Festival Virign

[culley]

Hi Guys,

i have just purchased my ticket for this years festival, this not only is my first Glastonbury, it is also my first festival. I am going with just 1 friend and i was hoping for someone to list all of the essentials needed for festival life, and the quantities for just the two of us.

Cheers

x

[mynameisearl]

Welcome.

Lots of help and advice can be found on these boards. A couple of places to start are

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and

/index.php?showtopic=60822&st=0&start=0">here

Plenty of reading in that lot! Take your time to go through those threads and you'll pick up some great tips and purchases and keep your eye on these boards from now until the festival (and beyond!).

My first festival was Glasto 2003 and I was blown away by it, I'm sure you'll be the same!

[StrettonHills]

hey hey

is my first Glasto too

got IOW ticket too but really excited about Glasto as i did IOW last year!

[Joshuwarr]

Wet wipes and Loo Roll are extremely important.

Lots of acohol but also some money to spend on the delicious alcohol on sale at the festival.

[culley]

thanks very much for the welcome and the good advice.

on the alcohol front, would you reccomend taking your own, or buying on site, also as i am 17 what will the likelyness be of me being able to get served on site?

[MJMilz14]

thanks very much for the welcome and the good advice.

on the alcohol front, would you reccomend taking your own, or buying on site, also as i am 17 what will the likelyness be of me being able to get served on site?

[culley]

Thanks alot.

For just two people, what size tent is recomended. I was thinking 3 man but am not sure if that is big enough.

Are walkie talkies a good idea, or do the airwaves get tooo busy?

x

[scaryclaireyfairy]

i'd say a 4 man tent unless you're very intimate. you'll potentially need room for wet wellies and clothes, and of course booze. and you'll be fine with just your mobile onsite. i've never had the 'network busy' hassle there that you get at every other festival.

[culley]

can someone please explain to me the situation with campsiites, in terms of which ones fill quicker, and which ones are located where. a map of the site would be greatly appreciated.

[MrMac]

http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/uplo...e-08-may(1).jpg

That is last year's map, but keep in mind that it could be different to some extent this year.

Row Mead by the Pyramid will fill up quickly, as will the area around sacred space / shangri la.

[Mardy]

There's lots of excellent stuff in the links above and the advice here, but don't follow it all. Make sure you find something that's different, that's yours. Have your own experieinces, and enjoy the random and unexpected. Go your own way a little bit, it's all good

[DaveMac]

can someone please explain to me the situation with campsiites, in terms of which ones fill quicker, and which ones are located where. a map of the site would be greatly appreciated.

Edited January 21, 2009 by DaveMac

[chuckley]

my advice to u would be not to post until u have read threads on the forum first or done a search on what your looking for.

[flibbitybob]

thanks very much for the welcome and the good advice.

on the alcohol front, would you reccomend taking your own, or buying on site, also as i am 17 what will the likelyness be of me being able to get served on site?

[Mardy]

with booze, I bring spirits and buy beer there. Seems to work alright, mind you, the last couple of years I've flown in from Moscow, so it's been cheap vodka all the way!

[culley]

i have been looking at the map that someone kindly posted, and from the looks of things i feel that lower mead is the place i would ideally like to set up camp. Can anyone who has stayed here please tell me how fast it fills up, and what the atmosphere generaly is like around this area.

[HurrahBrother]

Hi Guys,

i have just purchased my ticket for this years festival, this not only is my first Glastonbury, it is also my first festival. I am going with just 1 friend and i was hoping for someone to list all of the essentials needed for festival life, and the quantities for just the two of us.

Cheers

x

[scudetto_boy]

Hi Guys,

i have just purchased my ticket for this years festival, this not only is my first Glastonbury, it is also my first festival. I am going with just 1 friend and i was hoping for someone to list all of the essentials needed for festival life, and the quantities for just the two of us.

Cheers

x

[alframsey]

You gonna love it!!!!!!!!!!

[Manno]

Not been to Glasto but can't imagine you'd take much different to what I took to TitP last year.

There's the obvious ones; tent, money, tickets, plenty of water as its summer and you'll get dehydrated, wellies, clothes(not new stuff tho - theres no point going out and spending money like your going on holiday then bringing it all home and its wrecked)

Then you'll obviously want to take booze, probably sun cream if you burn easily , mouthwash and a toothbrush, wet wipes, handwash, munchies (I took loads of pringles, cereal bars and a box of weetos - dry food i suppose thats easy to eat