How do we make sure we park close to Gate D?

[F1992]

Hi there, 

We're hoping to camp in Dairy Ground and want to park close to Gate D, does anyone have any specific landmarks to put in to maps to avoid being rerouted to one of the other gates?

Arriving on the Wednesday afternoon!

 

Thanks!

[badger80]

You park whichever car park the stewards are filling at the time you arrive, hopefully in your case that will be Orange. 

If they do put you in Pink on the far side of the main road , go back to your car on Friday or Saturday and move it into Orange to make Monday morning easier ... Put it near one of the access tracks so you don't get stuck in a massive queue to get out. 

[Lizzim]

Your have to arrive by the West, then it's just luck if you're in pink or orange.  We been in orange once , but pink most other times. It made no difference in queuing times.  All were carnage. 

Never had a problem getting out though.

[jamesrfisher]

Where are you travelling from? If coming from the east you may need to do a loop so you are on the west side.

[Lycra]

To access via Gate D you need to approach the festival on the A361 from Glastonbury but you not have a choice of where to park. As you near the festival stewards will either direct you to orange parking (which is nearest to gate D) or pink parking (which is over the A361 from the festival site). You have no choice in the matter of where you park other than west parking or east parking in general.

Arriving Wednesday afternoon there is a high chance you will be parked across the road in pink parking. This has happened to friends and myself on all the 3 occasions we arrived after lunch on Wednesday. If so you will be faced with an appropriate 30 mins walk from your car to gate D where you could expect to queue for up to an hour to get in. The last bit is pot luck.

Note.....You will not be able to access the west parking travelling eastwards from Frome/Shepton Mallet as it is closed to through traffic at Pilton for the duration of the festival. 

[F1992]

@jamesrfisher We're travelling from Manchester. As i've understood it from the research i've done. we need to be on the A39, A good place to use as a landmark is the tesco superstore. 

 

Happy with either Pink or orange, as long as we're not on the other side of the festival. 

 

 

[F1992]

2 hours ago, Lycra said:

To access via Gate D you need to approach the festival on the A361 from Glastonbury but you not have a choice of where to park. As you near the festival stewards will either direct you to orange parking (which is nearest to gate D) or pink parking (which is over the A361 from the festival site). You have no choice in the matter of where you park other than west parking or east parking in general.

Arriving Wednesday afternoon there is a high chance you will be parked across the road in pink parking. This has happened to friends and myself on all the 3 occasions we arrived after lunch on Wednesday. If so you will be faced with an appropriate 30 mins walk from your car to gate D where you could expect to queue for up to an hour to get in. The last bit is pot luck.

Note.....You will not be able to access the west parking travelling eastwards from Frome/Shepton Mallet as it is closed to through traffic at Pilton for the duration of the festival. 

Thanks, we're travelling from Manchester so would you reccomend anything specific to plug into GMAPs to ensure we come in to the west parking?

[El Weirdo]

18 minutes ago, F1992 said:

Thanks, we're travelling from Manchester so would you reccomend anything specific to plug into GMAPs to ensure we come in to the west parking?

I'm driving from London and if you stick BA6 9XE (from the festival website) into Google maps, it gets you to that side of the site.

[F1992]

42 minutes ago, El Weirdo said:

I'm driving from London and if you stick BA6 9XE (from the festival website) into Google maps, it gets you to that side of the site.

Oh amazing! That’s what I had noted, it’s the Tesco superstore isn’t it! Thanks so much! 

[El Weirdo]

3 minutes ago, F1992 said:

Oh amazing! That’s what I had noted, it’s the Tesco superstore isn’t it! Thanks so much! 

Yeah, seems to be the Tesco alright.  See you on the farm!

[Lycra]

6 minutes ago, F1992 said:

Oh amazing! That’s what I had noted, it’s the Tesco superstore isn’t it! Thanks so much! 

Yes the postcode gets you to the Travellodge and Tesco in Glastonbury. From there you follow the signs to the festival on the A361. It's about another 8 miles for so.

We come from Staffordshire and use West parking. It's an easy drive down the M6, then onto the M5 at Brum. We get of the M5 at junction 23 Bridgewater following the signs A39 Glastonbury.....simples......enjoy

[antonylast]

11 minutes ago, Lycra said:

Yes the postcode gets you to the Travellodge and Tesco in Glastonbury. From there you follow the signs to the festival on the A361. It's about another 8 miles for so.

Possibly a silly question, but as someone who’s driving over from Kent but wanting to camp in Dairy Ground I’m also keen on aiming for Orange or Pink - if we hit the A361 from the A36 coming east to west are we likely to be kept along it and into those areas or put into a filter towards Blue?

