Monday Morning/Afternoon

[Redcanadahat]

hi gang!! have not been on the boards for a while. Quick question about the Monday. Usually I leave the site on Sunday afternoon to beat the mad rush but this year i'm staying until Monday as i'd like to see the Sunday headliner - when is the best time to leave that day? i live in oxford so will take about 3 hours to get home and i'll be taking the shuttle bus to castle cary then the train (or perhaps a coach to bristol - not quite sure yet). When do you all leave?

thanks in advance

Edited April 30, 2009 by Redcanadahat

[norainplease]

We have always left on the Monday morning about 7ish to get the bus back to Heathrow and it's usually quite quiet about the buses then?

I have heard that the later you leave it to go and get the shuttle buses the worse it is few queues etc, so I would advise leaving early on the Monday!

[youcancallmeal]

hi gang!! have not been on the boards for a while. Quick question about the Monday. Usually I leave the site on Sunday afternoon to beat the mad rush but this year i'm staying until Monday as i'd like to see the Sunday headliner - when is the best time to leave that day? i live in oxford so will take about 3 hours to get home and i'll be taking the shuttle bus to castle cary then the train (or perhaps a coach to bristol - not quite sure yet). When do you all leave?

thanks in advance

[ramragon]

we got up last year at 4am on the monday and left by 4.30, had a 360 mile trip back to the northeast so want to miss the traffic on the motorways. getting out of the car park was fine by that time, they reckon it was a nightmare getting out after the verve finished last year

[laid back in the sun]

when i think im straight enough to drive

[mario man]

we got up last year at 4am on the monday and left by 4.30, had a 360 mile trip back to the northeast so want to miss the traffic on the motorways. getting out of the car park was fine by that time, they reckon it was a nightmare getting out after the verve finished last year

[Homer]

I always go back to Bristol - have done every Monday since 94 - and I usually just get up and go as soon as a wake up. Leaving then - about 7am-8am I suppose - I've never encountered any problems.

I'm from the "run away! Run away!" school of leaving Glastonbury!

[hombrederayo]

as long as you leave site before 9am you should be ok getting out the car park. basically the earlier you go the better.

[daggermouth]

In 07 we got to the car at 6:30 monday morning got out the car park at 7:00 monday evening was not a good 12 hours last year left about 5 in the morning and got out in 15 mins.

[PAH030]

when i think im straight enough to drive

[slipmatt]

Last year was the first year I waited till 5pm till leave. Best decision Ive ever made. Mooched around the market, saw all the sales, got food, picked up loads of abandoned camping gear and came home easily with no queies. Relax

[Monkismo]

In 07 we got to the car at 6:30 monday morning got out the car park at 7:00 monday evening was not a good 12 hours last year left about 5 in the morning and got out in 15 mins.

[emmmmma]

The people we were with last year got us up at 4am... It was very quiet but also painful.

[Filthy]

We got in the car at midday 2007 and didn't get out the carpark til 7pm. Last year although it was dry we decided just to leave it til about 5pm and got straight out. However friends of ours left at 1.30pm and also had no queue. Depends on the weather really!

[r0cky]

Last year was the first year I waited till 5pm till leave. Best decision Ive ever made. Mooched around the market, saw all the sales, got food, picked up loads of abandoned camping gear and came home easily with no queies. Relax

[Staberinde]

as long as you leave site before 9am you should be ok getting out the car park. basically the earlier you go the better.

[Tugger2k]

check out the handy graph of leaving time activity on the official site

http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/information.aspx?id=41

[r0cky]

check out the handy graph of leaving time activity on the official site

http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/information.aspx?id=41

[Tugger2k]

But weather does affect that though; in 2007 is was pissing it down hard all morning. Everyone just stayed in their tents until it stopped.

[Andeeroo]

Last year, I woke up at about 6ish, woke everyone else up about half an hour later and we trekked up to the shuttle bus sometime between 7 and 8 o'clock. Then we proceeded to queue for a good two hours before getting on a shuttle bus, and then at least a good hour and a half at the train station.

Got home to Plymouth at about 2.30 in the end, and considering it's only a two hour train, there was a lot of queuing during the day which was a bitch tbh. I though we would have avoided it by getting up there that early, but suffice to say we didn't.

[Redcanadahat]

Last year was the first year I waited till 5pm till leave. Best decision Ive ever made. Mooched around the market, saw all the sales, got food, picked up loads of abandoned camping gear and came home easily with no queies. Relax

[TomfromStroud]

Leave at 5am or before. You'll drive straight out.

You may do this at other times, but I have arrived at my car at 7.30am before and sat in my car for 12 hours.

This graph is useful,

as is this thread

/index.php?showtopic=100840">http://www.efestivals.co.uk/forums/index.p...howtopic=100840

**edit - didn't realise you weren't driving, but I think these rules apply just as well to coach queues etc ***

Edited April 30, 2009 by TomfromStroud

[Redcanadahat]

might i add to all in my original post that i'm taking the bus...i am not driving out :-( 80% of these posts are worthless in my eyes but thanks anyway peeps!

[r0cky]

which may explain why it only took us 15 mins to get out of the car park - we braved that rain, figured that wed been wet all weekend, whats the prob with one more day

Edited April 30, 2009 by r0cky

[Pulpfan]

In 2007 think we left the campsite about noon but queued for 2 hours to get the coach to Bristol. It was so miserable standing in the rain for 2 hours waiting for the coach but my flight was around 9pm to Belfast so plenty of time to spare.

Edited April 30, 2009 by Pulpfan