You can arrive in the car parks and camping fields from noon on the Friday. The gates to the festival don’t open until 2pm, so there are a couple of hours to get pitched up and collect your wristbands without worrying that you’re missing out on anything. There might be a short wait to get parked up, but we work hard to get everyone in as quickly as we can.

The campsites are really big so do spread yourself across them. The area nearest to the car park fills up quickest, for obvious reasons, but if you persevere and walk a little further, you’ll have more space to spread out in the parkland on the other side of the main path, especially down the hill a little towards the woods. This is a good direction to head in if you’re hoping to reserve camping spaces for friends.

There is normally quite a queue at wristband exchange around 2pm when the gates are opening, so we recommend someone from your gang heading there earlier if you can with everyone’s tickets – our wristband exchange staff will happily give all the wristbands to one person to give out back at camp, so you don’t all need to hang around for that.

When the gates open to site, head inside and explore! There are large maps inside the entrance and dotted around site as well as in your programme. There are also signposts pointing you towards the different areas of site.