showers

[mkgirl1981]

this may be totally ridiculous but do they have shower blocks at glastonbury ?

[Chimps in Balaclavas]

There are showers somewhere on site, i haven't seen them, but they do exist lol ... solar ones too i believe.

[glasto_mongrel_2008]

I'm gonna do the shower thing this year if I can find them. Are they just outdoors or do they have sides and a door and fancy stuff like that?

[alframsey]

I did the shower thing this year, but you waste so much time!!! it almost the end of the day by the time your finished!!!

[br guy]

Greenpeace guys showers last year were like a walled garden with hot water

Area was about 10m x10m, high wooden walls around. Once you were inside, there was an open changing area down 1 side where you left your clothes, with a roof over, then the shower heads were over the other side, again all open, along a wall. In the middle was a little bit of garden. The shower area had no roof, so all 'al fresco', ok in the sun last year!

First time I went, i queued for about 45 mins, got inside and my kit off, was standing waiting for a free shower head - and water went off as the electricity / pump failed. So, I didn't get a shower, but got a free pass to jump the queue for next time - and it was worth the wait. Warm, not hot, but good.

[The Badger Bites Back]

Always wondered about the showers and wanted to give them a go!!! I think it would have to be a hot year to try them out!! I take it its not all clothes off for the communal shower?? I know some people at Glastonbury are very comfortable with the naturist thing but surely not for the masses???

[jollynolly]

Bottom of the kids field and up by the farm house are the shower blocks, green peace do the solar ones in the green peace field.

Wet wipes all the way for me, the queues are pretty long

[br guy]

Greenpeace men showers were completely as God made us, no one was using trunks, shorts etc. No ones bothered, why be shy, its Glastonbury after all! I didn't investigate the womens, tantalisingly just over the wall...

[ferraristu]

Could be good place for the Gay meet

[airds]

We took a solar camping shower last year (about £5 from ebay) worked really well.

We left it outside our tent on Saturday morning, and showered around 5 o'clock and the water was warm, not hot but warm

[cassandra13]

We always take a solar shower, if it is sunny by the afternoon it is usually hot enough to steam, apart from that I just use a bucket for all over wash. This might sound weird but it works, we have used one of those spray things for spraying gardens, that is good fun too if you are into communal bathing.

On a slightly different note, has anyone got experience of the saunas, do people wear anything in them or is it au naturelle? I have always wanted to try them but don't like to strip off completely as I have unsighlty surgical scars.

[.jay.]

i couldn't be arsed when i went in 07 but i do like takign ashower at festivals just for the simple fact it re energises you and blows the cobwebs out not for the clean factor.

i could have done with one at glasto in 07 as we were there for the whole 6 days but just could not be bothered, i think it's different if it's hot and sunny as you get hot and sticky and showers are rereshing.

i saw some up around the lost vagueness/trash city/hippy/beatnik area

which was a showers and sauna set up with a place to chill out just outside it.

[Neville Street]

We got there Weds last year and I used the Greenpeace showers Fri/Sat/Sun - they were superb, max queue for me was 10 mins, but twice I basically walked in with less than 3 mins wait. Not sure of exact time, but I would say between 1030 and mid-day. Grabbed coffees and waffles on the way back to Kidney Mead for my fellow campers. Brilliant start to the day, can't wait

One time the pump was only half working so only about 3 heads were in use, that was the time I queued, and the shower was too hot, I had to keep ducking in and out and almost scalded my head rinsing my hair!

You only have to take your towel as they provide all over Ecover shower gel, you are not allowed to use your own.

The ones in the kids field were always either queued out of the field or "no hot water" but I may have been unlucky.

[paulo999]

Sams Sauna is at the bottom of Undle Ground, just near the railway track.

They're a great outfit, running from donations, and support the festival not just by being on site during the core days, but are there and running for the build crew some weeks in advance.

[Josie's Cat]

A sauna? Wow. I don't actually like saunas much I get a bit claustrophobic, but it might be nice after a few days in a tent! Can kids go in saunas safely? I guess they can.

Any sauna I've been in has been attached to a pool complex, so people tended to keep their swimming gear on rather than strip off, so no worries on the surgical scar issue.

[paulo999]

A sauna? Wow. I don't actually like saunas much I get a bit claustrophobic, but it might be nice after a few days in a tent! Can kids go in saunas safely? I guess they can.

Any sauna I've been in has been attached to a pool complex, so people tended to keep their swimming gear on rather than strip off, so no worries on the surgical scar issue.

[jo (without an e!)]

I used the showers in the Greenpeace field a couple of time last year and they were fantastic! I was up early though (8am) and walked straight in. It was communal and they provide their own eco shower gel. I didn't have the nerve to strip completely but it's up to you. I'll be using them again this year if I get the chance.

[tazzyb]

i couldn't be arsed when i went in 07 but i do like takign ashower at festivals just for the simple fact it re energises you and blows the cobwebs out not for the clean factor.

[Vectrex]

As said, the showers in the Greenpeace field are sex segregated open plan showers. May well be the same setup as that this year. But they change the setup of them every year or two. A couple of years ago it was a mixed sex changing area, and private cubicles with swing doors covering your middle parts. A few years before that it was fully mixed sex with open plan showers.

The saunas onsite are clothing optional. But the vast majority of people go nude in them.

[Josie's Cat]

Sam's saunas sound amazing!! Definitely going to visit those, a must!

[chuckley]

showering is cheating!!!!!

[Vectrex]

This is the old Greenpeace showers back in 2007. Though they may stick to the single sex showers from now on, going by last year.

Edited February 8, 2009 by Vectrex

[Goblinz]

Greenpeace guys showers last year were like a walled garden with hot water

Area was about 10m x10m, high wooden walls around. Once you were inside, there was an open changing area down 1 side where you left your clothes, with a roof over, then the shower heads were over the other side, again all open, along a wall. In the middle was a little bit of garden. The shower area had no roof, so all 'al fresco', ok in the sun last year!

First time I went, i queued for about 45 mins, got inside and my kit off, was standing waiting for a free shower head - and water went off as the electricity / pump failed. So, I didn't get a shower, but got a free pass to jump the queue for next time - and it was worth the wait. Warm, not hot, but good.

Edited February 9, 2009 by Goblinz

[Vectrex]

I wonder if anyone here has used the new showers up by the farmhouse which I've heard about. Where are they in relation to the flushable toilets? What are these showers like? Are they cubicles or communal? What are the queues like?

[paulo999]

I wonder if anyone here has used the new showers up by the farmhouse which I've heard about. Where are they in relation to the flushable toilets? What are these showers like? Are they cubicles or communal? What are the queues like?

Edited April 12, 2009 by paulo999