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Best Way to Glastonbury 2014

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  • 29-09-2013 10:36am
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    amanda cameron100
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    Hey

    Thinking of heading to glasto this year from Dublin, wondering if anyone has any suggestions about the best way to get there? Either flying / bus or boat / bus or driving is also an option. If anyone has been and has any tips, expense ect?

    Thanks!
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    Royale with Cheese
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    amanda cameron100 wrote: »
    Hey

    Thinking of heading to glasto this year from Dublin, wondering if anyone has any suggestions about the best way to get there? Either flying / bus or boat / bus or driving is also an option. If anyone has been and has any tips, expense ect?

    Thanks!

    Fly to bristol. Then try and round up all the other festival types and share a large taxi. You can stop in a supermarket on the way for food and drink. Think it worked out about £15 a head doing this, cheaper and quicker than going into bristol and getting a coach from there.

    Got a coach back to Bristol on the way back and then a bus to the airport. I'd see if theres some way of avoiding this as we werent far off missing our flight. Make sure you leave yourself plenty of time if youre doing this as the printed times they provide aren't very accurate.


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    amanda cameron100
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    you can buy tickets with coach prices from bristol included in this. but there are quite a few of us so maybe a taxi might be an option. Cheers!


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    Royale with Cheese
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    amanda cameron100 wrote: »
    you can buy tickets with coach prices from bristol included in this. but there are quite a few of us so maybe a taxi might be an option. Cheers!

    The coach tickets are easier to get I think, and trying to buy tickets is absolute mayhem. Just take whatever you can and then worry about how you're going to get there after.


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    Stench Blossoms
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    Yeh worry about getting tickets first before how you plan on getting there.


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    Mickolution
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    amanda cameron100 wrote: »
    you can buy tickets with coach prices from bristol included in this. but there are quite a few of us so maybe a taxi might be an option. Cheers!

    Taxi from the airport is definitely the best option. That's what we did this year and in total there was 8-9 of us heading from the airport. It was £15 per head for two taxies and they stopped at a supermarket for us on the way. We hit no traffic at all and did the journey in around 40 mins. We got the bus back to Bristol on the Monday and that took 3 hours, although naturally there was more people leaving Monday afternoon than arriving on Thursday lunchtime. Even so, airport to the festival is a different route than Bristol to the festival, so you avoid a lot of the traffic going backroads.


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    nerraw1111
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    Did it by train from London, bus and taxi by Bristol and campervan from Ireland.

    By far the best is campervan. Get a decent number of people and it works out not too pricey. Way less hassle too.

    Otherwise, fly to Bristol and taxi. One year we went the day before, stayed at a hotel and left first thing. Worked out well.

    Another year went straight from airport to festival via taxi and then bus drop off. Took hours to get in.


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    gowayouttadat
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    For this getting a taxi how do you organise getting back on the Monday?


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    Mickolution
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    gowayouttadat wrote: »
    For this getting a taxi how do you organise getting back on the Monday?

    Last year we were able to just queue up for a bus on the Monday and pay before getting on. Traffic was bad, but we were in no rush and left in the afternoon. It probably wouldn't be so bad if you left earlier in the day.


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