CauliflowerEar

Small can of Asahi at Camden Palace was £6.40 last weekend. They have had £70 million spent on the venue refurbishing it in the last few years, so i wasnt overly surprised. So if any bar at Glastonbury comes close to charging those kind of prices, they are taking the piss and the 'hippy vibe' is well and truly non existent. Just laugh and walk away!

You dont need to 'carry a crate of beer around all day'. There is loads of absolute amateurs at Glastonbury, the ones who buy crates of Fosters on the way down for example, but not even they carry a crate around all day. 6 or 7 cans in your rucksack, until you run out, then head back to the tent to reload (if you are banging decent coke all day anyway cans tend to last a bit longer). You dont even have to buy your beers from an 'uncaring supermarket' either. Buy from your local independent corner shop before you head off.

This makes sense, as Carling is about 40p more, despite being a similar percentage.

Of course it does, lots of money to be made.

My local in Zone 3 London does a pint of Carlsberg for £2.60, and my usual is San Miguel at £3.80. Its part of small Pub Co (Red Cat), but if they can shift beer that cheap and stay in business, i do wonder why others cant- especially outside of London.

Nah, i go to the pub most evenings, and i live in London too. But i find pubs that are good value, without resorting to Spoons if i can. A pint of San Miguel in my local is £3.80 for example. But Glastonbury could easily put a stipulation on the concessions who they awards the bars to, to not charge more than say £4.50, but they dont. I can just about see past that since they allow unlimited booze into the festival, but if people just accept it and say "oh well, its like a holiday" then they are encouraging rampant capitalism, something i thought most attendees stood firmly against.

I dont drink Carling at a festival. Or Carlsberg. Although actually they would be better than the flat cloudy crap cider that people think is great, because they are at a festival in the West Country.

Pretty sure it was Carlsberg. 3.8% 😐

My beers are always cold in the morning if left in the right spot in the tent. Even as the day goes on, i would rather drink a lukewarm £1 strong beer than a £6 slightly cold, slightly flat pint of Carlsberg.

You would pay less for security to smuggle you in one of their jeeps, but you would be waiting around in a car park for up to 12 hours. I'd say £650 to have piece of mind to know you'll be getting in with (albeit negligible) perks might just be a price worth paying, especially if the weather looks decent.

Leave them at home until they are 16 mate. Dont be that 1 plonker off their tits dragging their toddlers around the naughty corner at 2am, every year you see it and every year i tell them they ought to take their kids back to their tent sharpish.

Hopefully the bars wont be a ripoff having had 2 years off, the festival is all very socialist etc until someone has the opportunity to serve you up a cup of beer and wants £6 for it! I do wonder, as possibly the only festival left that lets you bring in however much booze you want and walk around with it sans restrictions, why anyone bothers with the normal bars. A few Brothers ciders aren't too bad, but i bet they are no longer on offer anymore either.

Aldi had some cheap camping stuff in the middle aisle today, including cheap tents for about £40. I might go for this model rather than the £18 Halfords one, so if it rains there is less chance of me getting wet.

Actually, they can be passed onto refugees, who need them far more than me (and probably 100% of the rest of the festival attendees). Call it a donation, like a big charity shop, particularly if you leave your wellies and other stuff you dont really need again like plastic plates, cutlery etc.

Yes, you thought correct- well done. However, obviously festivals are much better with them, in fact here in the UK if you aren't on something you are in the massive minority.

Why would you want to camp near the Pyramid stage? When a big act ends, i always find myself tripping over guy ropes and pissing near the tents that are camped there. Although, i dont really go to the stage often as its mostly pop music these days that is programmed there. You'll have a much better time getting off your bonce camped up Pennards Hill, although if you are one of these bores who actually expects their neighbours to be quiet at night-time, then it isnt the place for you.

Is it true that recreationals to help you last the night are really hard to find at Sziget? This is my one concern about the festival, as normally i do loads at every festival i go to, to stay awake and obviously enhance the experience. Im guessing the dance areas will be the best place to ask around and hopefully get sorted?

Every time i see them on the shelf i take a photo of the codes on the ones near the front, so you are probably wise avoiding them! Never won shit, mind.

For anyone like me who doesnt like spending lots of money on a tent (they very rarely come home with me, especially if the tent has got wet and muddy) i have found a bit of a bargain at Halfords.

The only useful thing i can think of for a portaloo other than the obvious would be to pretend its some sort of installation and deal drugs out of it. Not create a tiresome 'experience' currently quite popular with young middle class gentrifiers in London.

'intel'? Its not a war mate. Just bring whatever you want, searches are cursory at best. Worst comes to worst, go to the bar for your fizzy pop.

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Are you? Wow, thats cool, you bloody mentalist. Judging by the size of it, if you want to have this quirky experience, you'll have to queue for some time. If i walk past it and see people like you doing so, ill be sure to have a good chuckle.

no its not mate, its the obvious place to take a shit. There is plenty of festival infrastructure out there which could accommodate something as uninteresting as an 'escape room'. Stop being purposefully doltish.

If somewhere you go to shit your rancid guts out after a heavy night is the 'most obvious choice' for an 'escape room', then you certainly are a super quirky guy 😆. Are you also one of these bonkers types that wears glittery wellies even if it isn't raining?