Introduction
Every Festival year, thousands of fans flock towards the highly anticipated Worthy Farm ticket sales, in an attempt to gain entry to the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world, known asGlastonbury Festival.
Trying to get tickets to perhaps the most iconic festival in the world often requires the planning of an elite operation, and with the latest data showing that more than 2.5 million people registered for Glastonbury in 2019, and “only” 143,000 (public+Sunday) tickets made available to purchase – demand clearly outstrips supply.
However, although getting your hands on the golden ticket snitch is known to be notoriously difficult, believe it or not, that doesn’t mean you aren’t in with a winning chance –as getting Glasto tickets is still very viable.
We believe that everyone should get the chance to experience the magic of Worthy Farm (at least once in their lifetime), and for that reason, we’ve put together a list of Glastonbury tips and tricks to help you secure yourself tickets to the grandest celebration on the planet!
Background Info
After being held for the first time in two years in 2022 and returning in 2023 and 2024 – following its forced cancellation in 2020 and 2021 due to the worldwide pandemic – the Somerset event will be back this summer and run between 25th and 29th June 2025.
The first chance to buy tickets for the 2025 Festival will occur in November [2024], provided you have registered first (more info on this below).
As ever, the first main sale for Glastonbury [2025] tickets will be divided into two days; The first sale day (for Coach + Ticket packages) will be held on Thursday, 14th November at 6pm, while the second sale day (for General Admission tickets) will take place on Sunday, 17th November 2024 at 9am.
There will then be a resale of any unpaid and/or cancelled tickets, that traditionally tend to take place the following April [2025].
Glastonbury 2025 tickets will be sold exclusively atglastonbury.seetickets.comand cost £373.50, plus a £5 booking fee (which is a £18.50 hike from the 2024 price of £355 plus a £5 booking fee), of which a £75 deposit (plus coach fare if booking a ticket including coach travel options) is payable when booking in November – with the balance usually payable in the first week of April 2025.
Just so you know what you’re up against, last November, the first main batch of tickets – which included tickets packaged with coach travel – sold out in just 25 minutes, before General Admission tickets were all snapped up in exactly 57 minutes.
Below, you’ll find our detailed guide to buying Glastonbury tickets – Take the time to read thoroughly through the entire page and study each tip and trick individually, so when the time comes and tickets become available, you’ll be as ready as can be and know what to expect. Good luck and may the odds be ever in your favour!
How to buy Glastonbury tickets
Now that we’ve gotten some of the main ticket info basics out of the way, and if Worthy Farm still has your fancy, here are our top 15 tips and tricks on how to get Glastonbury tickets:
1. Don’t fall for bogus operators
There are people out there who will try to sell fake Glastonbury tickets to unsuspecting, willing and innocent potential purchasers. Although Glasto-veterans who have been going to the Festival for quite some time may recognise these scams for what they are, newcomers might not.
Don’t risk falling victim to touts, bogus operators or fake promotions. If you have doubts about any company offering tickets, accommodation or competitions to access Glastonbury Festival, please get in touch with the Festival office – And as always, remember that tickets are sold only on one site, which isglastonbury.seetickets.com
2. Make sure you’re registered!
Sounds obvious, doesn’t it? You would be surprised how many people this catches out every year.
Simply put, there is no way you can buy a Glastonbury Festival ticket unless you’ve pre-registered. That said, registering yourself is very easy, completely cost-free, and can be done directly on the Festival’s official website.
If you have yet to register, we would strongly advise you to do so ASAP, in order to allow enough time for the registration to be processed and re-submitted if need be. However, if you already registered (after 2020), then you can use your existing registration number and do not need to re-register.
📢 Please Note
You’ll need both the registration number and postcode for each person who wants a ticket, so make sure to check all these details in advance before registration closes at 5pm on Monday 11th November (after which there will be no opportunity to submit/edit a registration until after the November ticket sales.
3. Set See Tickets as your homepage
Each year, any and all tickets for Glastonbury Festival are sold online via the Festival’s authorised ticket agency website portal, See Tickets.
Instead of wasting time trying to enter the site on the morning of Ticket Sale Day, set https://glastonbury.seetickets.com as your dedicated home page in all of your web browsers.
That way, when you open any webpage, BOOM, Bob’s your uncle and you’re right on the Glasto site – So stupidly simple, but extremely effective.
