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1 hour ago, Nuthugger said:
how many tickets are going to the resale anyway? about 8? lol
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.
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1 hour ago, samn94 said:
I'd take both if rain is predicted though. Walking boots and gaitors for when it's somewhat wet, switch to wellies for when the mud pools come later in the weekend.
This is what I've found by experience.
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5 minutes ago, Sheffield Steve said:
There is some hope on the horizon… after weeks and weeks of non-stop rain, the models pretty much agree that by the end of next week we’ll have an area of high pressure over the country, something we haven’t seen for a very long time.. some models go back to rain pretty quickly, others stick with the high pressure.. the end could be in sight..
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 🤔
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11 hours ago, Sheffield Steve said:
The soil moisture figures for the end of March are out. Despite the exceptionally wet March, things seem to be drying out slightly over southern England, but not much in the Pilton area - still officially at the highest level of “very wet”.
But with the forecast of drier weather for the second half of April (finally), the situation should be much better by the end of this month.
March:
Previous 4 months:
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!
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This popped up on Facebook. In the comments an "insider" reckoned it was Emily marketing blurb.
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8 hours ago, al_coholic said:
Yep agreed, if there is a massive queue coming out of the coach park they will need to clear that first once the gates open.
The coach park is managed to prevent overcrowding and massive queues. This is done for safety by scheduling/staggering arrivals.
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12 hours ago, Stokesy10 said:
Thanks for this. Surely I'd just get an "authenticator" notification and have to approve it through my banking app?
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.
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4 hours ago, Stokesy10 said:
We're trying for resale. One of our group of 4 is in Australia, and the rest are in the UK. If I give him my debit card details to pay (if he gets through), would there be any issues with that, to your knowledge?
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.
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17 hours ago, wolvodan said:
Could wife not make way to taxi/coach drop off?
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.
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15 hours ago, Joseph Shediack said:
My wife and I want to go but we can,t stand for long periods. Are there seats available?
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.
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16 hours ago, qt30546 said:
Are they strict with the 9pm opening time on Tuesday for the car parks?
I heard they open them earlier, to relieve traffic in the local area
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.
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On 12/14/2023 at 12:04 PM, SilverLining said:
Hello all,
We have a large group of us who all managed to secure tickets (unbelievable, I know). We hy to ave been quoted robbery prices for renting a private coach so are looking at public transport options, likely to stay in London the evening before and then head to Glasto via public train.
Anyone see any glaring problems with this plan or, have any sage advice to impart?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 ££
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On 11/30/2023 at 11:23 AM, dicko_belfast said:
Hi Everyone,
Getting very excited now for next year, haven't been since 2017. Just 2 of us going this year, in previous years has been a larger group and have got taxis easy enough which also stopped off for supplies which worked well.
This year we will likely book a coach from the airport I think, but I was wondering if we need to grab food, drinks perhaps some camping gear from somewhere before heading down would there be anywhere near the airport we could go or would we need to go into Bristol before getting the coach?
Any guidance would be appreciated!
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.
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5 hours ago, briddj said:
Good job the festival isn't in the winter then!
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
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12 minutes ago, Alvoram said:
Surely due a wet one?
Never been to a wet glasto, but I had a blast at (other) festivals in the mud this year, so I'm not worried. Imagine the biggest issue is just allowing extra time to get anywhere. (And minimising how many times you fall on your arse / mastering not spilling a drop when slipping over.)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 🤞
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1 hour ago, IBCanon said:
How about London? If not, would be better for us trying to just get the tickets only without transportation and then buying the coach from national express? I just would like to try whatever will help us to get the tickets and of course being convenient for us as we come from Spain and not many flight options to certain cities.
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.
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6 hours ago, IBCanon said:
I need to know as I need to try to get the tickets + coach on the selling day. Which of the places offered are close to Glastonbury? I was thinking Bristol or Bath.
Thanks everyone for replying.
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.
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6 hours ago, IBCanon said:
Hi everyone,
If the astros aligned , my wife and I will be getting the tickets to Glastonbury 2024, we are planning to flight from Spain.
We just would like to know if taking the coach from Bristol would be the best option in terms of short trip duration.
We also would like to know, what are the deporture schedule from brystol to the festival. Is there just 1 schedule or every 30minutes there is a coach, how does it work? As we need to arrange all the logistics of plane tickets...
Thanks everyone!
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.
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22 hours ago, Rodders2023 said:
The problem with that is guaranteeing that everyone is the position to do it again you can’t and I don’t want them thinking maybe next year and then next year never happens for the sake of 24hours
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.
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7 hours ago, BlueJeansAndWhiteTshirts said:
It was a £750 for the two of us. A sh*t tonne of money, I know.
That couldn't have included your Festival ticket as they one would have been nearly £700
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1 minute ago, stuie said:
Not denying the effort that goes in to keeping them sanitary but we’ve all open the door to an unsanitary long drop haven’t we?
Hail all the mud and unsanitary reports. Especially if they make getting a ticket easier.
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29 minutes ago, J3mmo said:
Meant to add I have also asked the access team but not got a reply, but appreciate there could be a backlog they’re getting through. I’ll report back what they say in case it helps anyone else
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.
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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.