Motorhome Hire for Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury is the festival against which all others are measured. Held on Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset, it is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world, drawing around 210,000 people across five days of music, theatre, circus, comedy, and spectacle that simply has no equivalent anywhere on earth. From our depot at Heath's Motorhome Hire in Pontefract, Worthy Farm is approximately four and a half hours south via the M1 and M5 - a journey that builds anticipation with every mile.

The scale of Glastonbury defies easy description. The site covers over 900 acres, and the line-up typically features more than 3,000 performances across over 80 stages and performance areas. The Pyramid Stage hosts the headline acts - the biggest names in global music performing to a crowd of over 100,000. But Glastonbury is far more than a music festival. The Theatre and Circus fields, the Cabaret Tent, the Poetry and Words tent, the Kidz Field, Shangri-La, Block9, the Green Fields, the Healing Field, and the Stone Circle all create a temporary city with its own distinct neighbourhoods, each with a different atmosphere and character.

The festival runs from Wednesday to Sunday in late June, with gates opening on Wednesday morning for those with the stamina and enthusiasm to arrive first. The Pyramid Stage headliners perform on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings, with the traditional Sunday afternoon legends slot reserved for an artist of towering stature. The Other Stage, West Holts, the John Peel Stage, the Park Stage, and the Woodsies each programme their own full schedules, meaning that clashes between unmissable acts are an inevitable and agonising part of the Glastonbury experience.

A motorhome transforms the Glastonbury experience from an endurance test into a genuinely comfortable adventure. The notorious Glastonbury mud - ankle-deep in a bad year, biblical in a truly wet one - is far easier to handle when you have a warm, dry motorhome to retreat to at the end of each night. A proper bed, a hot shower, a working kitchen, and a lockable door make the difference between arriving home on Monday morning feeling exhilarated and arriving home feeling destroyed. For festival-goers who love the music but have outgrown the appeal of sleeping in a damp tent, a motorhome is the answer.

Glastonbury offers dedicated campervan and motorhome fields with their own entrance and facilities. Campervan tickets are sold separately from the general admission tickets and must be purchased in addition to your festival ticket. They sell out extremely quickly - typically within minutes of going on sale - so you need to be prepared and online at the exact moment they are released. Check the Glastonbury website from February onwards for ticket sale dates and registration requirements. Vehicle size restrictions apply, so confirm that your chosen motorhome meets the maximum dimensions before purchasing your campervan ticket.

The drive from Pontefract follows the M1 south through the East Midlands, joining the M42 and M5 through the West Midlands and into Somerset. Allow five to six hours on the Wednesday or Thursday to account for festival traffic approaching the site. The final miles through the Somerset lanes can be slow, with marshals directing traffic through one-way systems to manage the flow. Once on site, you will be directed to your pitch in the campervan field, where you will be parked for the duration - moving your vehicle during the festival is not permitted.

Provisioning is important. While Glastonbury has an extraordinary range of food stalls - from Michelin-quality street food to classic festival fare - the queues can be long and the prices are not cheap. Having your own kitchen means you can cook breakfast each morning, prepare snacks, and keep drinks cold in the fridge. A decent cafetiere and a bag of good coffee is worth its weight in gold at seven in the morning. Stock up at a supermarket before you arrive, as the nearest shops to the site are small villages with limited supply.

Glastonbury occupies a unique place in British culture. It is chaotic, exhausting, overwhelming, muddy, beautiful, and life-affirming in roughly equal measure. The Sunday afternoon moment when the sun breaks through after a wet weekend and 100,000 people sing along to a legendary artist on the Pyramid Stage is one of the great communal experiences in British life. A motorhome from Heath's Motorhome Hire lets you be part of it without sacrificing your sanity or your sleep.