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Not from what I've been told by my friend who's been volunteering every year since 2010. She's done traffic stewarding for the last 3 or 4 festivals and reckons the car access to orange is closed once pink is opened up to protect pedestrians. Festival goers parking in pink having to walk through orange to either gate A or D.

It's a nice ambition and certainly doable. I'd begin with sharing your ambition with your prospective stags as some will be more receptive than others. I'd have no problem rustling up a dozen mates for a weekend in Prague, Estonia etc. Mention Glasto and camping and it's a totally different result.

1. Trolleys are the first thing ditched if the driver is struggling for luggage space, along with chairs. 2. Granny shopping trolleys will quick casualties on the Glastonbury terrain

Yes the postcode gets you to the Travellodge and Tesco in Glastonbury. From there you follow the signs to the festival on the A361. It's about another 8 miles for so. We come from Staffordshire and use West parking. It's an easy drive down the M6, then onto the M5 at Brum. We get of the M5 at junction 23 Bridgewater following the signs A39 Glastonbury.....simples......enjoy

To access via Gate D you need to approach the festival on the A361 from Glastonbury but you not have a choice of where to park. As you near the festival stewards will either direct you to orange parking (which is nearest to gate D) or pink parking (which is over the A361 from the festival site). You have no choice in the matter of where you park other than west parking or east parking in general. Arriving Wednesday afternoon there is a high chance you will be parked across the road in pink parking. This has happened to friends and myself on all the 3 occasions we arrived after lunch on Wednesday. If so you will be faced with an appropriate 30 mins walk from your car to gate D where you could expect to queue for up to an hour to get in. The last bit is pot luck. Note.....You will not be able to access the west parking travelling eastwards from Frome/Shepton Mallet as it is closed to through traffic at Pilton for the duration of the festival.

The A361 is closed to all through traffic, including festivals goers who wish to travel to the west car park from the east, and vice versa. To get to the west parking from Bradford on Avon you need to detour round via Shepton Mallet and Wells to Glastonbury, where you can pick up the A361 to the festival.

You need to get back to Seetickets as they are legally responsible for ensuring your tickets are delivered to the address you provided. Reference their legal responsibility under the Consumer Rights Act 2015. The contract of delivery is between See and Royal Mail.

Last time we parked up across the road in west parking ca. 12:30 and got to our camping spot 2:30ish. In the interim we had a walk of ca 30mins to join the queue at gate A and queued for an hour to get our wristbands.

In previous years Cockmill has been full by lunchtime/early afternoon Wednesay and obviously the earlier you arrive the greater choice of camping spot you will have. Couple this with a queue time of 2-3hrs (or maybe more?) at gate B, a walk of maybe 20-30mins to join the queue and your picture forms.

Leaglly the duty is with Seetickets to ensure the tickets are delivered to the address you provided so if they have delivered to a different address then they need to sort it out with the post carrier. Difficulty can arise if the address provided to Seetickets is incorrect. You know from the tracker the tickets have been delivered. Do you know where?

We've done this in the past. Just make sure the tents don't go up before the gates open (ish). Field stewards usually give nod when it's ok to do so. Ps Make sure you reward your friend with lots of beers

Found by trial and error it's best to take the route which gives parking nearest to where you wish to camp. It's a long trek across the site east to west or vice versa to a camping spot.

This assumes they have have a wristband etc ?

You don't need a festival ticket to travel on a National Express coach.

You will be directed by the stewards to where they happen to be filling.

It is not possible to walk the routes in your link without having obtained an entry ticket and wristband as they go straight through the festival site which is enclosed by a the high fence. As it is a very long walk from the east car parks around the perimeter roads to the international box office it is far far better to use the west parking, which is much closer to the box office, and enter at Gate A. West parking can also be a better option as it gives access to lots of camping areas, some of which fill less quickly. The camping areas accessed from B & C are very popular and fill very quickly.

As the gates open Wednesday morning. No tents are allowed to be erected in the public/general camping fields before then. When we did this we were told tents erected prior to this would be removed.

The official start of the festival is Friday (when the mains stages open) which makes the weekend beginning Friday 21st the first weekend after the solstice which occurs on the 20th in 2024

I've never found A to be any worse than B or D. In fact I found the B queues to be the worst I've experienced. It's unpredictable and luck of the draw. You don't have to worry about coach arrivals as they have their own entry system adjacent to A.

No. Kings is the access gate for those staying at Worthy View and is not open to others. And if you're not using a local taxi you need to use the official drop-off point on the Evercreech road

Echo the above. Unless you're prepared to leave the site by taxi or bus there are no shops nearby and you will be limited to whats onsite; ie soft drinks at the co-op and alcohol at the bars. Leaving to get alcohol supplies is a lengthy, time consuming and costly chore so bring you can carry with you.

In popular areas the tents are so close you can literally cuddle the person in the next tent.

I've always arrived on Wednesay morning from the west and only once have I managed to get parked up in orange. Yet when I've been park in pink I've walked alongside/through empty orange designated fields.

Read elsewhere that performers/artists request friends and family tickets through the area agent but like everything Glasto the number of requests greatly outnumber availability. Tickets are not discounted and camping is in the performers camp with the artist. Suggestion is some last minute friends and family tickets are made available with the returns which were previously sold in the secret resale.

I once arrived after dark and woke up pitched on someone's lawn