2021 Tickets

[gooner1990]

Bought tickets this morning for Beautiful Days but not been before....me and my mate (both 39) are going together....any tips on camping areas etc? Or tips on arrival times etc that 1st timers wouldn't know? 

[Quark]

16 minutes ago, blutarsky said:

Not as yet...! 
You going? 

Yep, bagged tix this morning for my brother and a pal 🙂

Do it do it do it do it do it

[Maurice Mecca]

Me and friends got tickets this morning, very excited.  This will be our first time at Beautiful Days this year - looking forward to it immensely.  I am sure there will be plenty of questions for regulars nearer the time!

[blutarsky]

29 minutes ago, Quark said:

Yep, bagged tix this morning for my brother and a pal 🙂

Do it do it do it do it do it

I'll float the idea tonight 

[Quark]

Just now, blutarsky said:

I'll float the idea tonight 

Just tell her a bloke on the internet that thinks he's a Star Trek alien told you to do it.

Watertight plan if ever I saw one.

[ourkid1984]

Got tickets this morning. First time of going. Very much looking forward to it.

[Pinhead]

Went for first time in 2010, then again as a steward in 2015, so seen the festival from both sides - you won't be disappointed! Hope we get some idea of which bookings are potentially being honored from last year at some point.

[Skelts]

10 minutes ago, Pinhead said:

Went for first time in 2010, then again as a steward in 2015, so seen the festival from both sides - you won't be disappointed! Hope we get some idea of which bookings are potentially being honored from last year at some point.

Were any announced last year?  Any details?

Edit - ignore me, found the details.

Edited March 12, 2021 by Skelts
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[gooner1990]

14 minutes ago, Pinhead said:

Went for first time in 2010, then again as a steward in 2015, so seen the festival from both sides - you won't be disappointed! Hope we get some idea of which bookings are potentially being honored from last year at some point.

Fingers crossed that Flogging Molly play!

[chris_nre]

Got some tickets this morning. First Beautiful Days festival for me. Would be useful to get some useful tips from the BD veterans.

[Losing my hair]

Got a ticket but will sell it (hopefully) if the Oxfam shop is on site and I get a place there but there's nothing as yet from Oxfam as to which festivals they are doing this year.

[blutarsky]

22 hours ago, Quark said:

Just tell her a bloke on the internet that thinks he's a Star Trek alien told you to do it.

Watertight plan if ever I saw one.

I may have swung it, sort of.

We’re buying a van to convert into a camper at the moment, and intend to have it ready for the road by late July as I’m a teacher. Mrs B still has her heart set on six weeks on the continent but with Covid I just can’t see it. 
I’ve convinced her a couple of weeks tour of Wales and Scotland followed by BD is a good back up, knowing it’s far more likely to happen. 
How easy are tickets to resell though if we do end up in Europe? 

[eFestivals]

On 3/12/2021 at 2:02 PM, gooner1990 said:

Bought tickets this morning for Beautiful Days but not been before....me and my mate (both 39) are going together....any tips on camping areas etc? Or tips on arrival times etc that 1st timers wouldn't know? 

Always big queues for gate opening time.

[gooner1990]

54 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

Always big queues for gate opening time.

So if I was to arrive about 3pm that would be ok?

[Skelts]

8 minutes ago, gooner1990 said:

So if I was to arrive about 3pm that would be ok?

I think most traffic comes from the m5 at Exeter so if you can approach the site from the Honiton side, it’ll be a bit quieter. 

[gooner1990]

44 minutes ago, Skelts said:

I think most traffic comes from the m5 at Exeter so if you can approach the site from the Honiton side, it’ll be a bit quieter. 

I live near Oxford so can either come down the A34>M4>M5 or the A34>A3003>A30

[Skelts]

3 minutes ago, gooner1990 said:

I live near Oxford so can either come down the A34>M4>M5 or the A34>A3003>A30

Go with whichever is quicker for you and if that means getting off the m5 in Exeter, you can always drive straight past the site on the A30 and do a u turn at honiton so you end up approaching from there. I live 20 mins north of the site and approach from honiton mid afternoon, haven’t experienced any major delays 👍

Its not a massive distance from the car park either so much easier to do a couple of trips. I leave a massive cool box full of cider and ice in the car and head back there on Saturday too

[gooner1990]

1 minute ago, Skelts said:

Go with whichever is quicker for you and if that means getting off the m5 in Exeter, you can always drive straight past the site on the A30 and do a u turn at honiton so you end up approaching from there. I live 20 mins north of the site and approach from honiton mid afternoon, haven’t experienced any major delays 👍

Its not a massive distance from the car park either so much easier to do a couple of trips. I leave a massive cool box full of cider and ice in the car and head back there on Saturday too

As its not Glastonbury I won't be racing down there to get in the second the gates open so 3pm I'm hoping the queues to get on site and into the festival will be ok.

