Arriving Friday evening

[TheNewUnion]

A friend of our has just procured a ticket for the Festival (will be her first festival, so V is a good gentle start). Sadly she will not be able to get Friday off work so is planning on heading down after work on Friday.

Anyone any experience of hitting the site after about 7-8pm? Thinking it'll be fairly busy but perhaps not as bad as midday arrival (though all that said, Friday morning last year was a breeze due to the Thursday opening and Friday morning the year before was about 2 hours from Motorway to site)

Cheers

U

[Festival Charlotte]

I went one year on the Friday evening and the traffic was a nightmare!! I only live 30 miles away and it took us 6 hours to get there. It was quite difficult to get a camping space, we ended up on one of the far away campsites at the back, I can't remember which, as we didn't get there til about midnight. All was well with the world again though once I had a beer in my hand!

[Beerqueen]

You might be able to avoid the worst of the traffic by not coming off the M54 at the Weston turning but carrying on to the next junction - Telford East, and then following the A5 back - there's usually no traffic on that road. And could you take her tent and put it up for her so that she doesn't have to find a space - which would probably be the other main problem otherwise.

[TheNewUnion]

Thanks for the reply guys. Already agreed to pitch her tent so we are OK on that score. Looks like she'll be finding us at the indie disco or drunk in the campsite then!

[staffsknot]

Thanks for the reply guys. Already agreed to pitch her tent so we are OK on that score. Looks like she'll be finding us at the indie disco or drunk in the campsite then!