Glastonbury 2017

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

4th year trying and i've yet to see even a first page. hate this shít.

ZV Yoda

georgiecasey wrote: »

4th year trying and i've yet to see even a first page. hate this shít.

Same here!

Utah

Same

scary

just got sorted for 4

ZV Yoda

scary wrote: »

just got sorted for 4

Fair play. Glasto Twitter says half of tix already sold

marvin80

https://twitter.com/GlastoFest/status/785034928622858240

Basq

Brother in Oz got our group sorted...

.. I didn't see the holding page once!

annie_ie

Lucky you!!

Apparently half are sold now.

Were you in queue from start? We havent got past site cannot be reached stage

bennyc

i go the holding page once and the link updated to this

http://glastonbury.seetickets.com/event/glastonbury-2017-deposits/worthy-farm/1100000/

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

right, friends sorted me, like all other years. i'm off to bed

ghostdancer

30mins of nothing, did the host files change and got straight in on 2 browsers

If you know how, host hack

109.231.214.235 glastonbury.seetickets.com

and then go to http://glastonbury.seetickets.com/event/glastonbury-2017-deposits/worthy-farm/1100000/

good luck

aka accounts 2010

I have booking page up if anyone needs help....PM me ASAP.

Chelon

Murphy's law in operation. I had 2 friends in the uk and 2 laptops going myself.

Got through at 9.05 on my own laptop and no trouble booking the 2 tickets. Very happy as only second time successful in 6 years. If it's not sold out yet that means it slower than usual as normally it's all over in 30 mins

Blahfool

Seemed slower to sell out this year?
Thanks mud!

ZV Yoda

I didn't even manage to get thebooking page to load despite trying on 3 devices for 50 mins. Argh!

MadYaker

I was trying for friends and never got beyond the holding page, one of my mates in the UK managed to buy 12 though so we're all sorted.

Blahfool

ZV Yoda wrote: »

I didn't even manage to get thebooking page to load despite trying on 3 devices for 50 mins. Argh!

Resale, it'll be grand!

ghostdancer

Blahfool wrote: »

Seemed slower to sell out this year?
Thanks mud!

yeah, nearly twice as long this year.
most people couldn't even get the holding page this year it seems.

i reckon plenty of people were using that Refreshinator app and it was hammering the site and making it almost unusable.

dmm82

I managed to get 6 tickets. I'm still shaking with the shock. First time going for all of us. Can't believe we got them!!

Kettle316

Girlfriend was trying this morning and got as far as the payment page and had an error with one of the registration numbers!

She had to go back through the who thing, put in her card details but never got a booking complete page or a confirmation number! When she went back and tried to buy them again it said that tickets had already been purchased for the reg numbers!

She's terrified now she doesn't have them. Anyone ever had anything similar?? Long wait now for an email to confirm!

One of my friends got my ticket so I'm happy out

Mince Pie

All ours are sorted and have had confirmation email through already. Was pretty brutal. We never saw the holding page here and others in our group got sorted.

ceegee

Kettle316 wrote: »

Girlfriend was trying this morning and got as far as the payment page and had an error with one of the registration numbers!

She had to go back through the who thing, put in her card details but never got a booking complete page or a confirmation number! When she went back and tried to buy them again it said that tickets had already been purchased for the reg numbers!

She's terrified now she doesn't have them. Anyone ever had anything similar?? Long wait now for an email to confirm!

One of my friends got my ticket so I'm happy out

if the reg number was coming up as already used then she'll be fine

Chelon

If someone registers say next week can they then apply in the resale? Suspect not but have a friend who is asking

scary

Chelon wrote: »

If someone registers say next week can they then apply in the resale? Suspect not but have a friend who is asking

yes

dmm82

I didn't get a confirmation email yet, could it take a while to come through? Have the booking complete page with the order reference number screenshotted. But still half terrified something might go wrong?

Mince Pie

dmm82 wrote: »

I didn't get a confirmation email yet, could it take a while to come through? Have the booking complete page with the order reference number screenshotted. But still half terrified something might go wrong?

Dont worry, it can take a few hours to come through.

rockatansky

Found it relatively easy to get tickets this year compared to last year. Had a few different groups trying and all managed to get on after about 20 minutes.

A few lessons learned from last year (based on driving):

Prepare better next year for the 10 hour queues to get in! Bring some form of entertainment to pass the time in the car/coach!

If it's anyway muddy like this year, make a few trips back to the car, don't load up the cart (if bringing one) with all of the gear with the intention of doing one trip. It just sinks straight in and you cant budge it. Many people just abandoned them on the way up to the campsite.

The English people are extremely friendly!

