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Glastonbury Festival 2019: Coach tickets go on sale, live updates and reaction


You will be able to book up to 6 tickets per person online at glastonbury.seetickets.com . There will be no tickets sold by telephone this year.

UK buyers may use either a UK registered debit card or UK registered credit card. International buyers must use a credit card (with a non-UK billing address).

Tickets cost £248 + £5 booking fee per person. If you are booking a coach package you will need to pay the £50 ticket deposit plus the full price of your coach booking. The balance for the ticket will be due in the first week of April 2019.

Registration is now closed. If you do not have a valid registration you will not be able to book a ticket.

For coach packages you will only be sent your coach tickets in advance – your Festival entry tickets will be handed out on the coach. Travel on your chosen coach is mandatory. Please do not book a coach package unless you are certain you will be able to travel on the coach you have selected.

Click here to download a PDF of the Ticket FAQs / coach prices / departure list. Standard tickets will go on sale at 9am BST on Sunday, 7th October.

Due to increased traffic, this page temporarily replaces the full Glastonbury Festival website, which will re-open following the ticket sale.




Image copyright Emily Lynch

It's a tense time for Glastonbury fans, with tickets for the 2019 festival going on sale this week.

Coach and festival tickets go on sale at 6pm on Thursday 4 October and main tickets for the festival are on sale from 9am on Sunday 7 October.

No performers have been announced for Glastonbury 2019, but that won't stop it selling out.

Even though 135,000 people get to go every year, there are always people left empty-handed after the ticket rush.

So people are always looking for ways to improve their chances of getting tickets for themselves and their mates when things go live on the Glastonbury website.

Here's how you can give yourself a fighting chance of getting to Worthy Farm for Glasto next summer - from people who know what they're talking about.

1. Work together with friends to buy your tickets

Image copyright Matt Ledesley Image caption Matt at Glastonbury in 2017, waiting to see Biffy Clyro with his girlfriend

Matt Levesley, who's been to Glastonbury six times, believes a coordinated approach with friends is the best guarantee to getting in.

You can buy up to six tickets at a time, so by teaming up with mates you improve your chances.

Matt's planning to go in 2019 with his band Future Fires, who he hopes will get to play the festival in the future.

"We try to do it as a bit of a syndicate, we're on the WhatsApp group, we're all watching out for the first person who manages to get through and then it's all systems go," he says.

"It's a buzz. It's super exciting. The minute you get through, it's a real rush."

2. Grab every phone, laptop and tablet you can

Matt also recommends trying on as many devices as possible.

"I make an effort to get my phone on the go, I get the laptop on, I get tablets out," he says.

"I basically go around the family trying to get every device we've got in the house together so we can have as many chances as possible."

3. Get super serious with your planning

Image copyright Emily Lynch Image caption Emily loves Glastonbury so much, she quit her teaching career because it was impossible for her to take the time off work every year

For 24-year-old Emily Lynch - and her friendship circle of more than 100 people - the only way to make sure everyone gets in is to plan things meticulously.

They rely on a spreadsheet to tell everyone trying to get tickets who else they need to buy for.

"The spreadsheet is split into 17 groups," she says.

"If any of us get through, the idea is to buy for our group and then we move onto the next group and then the next. We did it last year and only one person got through, but they managed to get every group's tickets."

Emily says that if it wasn't for her friends' organisation, she wouldn't have got tickets for 2017, because she couldn't get through on the Glastonbury website.

4. Use the best internet connection you can

Image copyright Tom Connick Image caption Tom has a friend who changed his address months before tickets went on sale to try to improve his chances

Tom Connick is a writer for NME and he believes the key to getting your tickets is your internet connection.

"The people who seem to get through are the ones who have the strongest connection," he says.

"I know people who have gone into work on a Sunday because they work in big office buildings that have very good internet, as opposed to slightly dodgy home internet."

5. Change your address

But he also knows people who have gone to more extreme lengths to get through the gates.

"A friend of mine at university changed his address because we had a friend who lived in Wells in Somerset," he says, as local people get an "easier ride" securing tickets.

"He managed to get him through on the local sale but obviously that required a lot of planning."

6. And never, ever give up

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Tom says Glastonbury is like "another world" and unlike any other festival

Tom also says that the annual Glasto re-sale is where he has twice secured his tickets, but his biggest tip for Sunday is to ignore the Glastonbury website's "sold out" messages.

"More and more batches of tickets will go up for sale throughout the morning," he says.

"I know people who've managed to get tickets two hours after the website has said they were sold out, just through sheer persistence."

