Glastonbury Oct/Nov ticket day anxiety levels

[Beerqueen]

My return coach to Birmingham was 4 a.m. this year which was pretty brutal but meant I was home for 9.30 so I think was worth it.

 

[Havors]

37 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

no chance at all  .... the returns can be very early I saw 4 am listed in that thread but not sure what applies to the 2 places you mentioned earlier 

National express do lots of buses don't they? May better booking the return using that haha can pick your time then.

[Skip997]

14 hours ago, Beerqueen said:

My return coach to Birmingham was 4 a.m. this year which was pretty brutal but meant I was home for 9.30 so I think was worth it.

 

That's cruel. Don't understand how they can schedule coaches to leave before the festival has finished.

[thewomble]

On 9/23/2023 at 4:29 AM, MrZigster said:

Anxiety levels through the roof now.

Haven't missed one since '04 and really, really want that twenty years badge.

Think I may be offering a reward/bribe again to anyone who gets me in...

I'm stressed to bits already. This year was my first Glasto and it feels like now I've been once and experienced it... if I missed out next year it would be even worse. Hope the ticket gods work in our favour come Nov 5th!

21 hours ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

With its flaws I’m still more comfortable paying the deposit when putting in registrations and post codes. In my opinion it’s fairer to everyone. 

I definitely preferred the initial sale to the way it was in resale, at least getting to the payment page gives you some sort of motivation to keep trying. If it's like it was in resale I've lost all hope.

[stuie]

9 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

That's cruel. Don't understand how they can schedule coaches to leave before the festival has finished.

For a lot of people, the festival finishes when the main stages close on Sunday.  I was oblivious to this fact until I started working on PGC.  It seems like everyone in a camper van leaves after the headliners!

I was with some friends in shangri-la this year and they left at 4 to go and get their coach. I did feel a little sorry for them!

[mjfromthelane]

2 hours ago, Skip997 said:

That's cruel. Don't understand how they can schedule coaches to leave before the festival has finished.

Think I'd rather a 4am-er rather than waiting around until early afternoon on Monday!

The 5/6am trudge back to the tent is pretty bleak when you know the magic is all over for another year.
 

[rob.a]

My anxiety levels through the roof after realising I'm at the Chemical Brothers O2 gig the night before and won't be at home on the 5th Nov. 

[Beerqueen]

4 hours ago, stuie said:

For a lot of people, the festival finishes when the main stages close on Sunday.  I was oblivious to this fact until I started working on PGC.  It seems like everyone in a camper van leaves after the headliners!

I was with some friends in shangri-la this year and they left at 4 to go and get their coach. I did feel a little sorry for them!

I'm between the two - don't stay up all night but usually have a few hours after the headliners.  So in some ways 4 was pretty good for me in the end.  

[gfa]

4 hours ago, stuie said:

For a lot of people, the festival finishes when the main stages close on Sunday.  I was oblivious to this fact until I started working on PGC.  It seems like everyone in a camper van leaves after the headliners!

I was with some friends in shangri-la this year and they left at 4 to go and get their coach. I did feel a little sorry for them!

The thing is though people in campervans get the choice to leave early - coach times are random

If I got a 4am coach i'd be quite annoyed as you would basically have to end your night at 2am latest to get your coach + pack up etc. Basically cuts the night short

[Avalon_Fields]

4 hours ago, stuie said:

For a lot of people, the festival finishes when the main stages close on Sunday.  I was oblivious to this fact until I started working on PGC.  It seems like everyone in a camper van leaves after the headliners!

There’s a fair number who leave Sunday but the majority wait until Monday. I leave early Monday morning - 6-7am - and there’s still around 75% left. 

[Helsbels]

Been on the coach a few times and they've never been strict on getting the actual timed coach home. Not sure if I would risk getting on a much later one though... Last time we took all our stuff to PGA lock ups so was really easy getting out

[mazola]

35 minutes ago, gfa said:

The thing is though people in campervans get the choice to leave early - coach times are random

If I got a 4am coach i'd be quite annoyed as you would basically have to end your night at 2am latest to get your coach + pack up etc. Basically cuts the night short

My friends who had this time packed everything up in the afternoon and left it all at the lockups, then just swung by and picked it up on the way out. Seemed to work out quite well for them

[gooner1990]

24 minutes ago, mazola said:

My friends who had this time packed everything up in the afternoon and left it all at the lockups, then just swung by and picked it up on the way out. Seemed to work out quite well for them

We did the same in 2022 and 2023 as had 05.30am coaches home.

