Que at Ped Gate D

[Fingle]

This year due to tues night parking we got to Ped gate C at 4.30am there was about 30 people in front of us. Half an hour later there was lots of people queing. Just wondering how people found Ped gate D. Might park in west next year!

[halfpint]

This year due to tues night parking we got to Ped gate C at 4.30am there was about 30 people in front of us. Half an hour later there was lots of people queing. Just wondering how people found Ped gate D. Might park in west next year!

[LondonTom]

If you do a search on this you will find many a thread from all the tortured souls that stood in the blazing heat for many an hour at Ped gate D. There was 2 ques that were been feed alternativley into the gate, one going much faster than the other. I started queing at 6am ish and got in at 10.30am ish. Others got through quicker.

Though of course thats not saying that will happen next year as the year previous it only took me 1 hour or so to get in.

[anoldhippie@60]

Was in car park D. Started queuing at about 7am. I think I got in at between 10-10.30ish. Quicker than the year before when I was in a traffic jam for 6 hours. I heard that at gate A people were getting in no problem.

[laid back in the sun]

que sera sera

[Madyokel]

que sera sera

[LusciousLucy]

Arrived at midday. No queue. Sailed in. Got a decent camping spot too.

[eFestGoer]

It wasn't the length at Ped D but the sheer volume of people cramed in between the bushes and fenced off car park in the sun! Jesus!, then to see the other que getting in faster!

One of those routes to the gates needs to be closed off I think

[BlackHole2006]

There was a que to get into Gate C aswell. Took us 3 hours to get in but when we eventually did it was such a relief. My parents are coming next year possibly in a Caravan so I might suggest to them that it would be a good idea to go on Tuesday night and for me and my mate to kip next to that campervan that night, wake up early and head to the gate to skip the queues. Would this be a good idea?

[smudger]

If that was the bastard queue I was stuck in, it was a nightmare. I was there at 8.30 and stood in the sun till 12.00 by which time Pennards was full and we ended up in wedged into a tiny space. our friends were in the same queue from 6am. We could see people through the trees apparently walking straight in and when we finally got through we realised the security had had a gate closed stopping the whole queue for hours. I wished I'd been bearer the front as I would have forced my way through. People were starting to drink the only fluids they had i.e. beer and it was getting pretty uncomfortable.

I'm sure it was a communication failure on the part of the security but it would have been nice if someone there had used their own brains and opened the gate blocking our way. It doesn't take a genius to see what was happening and they all carry radios. Hard to say anything other than they watched the crowd growing and getting baked for hours and didn't give a toss. Maybe I'm wrong and perhaps someone could enlighten me!

Hopefully next year getting there early will be rewarded with actually getting a decent spot......!

Edited November 1, 2010 by smudger

[LondonTom]

It's the fact that everyone has to go through a small opening which can only fit one or two at a time. And lots of people with the trolleys clogging the route up. Once you got through to where you show your ticket it was literally empty. There was so many bottle neck type queues which were the pain.

[lac999]

Absolute nightmare.

Started queueing at 6, didn't get in till half 10. I was the only one in our group with water on me as well (one half litre bottle) and in the heat with quite a lot of stuff this turned into a serious issue for everyone; involving my friend nearly fainting.

Surely they will be more on top of it next year.

[Fingle]

Think i will stay with gate c had no problems this year! Thanks for the replies !

[Activeman]

Got parked up in West around 6.30am.

Both the back ends of the queues to Entrance “A” and Entrance “D” were converging together at bottom corner of the Car Park West36. As more people arrived the queue ends became more like a mass of people standing around in a field rather than a queue.

Suddenly queue “A” moved, I think they had allowed the queue to move closer to the main entrance.

Initially decided to stick with queue “D” as seemed shorter but could see people were starting to filter in from elsewhere so took the decision to join back of queue “A” even though I knew it was longer.

At 8am queue “A” began to move Security were good at keeping people from cutting in and even though queue was miles long it moved really quickly.

Eventually the queue filtered into a massive walkway with a huge fence either side and there seemed like about a million people in this area, however by about 9.30am I was walking through the entrance to the festival.

I wasn’t surprised at any of this queuing as taking the cars off the road simply creates queues in the car parks instead, and to be honest if the longest anyone had to queue was until midday this still seems vastly quicker than sat in the queues on the road ways.

I have not heard anywhere of anyone having to spend very long queuing in an actual traffic jam – I am interested to know if this happened at all this year like in previous years.

Overall I foresaw the whole car parks opening early and queuing business to have the potential of being a real nightmare but personally I think it went very well. However I think they needed to instigate a better queuing system for entrance “D” as that went a bit wrong.

I am not so certain I would be saying the same if it had been chucking down with rain.

[verrymerry]

We parked at gate D but walked up to A and back down to Pennards because the stewards were saying it was a good hour to get in

[Craigston]

We parked in West 51, arrived at 8:30ish. Quickly crossed the road, saw a massive queue running along the side of the hedge so cut up through another car park. It was a dead end so we ended up sneaking through a hedge into the middle of massive queue which was only about 50 - 100 yards from gate D. We jokingly got bollocked by some woman in the queue with a megaphone!

There was then a wait of about half an hour with no movement: we could see loads entering to the right but a five bar gate was blocking the progress of our whole queue.

Eventually we were let through and we were on site, pitched in Dairy Ground by about 10:30. Sweet!

Edited November 3, 2010 by Craigston

[smudger]

There was then a wait of about half an hour with no movement: we could see loads entering to the right but a five bar gate was blocking the progress of our whole queue.