this then obviously you would have a major problem, was just saying that i'm surprised more people don't
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Just now, EamerRed said:
We left around 5am if I remember correctly from Bristol too, and it was maybe 10ish by the time we bailed the queue we were in. I think we were near Gurney Slade or something, and hadn't moved in a couple of hours, so we turned around, took a left, completely blagged it, and rightly or wrongly (definitely wrongly) went down some narrow roads which I'm pretty sure we weren't supposed to go down. Somehow we exited at an entrance to the site where people were stood around and seemingly no other cars around, no queue whatsoever.
Wish I'd taken note of the directions now!
yeah we went down some thin country roads. From leaving our house in bristol to parking up in glasto it was just under an hour, thats with a pit stop for food in there as well.
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7 minutes ago, EamerRed said:
Pretty much word for word same as me last year. Queued for ages, bailed thinking that it can't be any worse, went through country lanes for about 10 minutes and drove straight in.
yeah we didnt even get in a que, saw the sign and though forget that
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We didnt know the route either, so i am not too sure i'm afraid. We just saw the sign and though, nah we ain't waiting in that, so we drove on and the google maps on our phone just updated to a new route
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Just thought i would ask the question, so last year me and my mates went to Glasto from Bristol (where we live) and there was massive 12 hour queues, so basically we saw the electric sign saying big ques ahead so we went all the way around through housing estates and tiny country roads and ended up coming out right at the gates to the car park.
My brother and my mates sister had left at 1 in the morning to get a good space, me and my mates left at about half 4, five and we go there before them.
So basically, just wondering why people wait in the cues when there is more than one way of getting there?
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Well last year we overloaded are trolley and it took us about hour and a half to get from the car and up the hill. This was mainly however because the wheels on are trolley didnt work, so we had to basically drag it all the way from the car to the camp. It only took us 50 mins to get to the car park from bristol.
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if i remember rightly there is in the arena, but that is a guess as whenever i'm in the arena i have already had a few
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i would think a private minibus would be a bit of dollar, id recommend the train if you don't want to drive, pretty easy to get to and the coach you get to the site is just outside the train station
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no point in being at the front you can see the artists from pretty far back, but also one of the best bits about listening to live music at a festival is the crowd and the atmosphere all around you, something you do not feel at the front.
Also don't miss everything you could see by camping at the front, and you cant sit down at the front, you will annoy all the people around you plus there is a high chance of being stood on