Glastonbury Festival offers accommodation to MyHab customers

Glastonbury Festival has stepped in to help Festival goers who had booked two-person living accommodation and tents with Myhab Ltd at Glastonbury Festival after Myhab Ltd revealed they would not be fulfilling its commitment to provide Festival-goers with accommodation at the Festival which starts tomorrow.

The company who it's estimated had taken between £200,000 and £500,000 of Festival goer's money in bookings, revealed to the Festival last Friday afternoon that due to recent and unforseen events they would not be running their campsite this year.

Festival organiser, farmer Michael Eavis, on being told the news that many Festival-goers faced not getting the facilities that they had paid for, immediately came to their aid. The Festival organisers made the decision to ask the Green Tent Company to step in and provide accommodation, at the Festival's own expense. No payment was made by MyHab Ltd to cover these costs with the Festival shouldering the expense. This level of care for its customers is something that makes Glastonbury quite unique amongst UK festivals.

Glastonbury Festival organisers said, "Glastonbury made the decision to appoint The Green Tent Company to take over the management of the site to provide the accommodation and facilities that you had previously booked through us, although myhabs will not be present. Your accommodation booking is confirmed and no action is required on your part. The Green Tent Company staff will meet you on arrival at Pennard Hill Farm to check you in. The site will be open from 9am on Wednesday 22nd."

On the Festival site last night the Green Tent Company started construction on a tented campsite which will offer facilities including including showers, toilets, parking, a bar and catering, alongside the accommodation for EVERY customer who has booked through MyHab.

Organisers added, "Although this situation is certainly less than ideal - and all the accommodation provided will be tents rather than MyHabs - we very much hope that you will still be able to enjoy the benefits of the facilities at Pennard Hill Farm. Please note, you will need to supply your own bedding/equipment."

Any claims for refunds or compensation should be made directly to MyHab Ltd, via the contact details provided on their website, www.myhab.com, which are as follows:
Email: more@myhab.com
Phone: 077864 38101 / 0207 397 4912
Address: 8th Floor, 80 Cannon Street, London, EC4N 6HL

MyHab customers are asked to bring their MyHab invoice with them, as proof of purchase. The address of the campsite is Pennard Hill Farm, Cockmill Lane, East Pennard, Somerset BA4 6TR. Anyone who has not received a car pass in the post will be able to collect from from a representative at the security roadlock on Cockmill Lane.

If MyHab customers are successful in getting reimbursed from the company, eFestivals asks them to consider donating the money to those charities supported by the Festival, as it's these charities who will be missing out, because of the extra expense. There's a thread on the eFestivals forums about MyHab, here.

Remember that 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.

Tickets have sold out to the Festival which opens tomorrow. To see the line-up in full, along with the latest rumours for some of the other stages, click here >> or to view it as a list click here.

Other attractions will include hands on craft, self-sufficient skill-learning, Hiroshima Peace Flame (burning since 1946), The Rabbit Hole, The Free University of Glastonbury, Mavericks Late Night Cabaret, Strummerville, Cubana Salsa Tent, Hurly Burly, Climate Camp Tripod Stage, HMS Sweet Charity, 'Babylon Uprising' Market Sound System, Arcadia, MP Caroline Lucas, The Dragon Field Underground Piano Bar, The Treehouse Café, The Cider Bus, White Ribbon Alliance Tattoo Parlour, The Crow's Nest Open Mic, The Pilton Palais cinema tent, The Worthy Farm Solar Array, Glastonbury FM, Worthy FM, sound artist Maria Marzaioli, The Glastonbury Firelighter daily newspaper and much, much more!

For detailed information on all aspects of the festival, click here.

Registration for Glastonbury Festival 2013 is now open. Everyone who plans to the come the Festival must register, and that includes children aged 13, 14 and 15. Each ticket sold will feature a photograph of the person in whose name it is registered and will be non-transferable. So if you plan to buy tickets for friends or family you must make sure they all register!

Registration does not reserve or guarantee you a ticket when they go on sale some time in 2012, exact date to be confirmed, but if you don't register you will not be able to buy a weekend ticket for Glastonbury Festival 2013. If you opt to save this information you will be able to use your registration number again in future years. Make sure the e-mail address you provide is one to which you will have long term access.

Online registration for 2013 can be carried out by clicking here.

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