Parking!

[Sidasta]

The last two years, I've driven down through Shepton Mallet and arrived between midnight and 4am. I drove through Pilton to get to the the west car parks.  Both times, I ended up parked very close to Gate A (like, ten cars away from the entrance both times) - even though I really wanted Gate D last year, I was quite lucky as to how close my car was to a gate at all.

This year, I'm not intending to get to the site until around 7-8am (we have a hotel nearby the night before and I don't fancy sleeping in the car or sitting in the cold queue again).

From other people's experiences in recent years, at what point do the stewards start filling up the pink parking?  I'd really like to avoid being parked so far away from a gate if possible, but not sure if arriving at 7am is the best idea if I'm aiming for that.  I've given up on Gate D as I imagine I'd have to get there between 9pm and midnight, but Gate D is ideal as we're camping down there.

But then, is pink parking really that far/bad?  There's two of us this year so maybe we can get everything through the gate in one go, rather than having to make two trips.

Ultimately, it doesn't really matter, we're going to Glastonbury together and that's great!! Nothing's going to bring that down. But I'm sitting here, bored, no work to do, and thinking about car parking for some reason...  I think I need a hobby that doesn't evolve around studying Glastonbury FAQs, maps and forums.

[mike86]

Just going to jump on this thread to ask about paying for parking. Can you do this on the day or does it need to be pre-booked? 

I've only ever taken the coach down but one of my friends is driving down this year. 

[Jamie D]

4 minutes ago, MikeJ86 said:

Just going to jump on this thread to ask about paying for parking. Can you do this on the day or does it need to be pre-booked? 

I've only ever taken the coach down but one of my friends is driving down this year. 

I've got a spare parking pass I'm trying to sell. More than happy to sell it for under the official price if you'd like it. Will save you worrying about buying one on the day for an inflated price...

[JanieM28]

2 minutes ago, MikeJ86 said:

Just going to jump on this thread to ask about paying for parking. Can you do this on the day or does it need to be pre-booked? 

I've only ever taken the coach down but one of my friends is driving down this year. 

Tell your mate he can get a car park ticket here http://glastonbury.seetickets.com/tour/glastonbury-2016

It's cheaper than buying one there if there any available.

[Jamie D]

By the way the official answer is you can buy them on the day for a tenner more than usual. But save yourself the hassle and buy mine!

[mike86]

6 minutes ago, Jamie D said:

By the way the official answer is you can buy them on the day for a tenner more than usual. But save yourself the hassle and buy mine!

Thanks for the tips. I'll pass the info on to him. 

[rfc_478]

24 minutes ago, Sidasta said:

The last two years, I've driven down through Shepton Mallet and arrived between midnight and 4am. I drove through Pilton to get to the the west car parks.  Both times, I ended up parked very close to Gate A (like, ten cars away from the entrance both times) - even though I really wanted Gate D last year, I was quite lucky as to how close my car was to a gate at all.

This year, I'm not intending to get to the site until around 7-8am (we have a hotel nearby the night before and I don't fancy sleeping in the car or sitting in the cold queue again).

From other people's experiences in recent years, at what point do the stewards start filling up the pink parking?  I'd really like to avoid being parked so far away from a gate if possible, but not sure if arriving at 7am is the best idea if I'm aiming for that.  I've given up on Gate D as I imagine I'd have to get there between 9pm and midnight, but Gate D is ideal as we're camping down there.

But then, is pink parking really that far/bad?  There's two of us this year so maybe we can get everything through the gate in one go, rather than having to make two trips.

Ultimately, it doesn't really matter, we're going to Glastonbury together and that's great!! Nothing's going to bring that down. But I'm sitting here, bored, no work to do, and thinking about car parking for some reason...  I think I need a hobby that doesn't evolve around studying Glastonbury FAQs, maps and forums.

I drove down Thursday morning last year, arriving around 9am, and parked in pink. It was a bit of a walk but not too bad, maybe 25 mins to Gate A? We camped in Pylon though so once we were through it wasn't far to the campsite at all.

[Jakeyboy1986]

34 minutes ago, Jamie D said:

I've got a spare parking pass I'm trying to sell. More than happy to sell it for under the official price if you'd like it. Will save you worrying about buying one on the day for an inflated price...

Have dropped you a message

[Slugworth]

Parking thread V.10

[Junglist1981]

in 2010 we came down the M5 on the Wednesday morning, spent 5 hours in traffic and then ended up in the furthest possible corner of pink at about 2pm.

Carrying our stuff all that way in the scorching heat sucked.

Haven't been that way since so things may have improved. But damn.

 

[cowmadiddy]

I'm renting a car this year - do the stickers come off easily enough as I don't want to get penalised for an extra cleaning bill.

[Jamie D]

13 minutes ago, cowmadiddy said:

I'm renting a car this year - do the stickers come off easily enough as I don't want to get penalised for an extra cleaning bill.

To be completely honest - no!

Stick it to some plastic or something and then just wedge that up in the windscreen. Just so long as the stewards can see it (and can therefore direct you the right way) then all will be fine.

[fionajm777]

16 minutes ago, cowmadiddy said:

I'm renting a car this year - do the stickers come off easily enough as I don't want to get penalised for an extra cleaning bill.

Last year I stuck my pass to cling film them blutacked it on to the windscreen. 

[Jamie D]

I once had a car fail an MOT because I couldn't get the Glastonbury sticker off. The only thing that would budge it was Sticky Stuff Remover https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mykal-Sticky-Stuff-Remover-250ml-x/dp/B000TAT4GM

[loveisanumber]

29 minutes ago, cowmadiddy said:

I'm renting a car this year - do the stickers come off easily enough as I don't want to get penalised for an extra cleaning bill.

I was planning on borrowing a car, but the friend I was borrowing off now needs the car that weekend. How expensive was it to rent? I'm torn between renting and trying to fit 3 people and all our stuff into my tiny fiat 500! 

Edited May 24, 2016 by loveisanumber

[rfc_478]

1 hour ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

Were you forced into pink as the others were full or did you choose to park there? I'm worried about this too tbh. can't be arsed with the queue but don't wanna be miles away. 

We were directed there, but knew that would be the case Thursday morning. Maybe we were lucky as you can probably be further away in pink than we were, but the walk wasn't too horrendous

[cowmadiddy]

40 minutes ago, loveisanumber said:

I was planning on borrowing a car, but the friend I was borrowing off now needs the car that weekend. How expensive was it to rent? I'm torn between renting and trying to fit 3 people and all our stuff into my tiny fiat 500! 

I'm lucky enough to have a sister that works for a rental company, so it's costing £106 for the week for an estate.

I did consider the bus but i'll be over people by then, and like to go at my own pace on the Monday

[bexj]

I have been separated from friends by about 10 cars -  they ended up about 50m from gate D,  we ended up in pink....  It's completely down to which car park they fill at the time so be prepared to walk.   I've never measured it but as an overweight mid 40s woman with a shit load of stuff it's never killed me.