drop off point on Wednesday

[august1]

Anyone there? Pretty horrendous queue. No proper queuing system loads of people jumping in. No communication of what was actually going on.

 

Got there at 8 am, stood in the sun til 1pm.Suncream was in bottom of the unreachable. No food or water, shuffling along inches in the packed crowd. Not the best start to the festival, hopefully it gets noted and improved for next year.

 

Great year aside from it.

Edited June 29, 2015 by august1

[Keva]

Got there at 6am and didn't get on a coach till gone 9. Wasn't a good start to the festival at all...

[Brumbot]

Yep. Got there half 7 with the view to getting a prime camping spot. Didn't get through and set up camp until gone 3. We started drinking in the queue to ease the pain but it was struggle inching forward with all our heavy stuff.

The guys loading the buses seemed to be very efficient but there were just too many people.

[august1]

The guys loading the buses seemed to be very efficient but there were just too many people.

 

 

I think they could have got the coaches moving much quicker by filling all the coaches when they arrived, then plug the gaps to get a quicker turn around.

[dicko_belfast]

Yeah it was a nightmare, was standing in it 5 hours myself. No communication as to what was happening and no system at all for the barriers,crazy.

[Redwinevino]

Someone said a few coaches came there by mistake instead of Gate A which really screwed some things.far too many people there

[august1]

we went to gate A and got turned away, so had to go back to the drop off point, then the 5 hour wait. biggest kick in the balls ever

[kalifire]

we went to gate A and got turned away, so had to go back to the drop off point

Wow that sounds harsh. The drop off was much busier than last year and aside from the guys who lug the baggage on the coaches, it was badly staffed. I arrived at about 4:30am and this was the scene:

Last year there were maybe three or four people at 4:50am. I waited about 10 minutes for a bus this year, and before I got on the shuttle bus I turned around and took a photo of the crowd as it stood then:

So it was already building up.