Glastonbury coach packages sell out in just 32 minutes

Glastonbury 2025 coach tickets sold out in just 32 minutes tonight - as frustrated festival fans lashed out at the new queuing format.

Millions of gig lovers around the world entered the Glastonbury ticket bloodbath tonight in the hopes of making it to Worthy Farm, in Somerset, next summer.

Primed with multiple devices and spreadsheets at the ready, fans battled it out in what was billed as one of the most competitive tickets sales to date, after organisers announced a dramatic shake-up by implementing a queue.

The first mad dash to secure a spot on Worthy Farm between June 25 and 29 took place tonight as coach tickets for the festival went up on sale at 6pm, before a wider general admission sale at 9am on Sunday. 

Those who get lucky will have to fork out a staggering £378.50 for a ticket, with a £75 deposit (plus coach fare) payable today. The rest is due in April 2025.

Organisers confirmed that coach tickets sold out in 32 minutes. 'The Glastonbury 2025 tickets + coach travel which were on sale this evening have now all been sold,' the official Glastonbury X account said. 'Our thanks to everyone who bought one.'

Desperate Glastonbury fans shared the same frustration of being stuck on 'two green bars' in the new format, where people were allocated a spot in a queue. 

Social media users shared pictures of their Glastonbury ticket setups as they stared intently at the hated green bar slowly creeping up. 

One user said: 'Ok they’re sold out. I just spent 35 minutes staring at two green bars.'

Another posted: 'The coach tickets for Glastonbury are all now sold out - the queue system was atrocious, didn't even make the SOLD OUT message obvious. Will try again on Saturday but seems like a complete s***show.'

And a third wrote: 'Sold out. Still staring at the same two bars I was given at 5pm. This does not fill me with confidence for Sunday.'

Last year, all coach tickets sold out in just 25 minutes as organisers said demand majorly outsripped supply. 

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In total, about two-and-a-half million people battled it out for tickets last year, with just 210,000 available. 

MailOnline revealed last week that the cost of a Glastonbury 2025 ticket marks a 68 per cent rise in cost since 10 years ago. 

This week's ticket sale is set to be more competitive this year after organisers announced a huge change for buying tickets the festival in a move that left some fans furious. 

The organisers have created an online queue for this year's ticket sale.

This will mean that anyone who logs onto the Seetickets website before the sale starts at 6pm or 9am respectively will be randomly assorted a place in a queue along with thousands of others. 

They will then be met with a progress bar indicating how close they are to reaching the booking page. 

Once this runs outs, fans will be given 10 minutes to enter the website and purchase up to six tickets for the festival. 

But those trying to get tickets tonight were left furious after being stuck in online queues.

One user wrote: 'Peak British - everyone who is trying to get Glastonbury tickets sharing that they are also stuck on two green bars.' 

Another posted: 'It's the (green bars of) hope that kills you.'

A third quipped: 'Hello everyone, I'd like to announce the first Glastonbury headliner: Two Green Bars.'

While the move is supposedly meant to make the process much fairer for Glastonbury hopefuls, some have claimed they will 'no longer be rewarded for their persistence' and could see huge numbers of less devoted fans taking part. 

In yet another shake-up, the statement also revealed that using multiple devices may 'harm your chances' at getting tickets. 

'Whilst we understand that everyone wants to have the best possible chance of booking a ticket, 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 statement added. 

Many fans have criticised the move, pointing to the chaotic sales of Oasis' reunion tickets earlier this year as a prime example of how a queueing system could backfire. 

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Niki Sorabjee said: 'Awful decision, the previous ticket sale rewarded the determined. Look what happened with Oasis with a queue. Really hope this doesn’t dilute the crowd. Pls rethink this.'

Another devastated fan wrote: 'Screams problems, got through for Oasis then kicked out after trying to pay, cannot bare that this is possibility for Glastonbury now.'

Thousands were left devastated after they failed to grab tickets in August's general sale - with the band confirming all 17 of their shows had been sold out within hours of them going on sale. 

Many blamed technical issues on Ticketmaster for their failures as they were forced into a queue just to join the waiting room. 

Others reported getting kicked out of the website as they got to the front having waited in the virtual line for several hours. 

Some hopefuls also reported being 'suspended' by the ticket seller after it accused them of being 'bots'.