Rough it? No way, say middle-class glampers

FOR the vast majority, a visit to the Glastonbury Festival involves very little sleep in a stuffy, cramped tent surrounded by thousands of other campers in a damp field.

But if you have a bit of cash to spare, you can enjoy all the fun of camping – while not getting muddy or being away from a flushing toilet.

One of the most luxurious options for ‘glampers’ is the Pop-Up hotel, a collection of 200 ‘ rooms’ in the form of bell tents, spacious yurts and even gypsy caravans, spread over a 15-acre field about ten minutes’ walk away from the official festival site.

And if you don’t want to trudge to the stage with everyone else, you can be ferried in golf buggies – or even fly there, as the site has its own helipad.

But if you decide to pitch up at the Worthy View campsite in the festival

Site has its own helipad

grounds itself, there are still plenty of options for middle-class glampers.

You can pay anything up to £1,000 for the five-day festival – on top of the £238 cost of a standard ticket.

Campers have access to showers and toilets, as well as hot food and their own car park just a short walk away.

Besides the eye-catching tents - they are colour-coded to denote their size and cost and help guests find their way around – there are also wooden cabins, known as podpads, and luxury Mongolian-style yurts.

tents on the site range in price from around £285 for a two-person scoutstyle for five nights and up to £995 for an eight-person classic scout-style.

A bunkpad, which sleeps up to four, costs £725. these spacious structures have solid walls and floors and a 6ft 8in high solid roof. they come with two bunkbeds with foam mattresses. A 12ft yurt with space for four is priced at around £750 for five nights.

For those taking their own tents – a pitch is included in the ticket price – relief finally came from the 30C (86F) heat- wave yesterday as temperatures dropped dramatically.

But despite feeling cooler, the dry and overcast conditions were a far cry from last year’s festival, which was deemed the muddiest ever. today the festival’s main stages open, with Radiohead headlining the Pyramid Stage, while Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will be taking part in a talk tomorrow.