Camping at Pennards Hill

[zheer]

Hi All,

Seeking some camping location advice.

I was thinking about making a sprint to get a spot at Pennards hill this year.  Queue the night before to get in the doors within the first hour of openning sort of thing.

I did that last year to camp in lower mead. However there seemed to be alot of tents already up, even at that time.

Is there alot of camping  before the festival opens? Or are people just really that efficient. I would hate to rush to the field and find it half full already

Thanks

[Tranquility of Solitude]

Camplight will already have set up their tents in Pennards by the time the gates open, so there will be areas that are already full. I stayed there last year. If you are early enough, there should still be plenty space. It was pretty full by mid afternoon on the Wednesday though.

http://www.camplight.co.uk/product-category/camplight-at-glastonbury-festival/

[dooke10]

20 minutes ago, zheer said:

Hi All,

Seeking some camping location advice.

I was thinking about making a sprint to get a spot at Pennards hill this year.  Queue the night before to get in the doors within the first hour of openning sort of thing.

I did that last year to camp in lower mead. However there seemed to be alot of tents already up, even at that time.

Is there alot of camping  before the festival opens? Or are people just really that efficient. I would hate to rush to the field and find it half full already

Thanks

I think you should only be concerned if its full. Half full is success.

[ghostdancer1]

lots of crew/workers put their tents up, or their friends tents up before doors open for general public.

you should still find space though, might not get all tents together if there's loads of you though.

[Joshuwarr]

This was Wednesday at 10AM last year. As you can see in the distance Pennards is already well on it's way to being full...

[verrymerry]

If you do camp in Pennards be sure to visit the campsite crew & say hi to Bernie the Gnome (and his cat Graham). . They'll say he's called Greg, but he's Bernie 

[lucyginger]

18 minutes ago, verrymerry said:

If you do camp in Pennards be sure to visit the campsite crew & say hi to Bernie the Gnome (and his cat Graham). . They'll say he's called Greg, but he's Bernie 

We always camp in Pennards. Have I missed a cat all these years?! 

[verrymerry]

2 hours ago, lucyginger said:

We always camp in Pennards. Have I missed a cat all these years?! 

Well he's small & porcelain, so understandable. He lives in the caravan 

[wilson123]

If you get in early - by midday Wednesday - you'll be able to get a decent spot on Pennards away from the bogs 

[lucyginger]

31 minutes ago, verrymerry said:

Well he's small & porcelain, so understandable. He lives in the caravan 

Ah ha!! I will look out for him  

[Davet84]

Usually get in around 1pm and see all the fields filling up and panic camp at the top but last year walked down to pennards and thought it was relatively empty (considering the amount of people we had passed) 

Managed to get 12 tents in with some clever reshuffling about, will probably try the same again this year think alot of people assume it will be full.

Probably going to get in the queue around 7am though

[Charm]

2 hours ago, Davet84 said:

Usually get in around 1pm and see all the fields filling up and panic camp at the top but last year walked down to pennards and thought it was relatively empty (considering the amount of people we had passed) 

Managed to get 12 tents in with some clever reshuffling about, will probably try the same again this year think alot of people assume it will be full.

Probably going to get in the queue around 7am though

Seemed packed to me around that time. 
Charm x