Glastonbury tickets guide for 2024 - timings, prices and best tips and tricks
Getting tickets for Glastonbury seems like an impossible task for many people, because it's the hottest music festival in the UK, and it seems like everybody wants to be there - but we're here to help you.
The Somerset festival, which has incredible headliners each year, is back on June 26 to 30, 2024, and the first round of tickets is available today (November 16) at 6pm. If you don't manage to bag them today, however, there will be another chance on Sunday (November 19) from 9am.
The tickets were originally meant to be going on sale on November 2, however, organisers decided to push it back as a "fairness" to customers who were unaware that their registration had lapsed. Buying tickets is enough to fill even regular festival-goers with dread, because it feels like you're only just in the queue, and bam, tickets have already sold out.
Thankfully, Radio X has shared advice to try and help you to get tickets - and if you manage to get some, you better pray your favourite artists are joining the party. An estimated 2.5 million people try for just over 200,000 tickets each year, so your chances are pretty slim as it is, but first and foremost, you need to ensure that you're registered for a ticket. If you haven't, unfortunately, registration has already closed, so it might be something to add to your to-do list so you can attempt to go in 2025.
They also recommended that you know your dates for certain. Thursday, 16 November at 6pm, tickets plus coach travel went on sale. Then, on Sunday 19 November, general admission tickets are set to go on sale. Got it? Good.
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Radio X recommended taking getting tickets "very seriously", treating it as though it was "the last hour before your dissertation is due or as if you're a few minutes away from walking into the interview for your dream job." They recommend having a strategy with pals and trying to get tickets as a group because then you'll have more of a chance of bagging the coveted tix. They said: "Create a Google doc, have all your names, postcodes, and registration numbers in a spreadsheet, and get VERY familiar with it."
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They also said that in order to be as accurate as possible, details should be copied and pasted, rather than relying on somebody's scrawly handwritten postcode, where you can't tell the difference between a three and a five. And while we're talking about checking details are correct, make sure that your card details are handy. If you are buying tickets in the Autumn sale, you will now need £75 for each successful ticket you book.
Organisers explain on their official website: "Due to the high volume of traffic expected for the limited number of tickets available in the resales, you will not be asked for your payment details during the booking process. Once you have submitted your order request, including the registration details for each ticket, you will receive an initial confirmation to let you know we have received your order, followed by an email within 3 hours of the sale closing, with details of how to pay for the booking. You will then have 24 hours to complete your purchase before the order is cancelled."
Make sure you also check your emails in November, after you've made the purchase, just to be sure everything went through as it was supposed to - check your junk too. And then, in April, following the change to the way you'll pay for your ticket in the April resale, Glastonbury assures you will receive an email once their booking is successful.
Make sure you check your emails after booking (Guy Bell/REX/Shutterstock)Radio X did recommend "attacking from all angles", recommending using tablet devices as the memory on them is less likely to be rammed, however, Glastonbury said: "Running multiple devices simultaneously to attempt to access the website is a waste of valuable resources, and doesn't reflect the ethos of the Festival."
They also said to refresh, but not too much, and if the page freezes when you're trying to book, press the backspace once and hopefully it'll refresh the page. Also, some advice from Glastonbury: "Please don't continue to refresh the page more than 10 minutes after entering your details as your access to the page will have expired. You will need to close the browser and start again to gain fresh access to the booking page."
Of course, you'll need to ensure that you've got enough money in your account to pay for the tickets, as it'd be the biggest blow to get to payment and it bounces back because you didn't transfer enough from your savings. And most of all - don't give up!
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