What are you taking to Glastonbury?

[Liz2021]

im more of a spirits girl. i dont mind cider but cant be doing with larger at all. Is vodka etc really expensive there? am i better off having plastic bottles of my own and just buying mixers? ta

Morrisons have special offers on at the moment £11 for a 70cl bottle! I bring a bottle of Vodka and a bottle of Gin and then a crate of cider and a crate of Beer. Thats enough to be carrying!

And Morrisons are doing specials on the beers and ciders too, they have Brothers Strawberry and Pear in the list for those!

[Nelly]

Weston's Organic Cider bag in box 3 litre is on for £5 at the mo in tesco until end of May.. 7.3%

Very nice stuff plus when the bag is empty, hey presto you have an inflatable pillow.

Anyone know if you can freeze cider? Or is that a no as its gassy?

[robicraig]

No lexilou. There are taps with clean drinking water and a sink with water for your washing up in the camping fields.
You see lots of people having their daily wash at the sinks and I personally think its quite rude as there is always a quite long queue to these sinks for people who do want to wash some pots. It would be better if they just got a bucket and had a wash from this. But thats just my opinion.

Spot on stinky. My personal bugbear is people brushing their teeth with the taps full on & not letting anyone else near until they're finished. Fill a bottle, move away from the tap until your done people!

On a less grumpy note; 4 weeks today till we start the 7 hour drive to Glasto 2011....woo, & indeed, hoo!!!

[stinkywitch]

im more of a spirits girl. i dont mind cider but cant be doing with larger at all. Is vodka etc really expensive there? am i better off having plastic bottles of my own and just buying mixers? ta

It was 3.50 for a smifnoff ice last year. Even the mixers are expensive 2 quid for a bottle of coke! We take multi packs of cans with us and as much beer/spirits as we can carry. Tbh we only really buy drinks from the brothers bar on the thursday. The rest of the time we drink our own.

[crazybird79]

Defo take alcohol with you !
vodka into plastic bottles and what ever mixers you will need,try and save your money for cold drinks on the sunday
Oh and just found out all fresh juices can be froze
So thats me and the pimms sorted

[acidliam]

I found a place in germany doing bags of vodka in the same style of the bag/boxes of wine. I plan to order a couple of the weekend. 3 litres a go, anyone wants the link just say.

[m1keanderson]

You can charge your phone at the info points? We paid a fiver last year to charge our phones at one of those little phone charging places. Was better than going to the chill n charge tent in that heat though..


I can't take anything that big on wheels.. going by train..

Just to pick up on an earlier thread, according to the Glastoearth website "there's encouraging news that there will now be two more phone charging tents - one near the meeting point, and another in Lower Mead towards the John Peel Stage."

[Hash4Cash]

Just to pick up on an earlier thread, according to the Glastoearth website "there's encouraging news that there will now be two more phone charging tents - one near the meeting point, and another in Lower Mead towards the John Peel Stage."

yes,

rather than having a huge 'chill & charge' in holts they have split it up and they are as stated above.

But we still do charging at info points, but you need your charger and there are a limited number of free power sockets.

[stardustjunkie]

Hopefully having three chill n charge tents will reduce the queues. It was a little ridiculous at times last year. I ended up paying one of the people on the stalls to charge my phone lol.

[glastomad]

Hopefully having three chill n charge tents will reduce the queues. It was a little ridiculous at times last year. I ended up paying one of the people on the stalls to charge my phone lol.

What I do with phones is get a old brick phone, fully charge it and get a spare battery just in case. One battery on a old phone eg Nokia 3310 on full charge can last anything up to a couple of weeks, i keep mine on and use it quite regualy and have had on for about 10 days, so a mere 5 days at glasto is no problem Seeing the queue outside it every year puts a smile on my lil' face knowing that i'll be fine for the duration!!

Also as the phone I take is only about a tenner loosing it will only make the festival a bit harder to manage and not the price of replacing a 100quid + iPhone/blackberry

[Nelly]

I really don't see the need for phones at Glastonbury. I'm with the people I want to be with, if we get lost we meet at the tent, we managed for several years without them. Or is that just me being middle aged?

[glastomad]

Or is that just me being middle aged?

I think its that

[Nelly]

I think its that

You kids....

[stardustjunkie]

Being 19, the parents do like a check in at least once. Just a text to let them know I'm still all good

Also we've got someone arriving on Friday who we need to meet up with and show her where the tent is, without a phone I would have no idea how we would do that considering we don't even know what time train she'll be getting until the day!

[Nelly]

Being 19, the parents do like a check in at least once. Just a text to let them know I'm still all good

Also we've got someone arriving on Friday who we need to meet up with and show her where the tent is, without a phone I would have no idea how we would do that considering we don't even know what time train she'll be getting until the day!

Of course, parents. It must be quite worrying for them seeing it all going on in the papers/TV so can understand the need to check in.