4. Know your dates and set reminders
Apart from the the Sunday tickets sale for local residents,there are four main dates throughout the year when fans can purchase tickets for Glastonbury Festival.
The first and second dates – known as the first wave – include the options to buy a general ticket plus coach travel options in the first sale, followed by the second sale, this time made up of solely general admission tickets (without coach travel options). These two sale dates are split over two days in the Autumn, which takes place the year before the festival.
The third and fourth dates – known as the second wave – are the actual resale dates, which like the first and second dates (mentioned above) include options to buy a general ticket plus coach travel options in the first sale, followed by the second sale, again, this time made up of solely general admission tickets.
🗓 2025 Ticket Dates
⏰ Ticket + Coach: Thu 14 Nov, 6pm.
⏰ General Admission: Sun 17 Nov, 9am.
5. Form a strong syndicate
Generally speaking, one person can normally book up to a maximum of 6 tickets per order. That means you can put every one of your team members to work towards bashing those laptop keys in pursuit of the desired golden ticket, and by doing so, hopefully increasing the likelihood of your Glastonbury glory by 6 fold.
🔁 Resale Related Note
If you’re trying for Glastonbury tickets in the spring resale (April), know that traditionally, rather than being able to purchase 6 tickets per order (like in the first wave of ticket sales), only 4 tickets per transaction are permitted for General Admission tickets, with Coach Package tickets limited to 2 tickets per transaction.
Once you’ve got your A-team assembled, start preparing by setting up a WhatsApp group or any other instant messenger group chat you prefer, and make sure you are all a member of the group. That way, you’ll be able to communicate with each other and exchange details (registration numbers and postcodes) easily and efficiently.
🚨 Important
Do not put yourself in more than ONE group or list, as if you do, and then manage to secure a ticket in one group, any other groups that insert your details will not be able to proceed with the buying process and will encounter an error message – The group encountering the error will then have to waste valuable time finding and removing your details, during which they could be kicked off the buying page or the festival could sell out.
6. Have everyone’s details at the ready
Create a Google spreadsheet with the finalised registration details divided into your corresponding groups and share the spreadsheet with all relevant parties over the WhatsApp group you set up earlier – That way you can all have it open simultaneously and view the changes in real-time.
🚨 Important
Make sure all your details are correct and double-check for typos! The last thing you want is to get through and punch in your details, only to see the “Sorry, that reference number is not registered” error pop up in your face.
💡 Tip
Get your mates to copy and paste their Glasto details into the spreadsheet, as opposed to them typing them in or reciting them over the phone. In 2019 Glastonbury organisers revealed that one wrong letter or number could mean everyone’s registration details are frozen for up to 10 minutes (😱).
✨ Bonus
You could also use any notes app to save all your registration details in a small box at the corner of your screen, so when the time comes to enter your details, all you have to do is copy and paste them into the correct fields and by doing so with the speed of light, minimising the risk of losing your ticket.
7. Try both Coach and General sales
As part of Glastonbury’s continued commitment to green travel, the Festival encourages Glasto-goers to reduce audience transport emissions.
Your initial inkling might be to just try and buy the standard weekend ticket and figure out the logistics of getting to the festival later, but we say, why not try for both sales and increase your chances of bagging a ticket?
Getting a random coach at 6:00am on the Thursday can mean you are up against a lot less competition when it comes to tickets.
Yes, you might not be able to take as many beers with you on the bus as you would if you were travelling by car, but… hey, skipping the drive on that journey back will be well worth it, wouldn’t it? Apart from that, you’ll be doing the planet some good by travelling by coach.
🚨 Important
The thing about coach tickets that might be a bit uneasy for some is that you don’t get your ticket until you actually get on the coach – You just have to trust the process and that it will all be OK (as it usually is). Once you get on the bus, the driver reads out the names and hands out the envelopes to everyone – Think Christmas morning, but in June, on a coach, in a car park.
8. Do not go out the night before!
Most years, General Admission tickets go on sale on a Sunday morning, and we’re not trying to run your lives or anything, but you might want to rethink those Saturday evening pub plans and get some shut-eye ahead of that 8:30am wake-up call (you should set for yourself) so you don’t sleep through your alarm.
No matter your initial intention of just “popping out for a few”, everyone knows that’s just a lie we all tell ourselves, and before you know it, you’ll be going proper “OUT OUT”. So no matter how cheap the drinks are, DO NOT GO OUT THE NIGHT BEFORE TICKET SALE DAY – we cannot stress this enough!
