Early Entry Tickets

[future-sailor]

This will be my first time going to Reading (if i can get a ticket )

I was just wondering how can i get in on the wednesday????

Do i have to get an early bird ticket or can i pay extra at the gate???

Replies back would be greatly appreciated

[fat_man_joe]

Please do search the forums, because this question has been asked SO many times before, and is even addressed clearly on the website itself.

HOWEVER you have to buy an early entry ticket in the same process that you buy the normal ticket, from a wholesaler (ticketmaster, or SEEtickets etc), but in a separate transaction to buying the weekend ticket.

Having said that, you can also go down on the day and join the HUMONGOUS line to buy them on the gate. This however will involve lots of standing around, and the organisers do not encourage it as it gets very out of hand.

[calumtom19]

Please do search the forums, because this question has been asked SO many times before, and is even addressed clearly on the website itself.

HOWEVER you have to buy an early entry ticket in the same process that you buy the normal ticket, from a wholesaler (ticketmaster, or SEEtickets etc), but in a separate transaction to buying the weekend ticket.

Having said that, you can also go down on the day and join the HUMONGOUS line to buy them on the gate. This however will involve lots of standing around, and the organisers do not encourage it as it gets very out of hand.

[fat_man_joe]

Theres like half a dozen threads on this my advice would be read them

[dan666]

Or you can be clever and go round the back near the river and there was no ques last year. 1st ppl in the campsite and the shortest ques.

[fat_man_joe]

Or you can be clever and go round the back near the river and there was no ques last year. 1st ppl in the campsite and the shortest ques.

[beLIEveR]

The main entrance is the quickest way if you actually have an early entry.

I know they hint at this every year, and never say they're actually going to sell on the gate, but I thought they weren't going to be ALLOWED to sell tickets on the day as of this year? They blatantly will in the end, for safety reasons. But isn't the official line that NO tickets of any type will be on the door this year?

[Ravislayer]

this year its really happening, the box office will be at the oracle in the town centre, hence preventing people without tickets hanging round outside.

but yeh they have said no tickets on the door before and they have, but i think this time its for real.

[beLIEveR]

My suspicion is they'll have early birds on sale at the oracle (or by the river as you go in), but I'd be shocked if they actually have tickets. In 2006 you didn't need to queue, you could buy a ticket at 6pm (the advertised time that year) without any waiting. Okay, the rain helped. In 2007 the queues were about 2 hours, and by 2008 the people who got there at 2 were reportedly waiting until 11ish. Surely they can't afford for the urban myths to spread again, and any tickets they have in town, as they say, will simply be to cover for cock-ups with other ticket outlets.