What's the deal on arrival?

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First time at BD!!! Loving the idea of a small festival, but know nothing about the site. What happens after you park up? are you allowed to set your tent up and then collect wristbands or do you have to queue with all your gear??? Oh by the way where in the site do you collect the bands.....many thanks

[Emandjay]

You park and then head for the wristband exchange area to get into the campsite. Once you have your wristband, your best going to find your pitch, but you can go back to your car so you don't need to take all your gear with you the first time. My first time last year and went on the Thursday evening. Looks like a lot of people do. Some locals put there tents up and then went home until Friday. But then it did rain most of Thursday night/Friday morning.

The further away from the car park, the more space. There is a quiet camping area and a separate camping area the other side of the arena, but that would be a hell of a trek if you have lots of beer to carry. Not sure if my link works, so copy and paste if not, but there is a map of previous years layout on this old thread.

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Many thanks for the all the above.......don't want to arrive completely clueless

[Popsider75]

We travelled down from the north on the Wednesday night and stayed in a Travelodge. We drove to the site without problem about an hour to opening. Queue was about 200 yards long but moved in no time, writband at gate and straight into camping area. We did camp in the field nearest the car park which was fine. I would say its no more than 2/3 minutes walk from there back to the car.

Compared to the tramp across the fields at Glastonbury its a doddle ! Still, will be doing that one first in a couple of weeks.

It was our first time at BD's last year and it was fantastic.

[jollynolly]

Depends where you plan on camping, we always camp over the other side through the main arena, last year it was a fair old track from the car parks through family/ redwoods camping and through the main arena to get our camping spot that overlooks the main stage. Invest in a trolley or make loads of little journeys. Its a good mile and a half to this camping area and all uphill through the arena. Not for the faint hearted. In fact it took longer that the Glasto trudge