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Well, no, not really. These are different questions. My apologies for having more than question. Thanks to those have been helpful, but I am guessing I am no longer welcome here.

Thanks, both. So is this the process? 1. Register to be allowed to buy tickets 2. Buy tickets in November, which are still refundable at this point 3. Make a refundable booking for rentable camper van for Glastonbury week. If nothing is available, cancel Glastonbury tickets for a refund. 4. Book a Glastonbury camper van "pitch" when they become available. If nothing available, cancel both van booking and Glastonbury tickets for refunds. 5. Assuming both van and pitch are secured, pay the Glastonbury ticket balance in April, and insure against camper van rental company reneging.

Hello. I'm an older man (early 60s) thinking of going along next year. Every time I look the process for booking a ticket and accommodation seems utterly baffling. It looks to me like I need to buy a ticket in November (!) but that I can't book accommodation until much later. I am definitely not interested in staying in a basic tent, and the teepees seem phenomenally expensive for not much better than a tent. Is the window for booking a camper van before the deadline for paying the balance on the ticket price, so if I couldn't get that sorted it would at least reduced the wasted cost a bit? If there is someone here who has at some time managed to book festival ticket, camper van and van pitch, would you be willing to document the process for doing it, please? Thanks!

Ooh, that sounds interesting. I'm 62 and considering going next year for the first time. How would I find that Facebook group? I *think* I have a Facebook account but can never find anything there.

I don't necessarily see that as a problem. It's not like I need my own private toilet following me around all day.

Sigh.

OK, I'll go.back to my earlier plan of giving up on the idea altogether, then.

Hence the camper van interest.

Thanks. How much of it all was new to you for that first one? I don't really know what to expect of any festival.

I'll try. Then do tend to be a lot younger than me, and nowadays there's less overlap in the office than pre-covid though, so it's not always easy to have a conversation

Yeah, I hadn't realised that "camper van tickets" just meant a ticket for your camper van to sit in the field, not a ticket for you to go to the festival! The accommodation things worries me, as it seems backward - you have to get the festival ticket before you can find out if you can get accommodation. I would much prefer to book them as a single transaction (supposing I am ever allowed to). Oh, my ailments aren't debilitating, just inconvenient. I don't identify as disabled (although I assume Glastonbury dies cater for those who do). I have no problem walking 10 miles in a day, although I may need to deploy my folding walking stick for some if it. I'll not be staying in a tent or using shared toilets, though!

Yes, I had wondered if this is why the organisers make it so complicated to understand and skew the ticketing process in favour of people who are either going with friends or can get others to help them - it means that those who get tickets feel grateful for having got through the obstacles, and they then are determined to make sure everything goes well. And means the festival is full of people who have been before and the hubbub of groups of friends

I am, though, now wondering if at my age and lack of knowledge and experience about this sort of thing, whether I will ever be able to catch up. I suspect it's better for my own sanity and the peace of others that I give up on the idea.

Oh! So there is no second tranche as I understood it - just one tranche and the resale of those. The received wisdom I got a few months ago is wrong 🙁. So, there is just one opportunity to register each year, ahead of the "main sale" in October, and then it closes until after the "resale" in April? What about the camper van tickets that I see are being "resold". In the next couple if weeks? I see those are only available to people who already have tickets, so is the process there to find a friend who is going and ask them to buy you a camper van ticket? It is very much a camper van ticket I want - my body is much too old and with too many ailments to be using a tent with shared toilets!

Sooo.... help no longer needed today?

Thanks, both. Unfortunately, I find the wording on that page completely opaque. I don't know if it's that I am just too thick to be allowed to buy a ticket, or that they only want people who have been before. I get that the first tranche has sold out, and that this week they have reselling returns from that tranche. When is the second tranche of tickets put on sale, and how do I "register" for that? I'm about to go on holiday for a couple of weeks and don't want to been scamper around to find an Internet café as I change trains in France and Italy!

When I tried to buy a ticket in the first tranche a few months ago, I wasn't allowed into the online "shop" because I didn't have an account yet. I tired to get an account, but the links just went round in circles. The advice then was to come back for the second tranche of ticket sales in late April/May. I am now doing that, but again I can't seem to create an account. Anyone able to offer any guidance?

Thank you.

Right now I think it's "everything"! All I know of Glastonbury is occasional shots on the media, plus I watched a few of the performances from last year on the BBC, when I heard that a few young people at work were going. Not had a chance to talk to any if them about it though. I don't know if the music "concerts" are all of it, or there is more stuff going on around those. Other than knowing that some people camp, I have no idea how accommodation works. The process for getting tickets is a complete mystery to me - I tired in tranche 1 a couple of months ago and was told I wasn't allowed to buy and had to come back for tranche 2, but I can't see how that works. The people who run it seem to assume that everyone who wants to come already knows everything, so don't publish any information, as far as I can tell. So, yeah, everything, really😀

That looks good - thank you very much for the link. There's a lot of it, but hopefully it will give me a good enough understanding.

Sorry, man. Didn't realise.

I am willing to help if I can but don't really have much of a clue what I would need to do, so guess I would be a liability?

Thanks, both. I don't get all this at all, yet.

Is there an idiot's guide somewhere to how Glastonbury Festival works? Everything I read is like coming in halfway through a conversation, and I don't have the context to make any sense of it. I asked the official Glastonbury Festival support email address, but the little I got back from them made even less sense! I am in my 60s, have never been, and fancy trying to see what it's all about while my body still vaguely works.

I don't understand this at all. Are you saying people can't just buy a single ticket?