use greener alternative transport to get to Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury Festival are asking festival goers to leave the car behind, start their festival experience early and help protect the environment at the same time.

The Festival is offering combined Festival and coach tickets to take festival-goers direct from 17 major UK cities right to Worthy Farm in Somerset, without the hassle of traffic jams.

Festival organiser Michael Eavis says, "One coach is much less polluting that 50 people in cars. This reduces traffic and fuel consumption. It's also cheaper to come by coach than with just a couple of people in a car."

In 2007 about a third of the public came to the festival by public transport, including coaches and a special train service to Castle Cary. A coach produces about a quarter of the carbon dioxide emissions per passenger mile of a car with three passengers.

There are combined festival and coach tickets available from Birmingham, Bristol, Bournemouth, Cambridge, Cardiff, Cheltenham, Coventry, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Sheffield and Southampton. The coaches offer travel on Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th, with return journeys throughout Monday 30th. This offers festival-goers a five day break.

To buy the combined coach and festival tickets, for those who have registered, click here.

For the first time this year Glastonbury Festival is offering combined festival and train tickets in conjunction with First Great Western trains which leave from London Paddington to either Castle Cary or Bristol Temple Meads, where there are transfer buses to the festival.

The train tickets cost £55 return, on top of the price of a Festival ticket. On both Wednesday and Thursday there will be regular off peak trains between 9.15am and 3.15pm. When booking there will be a choice of day, time and destination. People will be able to get a train back to London at their leisure (no reservations), so long as they leave from the same station they arrived at and have retained a valid ticket.

To buy the combined train and festival tickets, for those who have registered, click here.

If you do have to bring the car, then try to ensure you offer a lift to as many people as possible, to also help reduce the carbon dioxide emissions per passenger. Travelling by coach or train is highly recommended as you get into the festival experience before you arrive and are bound to make new friends on the way there.

Glastonbury Festival 2008 will take place at Worthy Farm, Pilton, near Glastonbury, Somerset from Friday 27th to Sunday 29th June, with the gates opening for early arrivals on Wednesday 25th June, that's five days of festival fun with something like 2,000 performances at 50 or so venues, including music, cabaret, theatre, circus, a fantastic Kidz area, poetry, green crafts and information and loads, loads more ... Glastonbury Festival is much more than just the music, so make sure you check it all out!

Anyone wishing to buy a ticket for this year's Glastonbury Festival who didn't register can register and then buy a ticket. Please note that there will be no editing facility for late registrations, so please ensure that all your details are correct, and that your photo is of a suitable size and standard, before submitting your details.

Registration, involves filling in a simple form and supplying a passport photograph, and full details can be found at www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk.

The registration process was implemented in 2007 as a measure to stop the touting of Festival tickets - which it has achieved successfully otherwise there would be no tickets left. By preventing touting, the Festival is able to make sure tickets aren't sold at inflated prices, and we can all buy tickets at face value.

Festival goers who register now can tick a box to enable their registration for this year's event to be eligible to buy tickets in 2009 and 2010 making it even easier to buy tickets for the next couple of years.

If you've registered for Glastonbury, then why not enter the eFestivals' competition to win yourself a pair of tickets here!

The line-up for all the Festival stages will be announced on Thursday, 1st of May. To get the best idea of the acts you'll see over all the stages at the festival in June make sure you keep an eye on our Glastonbury 2008 rumours, which will build up into the most comprehensive list available anywhere before the full line-up announcement is made.

Tickets for Glastonbury are on sale either online or through a free phone call from a normal landline.

The ticket costs £155 for a weekend ticket, plus £5 booking fee per ticket and £4 post and packaging per order. To buy tickets for this year's Glastonbury, you'll need to have pre-registered and have your registration number and postcode to hand, plus the registration number and postcode of anyone else you're buying for.

Tickets can be purchased through www.seetickets.com or by phone from 0800 079 2008 for UK buyers and 0044 1159 934 183 for overseas buyers. Overseas ticket purchases can only be made using either Visa or Mastercard credit cards. UK sales will not be accepted on the International Ticket Sales Line, or any other Seetickets telephone lines.

No one other than the above are allowed to sell tickets, and alternative outlets offering them should not be used.

You will need your debit card to hand to give all the necessary information to complete your purchase, including the security number on reverse.

A registration number may only be used once, which will prevent inadvertent duplicate purchases. You are only able to use one card per transaction - therefore we recommend you pool money into one account before buying for other people.

Remember that this year the Festival wants festival-goers to work them to Love the farm, Leave no Trace by travelling light, only bringing what you're willing to carry home. When you buy your tent and camping gear, don't buy the cheapest, get something you'll want to keep. when it's time to go, pack up your stuff and take it away.

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