Think Before You Pack

[StoneCircle]

Some great advise on the GFL website about what to bring and what not to bring. Please have a read before you pack! Here's a link to the list - 

 

https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/news/think-before-you-pack-for-this-years-festival-25/ 🎉

[Skip997]

Yeah that’s a decent list. Interesting that the only drug mentioned is nitrous 

[deepkittycaz]

56 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

Yeah that’s a decent list. Interesting that the only drug mentioned is nitrous 

Presumably due to the canisters?

[Skip997]

1 minute ago, deepkittycaz said:

Presumably due to the canisters?

Yeah this is why, Shambala have the same policy. 

[HotChipWillBreakYourLegs]

A great read.

 

[CurlyPutz]

Planning on using a trolley for the first time in 10 years as getting old now and have a 100km charity hike two weeks after the festival so need to limit body damage 😂 

 

It is a decent one my wife used for forest school stuff. 

 

How much slower are the trolleys entrance lanes would you say good people? 

[Crazyfool01]

1 minute ago, CurlyPutz said:

Planning on using a trolley for the first time in 10 years as getting old now and have a 100km charity hike two weeks after the festival so need to limit body damage 😂 

 

It is a decent one my wife used for forest school stuff. 

 

How much slower are the trolleys entrance lanes would you say good people? 

they arent really they are the same queue untill you get to the gate where you are able to go through a wide lane 

[Suprefan]

The glitter ban is gonna rile some people

up

[Skip997]

4 minutes ago, Suprefan said:

The glitter ban is gonna rile some people

up

Including me. I rarely use it myself, only when someone else puts it on me, but I love seeing it when I’m out dancing post midnight 

[danmarks]

Same as the wet wipes. People will take it in without question 

 

[Metal Monkey]

No drums? Is the drum circle in the stone circle not happening any more?

[Pipine]

I don’t see any mention of aerosols.. my suncream is one of those spray mist ones in an aerosol can.. is that ok to bring?

[StoneCircle]

15 minutes ago, Pipine said:

I don’t see any mention of aerosols.. my suncream is one of those spray mist ones in an aerosol can.. is that ok to bring?

 

I am sure aerosols are okay to bring. 

[dg.bandol]

2 hours ago, danmarks said:

Same as the wet wipes. People will take it in without question 

 

So are wet wipes outright banned or is it a “please try and avoid bringing them” type scenario?

[Skip997]

26 minutes ago, Metal Monkey said:

No drums? Is the drum circle in the stone circle not happening any more?

Don’t think it’s happened for a while. Which is a good thing, for there aren’t many things more annoying that a load of stoned hippies thinking they can drum, while being hopelessly out of time 

[EavisAintDead]

14 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

Don’t think it’s happened for a while. Which is a good thing, for there aren’t many things more annoying that a load of stoned hippies thinking they can drum, while being hopelessly out of time 

Living in Glastonbury, I come to the festival to get away from that! The tor on a solstice is so so bad. The church yard drunks playing out of tune guitars along with equally out of tune singing takes the prize for worst sound though

[danmarks]

22 minutes ago, dg.bandol said:

So are wet wipes outright banned or is it a “please try and avoid bringing them” type scenario?

Well the guidance says please avoid using so more of a soft- we would rather you didn't but we haven't a hope in hell really of stopping it. But there was crispgate a couple of years ago when overzealous (and wrongfully informed) searches took bags of crisps off people so who knows what will happen 

[mike86]

They could probably build a wet wipe stage with the amount they'd get off people. 

[Metal Monkey]

Going to be a smelly festival!

[WforWill]

Seem stricter on the bag search policy

[Suprefan]

42 minutes ago, dg.bandol said:

So are wet wipes outright banned or is it a “please try and avoid bringing them” type scenario?

 

just bring  the ones that can be flushed. Thats really what they should specify. 

[EavisAintDead]

No wet wipes has been the advise from the festival for years now. Sadly, with no showers it's the only way for a hairy guy to be hygienic for that amount of time

[Suprefan]

15 minutes ago, mike86 said:

They could probably build a wet wipe stage with the amount they'd get off people. 

 

they could just sell them and turn a mad profit.

[Crazyfool01]

49 minutes ago, EavisAintDead said:

No wet wipes has been the advise from the festival for years now. Sadly, with no showers it's the only way for a hairy guy to be hygienic for that amount of time

Porta shower and flannel does an ok job 

[phillyfaddle]

Best piece of packing advice I saw on here, maybe 15 years ago, was to fully pack your rucksack. Strap it on then walk up and down stairs a few times. If you think “f*ck me, that’s heavy”, revise your Glasto kit plan immediately. If you don’t, you’ll die before you reach the gates.