[Mardy]

I'm having a big ol' ponder about my Glastonbury experience, and for the first time in 17/18 years, have no anxiety about it. Think I've reached acceptance.

I didn't go last year. First one I'd missed since 2007, and that's OK. There was little on the lineup that excited me, and if I'm honest, 2022 was not great really. I'm less and less interested in the big stuff, the Pyramid, the Other, whatever. I think I'm going to try for tickets for next year, and if we get them, do it differently. Or maybe even stick them back in the pot if I'm not feeling it in the Spring. I feel a sense of relief, like I've just left a cult.

I'm not sure what I want if I go again, cos there is something special about the place, I guess i need to rediscover it, but it's not (for me) - a) seeing old washed up has-beens rebranded as 'legends' on the Pyramid. I despised these acts when I was 18, why should/would I have mellowed to them over a couple of decades - those c**ts don't get to win or b)seeing fair to middling indie bands play mid afternoon at West Holts/The Park in front of a mainly disinterested crowd. And I think I've done way too much of both of those over recent years.

I suspect the answer lies in the SE corner. I dunno. The creativity there turns me on, no doubt. And there's something unique about the site as an event, but not, for me, the individual components.

But overall, it's not going to be the music that's going to ever pull me back to Glastonbury.

[Skip997]

5 minutes ago, Mardy said:

But overall, it's not going to be the music that's going to ever pull me back to Glastonbury.

The music is a bonus, a pretty spectacular bonus, but for me it's about meeting up with and hanging out with old friends, most of whom I only see at Glastonbury.

Mind you it's not much of a loss if there's nothing I want to see (has never been the case) as I don't pay for a ticket.

[Mardy]

Just now, Skip997 said:

The music is a bonus, a pretty spectacular bonus, but for me it's about meeting up with and hanging out with old friends, most of whom I only see at Glastonbury.

Yes! Huge, huge element of that for me. All the time I was living abroad, it was my primary motivation to go as it was the only chance I got to catch up with friends. Now I'm back, after 25 years abroad , in the UK, I can do that more often, and we pretty much all go to EOTR these days too, a lot of that has gone. Excellent point.

[Gnomicide]

29 minutes ago, Mardy said:

I feel a sense of relief, like I've just left a cult.

But we are all in The Cult of Mardy.

[The Nal]

5 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

But we are all in The Cult of Mardy.

First day, lesson #1.

 

[Mardy]

10 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

But we are all in The Cult of Mardy.

Hahaha. The only only time I had regrets this year was the Wednesday night piss-up at the Ridge and Furrow and a drunken chat with you and the other usual suspects. If I could pay 100 quid just to come in for that evening and leave again, I'd jump at the chance.

[gfa]

1 hour ago, mazola said:

My friends who had this time packed everything up in the afternoon and left it all at the lockups, then just swung by and picked it up on the way out. Seemed to work out quite well for them

You still by default miss at least 2 hours of the festival with no choice if you don't risk a later coach.

Not ideal - and that seems to be Skips' point

[Skip997]

1 minute ago, gfa said:

Not ideal - and that seems to be Skips' point

A few years back I was somewhere in the SE corner in the early hours of Sunday morning when some spangled young woman announced that she had to go and catch the train.

I had not a clue what the hell she was on about.

 

[The Nal]

8 minutes ago, gfa said:

You still by default miss at least 2 hours of the festival with no choice if you don't risk a later coach.

Not ideal - and that seems to be Skips' point

You can bin the See coaches though (bit of a shambles on Monday morning) and book a NE coach at a later time.

  

On 9/24/2023 at 12:08 PM, moogster said:

1- It's 6 in the first sales

Ah, thought it was 4. 

Will we have time to put in 6 people this year before See gives you a "PFO we're sold out"?

Edited September 25, 2023 by The Nal

[gfa]

25 minutes ago, The Nal said:

You can bin the See coaches though (bit of a shambles on Monday morning) and book a NE coach at a later time.

So for an additional fee I can stay for the whole festival i've paid £350 for

fantastic

[The Nal]

42 minutes ago, gfa said:

So for an additional fee I can stay for the whole festival i've paid £350 for

fantastic

Yep thats the only way to do it.

[gfa]

16 hours ago, The Nal said:

Yep thats the only way to do it.

My point being thats a bit silly

I guess you do technically get to pick your times (well scramble to anyway)