Glamping at glastonbury

[Changeme]

I have a bell tent , but with no flooring, where can i get hold on proper bell tent flooring?

[frostypaw]

£180 and offsite for the sake of a shower each day?

There really are some folk who shouldn't bother. Sort your life out, give the £360 you and your mate are flushing down the crapper to charity and try being less vain for a few days.

It can change your life and save you an unbelievable amount of money. Christ there are plenty of other cheaper paid options for showers, and free ones.... Still all the glamping just feels like the let-in for just the sort of vapid clotheshangers I used to love not seeing at Glasto.

I have a bell tent , but with no flooring, where can i get hold on proper bell tent flooring?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bell+tent+flooring

for fuck's sake

[scorp]

£180 and offsite for the sake of a shower each day?

There really are some folk who shouldn't bother. Sort your life out, give the £360 you and your mate are flushing down the crapper to charity and try being less vain for a few days.

It can change your life and save you an unbelievable amount of money. Christ there are plenty of other cheaper paid options for showers, and free ones.... Still all the glamping just feels like the let-in for just the sort of vapid clotheshangers I used to love not seeing at Glasto.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bell+tent+flooring

for fuck's sake

i like ze link :-)

[OBface]

£180 and offsite for the sake of a shower each day?

There really are some folk who shouldn't bother. Sort your life out, give the £360 you and your mate are flushing down the crapper to charity and try being less vain for a few days.

It can change your life and save you an unbelievable amount of money. Christ there are plenty of other cheaper paid options for showers, and free ones.... Still all the glamping just feels like the let-in for just the sort of vapid clotheshangers I used to love not seeing at Glasto.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bell+tent+flooring

for fuck's sake

I stayed off site last year and would do so again. Why? I can only arrive on the Thursday (would struggle to leave the family any longer) and don't want the hassle of carting my stuff around trying to find somewhere to camp. I'd rather get straight on it.

The fact I was off site didn't bother me. I left the tent about midday and returned most days as the sun was rising so certainly didn't miss out. I really appreciated having somewhere quiet to sleep for a few hours before started over again.

Hate the attitude that if you are 'glamping' (shit word) you are somehow not worthy of the Glastonbury experience. Does it really matter that I didn't put up my own tent?

[frostypaw]

so you did it to get somewhere quiet to sleep? have you considered earplugs?

I don't think it's that you're "not worthy" just rather missing one of the points. camp near the fringes and wear earplugs and you could have complete peace and plenty of space to set up your tent anytime Thursday.

The point being missed is that the problem has been solved by throwing money away rather than virtually free practical measures that end up bringing people together rather than separating off those who can pay more for often no more cruel intent than they had enough money not to really miss it. But so creeps the poor-wealthy divide as imagined costs build up

[stuartbert two hats]

so you did it to get somewhere quiet to sleep? have you considered earplugs?

I don't think it's that you're "not worthy" just rather missing one of the points. camp near the fringes and wear earplugs and you could have complete peace and plenty of space to set up your tent anytime Thursday.

The point being missed is that the problem has been solved by throwing money away rather than virtually free practical measures that end up bringing people together rather than separating off those who can pay more for often no more cruel intent than they had enough money not to really miss it. But so creeps the poor-wealthy divide as imagined costs build up

Well put.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

A friend and I are looking for two/four people to share a bell tent with us. We stayed at the same place last year and it was great. It works out to about £180 each for 4 people or 150ish for 6 for the 5 days which includes hot, clean showers with barely any queue, a cafe and bar, flushable nice toilets and a nice bell tent already erected. We are two girls who are loads of fun. You wouldn't believe how great a hot shower is before embarking on another large day! Anyone fancy it?

I'm sure that the hot showers would be great in washing away that drowsy Rohypnol feeling.

As an aside, my son in law and his mate went around this years Glastonbury asking people if they had any Rohypnol to sell. They thought it a light hearted experiment to see people's reactions. They were lucky not to have been hit, in my opinion.

[OBface]

so you did it to get somewhere quiet to sleep? have you considered earplugs?

I don't think it's that you're "not worthy" just rather missing one of the points. camp near the fringes and wear earplugs and you could have complete peace and plenty of space to set up your tent anytime Thursday.

The point being missed is that the problem has been solved by throwing money away rather than virtually free practical measures that end up bringing people together rather than separating off those who can pay more for often no more cruel intent than they had enough money not to really miss it. But so creeps the poor-wealthy divide as imagined costs build up

Yes I am in the fortunate position of being able to afford to 'throw money' at the problem, I am coming on the coach and it is much easier not to have to bring much kit with me. Plus I hate putting up tents!

I really don't see how this separates me off from other people though. I use my tent for sleeping, nothing else. I'm not sure how I could engage with anyone else during this time.

Oh and earplugs simply don't work for me. A few good hours sleep allows me to make the most of the festival for the rest of the time I am there.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I'm not sure how I could engage with anyone else during this time.

I refer you to the afore mentioned Rohypnol.

[Brave Sir Robin]

Personally, I love sleeping in a camper, just offsite, as do plenty of others on here. Once I'm awake, I'm onsite. I certainly recommend everyone camps in the midst of it all first, but I've done camping several times and now prefer a CV. I don't know why anyone would get worked up or snooty about the idea that other people might want to do G differently to to the way they do it. Live and let live??

[frostypaw]

There are folk who'd love to have hotels on-site and proper beds and all too.

