Arrival and queing times survey

[Gnomicide]

From a purely selfish point of view, I'm very interested in the queing times last time round.

I have therefore created a survey, the results of which will hopefully make my decision on when to arrive and start queing.

Obviously the more people that answer the better so if you are in any Glastonbury Facebook Groups or other forums, please share the link around.

I'll leave it running for a few weeks then post the results on this thread.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PWZ2WXF

Cheers!

[eoinca]

No train option.

[Bathimp]

Flipping heck thats a monster. you deserve one of those degrees in questionnaires after creating that

was sorely tempted to tick all the sarcastic options but managed to play it straight

[Gnomicide]

Don't you end up on a shuttle bus if you come by train?

I'll update it.

[fatyeti24]

that is the first time i have ever filled in a survey linked to from this site

[THEBOILERMAN]

^DONE

[Krazypinkminx]

I came on the Thursday!!

[jimmyt]

I filled it in but I'm not much help being a Thursday evening arrival every year!

[fatyeti24]

I came on the Thursday!!

[Krazypinkminx]

I filled it in anyway, car, shared with 4 others

[Krazypinkminx]

yeah but how did you get to the festival?

(sorry!)

[Gnomicide]

If you arrived on the Thursday I'm guessing you didn't queue? At least I would hope not.

[jimmyt]

If you arrived on the Thursday I'm guessing you didn't queue? At least I would hope not.

[Joeskeppi]

Arrive Wednesday 4:30am, mooch about at the gate til it opens. Book it into the festival to get good spot.

[Gnomicide]

#strikes Thursday off the arrival times list#

[Zoo Music Girl]

I've filled it in as curious to know the results.

We get dropped off at Bath & West Showground and get a shuttle bus to the site. We've arrived earlier every year to get our desired spot in Park Home Ground. Last year we were queueing by around 7.30am and I think they opened our gate a bit early. We got in, pitched before the downpour and were sat in a deserted West Holts waiting for the Brothers bar to open by 11am. Good times.

Shuttle bus queue never seems too bad. I've done it from Castle Cary too. The only bad year we had getting in was 2009 when we had to wait in the showground for six hours in the blistering heat before getting a bus. Pretty sure I got sunstroke as a result.

[sjp61]

Done!

[AnnaGrant]

Done.

Lets keep it quiet how easy it was to get in early Wednesday afternoon, though it did reduce camping field options, but, hey, we weren't going to Pennards anyway.

[Bathimp]

Done.

Lets keep it quiet how easy it was to get in early Wednesday afternoon, though it did reduce camping field options, but, hey, we weren't going to Pennards anyway.

[mandolin]

Done, can't wait to find out the results. Though will potentially change my answer to the "when do you plan to arrive in 2013" type question on the basis of them!

[LondonTom]

On question 3, don't the gates open at 8 and not 9?

[UEF]

You should've made your survey items conditional so that you only see questions relevant to your earlier answers.

Personally, arrive Tuesday night, go and sit by the gate about 6:30, they swung the doors open sometime 7-8 and we just walked up to our spot.

Don't get the thought process of people that arrive later than weds... it's not V Festival!

[Spindles]

Done, because you have a simple, honest reason for wanting the info, not because you don't want to work very hard at school.

I also don't normally do these things and would be interested in the results.

[Krazypinkminx]

We will be getting there at about midday Wednesday, because we have 4 kids, need to take one to school and settle the youngest before we leave at about 9.30 am, no choice, but its a day earlier than last time. We have to pick up people in the next town too. Personally I probably won't sleep that night,lol

[LusciousLucy]

The gates open when they open. Hopefully early, but sometimes 10am at the latest. Some years you can be extremely unlucky and there's a power problem to the UV wristband readers which delays opening. Or there's a fuck off monsoon which stops people being able to move through the ridiculous mud and that holds up 7/8ths of the people behind the lucky ones that got in before the heavens opened.

You can plan but the goalposts can and do move, you cant predict it, just hope that it does run smoothly so we can all return on here afterwards saying 'oh wasnt that easy, nothing like last time, I was camped by 9am yay'.