Car parking ticket- RIP OFF!

[chestwig]

Totally disgusted at the cost of a car parking ticket for next year. £25!!! That's fucking madness!!

I hope all of that money goes towards some CO2 offset program, rather than lining the pockets of bullshit Rock stars!

[benc]

for five nights parking, i dont think its that bad

doesn't it offset the price of coach travel or something?

[James Bolivar]

Every car takes up the room of a tent - so that's 200 quid that they won't get because they need to provide parking. There are only so many fields.

The £25 is probably to help discourage car travel - but it still sounds like a good deal to me.

[chestwig]

It's not a good deal when you consider you are already paying £205 for a ticket plus booking fees for every ticket ordered.

It's pretty crappy to pay 25 euros if your car is full of people. The system at Glade is a lot better. If your car is full then you don't have to pay for parking.

[Leggins]

It's as simple as this...... People will pay probably double what it costs at the moment to go to Glastonbury Festival, including myself. It's a buyers market to an extent. And I personally don't think it's overpriced. Like Benc says above, for 5 nights, thats pretty good. For a car of 5, that's only £1 a night each. A bargain to stay at the best party in the world. I'd pay it three times over.

[MrMac]

Don't buy one if you think it's a rip off.

Go by public transport, arrange a lift share, hitch, walk, cycle...

[Ed209]

It's not a good deal when you consider you are already paying £205 for a ticket plus booking fees for every ticket ordered.

It's pretty crappy to pay 25 euros if your car is full of people. The system at Glade is a lot better. If your car is full then you don't have to pay for parking.

Edited October 7, 2012 by Ed209

[Mr McJohnson]

It's not a good deal when you consider you are already paying £205 for a ticket plus booking fees for every ticket ordered.

It's pretty crappy to pay 25 euros if your car is full of people. The system at Glade is a lot better. If your car is full then you don't have to pay for parking.

[mrpman]

By far the most crippling thing for the surrounding areas is the amount of cars that arrive for the weekend.

The car park prices, if I remember, are also pushed up by the landowners asking for more money from the festival to use their land, though may be wrong about this.

We wil be using coach next year for first time. Combination of car breaking down last year and knowledge my better half can't pack as much stuff if we're going by coach mean I'm happy to do so. Also, I'd imagine there might be a good atmosphere on the coaches as well.

[elbongo]

The fact is that Glasto is by the far the best festival about (IMO), but in many ways location wise its a bit of a nightmare for all concerned. Now I do not know all the details, however they offset so much money to local causes and the like, and more to global and environmental problems that the amount of traffic and carbon monoxide emissions has a very negative image on the festival.

In the licence they agreed they have to be seen as addressing the problem. This will, if not done so effect in the future of being granted the licence.

Plus in my view there is no logic in complaining how much the 'overall cost' is when you could have let someone else who wanted to attend go instead...

Edited October 7, 2012 by elbongo

[al_coholic]

Try parking in London or Birmingham for 5 days. Would be between 50-100

[Vacant0]

It's pretty crappy to pay 25 euros if your car is full of people. The system at Glade is a lot better. If your car is full then you don't have to pay for parking.

[abdoujaparov]

Totally disgusted at the cost of a car parking ticket for next year. £25!!! That's fucking madness!!

I hope all of that money goes towards some CO2 offset program, rather than lining the pockets of bullshit Rock stars!

[Spindles]

Don't buy one if you think it's a rip off.

Go by public transport, arrange a lift share, hitch, walk, cycle...

[a6l6e6x]

Don't buy one if you think it's a rip off.

Go by public transport, arrange a lift share, hitch, walk, cycle...

[Dukeicon]

I'm pretty sure no one has ever cycled to a festival

[jimmyk83]

I'm pretty sure no one has ever cycled to a festival

[Spindles]

Plenty of people do. If I was in better health I'd be tempted myself.

[pie_and_a_pint]

£25 for 5 days of parking is a bargain. It'll work out at £12.50 each for me and Mr P&aP. Petrol takes it up to maybe £30 each.

Or we could come by local bus, train and shuttle bus and it would be over £75 EACH and be much less convenient.

[abdoujaparov]

I'm pretty sure no one has ever cycled to a festival

[pie_and_a_pint]

Incidentally, 5 days parking in central Oxford would be around £100...

[wirralchris]

Totally disgusted at the cost of a car parking ticket for next year. £25!!! That's fucking madness!!

I hope all of that money goes towards some CO2 offset program, rather than lining the pockets of bullshit Rock stars!

[dan05delaney]

I'n Manchester your talking at least £12 a day... £25 for 5 days isn't bad

[Jie Bie]

For us coming from Glasgow the return tickets on the national express coach are £97 each - so for the two of us to travel by coach it will cost £194.

Alternatively bringing the car will cost around £120 in fuel (800 mile round trip x 15p per mile) plus £25 for the parking pass, so quite a bit cheaper. Even if I revise upwards the cost of making the journey to 20p per mile it's still cheaper to take the car!

So in other words the coach doesn't seem to be offering particularly good value compared with driving down ourselves, despite the fact our car (at the moment anyway) is only going to be 2/5 full. When you consider all the advantages of having your own car down there (e.g. leave and arrive when you want, store stuff in it and bring it out as you need it, good place to keep extra clothes in the event it's a mudfest) it becomes a no-brainer.

Yes I know it's likely we'll get caught in hours of traffic on the first day of the fest, but once that's done and dusted then it soon becomes a distant memory.

Edited October 7, 2012 by Jie Bie

[Spindles]

Indeed. I think that it represents a good price. Clearly many others agree.

It doesn't price you out of bringing your car, but it is a saving for those who don't. It encourages people to car share.