Bring better for food for breakfasts + a few disposable bbqs. Trust me, when you wake up to the smell of your neighbors cooking a a few rashers and sausages it can drive you mad while you have to go and queue up for not so great food. Many of the regulars seem to have this down to a fine art.

The pyramid stage, for any of the main acts if you're near the centre, don't expect easily get to the toilets and back, the amount of people you have to wade through is insane. Thousands surrounding you in every direction you look. Worth considering if you're planning on drinking a few cans in there!

I cannot wait for it!!

Edit: Just one more point. From talking to many people who have been over the years, the heavy mud is to be expected / considered normal to plan for it. It is a rare occasion where they have a dry festival. The last was 2015.

Basq

^ All good tips.. though 2015 had a quick shower here and there, it was nowhere as muddy as last year.

ghostdancer

rockatansky wrote: »

Bring better for food for breakfasts + a few disposable bbqs. Trust me, when you wake up to the smell of your neighbors cooking a a few rashers and sausages it can drive you mad while you have to go and queue up for not so great food. Many of the regulars seem to have this down to a fine art.


Edit: Just one more point. From talking to many people who have been over the years, the heavy mud is to be expected / considered normal to plan for it. It is a rare occasion where they have a dry festival. The last was 2014.

don't bother with disposable bbqs, bring a gas cannister one. can get them for 15quid in Halfords/Tesco and a gas cannister lasts ages. we did fry-ups each day this year and boiled some water for tea/coffee and didn't even use 2 cannisters.
much quicker than waiting for the disposable ones to heat up, much more effective, and pretty sure they're lighter to carry too.

2014 had a storm on the Friday that shut down some stages for a while.

2015 there was basically no mud at all. it lashed on the friday afternoon but the rest of the day and every other day was glorious sunshine so dried out very quick.

Reggie noble

When's resale ?

ghostdancer

mid-April usually

dmm82

We've booked our flights into bristol Wednesday morning and home Monday afternoon. Half thinking of staying in bristol on the Wednesday and heading to the festival Thursday morning. Has anyone done this?

rockatansky

Basq wrote: »

^ All good tips.. though 2015 had a quick shower here and there, it was nowhere as muddy as last year.

ghostdancer wrote: »

2014 had a storm on the Friday that shut down some stages for a while.

My apologies, you are indeed correct! I meant to say 2015. For some reason I keep thinking this years festival was last year!

MadYaker

Why would you do that? There's plenty of fun to be had Wednesday night too. Plus you'll have a better choice of camping spots.

rockatansky

ghostdancer wrote: »

don't bother with disposable bbqs, bring a gas cannister one. can get them for 15quid in Halfords/Tesco and a gas cannister lasts ages. we did fry-ups each day this year and boiled some water for tea/coffee and didn't even use 2 cannisters.
much quicker than waiting for the disposable ones to heat up, much more effective, and pretty sure they're lighter to carry too.

Great, sounds perfect I'll go with that so! Thanks for the tip.

Kettle316

Kettle316 wrote: »

Girlfriend was trying this morning and got as far as the payment page and had an error with one of the registration numbers!

She had to go back through the who thing, put in her card details but never got a booking complete page or a confirmation number! When she went back and tried to buy them again it said that tickets had already been purchased for the reg numbers!

She's terrified now she doesn't have them. Anyone ever had anything similar?? Long wait now for an email to confirm!

One of my friends got my ticket so I'm happy out

Crisis averted...email just arrived.

Countdown is on!!!

MadYaker

That seemed way worse than the coach sale, thousands of people couldn't even get on the holding page. Does the website normally crash completely?

oo7tk

We had 6 trying and only 2 even got the page loaded luckily also got tickets..

Anyone know when we can book the Pods and Tipis etc??

Basq

oo7tk wrote: »

Anyone know when we can book the Pods and Tipis etc??

End of month in WV.

Mince Pie

dmm82 wrote: »

We've booked our flights into bristol Wednesday morning and home Monday afternoon. Half thinking of staying in bristol on the Wednesday and heading to the festival Thursday morning. Has anyone done this?

Wednesday is one of the best days so its madness not to get onsite for it. Gives you time to get set up and seeing as its your first time to familiarise yourself with the layout. Its fecking HUGE!!

The Nal

rockatansky wrote: »

Found it relatively easy to get tickets this year compared to last year. Had a few different groups trying and all managed to get on after about 20 minutes.

A few lessons learned from last year (based on driving):

Prepare better next year for the 10 hour queues to get in! Bring some form of entertainment to pass the time in the car/coach!

If it's anyway muddy like this year, make a few trips back to the car, don't load up the cart (if bringing one) with all of the gear with the intention of doing one trip. It just sinks straight in and you cant budge it. Many people just abandoned them on the way up to the campsite.

