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  1. Has anyone ever suggested a solution to crowd crust? other than broadcasting a message to let people filter through the crowd I can’t imagine you’d ever get anyone to pay attention once they’ve claimed ‘their’ spot
  2. Everyone will moan about people complaining the line up is weak but then moan all their favourite small venues are rammed. You need massive headliners because the pyramid stage is the biggest area, and that’s where you want the majority of people to be most of the day. It’s not a taste or music snobbery thing, it’s logistics. reference: the million threads on here about overcrowding
  3. I did find the daytime to be a lot quieter than previous years, then had to queue for everything after MainStage finished, will see how this year goes but wasn’t as wholesome feeling in general, could have been the crap weather. Didn’t have a bad time, just think it might have peaked for me, will see what the replace ChaiWallas with
  4. I missed tier 1 last year as I spent extra time adding my car pass and a pay it forward donation. I just added our two tickets and paid for them before going back to do the rest in a second transaction.
  5. It’s *not exclusively for Glastonbury tickets, they have one prize draw a week for all of the prizes on their website there is one winner, that wins the prize they entered against They’ve done some maths and entries are from 50p to £5 a ticket depending on what prize you’re entering for. They just have to hope that whoever wins (on average) was someone who entered one of the lower value prize draws and they’re quids in. All of the entries on average will add up to somewhere near the value of the top prize like a Ferrari or something.
  6. They’re competitions are legit, I know someone that won a car through them before. I don’t really understand their prize structure, you pay an entry price based on the value of the prize and I guess they average it out across the prize values against the number of entries. I’m more surprised their offering tickets this early on, guess they could always fall back on the cash offer
  7. First competition of the year announced early by botb https://www.botb.com/prizes/lifestyle/win-glastonbury-tickets Bit early to be claiming hospitality tickets
  8. Boomtown let you take your own alcohol everywhere with you, although you’re only ‘allowed’ 16 cans per person. Ive never seen anyone get theirs confiscated on entry, supposedly it does happen.
  9. Can’t believe it’s as high as 20,000 break ins, the scale of the parking alone would be massive. Trains are already rammed full, and anywhere within walking distance would have parking restrictions. Everywhere feels busier because large chunks of the festival are empty, and everyone’s watching the same few acts, will only get worse as the price of bands and artists increases and they can afford fewer big clashes.
  10. If I got the coach instead of driving I don’t get a 6 day refund on my insurance or vehicle tax though, those are fixed costs of car ownership that I need for work/ life in general. the wear and tear costs can be calculated at a per mile rate but are still significantly cheaper than the coach.
  11. Ok, you got me, add in £10 for a car wash.
  12. Car hire place near me does car hire for £17 a day. So even paying for that, and fuel and parking pass it’s still £40 cheaper than getting the coach if you get 4 people in. Plus the whole cost of owning a car is irrelevant as this is a one off journey, you could use that argument if it was a regular commute and you were comparing it to a train season ticket, but the odds are one of a group of 4 will have a car they use anyway so everyone can just Chuck in a 10er for tyre wear if you wanna be that fussy.
  13. I watched a video on what causes crowd crushes after I got back and it was like a tick list of everything that went wrong Friday night, small entrance, uncontrolled queue, no comms, no one managing anything, late to open, limited capacity, and then they started a skillz on time and the shoving got worse.
  14. There’s numerous people in here pointing out that the coaches are double or triple the cost of driving with a full car because the coaches are so expensive. Parking permits could be £100+ and people would still pay it. Seeing as transport of punters is the biggest source of emissions if they can’t get more coaches they can pay for carbon capture somewhere else.
  15. You have to take into account that a campervan doesn’t pay for parking so it’s only £140 more than a parking pass. Which isn’t bad for a glamping option. Although if you’re then hiring a camper ontop of that it’s going to be close to £1500 by the time you’ve paid a Glastonbury premium for a small 2 berth van. I still maintain the parking passes should be more expensive than they are and used to reduce the cost of coach travel, carrot and stick. As others have pointed out unless you’re a solo traveller those prices aren’t cheaper, and limit your luggage/ amount of alcohol you can bring. Double loss. £360 is beyond the reach of a lot of people now, which die hards will say is achievable by anyone who wants to go enough, but when 20% of the country is living in poverty that’s a bit rich.
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