The International Contingent

[herzzreh]

Just now, BackpackFullOfWarmBeer said:

Dublin airport question.  I'm flying Toronto - Dublin - Bristol on Aer Lingus next Sunday.  Booked straight through on one ticket.  The layover in Dublin is tight-ish - just over an hour if flights are on time. Do I need to clear customs in Dublin, or just hop off the flight and walk over to the connecting gate?

Buffalo here! So this was weird but when I did JFK-DUB-BRS, I went outside for a bit, got stamped into Ireland and then I boarded flight to BRS and just walked off the plane in Bristol. No customs, no passport control. I don't know if I was supposed to self-report or whatever, but never got a UK entry stamp.

To this day I'm pretty sure that I was in the country illegally for a week or so.

[BackpackFullOfWarmBeer]

17 minutes ago, herzzreh said:

Buffalo here! So this was weird but when I did JFK-DUB-BRS, I went outside for a bit, got stamped into Ireland and then I boarded flight to BRS and just walked off the plane in Bristol. No customs, no passport control. I don't know if I was supposed to self-report or whatever, but never got a UK entry stamp.

To this day I'm pretty sure that I was in the country illegally for a week or so.

Haha, well done!  Go Bills!

[herzzreh]

3 minutes ago, BackpackFullOfWarmBeer said:

Haha, well done!  Go Bills!

Report back after you fly. I'm curious whether there's simply no immigration on that route or if we truly screwed up somehow.

[BackpackFullOfWarmBeer]

4 minutes ago, herzzreh said:

Report back after you fly. I'm curious whether there's simply no immigration on that route or if we truly screwed up somehow.

Will do.  What's your route this year?

[Suprefan]

Yeah Dublin is not a huge airport so you shouldnt have insane issues. Bristol is quite cozy though. 

[MetaKate]

54 minutes ago, BackpackFullOfWarmBeer said:

Dublin airport question.  I'm flying Toronto - Dublin - Bristol on Aer Lingus next Sunday.  Booked straight through on one ticket.  The layover in Dublin is tight-ish - just over an hour if flights are on time. Do I need to clear customs in Dublin, or just hop off the flight and walk over to the connecting gate?

Canadians assemble!

[herzzreh]

24 minutes ago, BackpackFullOfWarmBeer said:

Will do.  What's your route this year?

Drive to NY on Monday, drops kids off with the relatives, catch the day flight to Heathrow on Tuesday, sleep, get the car on Wednesday morning and drive. 

If not for the little ones, we'd just fly from Toronto... Two-ish hour drive beats 6-7...

Edited June 10, 2022 by herzzreh

[TheDayman]

1 hour ago, herzzreh said:

Buffalo here! So this was weird but when I did JFK-DUB-BRS, I went outside for a bit, got stamped into Ireland and then I boarded flight to BRS and just walked off the plane in Bristol. No customs, no passport control. I don't know if I was supposed to self-report or whatever, but never got a UK entry stamp.

To this day I'm pretty sure that I was in the country illegally for a week or so.

Technically you don't even need a passport if you're travelling between the UK and Ireland (as a British or Irish citizen) hense customs probably being a little lax.

[MetaKate]

I've got an entire exit row to myself for my red eye from Toronto to Dublin... how'd I get so lucky?

[Suprefan]

3 minutes ago, MetaKate said:

I've got an entire exit row to myself for my red eye from Toronto to Dublin... how'd I get so lucky?

Covid? Get some sleep

[MetaKate]

1 minute ago, Suprefan said:

Covid? Get some sleep

Finally covid has done me a solid! 

Should be pretty easy now, I could set up camp in this row!

[Suprefan]

1 hour ago, MetaKate said:

Finally covid has done me a solid! 

Should be pretty easy now, I could set up camp in this row!

I had an entire row to myself when going to Prinavera Sound one year so its a luxury

[Calvin Klein]

So that inflation thing is not exclusive to us anymore it looks like. Still nowhere near our levels though 😬  We are still inflation champs.

 

[al_coholic]

I love all these stories of people travelling from all over the world. My mate is flying in from Auckland next week. He hasn't been home since 2018/2019 I think. 

[MetaKate]

10 hours ago, BackpackFullOfWarmBeer said:

Dublin airport question.  I'm flying Toronto - Dublin - Bristol on Aer Lingus next Sunday.  Booked straight through on one ticket.  The layover in Dublin is tight-ish - just over an hour if flights are on time. Do I need to clear customs in Dublin, or just hop off the flight and walk over to the connecting gate?

As I've just done it, you'll definitely need to clear customs...you can't access the "connections" without doing it. There wasn't another option but it was massively quick going through, but I would suspect that's dependent on luck when you land. 

[Traco]

Didn't go back through to see if this was mentioned so apologies if it's a double post but it may be of interest to our US festival travelers.

US removing need for negative COVID test midnight Sunday.

https://www.rte.ie/news/us/2022/0610/1304112-us-covid-latest/

 

[Smeble]

Getting excited now, leave for the UK on Friday.

[beatlemania]

leaving sunday from liechtenstein. actually flying from switzerland to bristol as we don't have an own airport 🙂

this time with our 3,5y old girl, so guess kidz field it is 🙂 have a great glasto everybody! 

[dmedxb]

8 hours ago, Smeble said:

Getting excited now, leave for the UK on Friday.

Friday departure for us as well, can't come soon enough. 

[herzzreh]

So...... Any word on tickets? I emailed the festival to ask about WV parking and international people and they referred me to WV, who is yet to reply.

[moogster]

Looks like my WV Parking ticket has been sent today. Glad we didn't plan a pre-festival holiday. If all goes well the letter should get there by Friday. Then I just read the story of someone who had his letter held up and had to pay for a fee...for a musical greeting card.

I'll believe it when I see it.

Can't believe they are doing this this later/with so little information...

[herzzreh]

Oh, wow... Mine was usually sent way before now and even if gets sent now, there is no way it'll make it here in 4 days.

[moogster]

Let's add to the confusion. My lead booker gets a notification the - I think  - parking ticket for WV was sent. Then gets an email that the lead booker has received the email for the barcode, but of course no said email, and the seetickets status says...This is an e-ticket event. Please ensure you can display your tickets on your phone or bring printed copies, as you will not gain access to the venue without them.

So no clue how the parking ticket has been sent and a mysterious lead booker (though I have to ask lead booker to check their spam folder) .

BUT I just saw I can download the barcode from the website.. at least that's something

This feels like an escape room.

Edited June 14, 2022 by moogster

[AlexOvd]

Fucking EasyJet cancelling my fight back just now. How nice. Bastards. 

Edited June 14, 2022 by AlexOvd

[moogster]

3 minutes ago, AlexOvd said:

Fucking EasyJet cancelling my fight back just now. How nice. Bastards. 

Shit. I did think about Glastonbury folks reading about Ryanair today (on top of all the airport issues). Do you have a back up plan?