This is a standard weekend ticket with standard camping included for 2009.
Required for all persons 13 and over.
This allows you to enter the campsite from Wednesday 6pm.
You must also have purchased a VALID weekend camping ticket.
Every occupant of your campervan must be in possession of a valid weekend ticket with camping. This is simply a supplemental ticket sold per vehicle.
If you intend to sleep in your campervan or caravan, you need to pre-purchase a campervan supplement permit assuring you of a place in the campervan site.
No vehicles are permitted in the standard campsite and you will not be permitted to sleep in the car park.
Click here for Campervan & Caravan Terms and Conditions (PDF)
This is free – but you must book a car park pass in advance (subject to a processing fee if this is booked separately to your event ticket)
Tickets should always be bought from a reliable source, below are some options for you.
Online: www.seetickets.com/readingandleeds
By phone: Call the Festival Republic hotline
[Information line - cannot take bookings:
We cannot be held responsible for any purchases made through unauthorised sources.
SEETickets.com Lastminute.com Ticketline
Ticketmaster Gigantic Ticketqueen
Voyagenbus.com Reading Arts & Venues Box Office – The Hexagon
Ticketmaster: 0844 847 2366
HMV
Bath, Basingstoke, Bracknell, Bristol, Broadmead, Guildford, High Wycombe, Kingston, Newbury, Oxford, Portsmouth, Reading Friar St, Reading Oracle, Slough, Southampton, Staines, Swindon, Winchester, Windsor, Woking
See our information on Touts here
No unaccompanied under 16's. Any under 16's must be accompanied by a ticket holder over 18 years old. Under 13 (12 and under) are admitted free but MUST be accompanied by a ticket holding adult.
Please note that there is no separate children's area at this event and that there is NO Family Camping at the event either. White campsite has historically been our quiet campsite and so those who wish for somewhere away from the hub may wish to get the boat across the Thames and camp there.
Beware of unauthorised ticket agencies including eBay, buying from them can be a lot of trouble - You are likely to pay over the odds for a ticket that will have never existed or might never materialise.
Most notable of these unauthorised sites are:
SOS Ticketmaster (not to be confused withTicketmaster who are the real agent)
readingfestivaltickets.co.uk
leedsfestival.net
Westminster Events, Get Me Tickets , Splendid Tickets, Herts Box Office
Click For Tickets, London Ticket Shop, anyworldwideevent.com
ticketssoldout.co.uk, TicketSolutions, Tickettout.com, TicketsUK
Double 8 Tickets, London Ticket Shop, Ebay, Gumtree, Viagogo, Seatwave, Stubhub,BritishConcerts.com, GetMeTickets,Tickettout.com, No1soldoutevents.com, Sold Out Events, Tickets UK, Click for Tickets , Herts Box Office, XclusiveTicket.com, Summer Festival Tickets.com, Corporate Box Office, Ticket 4-you, Euro team,Everysell.com, Anyticket.com, Getmein.com,showtime, Tickco.com, London Ticket Express, SummerFestivalTickets.com, ticket2bethere.co.uk, paperticket.co.uk
Additional Unauthorised Sites:
Anyone advertised on Readingfestival.org - this is not an authorised site.
More tout info from Office of Fair Trading - please read
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We are currently looking into companies selling 'touted' tickets and we are doing what we can to stop fraudulent activity.
FURTHER INFORMATION & CONTACTS:
If you feel a victim of these companies we suggest a number of actions:
1.Call the police; if your money has been taken and no product delivered, this is theft.
2.Report the company to the Trading Standards
3.Contact the BBC's watchdog programme
4.Contact the websites' Internet Service Providers as they have obligations to ensure they are not publishing fraudulent and illegal activity.
HELPFUL LINKS:
Trading Standards website customer accounts of GetMeTickets
Easynets Acceptable use policy, Service provider of GetMeTickets
BBC Watchdog
Full Festival Republic PDF information on Unauthroised Ticket Agents
Booking Fees apply to all standard tickets.
To read the Disabled Access Festival Guide 2008 (PDF)click here
To download the application form (PDF) click here
Disabled customers will be provided with one free ticket for their helper, where required.
Forget battling with pegs and poles and hunting for friends, book a ready pitched and fully equipped tent and let someone else do all that work for you. A bit of extra festival luxury without burning a hole in your pocket.
From only £52.50* per head for the whole weekend you have access to:
- Entrance to the Tangerine Fields
- Exclusive use of hot showers and toilets...just for our customers
Our staff will be on hand over the weekend to help you with any problems
(*based on 2 persons sharing, does not include festival ticket.)
Choose from 2, 4 and 6 man tents and the sleeping essentials. We're the most eco-option going. Everything gets cleaned and re-used, except sleeping bags which are passed onto various local and national charities.
In the Tangerine Field, we'll also have tipis if you’re looking for something a bit different for the weekend. Visit www.tangerinefields.co.uk for more information and bookings for tipis.
Only available in White Camping
Please note: Booking a VIP camping package does not include the weekend ticket - You must have already booked these.
