How much would you pay for a ticket?

[gfa]

On 6/29/2023 at 6:49 PM, Nestacres said:

£500?? Are you taking the piss? Its already between £600 - £1000 for the weekend when you include travel and food/drink stuff

I did it for just over £500 this year, it really depends how frugal you are

No doubt worked out cheaper than many fests would have owing to the relaxed drink rules

1 hour ago, Brendan110_00 said:

Make it too expensive, young people will choose other festivals, Glastonbury withers and dies as average age of glampers reaches 65!

£340 or whatever it is definitely is a lot but its basically the same price as Boomtown, only about £50 more than R&L with an early bird etc

Got to respect the superstruct fests for managing to keep the price way down + TRNSMT & Parklife too

[nikkic]

For ticket alone I’d go £500-600. See 30 acts over the weekend and it’s still a bargain IMO.

Many many years off it getting to that though. 

[09matthewsw]

Wonder what we’ll be looking at for 2024? 

[nikkic]

1 minute ago, 09matthewsw said:

Wonder what we’ll be looking at for 2024? 

£350

[Mark H]

Glasto for me involves a solid 3 weeks off work, flights from NZ and accomodation. The ticket price is only a small part of the overall cost for me and I save over a 2 year period to try and make every second festival. So, as a thought exercise, I would probably pay up to 1000 for the ticket if all the other arrangement  were falling into place. Clearly it should never get that expensive! But that’s probably where my hypothetical limit is.

[Leyrulion]

I've just increased my monthly saving for it from £40 to £60. So as soon as that's not enough to cover a huge chunk of the ticket fee I'll probably have to hang up my hat, or get a promotion.

[Deviceing]

About £1000 I think. Maybe up to £1500 closer to the time if I Iove the lineup, the forecasts solid and my mates already have tickets.

But it would have to be a special price just for me after being unsuccessful in the sales. Paid £200 for golden circle for the Stones last year and it was full of twats (still just about worth it though I think, wouldn't do it for many other acts though). If everyone's got to pay it, no more than £500 or it'll stop being good.

[Avalon_Fields]

I’d pay what it takes (Regular ticket rates, whatever they become). 

[mattiloy]

I didn’t go this year. I had a half hearted stab at tickets in October but I live abroad and the additional cost of flights etc plus the tickets means I didn’t really feel bad missing out.

For me it’s not about whether on its own it’s worth it or whether I can afford it, it’s about whether it’s more worth it than alternatives.

The lineup I could get as much out of other festivals from but I love the feeling of freedom at a festival and I think Glastonbury has done that better than most. No arenas, lots of space to roam, different areas, the setting.

But that glastonbury has gotten busier and busier impinges on that sense of freedom a bit.

Then some irritating developments like mothballing bill’s green in favour of an insta friendly installation. And also a growing sense that without real hard lines on what goes on around the festival, the environmental messaging starts to stink like greenwashing- more and more folk piling into exclusive camping in landies, elton getting his chopper out of there, and i love Springsteen, but flying from the US for one song with macca last year, the unnecessary spider that farts out flamethrower jets… the list could go on.

Overall its reached a point where the alternatives are enough to scratch whatever itch I have and I dont have to fork out well in excess of a grand (for me + my partner + travel etc) for a festival that has its best days behind it imho