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The first batch of tickets for the Glastonbury Festival 2019 go on sale TONIGHT.

The tickets on sale this evening (Thursday, October 4) are for coach and ticket packages, while general admission tickets alone do not go on sale until Sunday morning.

Registration has already closed - so if you have not sorted that out, then you will have to wait until next year.

You can only buy tickets for the June 26 to June 30 festival at Worthy Farm through the official site .

(Image: PA)

Tickets are expected to sell out within minutes - so you need to have a plan if you want to improve your chances.

We will be reporting on tonight's ticket release in our live blog below . For updates as they happen and tips on how to get a ticket, scroll down.

Good luck!

What is a Glastonbury Festival 2019 coach ticket and how do I buy one?

On sale: Thursday, 4 October at 6pm BST.

That is the time and date you will need to be ready to try and get your coach tickets.

If you are lucky enough to get your hands on tickets, you will pay a £50 deposit (plus the price of your coach) and be able to buy up to six tickets.

(Image: Daily Mirror)

You will need your registration details and your credit/debit card at the ready – you have six minutes to complete the transaction once you have entered the booking process.

And remember - if someone else is using your registration details, when you try to buy, your account will be locked for 10 minutes.

Why should I buy a coach ticket?

By going for a coach ticket on sale from 6pm on Thursday, you are effectively giving yourself two bites at the cherry - with the general sale still to come on Sunday.

You’ll be kicking yourself if your mates go for it and get it but you don’t, and then miss out on Sunday’s general ticket sale. It’s a risk too big to take.

Get into groups with your friends

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It is possible to buy tickets for up to six people, so it is worth finding five friends who you want to go with. By doing this, it means you can all try for each other, in turn maximising your chances of getting a ticket.

If possible, your group of six ticket-hunters should be in different locations and not all in the same place, in case there’s poor WiFi or other computer problems which could jeopardise the whole process.

Have the registration details of you and your friends open on your computer screen

If you manage to get through the first screen, you’re going to need to be on the ball or you risk losing your place altogether, so you'll want to have the vital information to hand.

Notepad is a handy programme when it comes to easily displaying all the necessary details. It’s worth having it open in a small box in the corner of the screen with everyone's details on so that when you get through to the fateful screen, you’re good to go right away.

DON’T have multiple tabs open

A lot of people think that having multiple tabs open will boost their chances of getting a ticket, but this actually has the adverse effect. If you have 10 tabs open which you constantly refresh, you are not increasing your likelihood of getting a ticket by 10 but instead reducing it by that amount. Instead, to try and get to the front of the queue, you should try refreshing on multiple browsers instead, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer, refreshing each one constantly.

But DO use multiple devices.

Don’t just use one laptop to try and bag tickets, get your hands on as many devices as possible including tablets and mobile phones in order to give yourself more of a chance. Just like having multiple browsers open, you will give yourself a slightly bigger chance of getting to the front of the queue if you do this.

Don’t start celebrating prematurely

Until the moment money leaves your bank account, your tickets are not secure. If you get through to the screen where it asks for your card details, don’t assume that means you’ve managed to get tickets and start celebrating, as that could cost you big time. Stay focused until it’s 100% completed.

Stay calm and good luck!

For the majority of people attempting to get tickets, the process will no doubt be a fairly tortuous one, so stay calm and keep your eyes on the prize. And if it all fails, remember you’ll have a second shot at getting tickets when the re-sale comes around (although bear in mind it just as, if not more, difficult getting tickets at this stage)...


The moment is finally here.

At 6pm this evening (October 4), the first batch of tickets for the 2019 Glastonbury Festival will go on sale.

There is expected to be a considerable demand due the event taking a fallow year in 2018, with Worthy Farm being given time to recover.

We will be bringing you the latest reaction as the clamour begins.

Live updates from before, during, and after the sale will appear below.

So, how do you get tickets?

To book a combined coach and festival ticket package, you will need the need the registration number and registered postcode for each person (up to 6 per transaction) for whom you are booking.

You will then be asked to choose a departure town and day and will have to pay a £50 deposit per person, along with the coach ticket fare.

General admission tickets go on sale at 9am on Sunday (October 7) and are usually gone within 50 minutes.

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Full weekend tickets (valid from Wednesday, June 26 to Monday, July 1) will cost £248 + £5 booking fee per ticket.

This is a live blog. Scroll down for the latest updates.

Are you hoping to go to Glastonbury Festival this year? Having trouble getting tickets? Get in touch by contacting @jonathanecoles on Twitter or emailing Jonathan.Coles@reachplc.com.

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