Glastonbury 2025 resale: The best tips and tricks to buy tickets
24 April 2025, 17:30
As tickets for Glastonbury 2025 go on resale this week, let Radio X's top tips help you nab an elusive spot.
Every year, thousands of music-lovers whip themselves into a frenzy in an attempt to purchase tickets to the greatest music event in the world: Glastonbury Festival.
The festival returns for another year from 25th - 29th June 2025 with The 1975, Neil Young and Olivia Rodrigo as headliners.
Buying tickets is a huge undertaking, which fills even the most seasoned veterans of the Somerset festival with dread- especially because they always seem to be gone in a matter of minutes!
However, it doesn't need to be a totally lost cause... Because we feel everyone should get the chance to sample the madness at Worthy Farm, we’ve put together a list of tips to help you nab yourself some tickets to the biggest party on earth!
Read the full Glastonbury 2025 ticket resale FAQs here.
How hard is it to get Glastonbury tickets?
Getting a Glasto ticket is reasonably difficult, with an estimated 2.5 million people trying for just over 200,000 tickets each year. However, we've got some tips to make sure that you put your best foot forward and give yourself the best possible chance of claiming a spot at the world-famous festival.
Get our top tips and tricks for getting a Glastonbury 2025 ticket here:
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Know your Glastonbury 2025 ticket resale dates:
Fans have the chance to buy tickets to Glastonbury four times a year (or even more if they live locally or are open to purchasing accommodation options).
First - there's a coach and general ticket sale in Autumn the year before the festival and then you can try your luck in the Spring resales.These are the dates and times you NEED to know for this weeks April resale are below:
- Ticket + Coach travel options – Thursday 24th April, 6pm BST.
- General Admission tickets – Sunday 27th April, 9am BST.
- Accommodation options – Sunday 27th April, 11am BST.
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Make sure you're registered for Glastonbury 2025
Everyone aged 13 or over on the day the festival opens its doors this year must be registered to attend, but this does not guarantee you a ticket. Nobody can purchase a ticket to attend the festival without having a unique registration number which comes with a photo ID.
However, technically - you can try and buy tickets on other people's behalf - as long as you have all their details and select one registration as a lead booker.
Registration will close just before the next ticket sale, so make sure you register for Glastonbury Festival here OR double check your registration details at glastonbury.seetickets.com/registration/lookup
Glastonbury organisers advise registering by Friday, 18th April to allow for registrations to be processed and resubmitted if needed.
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Don't be hungover!
General admission tickets go on sale on a Sunday morning. That means there’s a good chance you were toasting the weekend the night before.
Get to bed early, then get up early – fresh as a daisy. Just think about all the time you’ll have at Glasto to be hungover... IF you get tickets.
And if you go for coach tickets, don't go for a swift half in the pub first. You need 100% focus and attention.
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Take it very seriously
Sure, there are more important things in the world. But in those 20 to 45 minutes before the words “Tickets Unavailable” start appearing, you should act as if it’s the last hour before your dissertation is due or as if you're a few minutes away from walking into the interview for your dream job.
Talk to your friends, make a strategic plan, and most importantly…
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Form a syndicate
You should be able to enter six registration details in total when you try for the first wave of tickets sales. However, this will go down to four tickets in the resale for general admission and two for the coach tickets. BUT EVERYONE CAN STILL TRY.
That means you can have a solid force of people other than yourself constantly eyeing up that browser. They don’t even need to be people you plan on camping with. Everyone on earth has a colleague who’s said “Ha, yeah man I’m totally going to try and get Glasto tickets this year! I hear Taylor Swift's going to headline!”
Now... you may not particularly want to hang out with this person, but you can use them to your advantage.
Or better still - you can always enlist very good friends who have already got tickets to help! All they need is your registration number and postcode.
Create a google doc, have all your names, postcodes and registration numbers in a spreadsheet and get VERY familiar with it.
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Check your group's registration info and have them all in one place
Once you’ve got your elite crew of razor sharp buddies together, make sure you prepare yourselves. And this means no typos so: EXCHANGE DETAILS PROPERLY!
To buy tickets, all you need is everyone's full name, Glastonbury registration number and postcode. Have these all on a Google doc or similar, so everyone in your syndicate can cross refrence and double check their details.
Now, as long as all of these details are correct, you should be able to copy and paste them in. DO NOT rely on handwritten notes or typed text message because they are susceptible to human error.
Set up a Facebook group or Whatsapp thread to communicate during the sale so no two people are trying with the same details at the same time and one more time - DEAR LORD - make sure you double check for typos.
The last thing you want is to get through and fill in your details only to see: "Sorry, that reference number is not registered."
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Set See Tickets As Your Homepage
Every year, Glastonbury partners up with seetickets.com to sell the tickets.
Instead of mucking about trying to just get onto the site at 6pm or 9am, set https://glastonbury.seetickets.com as your home page.
So when you open a webpage, BOOM Glastonbury is there. But do bear in mind…
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Have your card ready
If you're lucky enough to make it through, you automatically become the lead booker and therefore you'll need to have your card details at hand. You only have 5 minutes to fill in everything and make your booking so everything you do from the moment you get through to the page is CRUCIAL.
Make sure you enter these details EXACTLY as you see them because if you don't you could fall foul of being locked out of the system.
In past years, a wrong letter or number could mean everyone's registration details are frozen for UP TO 10 MINUTES.
