Spends

[YouWhat]

What sort of money do you think would be needed per person for 3 days and the thursday night only. Will not be taking own booze, but may take cooker to use own food after seeing food prices at other festivals. Is cash best, i don't want the hassle of queing for cash points or losing my card.

Oh and probaby about 6 pints of real ale per day in booze

Edited April 27, 2009 by YouWhat

[Kyelo]

-Pints are around £3(not sure if the same applies to Real Ale, sure it does).

-Food is from £2-£8. Things I buy are normally about £5.

-I take about £50 a day which does me for everything including food and drink but many people take less.

-I only ever use cash, can't be bothered with waiting about. There is fun to be had and time wasting waiting for a cash machine is no fun!

Edited April 27, 2009 by BenchBuddah

[andymk]

I took £250 last year, arrived Wednesday am, left late Sunday night. I did take a case of lager but no food and still managed to bring £60 + assorted coinage home with me.

There is such a wide variety of food there that you should be fine, it all depends what you fancy.

Beer wise if you're looking at 6 pints that'll be in the region of £20 a day. If you add another £15 for food I'm sure that'll be more than enough

[andy_h]

I think I average spending about £250-300 in the past few years. That's from arriving first thing Wed, until Monday afternoon and with all food and sheds loads of alcohol bought on site. You won;t spend that much if you're only buying 6 pints a day.

I'd recommend taking cash if you can, saves the hassle of having to queue for the cash machines.

[cejx]

the cashpoint queues can be laughable, and I've never really fancied spending 4 hours of the festival in a giant queue... bring all the cash you can and keep it on you in a money belt.

A 2 litre bottle of brothers pear cider is a tenner, you can pick up some decent vege stuff for under a fiver, and if after drinking 2 litres of pear cider, you decide you need a fairy outfit, a comedy hat or some stripy socks, obviously you'll need more!! If you do run out, the Kare Krishna do some pretty yummy food for free... xxx

[whisty]

I always take a box or 2 of Wine & pour some in a plasic bottle for the evening walkabout. Saves queues, and helps reduce too many visits to the place where you get instant relief!

Edited April 27, 2009 by whisty

[r0cky]

BTW Brothers have stopped selling those 2 litre bottles of cider.

[cejx]

BTW Brothers have stopped selling those 2 litre bottles of cider.

[StoneCircle]

They were stopped from selling them in 2007 as it ruins your memory if drunk in large quantities!

[Joshbcfc]

Can you take your own drink into tents and stuff?

[cejx]

They were stopped from selling them in 2007 as it ruins your memory if drunk in large quantities!

[cejx]

Can you take your own drink into tents and stuff?

[Kyelo]

blimus!! I'm clearly getting my years confused! Probably a good thing to stop selling the big bottle eh?!

[StoneCircle]

Can you take your own drink into tents and stuff?

[Stuzo]

It'll be a money making thing.

[whisty]

Maybe it was the year before but 4 cups were same price as a bottle so don't think it was a money thing, twas something else.

Edited April 27, 2009 by whisty

[strolling wanderer]

The official line was that it encouraged people to drink more than was necessarily good for them. If my recollection is to be trusted the queue for the brothers bar last year always seemed to be about the same length as it was in previous years, which would suggest that they would be serving a similar number of numbers of people, but without the 2L bottles people were probably not spending as much per transaction. That's all guess work really, but I'd like to believe that it was not entirely a decision motivated by money, more likely a licensing issue.

[ukslim]

Spending's such a personal thing, it's difficult to advise. BenchBuddah's prices are pretty accurate.

Greedy buggers like me can find that three £5 meals a day isn't enough, so snacking costs kick in. Nonetheless, you could budget £15 a day for food and manage it.

Some people prevail on the Hari Krishna tent's charity, and get free food. I've never done this myself: it seems rude to take their food while rejecting their faith...

Then there's non-booze drink. Water from the campsite taps is drinkable. There seems to be a fixed price (£1.50 from memory?) for a cuppa -- but things get cheaper around the Green Futures area where you can drink from a proper mug.

And booze. In my humble opinion, getting properly boozed up at the bar on a festival day (up til Thursday night is a different matter) is impractical because of queues and cost. But your determination and budget might be different from mine.