Never driven ourselves before, but do have memories last year of a very long walk back to Blue with someone to help retrieve a second set of bits from the car!

Did spot someone else’s tip of aiming through Salisbury and onto the A27 coastal road for the journey home which may well be less monotonous than the motorways all the way back, but that’s something to be tackled after five days on the farm…

[jamesrfisher]

3 hours ago, F1992 said:

@jamesrfisher We're travelling from Manchester. As i've understood it from the research i've done. we need to be on the A39, A good place to use as a landmark is the tesco superstore. 

 

Happy with either Pink or orange, as long as we're not on the other side of the festival. 

 

 

Yes, as others have said, should do it.

[jamesrfisher]

1 hour ago, antonylast said:

Possibly a silly question, but as someone who’s driving over from Kent but wanting to camp in Dairy Ground I’m also keen on aiming for Orange or Pink - if we hit the A361 from the A36 coming east to west are we likely to be kept along it and into those areas or put into a filter towards Blue?

Never driven ourselves before, but do have memories last year of a very long walk back to Blue with someone to help retrieve a second set of bits from the car!

Did spot someone else’s tip of aiming through Salisbury and onto the A27 coastal road for the journey home which may well be less monotonous than the motorways all the way back, but that’s something to be tackled after five days on the farm…

I come from Sussex and park on the West side. use the A303 and at the Yeovil Travelodge roundabout take the A372 then the B3151 to Street. The into Glastonbury and A361.

 

So you need to go further down the A303, think otherwise you may be filtered into East carparks

[antonylast]

Thank you, much appreciated - have a good festival!

[airwaves]

Did every year 1998 to 2017, and, after 2 missed - didn't get tickets - am back this year. 

Since 2002 have come from Devon, heading for Gate D. Have used various "short cuts" but for my last 5 or 6 have q'd overnight at D so minimal car queue getting in, and

Have always been in Orange (once barely 20 yards from the front of the Q) 

However, over those years the amount of Pink parking has expanded and I dread getting directed into that far away. 

So, I had a thought. If it didn't look like I'm a festival goer, and didn't put my car park ticket up until after the pink entrance, but before the orange, would that work? 

[Lycra]

9 hours ago, airwaves said:

Did every year 1998 to 2017, and, after 2 missed - didn't get tickets - am back this year. 

Since 2002 have come from Devon, heading for Gate D. Have used various "short cuts" but for my last 5 or 6 have q'd overnight at D so minimal car queue getting in, and

Have always been in Orange (once barely 20 yards from the front of the Q) 

However, over those years the amount of Pink parking has expanded and I dread getting directed into that far away. 

So, I had a thought. If it didn't look like I'm a festival goer, and didn't put my car park ticket up until after the pink entrance, but before the orange, would that work? 

Not from what I've been told by my friend who's been volunteering every year since 2010. She's done traffic stewarding for the last 3 or 4 festivals and reckons the car access to orange is closed once pink is opened up to protect pedestrians. Festival goers parking in pink having to walk through orange to either gate A or D.

[Mich1268]

Trying to work out the queues at gate D. What are the chances of getting some tents to mates already queuing an hour before. I am assuming the zig zag queue will make that impossible? One group turning up at 6.30 am the other around 8am. 

[Johnnyseven]

27 minutes ago, Mich1268 said:

Trying to work out the queues at gate D. What are the chances of getting some tents to mates already queuing an hour before. I am assuming the zig zag queue will make that impossible? One group turning up at 6.30 am the other around 8am. 

Isn't loading them up with more tents going to make their progress to your chosen campsite slower, therefore less likely to nab a prime camping spot. Would it not be better for them to just space out their tents when they pitch them and when you arrive just rejiggle the space to fit you all in?

[Mich1268]

35 minutes ago, Johnnyseven said:

Isn't loading them up with more tents going to make their progress to your chosen campsite slower, therefore less likely to nab a prime camping spot. Would it not be better for them to just space out their tents when they pitch them and when you arrive just rejiggle the space to fit you all in?

That was what I was thinking but spacing out with 3 tents when 5 more are turning up seems a big order. Maybe they just have to either camp separately or the ones who arrive earlier wait for the others

[Johnnyseven]

5 minutes ago, Mich1268 said:

That was what I was thinking but spacing out with 3 tents when 5 more are turning up seems a big order. Maybe they just have to either camp separately or the ones who arrive earlier wait for the others

Maybe just aim for a less busy campsite?