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Congratulations to those who got them. I do however detect a hint from reading here and elsewhere that less than usual were successful. Many seem to have go to the booking page quite easily and early only to find them sold out.

Glasto never publish any info on the number of tickets available. This year, in the lead up, Emily E tweeted that a record number of balances had been paid. At face value and by inference, this suggests a record low of tickets could be available in the resale.

This is what I've found by experience.

Let's hope you're right. We're all fed up of this rain. But has you say however other models are that promising. We've just been musing about a possible correlation between muddy glasto's and el nino events. There's some evidence to suggest a wet muddy GF coincides with the weakening of el nino events, as it happening right now 🤔

Didn't winter/spring 2016 have a similar rainfall/ground water pattern for the south west?......... And we can remember what happened at that summer's Glasto!

This popped up on Facebook. In the comments an "insider" reckoned it was Emily marketing blurb.

The coach park is managed to prevent overcrowding and massive queues. This is done for safety by scheduling/staggering arrivals.

My transaction was blocked even though I authorised it through my banking app. As I understand it from the subsequent conversation with bank security, the transaction was stopped/queried because in my bank's eyes insufficient travel time had elapsed between using my card at a UK terminal and then its subsequent use abroad.

Depending on how and where your debit card has been used the purchase could be blocked by a location security conflict. Put simply, if the card is being used in the UK then suddenly switches to a foreign location bank security could question or veto the transaction, especially if the sum involved is considerable. This happened to me when I travelled to South Africa a couple of years ago.

Only licensed taxis and booked coaches are permitted in the taxi/coach drop off. Also drop offs are not permitted in in the car parks or car park entrances with the stewards being hot on preventing this. B&W is the official and best option.

GF can be a serious test of stamina. As advised by @StoneCircle, there is no seating and taking your own folding chair is advised if you wish to sit between artist sets. Additionally, the site is vast and during the course of each day a serious amount of walking is necessary.

If you're proposing to drop a car off in the car park Tuesday night before getting the coach from Swindon, as postulated by @clarkete, you need to be aware that you need to show your admission ticket before being allowed into the car park.

You're just going to have to add up all the various cost components and do a cost comparison. Travelling from Scotland to Glasto with an overnight stop, food & beers etc may rack up the ££

Bristol Airport is in a rural location with little surrounding. If you want to pick up any supplies you need to head into the city.

7 months for the rain to stop.....then again its been raining more or less since Glasto 23 ended. I've gone rusty! Please please please let's have some frosts

No festival does mud like Glasto. The water table is very high this winter....just saying 🤫

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Whatever you decide, don't be late when tickets go on sale.....they literally sell out in minutes.... Ticket+coach packages ~ 15min General sale ~ 30min Good luck 🤞

Although numerically most ticket+coach packages probably depart from London they are amongst the most sought-after. It is quite normal for people who fail to get ticket+coach packages to try and get a ticket in the general sale. It's difficult to overstate how hard it is to get tickets. Demand greatly outstrips supply and the vast majority who want a ticket don't even get onto the ticket purchase website.

If you are going to try and get ticket+coach package then as @gooner1990 says, Bristol, Bath and Taunton are the closest pick up points for Glastonbury, however demand for these tickets will be extremely high due to their very closeness. The problem with coach+tickets packages is that they amount to less than 20% of the total number of the public tickets available for Glasto and these are spread across 42 departure points. This means that some towns/cities could have as low as 50-60 ticket+coach packages available.

There are regular coach services operated by National Express from Bristol Airport and Bristol itself direct to the festival. The schedule for these will be announced on Friday 17th November https://www.nationalexpress.com/en/events/glastonbury At this stage however I wouldn't expend much time and energy looking at travel arrangements until tickets have been secured. Getting them is really really hard.

I'd explain to them that the hardest part of "doing Glasto" is getting a ticket so putting it off and off is not the answer. If them and your other friends manage to secure a ticket, paying only a deposit at this stage, it becomes a question to be solved at a later date. Personally I think your friends sound a bit half-hearted about going.

That couldn't have included your Festival ticket as they one would have been nearly £700

Hail all the mud and unsanitary reports. Especially if they make getting a ticket easier.

Hope you get a reply from them to clarify your situation. That said the key to getting help from the access team lies in your friend securing a ticket. Without this the access team cannot help. It almost goes without saying these days that getting a ticket is the hardest task as demand far exceeds supply.