I'm starting to feel glastonbury shouldn't be for everyone, and it shouldn't try to be. there's no reason for it to and there are plenty of festivals to account for every need and taste in the country. the more it becomes just another summer holiday option the more it loses what made it unique and special, but with the current over abundance of late night action and loss of almost all campsite life I think I might be worrying about shutting the gate well after the horse has bolted these days

[OBface]

I don't entirely disagree. But feel aggrieved that you in all likelihood would lump me in with those that glastonbury isn't for, based purely on my camping habits.

Edited October 18, 2014 by OBface

[frostypaw]

that's fair enough, the aim isn't what could be classed as excellent and I'm happy to take flak where it's due. pint?

[Brave Sir Robin]

There have always been campervans at the festival. So it's never been everyone in tents, as some seem to suggest it ought to be.

[OBface]

that's fair enough, the aim isn't what could be classed as excellent and I'm happy to take flak where it's due. pint?

Absolutely

Oh and may be staying in the tipi field next year - acceptable?

[fatyeti24]

There are folk who'd love to have hotels on-site and proper beds and all too.

I'm starting to feel glastonbury shouldn't be for everyone, and it shouldn't try to be. there's no reason for it to and there are plenty of festivals to account for every need and taste in the country. the more it becomes just another summer holiday option the more it loses what made it unique and special, but with the current over abundance of late night action and loss of almost all campsite life I think I might be worrying about shutting the gate well after the horse has bolted these days

From the tone of your posts it sounds like Glastonbury might not be for you anymore, and perhaps it shouldn't try to be. There are, as you say, plenty of festivals to account for every need and taste in the country.

It isn't what it was. Things change. But that could have been said in my first year. Though having attended now for over two decades, I personally wouldn't swap the late night areas for the old campsite life, as you call it. Not in a million years.

I've stayed off site a couple of times. It had its merits. It's not, I'd argue, something worth troubling yourself over. I'll be back inside the fence this year.

[frostypaw]

Absolutely

Oh and may be staying in the tipi field next year - acceptable?

Only if it leaks

I personally wouldn't swap the late night areas for the old campsite life, as you call it. Not in a million years.

I've been to festivals that do that better. Far better. It's just feeling like it's stretching itself a bit too thin. There's still nowhere else I'd rather be or that can really hit all the buttons as I run around like a mad thing, but I do get what you're saying. I just don't think it's lost it and become a pop boutique affair yet, while to some that is all it is, and they would be probably happier at such. Edited October 19, 2014 by frostypaw

[The_Amazing_Oblong]

I feel you Frosty but times and the festival has changed, These are convenient options for people. Some can afford it and some can't but we are all the same on ticket day. Everyone is sharing the same experience on site.

Edited October 19, 2014 by The_Amazing_Oblong

[astrowerks]

well said Oblong

[storm]

£180 and offsite for the sake of a shower each day?

There really are some folk who shouldn't bother. Sort your life out, give the £360 you and your mate are flushing down the crapper to charity and try being less vain for a few days.

It can change your life and save you an unbelievable amount of money. Christ there are plenty of other cheaper paid options for showers, and free ones.... Still all the glamping just feels like the let-in for just the sort of vapid clotheshangers I used to love not seeing at Glasto.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bell+tent+flooring

for fuck's sake

Frostypaw you're going to love this thread from the questions board.

Apparently this crowd charge £250 for a pitch outside the fence but you have to bring and pitch your own tent too.I've no issue with how and where anyone wants to camp, I wouldn't do it, I don't get why you would spend more money to be outside etc but if that's their bag.

But really £250 for a 7 by 7 patch of grass and people are booking them as it's worth it to minimise the walk in they say, words fail me tbh

http://www.efestivals.co.uk/forums/topic/189188-the-love-fields-co-uk/

Edited October 20, 2014 by storm

[frostypaw]

ISWYM.... it's not going to make me more irate, though I remember a fuss over the festivals' use of that field a few years back, now I see why.

Same old-same old. I can't tell you how much I like not being part of a profit making section of an organisation again, it's never pretty

[stuartbert two hats]

I don't get it. I know the walk from the car can be a bit hard, but you make the walk to your tent far more often. I'd rather camp more central. That's before you start talking about price!

[grumpyhack]

At the risk of being shot down, I came away this year thinking I'd give it a miss for a while because I found myself more disconnected as an oldie from all the pretty young things who just seemed to want to look the part. However I succumbed on Ticket Day and so will be returning.

I found the oldies to be far more inclusive and into the 'spirit' of the fest (whatever that is). Yet, ironically, many of those oldies are probably the ones who now opt for the 'comfortable' camping sites, campervans or, in my case, a caravan.

I've done CV East for the past few years and I don't think it's so much where you camp as the attitude you take into the fest.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

At the risk of being shot down, I came away this year thinking I'd give it a miss for a while because I found myself more disconnected as an oldie from all the pretty young things who just seemed to want to look the part. However I succumbed on Ticket Day and so will be returning.

I found the oldies to be far more inclusive and into the 'spirit' of the fest (whatever that is). Yet, ironically, many of those oldies are probably the ones who now opt for the 'comfortable' camping sites, campervans or, in my case, a caravan.

I've done CV East for the past few years and I don't think it's so much where you camp as the attitude you take into the fest.

I'd agree, in that to me the place has become a bit too amorphous. Yes, there's a community spirit, but it appears to me to be much more weaker than it used to be. I'm not sure if that's just because I'm older now with a different perspective than I had in my 20's, or if it's because the festival is actually 'dying'.

[jeffie]

It's odd. I only went for the first time in 97. Although it has changed for me since then I still feel it is a special place.