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Coach tickets are the first to go on sale ahead of next year's Glastonbury Festival. Be ready as they'll sell out fast. First tickets go on sale tonight for next year’s Glastonbury Festival.
Coach tickets to the festival will be available for purchase from 6pm GMT, giving fans of the festival the first opportunity to claim a ticket to the annually oversubscribed event. Glastonbury is the UK’s biggest performing arts festivals, annually attended by over 200,000 people to revel for five days on Somerset farmlands. With over a 100 stages for a line-up that includes huge music stars alongside comedians, circus performers, poets, and cabaret, Glastonbury’s status as the hottest ticket of the summer festival scene is now definitive.
The side-effect of its popularity is an annual scrabble for tickets. With just hundreds of thousands of tickets available to millions of potential campers, Glastonbury sells out within hours – and sometimes minutes – of tickets going on sale. Tonight is the first of three opportunities to snatch up those precious Glastonbury tickets.
Coach tickets, bundling a ticket to the festival with a coach ride from select locations, are the first sale as per usual. On Sunday 17 November at 9am GMT, the rest of the tickets will become available as part of the general sale. This is the brunt of the tickets so anyone unsuccessful tonight isn’t out of the race yet.
There is then always a further sale of tickets that aren’t fully paid ahead of the festival. This will take place in the Spring and is typically when the smallest number of tickets go on sale. Tickets this year have risen in price again.
This year, it will cost £373.50 with a £5 booking fee to total £378.50 (€455).
Coach ticket prices range from the cheapest – a single way ticket from the relatively local Bristol or Bath is £24 (€29) – to expensive rides across the UK – a return ticket from Edinbrugh is £169 (€203) – on top of the standard ticket price. All that money isn’t required up front, with only a £75 (€90) deposit per ticket expected on the date of sale. If you haven’t thought about going to Glastonbury this year, it may already be too late.
To avoid scalpers selling on tickets for gouged prices, each ticket needs to be registered to an account, for which the deadline was 11 November. The festival has also changed how tickets are sold, in an attempt to quell the chaos of millions of people furiously refreshing hundreds of laptops, phones and tablets in a desperate bid to be among the lucky few. This time, anyone who is already on the See Tickets webpage when the tickets go on sale will be randomly entered into a queue.
From there, a progress bar will indicate how long before your opportunity to buy your tickets. If you click on the page after the sale begins – at 6pm and 9am GMT respectively – then you will be added to the back of the queue. As before, once you’re successfully through to the purchasing page, you can buy in groups of up to six tickets.
The system is a change from the previous where festival hopefuls had to log into the See Tickets page after the sale opened, refreshing routinely in the hope that they would be able to get through the deluge of other concurrent music fans to the purchasing page. Now, the Glastonbury system is more akin to the ticketing queues used by other recent huge gigs from Taylor Swift and Oasis. Previously, hopefuls would also set up multiple devices to try and get tickets to the festival.
Ahead of this year’s sale, Glastonbury has warned that “running multiple devices or tabs simultaneously to attempt to access the website may lead to your IP address being blocked, preventing you from buying a ticket. The same applies to sharing cookies and QueueIDs.” Their advice is to “stick to one tab/device per IP address and please do not refresh your page once you are in the queue.
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