Festivals MSE stylee! :D

vanilla

Hi everyone, me and hubby are hoping to go to the Reading and Leeds festival. He really wants to go so we've been looking at tickets online and the price we found for 2 people was just over 300 pounds for a sunday day ticket.:eek: Add in that we have never been to a festival before and that we don't really know where we're going (never been over to england before) or how we're getting there.
Any help or tips would be great.

PandaPants_2

You need to buy tickets from an authorised outlet as soon as they go on sale, or end up paying way over the odds from a ticket agency or tout.

elantan

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Carry as many cans of lager as you can in your rucksack...

Don't eat for 3 days, saves money and lets you carry more cans of lager...

Share a tent, that way you can save space for yet more lager...


Oh final tip...

Buy your lager from the supermarket, it's normally cheaper

i get the feeling alot of lager is involved :rotfl:

vanilla

Thanks PandaPants, we've had a look at a few places and there all sold out. Hubby is just mad to get going and will pay over the odds for the tickets:mad: , i've already suggested next year but he won't hear of it. I may keep looking...I'm worried that he'll pay for the tickets and never get them.

M4RKM

scarletmist is your friend for face value tickets... however, you have to keep checking and checking and checking as someone with one, will put one up..

also.. ebay (ugh) prices normally drop closer to the time of the festival

if you want to go, spur of the moment decisions isn't the best way!

M

vanilla

Thanks markymoo i'll keep checking scarletmist

ailuro2

Getting a podpad at T in the Park this summer.:j

Very special treat for DH's 40th birthday, first time we've been to the whole weekend.

In preparation today I bought....


From Poundland, feminine wipes, for if the showers are awful/unavailable.Sorry if that's too much info. Flash antibacterial wipes for cleaning up before going for more than a hover above the portaloo. Again sorry if it's TMI.:o

LED lights that are battery operated to decorate our podpad with. Couple of other 'decorations' that are for DH'r birthday so will update you on them at later date.

A cap light that clips onto baseball cap, 5 LEDs to prevent stumbling around a field looking for a loo in the dark.

A little tripod stool that is an optional extra to carry during the day depending on how my fallen arches are bearing up through the weekend.

Batteries for the LEDs, 6 pack for £1

From Woolworths I bought a camping chair with space to hold a tumbler, reduced to £5.99 from £12. Seems good quality ,so happy with price.The cheaper ones didn't hold tumbler. Noticed their picnic plastic stuff was cheaper than poundlands, 77p for plates, 77p for tumbler set..


Lidl are doing some camping stuff on their special offers this coming week, tent for under £20, self inflating campbeds etc....keep your eyes peeled!


Now what I want to know is what lager comes in plastic bottles?, as glass ones are apparently not allowed in to T in the Park campsites. DH doesn't like tinned beer much, normally drinks bottles of Miller.

I still need a pair of ladies wellies, liked some in TJHughes today for £12 but am convinced I'll find them cheaper somewhere else.

Little_Pickle

wellies... primark do some nice ladies ones.. think they were a tenner?

Can you take a small keg into T in the park? I see they are on sale again this year...

have fun!

PandaPants_2

I have a bladder equal to a squirrel so i always brought a big plastic gallon water bottle, filled with a spirit/mixer, to save needing to queue for the loo all the time.

I would advise camping as FAR from the toilets as you can, bring a bucket and a shower curtain for peeing..... Wrap said shower curtain around your neck and tie, it will cover your whole body, place bucket in the necessary place and pee. :rotfl: :rotfl: Or take the bucket into your tent and be careful not to spill.... :rotfl: :rotfl:

ps: Under no circumstances buy a see-through shower curtain.... :eek:

xredwebx

Download for me and OH again this year, but this time we're going in style, no tent for us, we've got a transit van! lol!! :rotfl:

So far my download bargains have been:
Wonderful motherinlaw buying us tickets for our b/days when I discovered my work weren't giving me the bonus I had expected :j
Discovering motherinlaw will lend us a gazebo (very MSE)
Making flapjacks, rolls and cakes to take
77p for a 12 piece cutlery set from Tesco (actually a really good one too, not flimsy at all!)
77p for 4 tumblers

Total download spends so far: £1.54!!! :T

The usual offenders will be got at a later date
3 for £20 beer (fingers crossed) :beer:
baby wipes for poundland
loo roll ditto

going to trawl poundland for cheap meals etc, last year spent so much on food, but this year i'm taking loads of quick tasty things in tins etc. as I dont have to carry them!!!

Happy camping fellow festi's