Gazebos......

[LondonTom]

Naye. the festival ask you not to, your not really going end up sharing it(silly excuse really), it does take up extra space. (I don't see why people if they are in a big group they feel they deserve extra space either.).

[Spindles]

There are 27 of us with 9 tents, this qualifies us for 7 pint glasses, 2 gazeboes and a sawn off shotgun.

[strudders]

There are 27 of us with 9 tents, this qualifies us for 7 pint glasses, 2 gazeboes and a sawn off shotgun.

[cejx]

Naye. the festival ask you not to, your not really going end up sharing it(silly excuse really), it does take up extra space. (I don't see why people if they are in a big group they feel they deserve extra space either.).

[grumpyhack]

I'm a fan of gazebos as long as you don't take the p*ss. One year we had four tents around the gazebo and by night pitched a fifth tent under it for someone to sleep. We took that tent down by day to have a communal area.

At present Halfords have a great offer on pop up gazebos at £50 http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_746141_langId_-1_categoryId_249951

Like all festival kit the important thing is to look after it and take it home with you. I think GFL obect partly because so many gazebos just get dumped at the end. The cheapo gazebos with push together poles often get wrecked because the tubes bend easily. Pop ups are much more sturdy - mine is in its fifth year and spends the whole of the year (winter and summer) up in the garden as somewhere to sit.

[Guest blackcockerel]

We'll be taking one, don't see the problem really if you don't take the piss (fencing off is far worse). About 7 tents between our group.

[airwaves]

We will be around 10 tents and 1 gazebo.

Don't tape off the area though.

[strudders]

Whilst I understand that lots of large groups can safely use gazebo's without pissing off the people around them. I have used them (never owned on) and would say last year would have loved one.

The fact is the festival does specifically say not to bring them. Intact of all the items on the "not to bring list" it has the most words written about it.

We are all very quick to jump on posts where people say about glass/Chinese lanterns and fireworks, spouting the rules, yet people seem to ignor this one year after year.

Again just pointing out the utter hypocrisy of it all.

[nikkic]

Yay or nay???

The festival explicitly asks campers not to bring gazebos...

Nay.

[matt2007]

Most groups of tents will have a small communal in front of them so a cover is a good iead. Where the rpoblem is when people take up at lot of space with them where somone could camp. Its about being respectful and considerate.

This year we have 5 small tents, with kids and 1 gazebo to link us all together, we hope for shade but shelter may be needed>

[robith]

Whilst I understand that lots of large groups can safely use gazebo's without pissing off the people around them. I have used them (never owned on) and would say last year would have loved one.

The fact is the festival does specifically say not to bring them. Intact of all the items on the "not to bring list" it has the most words written about it.

We are all very quick to jump on posts where people say about glass/Chinese lanterns and fireworks, spouting the rules, yet people seem to ignor this one year after year.

Again just pointing out the utter hypocrisy of it all.

[robith]

A mate brings one, and it's also good craic, especially when it's raining. Sat under it in the morning (if you get up early enough - ours isn't big enough to fit us all under) and having a cuppa before setting off the day is a great way to ease yourself in.

However, we camp in the northwestern part of the site where there's always loads of space.

Last year we were in Rivermead, one of the new places by the JP stage. We put our tents together on Thursday morning in a circle together being considerate with a space in the middle which we then covered with our gazebo.

No one camped within 5 square metres of us. Those fields were deserted.

[BuriedBones]

28 of us in total - no gazebo. Aside from being politely asked not to bring them, there is no need for them IMHO. Why would you want to hang around near your tent whilst at Glastonbury. pointless

[Ed209]

Naye. the festival ask you not to, your not really going end up sharing it(silly excuse really), it does take up extra space. (I don't see why people if they are in a big group they feel they deserve extra space either.).

[strudders]

I guess because that one isn't a rule it seems more a polite request. If they really don't want them there, ban them

[ethereal]

The John Peel tent is my gazebo

[cejx]

snore

If you're in a group then you'll camp in a circle with a gazebo sized hole in the middle anyway. This is not using up valuable space, this is just having a little communal area for you and your mates to have a tea and smoke in the morning, have a chill when people get ready etc. There's plenty of space for people to have a small area like this. Putting a gazebo over that area is just common sense. it also stops any billy/tommy-no-mates from pitching their tent right in the middle of your mates little community.

It's no more inconsiderate than people who sleep solo in big tents, and a whole less worse than groups who tape off a footie pitch to themselves.

[_danny_]

this made me laugh last year. although, if it hadn't have been forced to be taken down within minutes of it going up (you can actually see the first of a few stewards walking towards it in the pic), i might not have found it funny after 20 mins or so.

[Ed209]

thing is I don't think many people complain about a *small* tent sized communal area which a group of tents face in towards. This is how people have been camping for years and is pretty much a necessity (no one wants their door to open straight onto someone else's tent, so everyone leaves a little room, its just a way of grouping everyone's personal space into a communal one, so could be argued is being economical with space). But if someone puts a roof over that space then suddenly they're inconsiderate and mean? pft, give over.

Edited June 20, 2011 by Ed209

[robith]

very pleasant. And if I was struggling to find space, I'd have no hesitation in plonking my tent under a gazebo.

I'm with Strudders here. They've asked for people not to bring them as there is a finite amount of space - which has been squeezed over the years by people bringing bigger tents - and wanting the 'glamping' experience, rather than the roughing it in an old silage bag like days of old! There is a happy medium. I know that the crews were asking them to be taken down last year - whether this is enforced in 2011 - who knows!

[Amii]

The group of five campers next to us in row mead took three gazebos, a stereo, a proper BBQ, coolboxes, a carpet and my friend swore he saw a beanbag at one point.

THAT takes the michael. It wasted so much space in a very small, very popular area.

I see no problem if there's a space between tents, but you can't compaint if you wake up one morning and someones camped under it. I'd say that's fair game.

[cejx]

There's a finite amount of space in the most popular areas - over in the west there's absolutely oceans of it

[bombfrog]

very pleasant. And if I was struggling to find space, I'd have no hesitation in plonking my tent under a gazebo.

[bombfrog]

Anyway, there's loads of us with about 7 or 8 tents and we put our gazebo over our fire and all crowd round it in the morning and when we get back from watching the bands.

It would really ruin the experience for us if we all had to sit in our own tents when we're back at the camp so they'd better not ban them.

[Lynne Scratch Perry]

I do see people's concerns about gazebos, but most that I've seen recently have been erected in the twixt-tent space.

As has been said, it's nice to sit there in the mornings/late at night and recouperate before/after sleep. It's also nice to chat to passersby as they...pass by. Something you couldn't do if you were just sat in your tent.

There are about nine of us going this year. If it rains in the mornings, it would be nice to still see each other and be able to chat!