what time to leave to arrive for gate opening?

[rosstopher]

hey, just wondering what sorta time should i be leaving to arrive for gate opening? will be driving from worthing, near brighton, and dont wanna get there too early cos you get moved on if i am correct...

[joshwarrr]

I'd say about 5 am ish. thats a guess though cus i don't live near brighton. but thing to bear in mind is that a lot of people (not loads but some) will be arriving for 8 and people stay in glastonubry and pilton the night before and get there for 8 so they can be first in. we are hopefulyl getting there for 9 so we will definatly not be turned away fro being to early and hopefully will miss the intial rush.

[fraz]

Me and the missus travel from guidlford, a bit north of you and leave around 5am and got in the gate about 9ish after waiting to get in the car ark and then to get our wristbands.

You will be ahead of most of the rush hour traffic and went through shepton mallet, it was the longer route but meant we were near the park where we wanted to camp.

If anything use RAC route finder to get a rough estimate as i believe you can set the time you are starting your journey (and it mentions speed cameras etc i think)

[rosstopher]

Me and the missus travel from guidlford, a bit north of you and leave around 5am and got in the gate about 9ish after waiting to get in the car ark and then to get our wristbands.

You will be ahead of most of the rush hour traffic and went through shepton mallet, it was the longer route but meant we were near the park where we wanted to camp.

If anything use RAC route finder to get a rough estimate as i believe you can set the time you are starting your journey (and it mentions speed cameras etc i think)

[fraz]

thats cool, cheers for that mate, is it that much more difficult to drive round to the west coming from the east? as we want to camp in pennard hill and the gates on the east side are much further away, is it worth going round?

[Darkshine84]

hey, just wondering what sorta time should i be leaving to arrive for gate opening? will be driving from worthing, near brighton, and dont wanna get there too early cos you get moved on if i am correct...

[rosstopher]

Hahaha, snap, i'm also going from Worthing! I was planning to leave around 6am or so. AA Route Planner seems to reckon 2.5hrs or so, im not that bothered about getting there for opening, but I definatly want to be on site Wednesday morning.

[rosstopher]

Go down the A303 then turn off onto the A37, Simples. (last year we followed sat nav and it had a bit of funny route in mind that we followed)

Well worth it last year also meant when leaving we got onto the A rd,s quickly when we left.