The English people are extremely friendly!

Bring better for food for breakfasts + a few disposable bbqs. Trust me, when you wake up to the smell of your neighbors cooking a a few rashers and sausages it can drive you mad while you have to go and queue up for not so great food. Many of the regulars seem to have this down to a fine art.

The pyramid stage, for any of the main acts if you're near the centre, don't expect easily get to the toilets and back, the amount of people you have to wade through is insane. Thousands surrounding you in every direction you look. Worth considering if you're planning on drinking a few cans in there!

I cannot wait for it!!

Edit: Just one more point. From talking to many people who have been over the years, the heavy mud is to be expected / considered normal to plan for it. It is a rare occasion where they have a dry festival. The last was 2015.

Hmmmmm......

Apart from "I cannot wait" and the English being friendly I disagree with nearly all of this.

It rained in 2015. P1ssed it down on Friday until about 5pm. Rained Sunday morning too.

The traffic last year was a once off. Never seen it like that before.

Theres no reason to make multiple trips to the car for "all the gear". Bring a tent and some clothes and a bit of booze. Thats all you need. 1 trip.

Don't waste time at your tent. For brekkie or any other reason. Theres delicious food everywhere for brekkie. Get up, go for a morning walk, see some stuff, meet some people. Yeo Valley do yoghurt pots and a sachet of granola/ for £1. And theres loads of options for bacon, eggs etc. Really good coffee too.

dmm82 wrote: »

We've booked our flights into bristol Wednesday morning and home Monday afternoon. Half thinking of staying in bristol on the Wednesday and heading to the festival Thursday morning. Has anyone done this?

Change your flights. Fly into Bristol Tuesday night, stay in Glastonbury town and get up and head into the festival early Wednesday morning. If you book a taxi they'll take you in the back "taxi only" local roads and you'll fly in.

Wednesdays at Glasto are great. And you'll have limited camping options on Thursday. The place is usually full by Wednesday afternoon.

robinph

Eventually got through after using the hosts file hack and sorted 11 tickets. Another 4 of the group had sorted them without playing the game properly by trying for others as well, and another couple missed out after having Irish registration and then trying to pay with UK debit and credit cards. Some people just don't listen to the instructions.

The important bit is that my Glastonbury streak continues.

MadYaker

Glad to hear it man, I wondering earlier if you were going to continue your run, since 94 or something is it?!

robinph

MadYaker wrote: »

Glad to hear it man, I wondering earlier if you were going to continue your run, since 94 or something is it?!

Since '95.

2016 was the closest I came to missing it as I had to resort to the resale, and then fluked a campervan ticket in "secret resale" after they had all sold also.

dmm82

The Nal wrote: »

Hmmmmm......

Apart from "I cannot wait" and the English being friendly I disagree with nearly all of this.

It rained in 2015. P1ssed it down on Friday until about 5pm. Rained Sunday morning too.

The traffic last year was a once off. Never seen it like that before.

Theres no reason to make multiple trips to the car for "all the gear". Bring a tent and some clothes and a bit of booze. Thats all you need. 1 trip.

Don't waste time at your tent. For brekkie or any other reason. Theres delicious food everywhere for brekkie. Get up, go for a morning walk, see some stuff, meet some people. Yeo Valley do yoghurt pots and a sachet of granola/ for £1. And theres loads of options for bacon, eggs etc. Really good coffee too.



Change your flights. Fly into Bristol Tuesday night, stay in Glastonbury town and get up and head into the festival early Wednesday morning. If you book a taxi they'll take you in the back "taxi only" local roads and you'll fly in.

Wednesdays at Glasto are great. And you'll have limited camping options on Thursday. The place is usually full by Wednesday afternoon.

We're flying over Wednesday morning so just gonan head straight there and get set up

jimmy180sx

We managed to get 12 tickets this year booked by one member only on two different cards. 11 of us didn't even get on the page..1st year I'm driving over, anyone recommend getting there early on Tuesday evening or just sale through Tuesday night get there 5am Wednesday drive down to the farm? Would I likely miss the heavy traffic like last year

keyboard_cat

Managed to get my two tickets 25 mins in, I had 10 laptops on 5 different network connections

robinph

The traffic getting into the site this year was a freak incident, not helped by them changing the campervan arrival times that morning.

Mince Pie

Hey have to say still not as bad as the travesty of the Coldplay ticket shenanigans. Wasn't trying for myself hence not outrage but was trying for a friend and was constantly being thrown to Seatwave. At least Glastonbury is a level playing field and purely down to luck

Reggie noble

keyboard_cat wrote: »

Managed to get my two tickets 25 mins in, I had 10 laptops on 5 different network connections

Did u break into PC world before they opened this morning ?