The festival adds that: "UK tickets can now be purchased with a UK debit card or Visa or Mastercard credit cards. International tickets can only be bought by Visa Credit Card or Mastercard Credit Card. Depending on your device settings, you may be offered other payment methods such as Google Pay and Apple Pay. It is your responsibility to ensure you are set up with the relevant service ahead of the resales to be able to use these methods. Please note American Express is not accepted."
Even if you do have the correct details, Glastonbury have also warned wannabe festival-goers to "ensure you have access to any device needed to pass additional security questions from your card issuer."
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Attack from all angles
Trying more than one or two devices has seen some success in the past. Especially if they are on separate VPNs.
Often your tablet has a slicker internet connection because it isn't crammed with as much rubbish as the laptop you bought back 2006.
So there's no harm in trying that more than two
DISCLAIMER:
Despite this, Glastonbury explicitly asks people not to use multiple devices, saying: "running multiple devices simultaneously to attempt to access the website is a waste of valuable resources, and doesn’t reflect the ethos of the Festival."
It might not reflect the ethos of Glastonbury, Festival but they've not said it doesn't work, so make of it what you will.
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Use a work computer (if it's out of hours) OR a high-speed internet cafe
No matter how great you think your home fibre optic connection is, it’s probably not as good as your Internet at work. Plus, just think, Sunday morning? Who’s going to be around? (Unless you work in hospitality or at a church).
All that delicious, powerful internet will be solely yours.
Disclaimer: Radio X takes no responsibility for you getting fired for misusing work property.
If work's no good, then there's the option of trying a gamer or high-speed internet cafe. The idea here is that your laptop and wifi combo at home will be no match for the servers in one of these establisments.
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Have multiple browsers if you must NOT multiple tabs
Now, your brain will be saying “JUST OPEN MORE TABS!” when panic sets in. Resist.
Unless you’re trying to purchase tickets on a NASA supercomputer, then chances are your laptop can only process so much information at once. Plus, if you have 30 tabs open you can't keep track of them anyway.
If you want more than one view of the page, use multiple browsers NOT tabs, as tabs tend to share the same information and could lead to booking clashes.
The Glastonbury website advises in its basic ticket information: "Attempting to book tickets online using multiple browser tabs can confuse the ticket sales process and cause your transaction to fail.
"We strongly advise that you use just one browser tab when trying to book tickets, in order to avoid possible problems with your transaction."
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Get accustomed to the new Glastonbury queuing system!
As of this year, Glastonbury organisers introduced a new queuing system, which changed everything we thought we knew about buying tickets for the festival.
This means that instead of having to refresh like a mad person, you will be randomly assigned a place in the queue. This means that there's very little you can do to influence your position except getting onto the page well ahead of sale time.
Glastonbury organisers note: "Rather than refreshing the holding page to attempt to access the booking page, this year, when the ticket sale begins (at 6pm or 9am respectively) everyone who is already on the glastonbury.seetickets.com page will randomly be assigned a place in a queue to access the booking process.
"Anyone who logs on once the sale has started will automatically be added to the back of the queue, so it’s important to make sure you are online ready at least a few minutes before the sale opens. Once you are in the queue, a progress bar will indicate how close you are to reaching the booking page."
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DON'T REFRESH!
Yes, after decades of telling people to refresh like their life depends on it, it's now important that you DO NOT refresh before getting onto the booking page.
However...
Another new addition to Glastonbury 2024 was Arcadia's new Dragonfly stage. Picture: Luke Brennan/Redferns/Getty -
Have a BACK SPACE in your back pocket
The humble back space could still be the difference between getting a Glasto ticket and watching it from home.
Up until this point you've been in wait mode, but once you get onto the booking page you have to be VERY careful what you do next.
Sometimes the booking page freezes or "hangs" and in this instance Glastonbury has advised to "try pressing back once and then continue your booking from that point."
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Know when to close your browser and start again
Now, we wouldn't recommend you EVER just close your browser when you're in the process of getting onto the Glastonbury booking page, but according to organisers, once you ARE on the booking page - if it freezes or hangs for more than 10 minutes, as painful as it feels to do it... close the browser and start again.
Organisers advise: "Please don’t continue to refresh the page more than 10 minutes after entering your details as your access to the page will have expired. You will need to close the browser and start again to gain fresh access to booking page."
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Have enough money in your account… Obviously
Don’t worry, we’re not criticising your intelligence or capabilities with managing your finances. But in this age where we all have eight different accounts and credit cards, sometimes it’s easy to lose track. Be prepared to have whatever funds you need ready for all the people you're buying for.
Glastonbury 2024 tickets will cost £355 + £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 full balance payable in the first week of April 2024.
If you're buying tickets during the April resales, then obviously you'll need the have the total amount of the tickets bought available. We've not heard in recent years of tickets bouncing because of insufficient funds, but do you really want to chance it?
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Check Your Email and Junk Mail
Once you've made the booking, be sure to check your email in the hours after you have made the purchase. Plus, be sure to check your junk folders.
If you haven't received an email within three hours, ticket holders are urged to contact the team at See Tickets via their Customer Service Portal.
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Don't Give Up
Look, Glastonbury does sell out quickly. It’s true.
But have faith - keep going until the page tells you to stop. In fact... There have been some cases where would-be festival punters have had the sold out message on their browser, only to backspace and find they were allowed into the system again. We're not saying this will definitely happen, but it's always worth still going until Glastonbury officially announce that tickets have sold out from their official X (formerly Twitter) account
So remain focused. Keep calm and carry on and DO NOT STOP until you see that final message from the festival themselves.
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!
