Taking a baby

[Lucy92]

3 hours ago, Phoenix Girl said:

Sorry you didn’t get tickets Lucy. 

Thanks for posting this thread tho because we are taking our 10 month old - lots of good advice 

I still have weird false hope I’ll get there somehow 🤪

[Phoenix Girl]

3 hours ago, Lucy92 said:

I still have weird false hope I’ll get there somehow 🤪

Ok I’ll keep an eye out and see if you get tixs so we can swap baby tips! 

[Stu H]

On 4/20/2024 at 10:33 AM, Lucy92 said:

So, all being well tomorrow we are hoping to be back on the farm! We’re planning to take our 10 month old with us… are we insane? Any tips? 🤪

 

Nope, not insane, we have camped with a 12 week old in 2017.

Then did Sticklinch 2022 and 2023 with 3 and 6 year olds.

We love it, the kids love it, have an amazing time!

Edit: sorry, just saw you missed out on tickets

Edited April 22 by Stu H

[Neil]

58 minutes ago, Stu H said:

We love it, the kids love it, have an amazing time!

glasto is great for kids but as the parent i found other festivals much more pleasurable for me, without the kids having less fun.

they're less daunting for both parent and child ,and smaller crowds at other festivals make it easier to dip in & out of things as suits the child's interest.

[Lucy92]

43 minutes ago, Neil said:

glasto is great for kids but as the parent i found other festivals much more pleasurable for me, without the kids having less fun.

they're less daunting for both parent and child ,and smaller crowds at other festivals make it easier to dip in & out of things as suits the child's interest.

Any recommendations for glasto alternatives?

[Wooderson]

Have done the G with both kids as infants. It aint easy/straightforward but you will look back on those years fondly.

 

- Get a sling and ear defenders and practice using both together starting asap!

- Ensure a partner is fully onboard, Glasters as a single parent would be too tough imo

- Procure a decent stroller/buggy with the biggest wheels you can get

- Waterproof picnic blanket/brolly

 

[Neil]

59 minutes ago, Lucy92 said:

Any recommendations for glasto alternatives?

i used to love guilfest and womad with my kid. others will probably have different ideas.

[incident]

1 hour ago, Lucy92 said:

Any recommendations for glasto alternatives?

 

There's always a problem with this kind of question in that it depends on personal preferences - which specific parts of Glastonbury you (and they) would enjoy, and also how much weight do you give to your preferences against theirs? Age will be a factor as well.

 

Personally I tend to think that if I had kids, the first festival I'd take them to would be Shambala because of the amount of creativity, variety, and sheer colourfulness on display. Also because I think that while it's not specifically a festival designed for "kids" in the way that Camp Bestival and Latitude are, it does feel very safe (with the natural and pretty much universal caveats of things can get wilder after hours) and it's certainly less manic / so much easier than Glastonbury.

 

For my taste it's got the balance spot on of being very kid friendly, while not detracting from the experience for adults at all - you can go with kids, or you can go as a group of adult friends and both work equally well. On the other hand, Shambala does sometimes put people off because of the relatively high ticket price versus a lineup that (for the most part) is largely unknown so if big name acts are important then it may not be for you.

[Lucy92]

I don’t generally go for the line up, just love doing all the other bits and exploring the music. We are about 20 mins away from womad so we were thinking of that 

[Neil]

2 minutes ago, Lucy92 said:

I don’t generally go for the line up, just love doing all the other bits and exploring the music. We are about 20 mins away from WOMAD so we were thinking of that 

womad is a lovely festival for kids and the site is lovely  always some cool shade in the arboretum, and the music (for me) a discovery (was always pleasantly surprised at how much my son (a Glastonbury veteran) embraced the non-western music .

and you don't have to worry about beered up w*nkers.

[Nice hymer]

1 hour ago, incident said:

 

There's always a problem with this kind of question in that it depends on personal preferences - which specific parts of Glastonbury you (and they) would enjoy, and also how much weight do you give to your preferences against theirs? Age will be a factor as well.

 

Personally I tend to think that if I had kids, the first festival I'd take them to would be Shambala because of the amount of creativity, variety, and sheer colourfulness on display. Also because I think that while it's not specifically a festival designed for "kids" in the way that Camp Bestival and Latitude are, it does feel very safe (with the natural and pretty much universal caveats of things can get wilder after hours) and it's certainly less manic / so much easier than Glastonbury.

 

For my taste it's got the balance spot on of being very kid friendly, while not detracting from the experience for adults at all - you can go with kids, or you can go as a group of adult friends and both work equally well. On the other hand, Shambala does sometimes put people off because of the relatively high ticket price versus a lineup that (for the most part) is largely unknown so if big name acts are important then it may not be for you.

Spot on, I was just about to post the same recommendations.

 

The party atmosphere is so good at Shambala that the line up is almost secondary. Having said that, the organisers & performers have a passion for it and I think that really shines through - loads of family fun.

 

Camp Bestival is just so relaxing. No big hills, never far to walk, can easily find people in a crowd, loads for kids to do, open late enough for the parents. I've seen some brilliant live performances and Sunday fireworks are about as good as it gets.

I'd say top of the list if you want a stress-free festival weekend with kids.

[Neil]

i've never taken my kid there but i've been and  I'm not hooked on the idea of shambala being good for kids, too many inconsiderate wreckheads I'd say, and not very much to keep a kid entertained with apart from the parents.

Edited April 22 by Neil

[philipsteak]

Don't have kids myself, but talking to friends who do and just having seen the place myself I'd agree that Womad would be a good choice for young kids

[Neil]

13 minutes ago, philipsteak said:

Don't have kids myself, but talking to friends who do and just having seen the place myself I'd agree that Womad would be a good choice for young kids

best thing i can say about womad is that its unlikely to be duplicating an experience of that child, there's a lot there they're unlikely to experience otherwise.