9. Different internet connections
Rather than everyone getting together in the same space and using the same internet connection, it would be much better, if, for example, each member of the group stayed in their own house and was the sole user of that internet connection –Communication between party members can then be done via the messaging groups set up beforehand.
💡 Tip
Make sure to use the best internet connection you can find. Yes, even this means you have to go in to work on a Sunday because that big office building you work in has super-fast internet, as opposed to your slightly dodgy home internet.
10. One device per connection
There is more than just one way to get on the internet, that said, whether you decide to use one, two, three or even more devices, the main thing to do is make sure they are each on separate internet connections –i.e you phone on mobile 4/5G and your laptop on WiFi.
💡 Tip
Often you’ll find that tablets have a better internet connection because they aren’t crammed up with as much rubbish as your old tower pc or laptop you bought in 2005 (which doesn’t even run without the charger plugged in anymore).
✨ Bonus
Make sure you charge these babies up the night before – we don’t want to arrive at the “promised land” just to stay outside at the end of it all.
⚠️ Disclaimer
Glastonbury explicitly asks people not to use multiple devices, saying: “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.”
11. Multiple browsers not multiple tabs
In the same way that using different internet connections will marginally increase your chances of getting through, so will using different browser windows (on separate internet connections).
Do not make the fatal mistake of trying to book using multiple browser tabs, as this can upset the system. Instead, you’re much better off using multiple (different) browser types, with one tab open per browser.
🚨 Important
Even though having 30 Chrome tabs open and constantly refreshing all of them might seem like the best idea at the time, it is not. On the contrary, this is terrible. Without getting too techie up in here, not only does this not increase your chances by 30, it actually divides your one chance into 30 smaller chances.
⚠️ Disclaimer
Glastonbury specifically asks fans to “not refresh this page or use multiple devices or tabs or you may lose your place in the queue”.
12. Log on early and DON’T refresh the queue page
On 5th November 2024, Glastonbury officials confirmed a major change to the way tickets will be bought for its upcoming 2025 event, with the introduction of a brand new queueing system.
The booking process itself for 2025 will be the same as in previous years, however, the way in which you join the booking process is changing.
Rather than refreshing the holding page to attempt to access the booking page, this year, when the ticket sale begins (at 6pm or 9am respectively) everyone who is already on the glastonbury.seetickets.com page will randomly be assigned a place in a queue to access the booking process — as shown in the image below.
The official Glastonbury website states that “anyone who logs on once the sale has started will automatically be added to the back of the queue, so it’s important to make sure you are online ready at least a few minutes before the sale opens.”
The statement also confirms that once in the queue, a progress bar will indicate how close you are to reaching the booking page, while asking fans to please “not refresh this page or use multiple devices or tabs or you may lose your place in the queue”.
💡 Tip
Instead of scrambling to access the site right when the ticket sale begins (at 6pm or 9am respectively), make sure you’re logged on AT LEAST 15 minutes before the sale starts (though we’d actually recommend getting online a bit earlier). That way, when the ticket sale starts, you will be randomly assigned a place in the queue — rather than people who join later, who will most likely be automatically placed at the back of the line.
⚠️ Disclaimer
Whilst Glastonbury understands that everyone wants to have the best possible chance of booking a ticket, the Festival states that: “running multiple devices or tabs simultaneously to attempt to access the website may lead to your IP address being blocked, preventing you from buying a ticket. The same applies to sharing cookies and QueueIDs”.
🚨 Important
Glastonbury states that “refreshing the page, using multiple tabs or many devices can look like suspicious behaviour and can harm your chances of getting through by triggering anti-bot software; therefore you must stick to one tab/device per IP address and please do not refresh your page once you are in the queue”.
13. Don’t celebrate too early!
Just because you’ve gotten through to the next screen doesn’t mean you’re home-free!
When you reach the front of the queue (in the main sale), you will be asked to enter the registration number and registered postcode for the lead booker and up to 5 other people for whom you are attempting to book tickets.
🚨 Important
You will have 10 minutes to complete this page before your session expires, however, tickets are not allocated at this point.
Enter all your registration and payment card details as quickly and accurately as you can – This is not the time to add sugar to your tea!
🚨 Important
Your ticket is not your ticket yet. Not until the money has come out of your account. Until that point, assume everything will go Pete Tong (wrong) –Getting through to the card detail payment page doesn’t mean anything, so don’t start dancing and telling your mates you’ve got the tickets.
