Where To Sleep With A Day Ticket?

[arkhams]

A couple of us are wanting to go to Download on the Saturday only since our friend told us that the stewards would be cool with us sleeping in the campsite with them since they've got weekend tickets. After doing a bit of research, people seem to be agreeing that isn't true for Download... any ideas on what we should do? I've considered just sleeping on the field outside, would staff be bothered by that at all? Otherwise I'm not sure what we'll do since we're planning on drinking and I reeeeeally don't want to have to resort to sorting out transport on the Saturday night since the last bus to the train station is at midnight or some early-ish time like that and we're from Leeds. I don't think any of our friends are driving there either, so it's not like we can even just sleep in someone's car.

Thanks 

Edited June 6, 2016 by arkhams

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

You'll struggle to find anywhere to camp/sleep in the surrounding area without being moved on by the stewards & you certainly won't be allowed into the camping area with a day ticket wristband. 

 

If I were you I'd start planning a route home. 

[devilman]

Plan A, try and bluff your way in to the campsite by waving a similar coloured wristband at a really busy time. Not impossible but unlikely.

Plan B, get a bivvybag and tarp and find a hedgerow nearby that you can sneak in and out of unseen. Higher odds of survival but also higher odds of finding yourself as an Eastern European sex slave or organ donor.

Plan C, buy a full camping ticket at box office or put it down to experience and sort out transport. 

[PastCaring]

Plan D:  Book yourselves into a local campsite on a bus route to the festival - Shardlow or Elvaston maybe? - and use the airport buses to get there and back.

[Justiceforcedave]

I stayed at Shardlow a few years back. There is a shuttle that runs there which was easy peasy to get.

[PastCaring]

Really?  Might have to check that out myself!

[biffoire]

There is a local camp site which is pretty good at shardlow marina. Bus goes in past regular. onsite bar and bar near by.

 

[Jennings74]

Sooooo what did you do??? 

[Dave_Aber]

Maybe the kidney removal op didn't go well.........