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Most Glastonbury-goers don't need a hotel during the festival: the 2027 ticket includes five nights' camping. A hotel makes sense for the night before the gates open or the night after you leave, and the closest towns are Shepton Mallet, Wells and Glastonbury itself, with Bath and Bristol as bigger bases. Glastonbury Festival confirmed that 2027 runs from Wednesday 23 to Sunday 27 June, after the 2026 fallow year. The festival is held at Worthy Farm in Pilton, not in the town of Glastonbury, so a room "in Glastonbury" is not a room at the site.
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The festival's ticket announcement of 8 September 2026 gives these details for 2027:
• Dates: general admission tickets are valid from Wednesday 23 June to Sunday 27 June 2027.
• Price: £408 (≈ $542) per ticket, including a £5 (≈ $6.6) booking fee, plus postage. Buyers paid a £100 (≈ $133) deposit, with the £308 (≈ $409) balance due from 1 to 7 April 2027.
• Camping: the ticket includes five nights' camping.
• Resale: the festival says cancelled and returned tickets will be resold in spring 2027. Registration is required to buy.
Tickets have sold out: ITV News reported that coach packages sold out in under 30 minutes on 1 October 2026 and general admission in under 45 minutes on 4 October. The spring resale is the remaining official route in. The festival's info page had not yet published 2027 gate opening times when we checked.
• The night before (Tuesday 22 June). Useful if you are travelling a long way and want to arrive early on the Wednesday. In 2025, the festival's info page said pedestrian gates opened at 8am on the Wednesday; check the 2027 time when it is published.
• The night after (Sunday or Monday). After five days in a field, a bed and a shower before the journey home is the most common reason to book. In 2025 the festival licence ran until 5pm on the Monday.
• If you can't camp. For accessibility or health reasons, ask the festival's access team first; its info page covers access information and the Nimbus Access Card.
• Campervans need their own ticket for 2027, with first entry from 12:00 on Tuesday 22 June, per the festival. Tipis and other official accommodation are sold separately; the festival says booking details for 2027 come later.
Driving and taxi times on festival days depend on traffic around Pilton, so the order below is our judgement of convenience rather than a timed ranking.
| Town | Getting to the festival | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Shepton Mallet | The nearest town; taxi or lift | A short transfer the night before or after |
| Wells | Taxi or lift; a little further | A cathedral city with the most rooms nearby |
| Glastonbury (town) | Taxi or lift | The Tor, the abbey ruins and independent shops |
| Street | Taxi or lift, via Glastonbury | Chain hotels and an outlet village |
| Bath | Train to Castle Cary, then the festival shuttle | A bigger city stay with more hotels |
| Bristol | Train to Castle Cary or a festival coach | The nearest airport and the widest choice |
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Wells is a small city built around its cathedral and Bishop's Palace, and has more guesthouses and small hotels than the villages around Pilton. Our Cheddar Gorge and Wells guide covers the city and the gorge if you have a spare day.
Shepton Mallet is the nearest town to the site, so it suits a late arrival or an early start. Glastonbury town has Glastonbury Tor, the abbey ruins and a high street of independent shops, but it is not where the festival is. Street, next to Glastonbury, has chain hotels and Clarks Village.
Rooms are limited in all four, so book as soon as you have a ticket. The festival also says a limited number of local property owners rent rooms or whole houses during the festival period, so check its info page when it publishes the 2027 accommodation details.
Bath and Bristol have far more hotels and are on the railway. Castle Cary is the festival's recommended station; it is on the main line from London Paddington and on the Heart of Wessex line from Bristol Temple Meads and Bath Spa. Check GWR's festival-week timetable for extra trains.
Combine the festival with a stay in Bath before or after; our Bath guide and the Castle Combe and Cotswolds day trip fill a spare day. Bristol Airport is the closest airport for flights.
• Train and shuttle: in 2025, a festival shuttle bus ran between Castle Cary station and the Festival Bus Station from Wednesday to Monday. The festival says 2027 bus services are still to be confirmed.
• Coach: coach-and-ticket packages are tied to a chosen coach on the Wednesday or Thursday, and you must travel on it to receive your ticket. In 2025, National Express ran direct services from over 90 UK locations to the festival gates.
• Car: a car park pass costs £60 (≈ $80), plus £3 (≈ $4.0) postage if bought separately, and is only for general admission ticket holders. In 2025 the car parks opened at 9pm on the Tuesday.
If you stay in a town nearby, book your taxi to and from the site in advance; local firms are in demand in festival week.
Wednesday 23 June to Sunday 27 June 2027, according to Glastonbury Festival's ticket announcement. There was no festival in 2026.
Yes. The 2027 general admission ticket, £408 (≈ $542) including the booking fee, includes five nights' camping.
The festival is at Worthy Farm in Pilton. Shepton Mallet is the nearest town, with Wells and Glastonbury a little further away.
Castle Cary, which the festival recommends. In 2025 a festival shuttle bus linked it to the site from Wednesday to Monday; 2027 bus services are still to be confirmed.
The main sale has sold out. The festival says it will resell cancelled and returned tickets in spring 2027, and you need to be registered to buy.
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