22nd, 23rd, 24th, June 2007
The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, Known commonly as Glastonbury Festival or Glasto, famous for for its contemporary music, but also features dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and many other arts. Glasto is billed as the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world.
There has been a year without ‘Glasto’. Now its back for 2007, and if you are young at heart and love contemporary music you may have been successful in buying a weekend ticket and a ticket for the campervan/motorhome camp site. You cannot buy a campervan/motorhome site ticket without having a weekend ticket and tickets must have been purchased from the festival agent. We understand that all tickets are now sold out, so unless you have the tickets required you will not be allowed on site.
If you are lucky enough to have both tickets you can still hire a motor home from The Motorhome Group. The group have motor homes based all over the UK available for hire for music festivals. Those lucky people who hired motor homes for the Glastonbury Festival in 2005, slept dry and warm during the rainy weather. Glastonbury luxury. The minimum hire period in June, is a week.
The motorhome and campervan fields will be on the East of the site and will be surrounded by steel shield fencing.The festival organisers intent to provide water, waste-water containers, toilets and a food trader open 24 hours a day. Read the festival website carefully, all the information about access etc is provided.
There is no electricity provided for field users, so no ‘hook up’. Generators are not allowed. If you use your12volt battery sparingly you may last the three days without running the vehicle to charge the battery up. The main thing is to have the battery to run the water pump and lights, your fridge and hob will operate from the gas.
Never let your water tank run completely dry, always check you have plenty on board. An open tap without water flowing through will quickly burn out your water pump! If you have 6 people on board, having a shower and using water for other uses then you need to fill your tank every other day………………….and of course empty your waste water. It is illegal to pour waste water onto the ground so seek out the waste water disposal points on the site and empty your water in the containers provided.
Before you leave the site ensure you empty the toilet cassette. (There is a 50 pound fine for returning a Motorhome Group hire vehicle with a dirty cassette.) Leaving the campsite after the event is a slow process and can take a great deal longer than you anticipate. Plan to return the motorhome a day after your return from Glastonbury. This gives you time to clean out the floor etc of any dirt or grass and hand it back to the owner in excellent condition.
In the unlikely event that you breakdown on the campsite field the organizers will not allow other vehicles onto the fields under any circumstances – not even late replacement vehicles in the case of a breakdown. Contact the Motorhome group as soon as you are aware there is a problem and we will arrange support for you as soon as access to the site becomes available.
Take care driving too and from the festival, some of the local roads are very narrow. People have been known to sleep in their sleeping bags on the grass verges as they journey to and from the festival…………hard to spot in poor light.
Make sure that you lock all lockers and doors when you leave the motorhome. Ensure that all windows and roof lights are closed and secure. Leave the glove compartment open and conspicuously empty. The festival does have security guards patrolling the camp-site, but its always best to be safe. The festival website gives excellent advice on safety and security at the festival and we recommend that you read it.
