T DAY

[Avalon_Fields]

4 hours ago, Blueberry said:

How do you attend as a guest of someone working?

Festival Medical Services staff are allowed to bring in one guest each, usually their partner of course, I got a regular ticket in a special sale and paid a small sum to use the quality FMS field services.

I’d guess there may be other similar set ups at the festival.

[incident]

8 minutes ago, Avalon_Fields said:

Festival Medical Services staff are allowed to bring in one guest each, usually their partner of course, I got a regular ticket in a special sale and paid a small sum to use the quality FMS field services.

I’d guess there may be other similar set ups at the festival.

There might be similar things available for some of the core festival staff, but in terms of the organisations that bring volunteers as far as I can tell the guest tickets are unique to FMS (presumably because they need to recruit specialist skills).

[srb]

Strangely, I'm always the one who gets through for our group. I know my luck has to run out so I'm hoping it's not in October or else one of the others gets the rub of the green this year. I think October will be brutal due to a combo of usual high demand, 50th and the weather this year. Ah, what will be will be 

[Blueberry]

Thanks @incident and @Avalon_Fields. I know I won’t be able to volunteer next year so trying to weigh up other options if I don’t get a ticket (I’m such a pessimist I’m assuming I won’t!) 

[K2SO]

Stop scaring me.

[Jitterbug_87]

First time in a few years due to lack of funds I will be trying for tix.   Dreading it lol.....will be me and my 2 sisters on pho es and tablets so not very optimistic of our chances ??

[rmartin1803]

Did anyone use the refresher apps that were talked about before last ticket day  ? and if so was there success ? 

[a6l6e6x]

Might just start the resale group thread now. I'm a bit of a pessimist 

[kalifire]

On 7/12/2019 at 4:08 AM, rmartin1803 said:

Did anyone use the refresher apps that were talked about before last ticket day  ? and if so was there success ? 

Somebody here discovered that if you refreshed too quickly (I believe it was more than once a second), See would block you. You have to be careful even manually refreshing - using an auto-refresh app is the choice of fools. 

[Sasperella]

Was chatting to some of my Glastonbury crew in the pub last night and started formulating a game plan. The coach ticket sale will feature in this, but now that three of us live in Glasgow it's a bit more of a daunting prospect (which two of us are 100% in for, the other not so much).

I checked the National Express tickets for this year, and it seems that they had a night bus that left around 10pm and arrived at 8am (ideal) and another day time on which leaves around 7am or something so you don't get to Glastonbury until at least 5pm (not as ideal). Does anyone know what the See ticket times were for Glasgow this year?

@Tartan_Glasto - how was your coach experience? Were you See or NE?

 

[vintagelaureate]

After this year, I think it's highly unlikely I will be able to come down on the Wednesday and with me needing to get back all my eggs will be in the general sale basket...

[Crazyfool01]

I saw it somewhere on here but im thinking of offering a financial reward to get some people helping( fb friends )  .... maybe £50 for the successful buyer and employing a strategy of you need x number of friends helping to be in the ticket group ... is this too harsh ? 

[faymondo]

5 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

I saw it somewhere on here but im thinking of offering a financial reward to get some people helping( fb friends )  .... maybe £50 for the successful buyer and employing a strategy of you need x number of friends helping to be in the ticket group ... is this too harsh ? 

I have offered a bounty in the past !! That said nobody has ever claimed one. I suspect they just dont try as hard as us hardcore ticket people.

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, faymondo said:

I have offered a bounty in the past !! That said nobody has ever claimed one. I suspect they just dont try as hard as us hardcore ticket people.

not a bad pay rate for success .... £50 for 30mins work at  that time on a sunday when possibly not a lot else is going on ...

[Sasperella]

1 hour ago, crazyfool1 said:

I saw it somewhere on here but im thinking of offering a financial reward to get some people helping( fb friends )  .... maybe £50 for the successful buyer and employing a strategy of you need x number of friends helping to be in the ticket group ... is this too harsh ? 

Our group are currently considering this as an option!

But do I have enough friends/family that are close enough to want to do this for me AND are technologically capable AND haven't already been to Glasto before (and will therefore probably wanna be in for the 50th)...? 

Edited July 28, 2019 by Sasperella

[Crazyfool01]

3 minutes ago, Sasperella said:

Our group are currently considering this as an option!

But do I have enough friends/family that are close enough to want to do this for me AND technologically capable AND haven't already been to Glasto before (and will therefore probably wanna be in for the 50th)...? 

ive not yet sorted a group even  I will have enough people going ... this year there were only 2 of us  ... its just those waverers that said they were going to register and haven't yet ... how long do I give them ? its 2 months away and I dont know if its just me thinking about it  (out of our lot ) 

[vintagelaureate]

I've got a group of 5 this time round, but I have several more who try for me. I expect that 2 may drop out - 1 went this year and didn't really enjoy it (and they're getting married the week before TDay). If I've got space I'll add others on from here - @crazyfool1?

[Crazyfool01]

28 minutes ago, vintagelaureate said:

I've got a group of 5 this time round, but I have several more who try for me. I expect that 2 may drop out - 1 went this year and didn't really enjoy it (and they're getting married the week before TDay). If I've got space I'll add others on from here - @crazyfool1?

I think ill have a 6 ... but will definitely take your groups details for a second option if / when we are successful ... it seems daft but I was more than happy with just the two of us this year .... and as we have now worked out a way to alleviate some of the queue issue it seems that people want to use us as tent carthorses and I really dont want to go back to that game again 

[Tartan_Glasto]

On 7/28/2019 at 9:52 AM, Sasperella said:

Was chatting to some of my Glastonbury crew in the pub last night and started formulating a game plan. The coach ticket sale will feature in this, but now that three of us live in Glasgow it's a bit more of a daunting prospect (which two of us are 100% in for, the other not so much).

I checked the National Express tickets for this year, and it seems that they had a night bus that left around 10pm and arrived at 8am (ideal) and another day time on which leaves around 7am or something so you don't get to Glastonbury until at least 5pm (not as ideal). Does anyone know what the See ticket times were for Glasgow this year?

@Tartan_Glasto - how was your coach experience? Were you See or NE?

 

Coach was absolutely spot on! It was an NE one. It left bang on 11pm. Was not full up so plenty of room to spread out and get comfy. More importantly plenty of room for luggage. It stopped at Carlisle to pick up a few more people but even still there was plenty of room. We then had two service station stops at about 20mins each en route. We arrived on site a bit early if I recall, maybe about 7:45am.

I was worried it would be a party bus but despite the fact the driver actually gave permission for folk to have some drink on the way, everyone pretty much just slept and was very respectful of each other. 

Can't comment on the return journey. We did have return tickets for the NE coach (as it worked out the same price as a single) but we got the train back up the road.

[Sasperella]

55 minutes ago, Tartan_Glasto said:

Coach was absolutely spot on! It was an NE one. It left bang on 11pm. Was not full up so plenty of room to spread out and get comfy. More importantly plenty of room for luggage. It stopped at Carlisle to pick up a few more people but even still there was plenty of room. We then had two service station stops at about 20mins each en route. We arrived on site a bit early if I recall, maybe about 7:45am.

I was worried it would be a party bus but despite the fact the driver actually gave permission for folk to have some drink on the way, everyone pretty much just slept and was very respectful of each other. 

Can't comment on the return journey. We did have return tickets for the NE coach (as it worked out the same price as a single) but we got the train back up the road.

Cool good to know! The bus down does sound like quite a nice option...not sure about the way back though! 

I wonder if the See tickets go at the same sort of time....