How to Secure Glastonbury 2025 Tickets: Essential Tips & Tricks
Glastonbury 2025 tickets go on sale this week, so the team at Festival Sounds are sharing some tricks and tips you need to know for the best chance of buying tickets to greatest music event in the world: Glastonbury.
The essentials:
When can you buy Glastonbury tickets in 2025?
Thursday 14th November at 6pm GMT for coach + ticket packages
Sunday 17th November at 9am GMT for standard tickets.
How hard is it to get Glastonbury tickets for 2025?
We estimate that the probability of securing a Glastonbury ticket is around 10% for the Autumn sales and even less for the resale. Demand outstrips supply by a long way!
Our top tips and tricks for getting a Glastonbury ticket are here:
First make sure you've registered!
Nobody can buy a ticket without having a unique registration number, which comes with your photo ID. If you're reading this on the day of the ticket sale, registration is closed, so you won't be able to buy tickets for this year's festival in the Autumn sale. However, registration will re-open before the April resales so you will get another chance then.
Know your dates and times
These are the dates and times for the November sale:
Thursday 14th November at 6pm GMT for coach + ticket packages
Sunday 17th November at 9am GMT for standard tickets.
Read the festival's latest updates and FAQs
So many people don't read the guides the festival have written about the sale. This year it's more important than ever, if you’ve followed the news in our latest podcast about all the changes.
Make a plan and discuss all possible outcomes ahead of the sale
Talk to your friends, acquaintances or even work colleagues ahead of the ticket sale, build up a team of serious Glastonbury hopefuls and discuss your goals. Numbers count. Recruit helpers!
If you are happy to go for coach tickets, talk about what times, dates and locations you are happy to go for, and decide in advance if you are happy to go for all or any of the coaches in your town. You don’t want to end up with Lincoln departure if you live near Bristol.
Form groups
Forming groups or a network of friends who are also trying to get tickets is proven to be one of the biggest keys to success. It's a mutually beneficial system IF everyone sticks to the plan.
You should be able to enter up to six registration details (including your own) when you try for Glasto tickets. Don’t be in more than one group. That is a dick move!
They don’t even need to be people you plan on camping with.
Create a spreadsheet
Create a spreadsheet with people you have shared information with.
Have all your names, postcodes and registration numbers stored. Chat to each other in a WhatsApp group but keep the chat focussed! It isn’t a time for other non-ticket chat.
Don't be drunk or hungover!
As with most years, general admission tickets go on sale on a Sunday morning. Don’t be late. Anyone joining the sale after it starts goes to the back of the queue.
Be careful about using the work WiFi
If your work has been listed as a bit spammy, you might be pushed down the priority list. The software SeeTickets are using for the queue rates traffic for bots. Use a 4G/5G signal as well as the works WiFi.
Don’t use multiple browsers
You’ll just confuse yourself. One browser per device. Stay focussed. Don’t use more devices than you can monitor.
DO NOT REFRESH!
Lots of people hammered F5 in the past and now that just wont work anymore.
Glastonbury organisers explain: "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." It’s a queue. Once in the queue - don’t refresh!
Triple check your card details
If you're lucky enough to make it through, you'll need to have your card details at hand. You will be on a timer!
Have enough money in your account… obvs
Glastonbury 2024 will cost £373.50 + £5 booking fee, of which a £75 deposit (plus coach fare if booking a Ticket + Coach travel option) is payable when booking in November, with the balance payable in the first week of April 2025. Have enough money to pay the deposits. A failed purchase at payment stage will hurt!
Screenshot your success
Once you've made the booking, be sure to check your email in the hours after you have made the purchase. And be sure to check your junk folders.
If you haven't received an email within a few hours, contact the team at See Tickets via their Customer Service Portal. This is where the screenshot will come in handy.
Don't give up
Glastonbury does sell out quickly but have faith - keep going until the page tells you to stop. There have been some cases where would-be ticket buyers have seen the sold out message on their browser, only to buy tickets a few minutes later.
Keep going until you see that final message from the festival themselves.
See you on the farm!
