Glastonbury coach tickets

[hungry joe]

Dear Customer,

Thank you for booking combined Coach and Festival tickets for this years Glastonbury Festival.

Your coach tickets are in the process of being despatched and you should receive them by the 6th of June at the latest.

Please note, your festival tickets will be given out during the coach journey to the festival and under no circumstances will they be given out at the start or the end of the journey. This is to ensure that customers travel on the coach in accordance with the Licensing Agreement for this years Festival.

Each customer has been allocated a coach number and time, please be aware that you will only be permitted to board the coach displaying the same information as that on your ticket.

If you would like to find out your coach times and departure points in advance of receiving your tickets you can do so by visiting http://www.seetickets.com/tracker

We strongly recommend that you arrive at least 30 minutes before your stated departure times. Coaches are scheduled to leave on time and, unfortunately, we cannot be responsible if you miss your coach.

We look forward to seeing you at this year's festival.

Best regards

Glastonbury Festivals

apparently the coaches start leaving from monday 1am. so i'm meant to find my way back to my tent, pack it up and get there before my coach leaves?

[Pmccee]

Leave your tent.

[Gommy]

All this info was available from before the 1st of April when tickets went on sale.

You can go to the official boards for more in depth discussion but basically.

The tickets are an extra 25,000 added to the capacity of the festival on the grounds that they leave/arrive at offpeak times. This is a licence stipulation.

You may want to check what time your bus is scheduled for first as well, it may not be 1am.

Alternatively you can buy a national-express ticket and not use the return portion of your ticket.

[roskelld]

Glastonbury 1984 or what?

I really don't fancy going through that crap to go back there. I've been a few times in the past and loved it, but they seem to be killing the whole event from the outset. It sounds awful.

I hope the walls come down again, I went to the '95 on and was sat in the field when they pulled the walls down and declared the show a free festival. It was such an amazing experience, everyone was just on a crazy high.

I think I last went in '99 and although it was still pretty good, I did start to get the feeling that Starbucks would be putting coffee tents up on every corner.

EDIT: So that's a day pass thing? No as bad I suppose, but still it's all sounding a bit messed up now.

[Gommy]

Glastonbury 1984 or what?

I really don't fancy going through that crap to go back there. I've been a few times in the past and loved it, but they seem to be killing the whole event from the outset. It sounds awful.

I hope the walls come down again, I went to the '95 on and was sat in the field when they pulled the walls down and declared the show a free festival. It was such an amazing experience, everyone was just on a crazy high.

I think I last went in '99 and although it was still pretty good, I did start to get the feeling that Starbucks would be putting coffee tents up on every corner.

EDIT: So that's a day pass thing? No as bad I suppose, but still it's all sounding a bit messed up now.

Not a day pass, a weekend pass. The point is those 25,000 tickets wouldn't exist without the strict stipulations. Normal weekend tickets have no such stipulations. The fact is demand far outstrips supply and so this has been done to increase supply.

[hungry joe]

there are going to be riots once people start missing their buses and the number keeps on piling up.

[MrPogo]

Good point. Every time I've gone to a day festival by coach there's always been at least three or four people who are more than fifteen minutes late, and one who doesn't show up by the time the coach has sat there for 45 minutes and the driver has made everyone sign a disclaimer that he's waited that long. On that basis there's going to be t least 500 people missing their ride out of that 25,000 if they wait around, and probably 1500 if they do go dead on time.