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Yup - we've always had our Manchester times on Friday. I suspect there's an admin job done and someone / a team does it coach by coach, starting destination at a time.

Would love to have been able to choose! Manchester (where I live) and Birmingham (where I was lucky enough to get tickets for in the scramble!) only inform you of the time on this email. Personally I'd still like a 5am departure 🙂 FOMO!

Hi, Did look for another thread - but I've only just noticed this message on the order tracker. Looks like coach emails coming next week. Then I can properly start planning

I camp the smack in the middle of a field on a hill. No streams for well over 100 meters but this is a good point.

Outside your Tent with a water container, a cloth and some environmentally friendly soap Cost: Free Towels Available: If you like System: Get up, wear shorts, give yourself a scrub Times: Usually when hungover I just don a pair of shorts, bring a cloth and job is a good 'un!

No ducks were harmed in the winning of these tickets.

27th May for me! Just found the post on Facebook.

Just to give a glimmer of hope to those in despair. I didn't get tickets in 2016. I was gutted (I've been pretty much every year since 1998). The phone call from Thatchers Cider will live long into my memory. "Hi - this xxx from Thatchers Cider - do you remember entering a competition to win Glastonbury tickets?" Immediately tried to work out how my friend had spoofed a Somerset based number for the world's greatest windup.. nope, it was legit. Keep up the faith people - and get entering those competitions!

This!

It really isn't as far when you're not struggling. I quite like going back and seeing the excitement of the arriving people too. We do the first load light - tent and a bag full and only one or two tins. Tent up - celebrate with a beer and then the incentive to go back is you need to for the beer.

If you're driving I'd recommend possibly not even bothering with a trolley. Hauling all your stuff in one go and stop starting in the queue to get in initially makes it feel longer than it really is. Have a good rucksack - put some light bulky stuff in it -go in, get your wristband and put your tent up. Then go back and do another run to the car. Multiple runs is far less backbreaking and soul destroying than trying to load up a trolley and drag it for miles. If you arrive on Wednesday it's even worth leaving some stuff and doing a run Thursday morning. Break it up a bit and the crowds at the gates are gone.

It is sadly. I work on the basis that it's less bad than two rolls of gaffer tape which is adhesive and plastic. The festival has a high foot print of single use things - look at the number of failed cheap crappy trolleys on the way in and things that are used to try to secure them. We use a method that works, the waste from it is as minimal as we can but more sustainable solutions very welcome. I've been over 15 times and I still have my original trolley so I do try.

I've still got one of these from years ago. Instead of gaffer tape we use a tube of cling film. Use bungy cords (try to ensure the load is moving as little as possible) first then re-enforce with cling film going around overlapping a few times. Strong as.

We still take the p*** out of our friend who arrived at 1am in the ratting down rain with too much stuff in too many Ikea bags. He turned up at the wrong gate. His stuff was all soaked and our hands were all tore apart. Get a good rucksack!

Sorry - just saw this. He was brilliant wasn't he?Such a shame everyone was elsewhere!

Albert Hammond in the Acoustic? Probably not though as criminally there were only about 100 of in there.

Been to some of the most horrendous ones. Walking boots all the way - and a pair of trainers for if it's nice. Wear the boots for the journey because they are heavy. Trainers in the bag. Wellies rub, smell and require football socks.

ffp2 mask here and will be for the coach (and train to get to the coach!).

Oh yeah - that was pretty grim. It was a mostly unvaxxed demographic at the time though - right? We've also now got a lot more natural immunity in the population. I've decided I'm going - I'm going to take a few precautions but I think you have to accept going comes with some acceptance of risk.

If you cram in there on a Wednesday or Thursday you have my respect regardless of a pandemic!

Not really. Most of Glastonbury Festival is in a giant field. Open air. The tents don't really get going until Friday and even then they are open sided and air will be flowing. The travel down is probably the biggest risk - older coaches - some I've been on the air con didn't work and who knows if it's set to just recirculate. But I am very much of the opinion it will be up to everyone to make their own choices. I certainly won't be judging anyone that chooses to do one or the other.

Usually I work on the basis of do others have a choice - I wear masks in shops, public transport and doctors etc as there may be vulnerable people that have no choice to visit these places. If you're in a bar or restaurant you're making your informed choice - so no mask for me. In this situation it's all purely selfish TBH - I'll be wearing it to minimise the risk of me catching it and ruining the festival. I'm not planning to wear masks at the festival itself as I'm not sure how workable that would even be. Might do on the coach home too - probably the biggest risk of the weekend the more I think of it and it will help with the smell (I've never smelt others on the coach home tbf)!

Just wondering what people think about this? I'm planning to wear a mask on the See Tickets coach down. My thinking is if I did happen to get Covid on the way down it would kick in just as the festival is starting (about two days usually?). I'm pretty relaxed in outdoor settings but I feel like we've all waited so long for this festival it would be bloody annoying to have to go home on the Friday (and I'm not even sure how I'd get home!).

We, in our group, went back and looked. Was always the Friday for us - so we're thinking 20th May. It's only then you can start the plans of how you're going to get to the coach pickup time with bags in tow. Usually go from Manchester but Birmingham this year. If it's a super early Wednesday I'll have to remind myself I'm old and earning now and have no need for a rough night at New Street and can afford a hotel!!

I've seen them play Manchester a couple of times and they were fantastic. What went wrong in the JP? Sound or just hungover?