When are you arriving on site?

[glasto-worker]

Tuesday afternoon - London Crew Coach departs at Noon from South London

I was planning to get a lift down on Sunday but my team mate cant make Glastonbury this year - I can get a crew parking pass but she cant get one on her own !!!! but I know she is keen to do it next year so assuming I don't drop down dead we will drive down very early next year.

I know my Team will be working late Tuesday night as we work in the crew bar { the big white tent in the image } but provided its dry we will hit a few crew bars.

I will be out taking shots of the crowds coming in via Gate D in the morning. { close to our camp }

[balti-pie]

Tuesday morning early doors (oxfam). Can’t bloody wait, even the road trip across is exciting! 

[Stave_1974]

Monday lunchtime ?

[Losing my hair]

Wed afternoon - NE coach arrives 2.30, camping in Darble so if it goes as smoothly as 2017 (there were no queues at that time) I should have tent up and cracking open a can by 3.30.

 

 

Posting that has probably f****d it hasn't it. Coach will break down, a queue will appear from nowhere, Darble will be rammed and I'll be pitched by midnight.

[damo101]

Staying in middlezoy west of Glastonbury. Thought we were in the west campervan site but turns out we're in teh east one. Will set off around 9 and hopefully get there for lunch time. Its about 30 miles but coming from the wrong side

[dotdash79]

1 hour ago, Northern Jack said:

Leaving sunny Lancashire at 7am Wednesday so all being well no later than midday.

 

Only need space for 2 tents as rest of our lot are in WV, so no mad rush to find room for loads of us.

The tricky part is getting past stoke and onto the M5 at that time. 

We are leaving north Manchester at about 2:30am aim to be on site for 6:30 in the queue for 7 ish

Edited June 17, 2019 by dotdash79

[phillyfaddle]

30 minutes ago, Losing my hair said:

Posting that has probably f****d it hasn't it. Coach will break down, a queue will appear from nowhere, Darble will be rammed and I'll be pitched by midnight.

No wonder you’re losing your hair ? Always look on the bright side.

Of life. ?

[phillyfaddle]

Aiming for 8-ish Wed morning. Hopefully not much traffic x-country to WV car park ? In normal conditions it’s just over an hour....

[Spindles]

Heading down Tuesday for a spot of sightseeing in the local area/walk up the Tor then joining the queue when car parks open, hoping to get a bit of kip overnight if I can.

[Quark]

10am NE coach from London Victoria. Fingers crossed through the gates before 2pm

[FloorFiller]

Leaving Liverpool 3am Wednesday by coach and hopefully arriving on site with no delays at 9am. 

Hopefully get some sleep in that time but somehow I doubt the adrenaline running through me will let much of that happen.

SO HYPED.

[westholtschic]

We are arriving on Sunday afternoon to help set up the FMS campsite etc.

[tazbang]

Thursday. Leave work in Bristol at 4pm, should be in Glastonbury by 5pm, all pitched and at the cider bus by 6pm ?

[joeruss]

Leaving Manchester about 9-10pm Tuesday night in a convoy, we should get to the festival about 1-2am and will then join the queue.. few beers and hopefully a few hours kip ?

[I feel like Pablo]

Usually part of the Tuesday night queue party (solidarity to anyone who also endured the hours of driving rain in 2016) but taking our baby so not able to leave Plymouth until about 4am Wednesday.   (This is current plan anyway, it's somewhat weather dependent as to whether we are willing to queue).

Aiming to arrive on site for 6am Wednesday purple car park for gate B but this is our first year not parking in orange and using gate D so slightly worried we are leaving it too late. 

[Flysheet]

4 hours ago, gratefulbread said:

5 hours ish and sharing with my missus. Will be great

Stopping for a bed and breakfast on the way home on the Monday, mind. 

I’m impressed with that because I’m 3.5 on a good run from Pilton and 2.5 from you (it took me that when I came up there a few weeks ago leaving at 6.30am)

Just got to hope they’re not doing night closures on the motorways I guess.

[Wilfko]

Tuesday Morning, hitching a ride with a friend who's camping in her CV (got her tickets on resale so we'll earned!). Buzzing to spend all day Tuesday sinking a few Ciders in what will obviously be glorious sunshine knowing I don't have to wake up at 3am for once. 

Edited June 17, 2019 by Wilfko

[keepad]

I will probably go down in wave two of our group and aim to get on site around noon on Wednesday.

Some of us have a few things to do in the morning like school runs etc, plus we don’t live all that far away from site.

[gratefulbread]

13 minutes ago, Flysheet said:

I’m impressed with that because I’m 3.5 on a good run from Pilton and 2.5 from you (it took me that when I came up there a few weeks ago leaving at 6.30am)

Just got to hope they’re not doing night closures on the motorways I guess.

Yea that's very much best case, open road timings. Could easily be 6 hours with a little coffee/greggs break! 

[Flysheet]

2 minutes ago, gratefulbread said:

Yea that's very much best case, open road timings. Could easily be 6 hours with a little coffee/greggs break! 

Assuming you’re doing A1/M1/M42 you’ll need to nail it before the Brum rush hour which generally starts around 6...

The M6 is still full of roadworks in Cheshire/Staffs as is the M5 at the top end and is a lottery tbh so don’t come that route. We’re going daytime Tuesday and my plan is to get south of Walsall by 2-3pm

 

[Acid Loafers]

Wednesday around 10 assuming coach goes well. Last year came on Thursday so very excited to have the extra day this time around!

[Bennykill]

Leave Essex around 10am on Wednesday. Stop off for some lunch on route arrive about 3pm. No need to rush. 

[Istari]

The OH is working her last shift on Tuesday evening, finishing around 1.30am so we will be setting off immediately after that at 2am. About a 5 hour drive down from Middlesbrough so hopefully parked up around 7am and get into a queue

[AlexaM]

Hoping to camp in Pennard Hill this year so we're planning to get in the queue at 3:30 wednesday morning, fingers crossed this will be early enough! 

[The_Amazing_Oblong]

21 hours ago, Greased-Up Deaf Guy said:

Leaving Birmingham at 5am Wednesday. Aim to be there (in local traffic) at 7ish. 

Is this the worst time to arrive in terms of traffic / entry queues?

 

First timer, sorry for the ignorance if any.

 

 

We usually leave from Tamworth, so not too far from you, around 4am and get parked up around 8am. That includes a half hour coffee stop at the services. It's about the busiest time to arrive in recent years and there has been a pretty hefty queue to get in once you have left the car. We would (recently) expect to be through the gates sometime between 10-12.

Do people get their bags out, lie on the floor and sleep in the queue through the night, sleep in their camp chairs or just stand around for hours ? How does this overnight queue thing work for you ?

Having a rethink this year. As said we have, except when working/Camper/coach, always turned up around 8am'ish Wednesday. This year for the first time it's just my wife and I rather than the usual large group (ticket gods were unkind) so we are thinking of turning up around lunchtime Wednesday. What is the traffic like (coming in from West A39 via Puriton then A361) around midday and what are the queues like to get in at that time ? Cheers