Night time areas

[ceejaya]

Last year, every time my group tried to get to Shangri la area all the signs were saying it was closed. Do they operate a limit to the amount of people allowed at one time?

[Alf Tupper]

Yes there does appear to be limits as the area has got more popular over the years, best to swerve main stages if you can bear missing headliners and head that way about 9pm and you will be fine, certainly worth missing main stages if your planning on having a late one

Edited June 15, 2014 by Alf Tupper

[Mr.Tease]

Last year, every time my group tried to get to Shangri la area all the signs were saying it was closed. Do they operate a limit to the amount of people allowed at one time?

[Tuna]

Alf's talking out of his arse, 9pm? Nah, you can get in later (12-1 at "peak times") with a little bit of queuing. Just have a drink and the line vanishes

[Swine_Glasto2014]

We quid at various times last year and got in. Never shuts

[Englishdragon]

I went during the day to have a wonder but never bothered after the bands finished. I really cant be bothered to walk 30 minutes down to the south east corner to then que up for god knows how long to then que up to get into each venue.

Might give it a go this time but Thursday Im going to Sasha and Saturday is Metallica so the only day I might do it is Friday.

[Alf Tupper]

Hey Tuna, I'm sorry to learn of your clear lack of love and education as a child and subsequent inability to understand respect and learn how to read and digest the queens english with more clarity.

To 'head that way' means exactly that, as you may be aware the festival site is the size of Bath and depending on state of body and mind if you are at the Pyramid at 9pm and decide to wander to the other side of the site (IE Shangri La) then the OP's friends will certainly stand a much better chance of not being frozen out as many people do each year, which is really frustrating when it happens.

A couple of years ago the rain brought about enough mud to make a decision to limit the intake of people at the site, and as such there was no shortage of disappointed people who then tried to find a way in at the exit gates, until security wised up and brought in some extra muscle to deal with it.

So basically Ceejaya if your friends want to avoid disappointment its best to avoid the big rush after Pyramid and such like flick off the switches off for the night, your friends will not only breeze right in but also have the chance to wander easily and take in the whole area before deciding where to spend most time before the tourists arrive with their cameras.

[Tuna]

Hey Tuna, I'm sorry to learn of your clear lack of love and education as a child and subsequent inability to understand respect and learn how to read and digest the queens english with more clarity.

[siblin]

are you sure you didn't accidentally go via the train tracks? you cant go that way any more, you have to follow the one way system behind bellas field.

It was open every night without too much in the way of queuing, now that arcadia moved to its own area.

[stuartbert two hats]

Edited June 16, 2014 by stuartbert two hats

[matt1991]

If I were you I'd just go back to your tent after the headliners, have a few drinks and then head out, that's what we do, head down to SE Corner at about 2am and didn't queue at all!

[jonny2mad]

We dont close there are just sometimes ques to get in, these depend on how busy it is inside .and as said the entrance is in bellas field not on the train tracks . if you walk down the train tracks and come to a point where it says entrance closed, I cant remember what it says but that kind of thing go towards bella's field dont just go to bed .

I was on site yesterday and its all coming along fine, its a late night area so its not really the same walking about there in the daytime

[Lynsey Cox]

Will it be a bit quieter over there now with Arcadia having moved?

[stuartbert two hats]

Will it be a bit quieter over there now with Arcadia having moved?

[Swine_Glasto2014]

No.

[sjseabass]

Watched all of the Rolling Stones last year. Went to Shangri-La straight afterwards. No queues

[Homer]

Watched all of the Rolling Stones last year. Went to Shangri-La straight afterwards. No queues

[Harmonic Prospector]

Rather than queuing for hours after the headliners you could have your best time of the festival in Bella's Field watching Wheel Of Four Tunes on Sensation Seekers stage. By the time they finish the queues would have diminished significantly. Wheel Of Four Tunes have been the highlight of my last two Glastonbury's and would urge anyone wanting to kill time while the queues die down for the SE corner to check them out. Guaranteed amazing atmosphere. If you are not sure where to find them just follow the very loud music and two guys dressed as Power Rangers dancing around like lunatics.

[ceejaya]

Just reading the programme and it describes getting into SE corner via a "sequencial access management system. (This is not a queue)"

Can someone make sense of this for me please? Sounds like a queue to me!

[dimus]

Just reading the programme and it describes getting into SE corner via a "sequencial access management system. (This is not a queue)"

Can someone make sense of this for me please? Sounds like a queue to me!

[ceejaya]

Cheers for clearing that up

[LondonTom]

It's a snake of barriers that slowly gets narrower and narrower. Last year it was really busy to get in but at no point were we actually stood still, just slowly moving hence not a moving queue.