Travelling to Bestival 2012

[Kyelo]

Without even checking these forums I managed to book the exact same flights from Glasgow as you lot...went for the cheapest yes? lol

I was gonna get a cheap hotel for the night before and night after but will just crash the party at the campsite if you lot don't mind?

[Paul ™]

Without even checking these forums I managed to book the exact same flights from Glasgow as you lot...went for the cheapest yes? lol

I was gonna get a cheap hotel for the night before and night after but will just crash the party at the campsite if you lot don't mind?

[Kyelo]

Yeah think that was the cheap option .. who you travelling with? There is 7 of us (at least) on that flight now

Yeah come to the Waverley, it's where it all starts getting messy

[Bisque]

Looks like I will have a couple of days off before the fest so am tempted to beat the crowds & stay a night on the island as I will be travelling along but meeting groups of people there. Is there a link to the campsite people have been mentioning?

[Paul ™]

Yeah last year we all camped in Blue (the Sunday Best Forum camp plus the few eFesters that were there) and will probably do the same this year depending if the layout doesn't change too much.

Good thing is the Forum Camping is marked on the map..

[Kyelo]

Yeah last year we all camped in Blue (the Sunday Best Forum camp plus the few eFesters that were there) and will probably do the same this year depending if the layout doesn't change too much.

Good thing is the Forum Camping is marked on the map..

[Paul ™]

Just had a look at that, pretty cool! Is it kept solely for forum users?

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

We're thinking of parking the car at Lymington and getting foot passenger tickets for the ferry.

How far is it from Yarmouth and how easy is it to get to the festival from there? Regular buses, taxi, etc

[Aphex's twin]

I'd been checking the ferry prices with an aye on buying at the end of March. Someone mentioned a spike in prices from about April onwards. When I checked on Monday the prices had jumped by £20 for the return leg. Suggest people keep an eye on it from now.

[Fred Zepplin]

So people are turning up at the Waverley campsite on Wednesday, anyone getting there earlier?

I'm going to End of the road festival the weekend before Bestival and debating whether to come home for a few days or just to make my way over to the Isle of Wight on the Tuesday

[Dog Burger]

So, assuming it can take a fairly long time to get out of the festival, as it can other festivals, does this cause a problem with booking your ferry time? Ie: If you book a 11am one, and it takes four hours to get out and you miss it, is your ticket then void or can you simply get on a later one. Similarly, If you fly out of the car park with no trouble and get there at 8am, do you then have to wait for the 11am you've booked on? All this travel stuff is the only thing preventing me from taking the plunge and submitting to the payment plan at the moment one. Starting to look pretty expensive and tricky to organise.

[kaosmark2]

So, assuming it can take a fairly long time to get out of the festival, as it can other festivals, does this cause a problem with booking your ferry time? Ie: If you book a 11am one, and it takes four hours to get out and you miss it, is your ticket then void or can you simply get on a later one. Similarly, If you fly out of the car park with no trouble and get there at 8am, do you then have to wait for the 11am you've booked on? All this travel stuff is the only thing preventing me from taking the plunge and submitting to the payment plan at the moment one. Starting to look pretty expensive and tricky to organise.

[Dog Burger]

With a foot passenger one, you can get on any ferry. On the booked ones where you drive, you have to be on the exact right one.

[Homer]

Does the Megatrain run from Bris to Soton/Pompey?

[kaosmark2]

What a ball ache! How can you accurately predict how long it's going to take to get out of a festival.

I'm coming from Bristol, probably with at least two others, and have started looking at the various travel options this afternoon.

In short, it doesn't look as if it's going to be cheap:

Green Bus is £74 each!! That's scandalous.

Ferry works out at about 85 each way, if we take the car, so still around £60 each between three of us.

I think the train was something like £74 each.

It's only about 100 miles from Bristol, too. Is this essentially what it's going to cost, or is there a cheaper way from Bristol that anyone's come across?

[smogo]

That's not true about having to get the exact ferry with a car, because (at Fishbourne anyway) the ferries run so behind schedule on the Monday (like, hours and hours behind) that they end up just putting you on the next one they can squeeze you onto. IIRC, I had a ticket for the 2:30pm crossing and finally drove onto the 4:30pm ferry at 7:30pm.

[eFestivals]

With a foot passenger one, you can get on any ferry. On the booked ones where you drive, you have to be on the exact right one.

that's not actually true - I've got on a different ferry to the one I was booked on every time I've been - but don't tell anyone else there'll be chaos at the ferry terminal.

[Homer]

When I used to go from Bris, we used to drive down to Soton, dump the car and park it (for free) and then get a taxi for the short journey to the ferry port.

[Dog Burger]

When I used to go from Bris, we used to drive down to Soton, dump the car and park it (for free) and then get a taxi for the short journey to the ferry port.

[kaosmark2]

Fair enough! I've only gone by public transport so reports of the car I'm getting from the website. Are they stricter about it before the festival than after?

[Homer]

Not a bad shout. This could also work from Lymington?

[smogo]

Fair enough! I've only gone by public transport so reports of the car I'm getting from the website. Are they stricter about it before the festival than after?

[Dog Burger]

We used to park by somewhere called Hargreaves Sports I seem to remember. Google it - parking is free on the street there (it's residential).

[LondonTom]

Not a bad shout. This could also work from Lymington?

[kaosmark2]

Big potential for Lymington...hell when I looked on National Rail with 16-25 railcard it worked out at 23 quid a person (Was the end of may though as it only goes so far in advance:P) for train and ferry to Yarmouth! ...only thing is advance tickets meaning a need to book a fairly late train on the monday...

How bad is if for foot passengers leaving the Island?