Your ‘podpad’ comes decorated and a groundsheet, a fitted carpet, shelving, interior strip-light and additional 12v power socket on request, a vanity mirror and a lock on the front door. Single, double or twin beds (with airbeds) are standard for increased comfort, with useful storage space underneath. Three sliding tinted windows with curtains provide for ventilation and light, allowing you to look out whilst restricting vision in.
Eco-friendly, the ‘podpads’’ are solar-powered by the fabulous iconic sunflower solar panels.
‘Podpads’ are weatherproof, relatively soundproof, secure, safe and cosy.
www.podpads.com
myhab is here!
These 2 person myhabs are the exciting new eco-friendly way to stay at festivals.
YOU BOOK. WE SET UP. YOU USE. WE TAKE DOWN. WE RECYCLE.
The award winning design uses recyclable plastic and reinforced waterproof cardboard to create a sturdy, spacious, comfy, and importantly green alternative to a tent.
Why is it better than a tent?
- We set up and take it down, so all you have to do is turn up and have a good time!
- myhabs are situated within ‘myvillage’, an exclusive area for you and other myhabers.
- The area comes complete with well maintained toilets and showers and on-hand staff
- Built in locker to keep your valuables safe
- Very spacious, comfy double bed
- myhabs are raised off the ground
- You can personalise the myhab by creating your own festival character online
Intrigued? Check out more at: www.myhab.com
Friday - opens approx 11am
Saturday - opens approx 11am
Sunday - opens approx 11am
Campsite:
Opens: [Early Bird Wednesday 20th August 6pm] Thursday 8am
Closes: 12pm Monday 25th August 2008.
- These are now completely sold out -
• Passport to Leisure discount available from Reading Arts & Venues Box Office – The Hexagon (Not Reading Tourist Info this year) Available in person and are limited to one per cardholder and are subject to availability.
• Disabled customers please see 'DISABLED FACILITIES'.
• No other discounts are available.
• Only tickets purchased from authorised agents will be admitted.
Tickets purchased from other sources will be refused admission.
• No other discounts are available, click here for ticket page.
This year we have teamed up with Lockerhouse to make sure you can keep your belongings safe at Reading Festival. You get to keep a souvenir branded padlock after the event too! Book now, and be sure to keep your stuff safe all weekend. The lockers also have mobile phone charging facilities, which require 12v Car adapters/chargers.
IMPORTANT! - PLEASE NOTE: the locker sizes are 25cm wide x 15.5cm deep x 10cm high - so they are the right size for small valuables (mobiles, wallets, cameras). The Locker is used at Hirers own Risk
These are only available to Weekend Camping ticket holders.
Click here to buy
No-one will be allowed onto the campsite without proof that they also have a full weekend arena ticket for the festival. This will be policed across the festival weekend.
You will not be allowed to camp without a camping ticket! A camping ticket lasts for the whole weekend or just one night, it’s the same price. No rogue camping will be tolerated. Check back to this website before the festival for full details about camping, parking, safety and security.
If you are travelling by car please visit the: Reading Festival 2008 Car Share Scheme www.liftshare.org operated by Liftshare.
Car sharing will help save you money by sharing the travel costs, reduce the amount of congestion on the roads resulting in you arriving more quickly as well as being kind to our environment.
Please read this practical safety guide on liftsharing put together by A Greener Festival: http://www.agreenerfestival.com/Lift_Sharing.pdf
The coach drop off and pick up point is at Rivermead Leisure Centre for authorised coaches only.
If you go by authorised coach you will be dropped off and picked up at the Rivermead Centre, by Red Gate.
See Tickets are selling a combined event/coach package ticket that will also get you straight to the site in the red campsite. Buy tickets here
Campervans will NOT be permitted access into Red Gate, by the Rivermead Centre. The exact directions to White Gate will be on the back of the campervan/caravan pass that we will send you nearer the event and on the AA road signs. Please note that we have revised the terms and conditions for access into the campervans field.
Click here for Terms & ConditionsCustomers must exchange their ticket for a wristband as soon as possible after arriving on site. Re-admittance to the site is possible once they have been wristbanded. Entrance to the arena is only possible with a valid wristband, tickets will not be allowed through at this point.
There are three new wristband exchanges this year, one as you leave white car park to enter the campsite to cross the river, one just before green gate and one in red camp, and they replace the one that used to be by Reaper Bridge. These are now for first time entry and so you will be wristbanded on your first arrival to the site, rather than show your tickets. They open when the site does at 8am Thursday, or 6pm Wed if you have an Early Bird ticket. You must pass through these tents with your tickets in order to gain access to the campsites and arena.
There are now two cabins on site dealing with tickets paid for by credit card to be collected on site –
1. Red Box office in red camp by the Rivermead Centre just off Richfield Avenue, this is for people coming in from green car park and also arriving from the town centre. Please follow the signs for the new route here into site. You will no longer walk the length of Richfield Ave to get into site but will come in earlier before the Rivermead Centre.
2. White box office in white zone at the entrance to the campsite is for those parking in white car park.
Guests/press and disabled check-in however is still go to the old cabin location by O’Malley Alley, off Richfield Ave
Wristbands removed from your wrist or tampered with will be rendered invalid and will not be replaced.