🔁 Resale Related Note
In the General Admission resale, you will be asked to enter the registration number and registered postcode for the lead booker and up to 3 other individuals, or 1 other individual in the Ticket + Coach options resale.
When you proceed further, the details you have provided will be displayed on the next page. This is when you check that these are indeed the people you expect to be booking tickets for, as these cannot be changed once you proceed with your booking.
If you are booking a Ticket + Coach travel option, you will be asked to choose a departure town (and time for towns with multiple departures).
If the option you have selected is not available, please choose a different town or day that is convenient for you.
📢 Please Note
It is only possible to book tickets from one departure town in a single transaction.
🚨 Important
Travelling on the coach you have selected is mandatory in order to receive your Festival ticket, so make sure you only book on routes that are feasible for you.
Once all of your information is correct, click confirm to enter the payment page, where you will need to check/amend your billing address, confirm your payment information, accept the terms and conditions, and complete checkout within the allocated time.
⚠️ Warning
Please do not attempt to minimise the tab or open new tabs. If you move away from the tab you are on your session may expire.
14. Have enough money in your account
Once you reach the payment page you will have a limited amount of time to submit your payment details, so make sure to enter these deets swiftly and accurately.
📢 Please Note
Any information entered after the timer expires will result in a failed transaction, with tickets only being allocated once your payment has been processed.
If the amount of traffic on the website is particularly high, you may see a reduced version of the See Tickets booking site, with a minimal holding page — This does not mean the site has crashed.
Also, depending on your device setting you may be offered other payment methods such as Google Pay or Apple Pay. It is your responsibility to ensure you are set up with the relevant service ahead of the sales to be able to use these methods — If you choose this option, it may show See Tickets’ registered name of ‘The Way Ahead Group’ as the payee.
Please ensure you have access to any device needed to pass additional security questions from your card issuer.
💡 Tip
Make sure every group member has enough funds in their account and is able to pay for everyone’s tickets if and when the occasion arises, in addition to access to any device needed to pass additional security questions from your card issuer.
As mentioned above, if you’re trying for Glastonbury tickets in the first wave of ticket sales, you can traditionally book a maximum of 6 tickets per order, which means you’ll need to pay a £75 deposit for each of the 6 tickets straight away, in one transaction.
Don’t have your payment bounce and your summer ruined because you forgot how broke you are!
🔁 Resale Related Note
Glastonbury 2025 tickets purchased in resales must be paid for in full at the point of booking and will cost £373.50 + £5 booking fee (plus your coach fare if booking a coach ticket package – as detailed below).
📢 Please Note
Postage and packing (£10.25) are charged per order – rather than per ticket – when paying your remaining ticket balance.
15. Be patient & persistent, don’t give up!
It’s no secret that trying to buy Glastonbury tickets isn’t for the faint of heart. You want to go to Glastonbury. So does everyone else. This means there will be more people trying to buy Glastonbury tickets than there are tickets available. So, as you can imagine, it is a mathematical certainty that not everyone will be able to book tickets.
That said, try and remain as calm as possible during the purchasing process, keep the faith and keep going until the page tells you to stop – And even then, there have been some instances where festival fans have had the ‘SOLD OUT’ message on their browser, only to backspace and find they were allowed into the system again.
We’re not saying this will definitely happen, all we are saying is it’s not over until it’s over. So remain focused. Keep calm and carry on – But most importantly, DO NOT STOP until you see that final message from the festival itself, and as mentioned, even then… maybe giving it another last push might be what gives.
💡 Tip
Once orders are being processed for all the available tickets, it will no longer be possible to access the booking page, and you will see a message that ‘All available tickets have now been allocated’. If you see this message, try to refresh the page, as any orders which cannot be processed will be released back to sale.
Once all ticket purchases have been processed, the website will display a ‘SOLD OUT’ message and no more tickets will be released back to sale.
Good luck and may the odds be ever in your favour!
✨ Bonus
Even if you aren’t successful in securing tickets in the ticket sales in November, you will have another chance to book in the Spring resales, when any returned tickets go back on sale. In addition to the upcoming April ticket resales, don’t forget some other opportunities for getting to Glastonbury this year includingvolunteering and workingat the Festival, as well as enteringcompetitions– once these options make themselves available.