 

Couple of questions...where in the camping would two blokes aged 39 fit in? and also what's the security like with searching going in? 😉 

[Skelts]

7 minutes ago, gooner1990 said:

As its not Glastonbury I won't be racing down there to get in the second the gates open so 3pm I'm hoping the queues to get on site and into the festival will be ok.

 

Couple of questions...where in the camping would two blokes aged 39 fit in? and also what's the security like with searching going in? 😉 

Anywhere but the family camping site I guess. I go to north camping, in through the blue gate and turn right. 
Personally I’ve never been searched or seen anyone else being searched. So I don’t really know how thorough it would be if you did get selected. Once you’re in and wristbanded, I’m pretty sure you just get waved on through if you go out to the car & back in though!

[gooner1990]

2 minutes ago, Skelts said:

Anywhere but the family camping site I guess. I go to north camping, in through the blue gate and turn right. 
Personally I’ve never been searched or seen anyone else being searched. So I don’t really know how thorough it would be if you did get selected. Once you’re in and wristbanded, I’m pretty sure you just get waved on through if you go out to the car & back in though!

Thanks for the tips. 🙂 

I wasn't sure if they had sniffer dogs etc like at some festivals nowadays! 

Do many people 'get on it' ? we will probably look to have a bit of a good time late on (not during the day) but don't want to stand out if everyone else is just drinking!

[Skelts]

19 minutes ago, gooner1990 said:

Thanks for the tips. 🙂 

I wasn't sure if they had sniffer dogs etc like at some festivals nowadays! 

Do many people 'get on it' ? we will probably look to have a bit of a good time late on (not during the day) but don't want to stand out if everyone else is just drinking!

PM’d you

[blutarsky]

I did it - tickets bought through the @eFestivals link. See you there @Quark. 

Does anyone know if the campervan fields allow earlier admission like at G?

 

 

[eFestivals]

5 minutes ago, blutarsky said:

I did it - tickets bought through the @eFestivals link. See you there @Quark. 

Does anyone know if the campervan fields allow earlier admission like at G?

 

 

There's no early admission for campervans. Thanks for using thisthe efests links 

 

Edited March 15, 2021 by eFestivals

[Quark]

5 hours ago, blutarsky said:

I did it - tickets bought through the @eFestivals link. See you there @Quark. 

Does anyone know if the campervan fields allow earlier admission like at G?

Feel like the pressure's on and Mrs Blutarsky will be seeking me out if it turns out to be shite 😄

[Quark]

On 3/12/2021 at 2:02 PM, gooner1990 said:

Bought tickets this morning for Beautiful Days but not been before....me and my mate (both 39) are going together....any tips on camping areas etc? Or tips on arrival times etc that 1st timers wouldn't know? 

I think me & my brother arrived about 5pm ish or something like that on the Thursday, and getting in was a breeze.  There was a queue, but it was a moving queue. Was about a 5-10 min walk from the car park to site as I recall, nothing like the schlep at G.

As far as location goes, we just plonked down in a spot by the Cabaret tent.  Nice and easy to walk back into the main area, quiet enough to kip but not completely dead quiet so a wee bit of bustle.  Was a decent enough pitch, but we pretty much wandered in and just found somewhere with a space so didn't spend ages weighing up the options 🙂

On 3/13/2021 at 5:54 PM, gooner1990 said:

Do many people 'get on it' ? we will probably look to have a bit of a good time late on (not during the day) but don't want to stand out if everyone else is just drinking!

Depends on how on it you mean I guess!  There was a lot of fragrant smoke around the place, but not 100% sure about others.  There is some later night stuff, but obvs not to the same degree. In all honesty I think it would depend on how out of your tree you'd plan to get; if you're at a dancing / hugging / sweating state you'd probably be OK, but if you're naked and running around screaming about the dragons chasing you then you might get noticed 😄