Love Fields Glastonbury Review: Our Honest Experience

Love Fields is one of the most popular places to stay for Glastonbury Festival, because it’s just outside Gate C. We stayed there in 2024 and 2025, in a campervan with an electric hook-up both times, and we’ve booked again for 2027. This is my honest review, with everything I wish I’d known before our first stay.

Updated November 2026. Glastonbury returns from Wednesday 23 to Sunday 27 June 2027. The experiences below are from our stays in 2024 and 2025, and the 2027 details are from Love Fields and the Love Fields FAQs. Some things are changing for 2027, so check the latest information before you book.

Love Fields at a Glance

What Is Love Fields?

Love Fields is one of the many off-site camping and glamping areas for Glastonbury ticket holders. It’s one of the most desirable, because it’s so close to Gate C. Most of the other off-site glamping businesses are a 15, 20 or even 30-minute walk from the gate, or even a short taxi ride away, which isn’t ideal when you want to pop back to your tent.

It’s a private site, only for people staying there, and the entrance has security on it 24 hours a day. The fields are surrounded on three sides by the festival’s own fence.

How to Book Love Fields

You book directly on the Love Fields website, and Love Fields bookings open alongside the Glastonbury ticket sales. For 2027, that was on 1 and 4 October 2026. You can pay in full, or pay a 50% deposit and the balance in early 2027.

Be quick. We booked and paid for our pitch on the Love Fields website five minutes after securing our Glastonbury tickets, and we’ve done the same again for 2027. Love Fields is so popular that it sells out within a couple of hours of the Glastonbury ticket sale finishing.

If you miss out, don’t give up. More pitches sometimes become available on the website afterwards, so it’s worth checking back.

The Three Areas of Love Fields

Love Fields is split into three main areas, and where you stay makes a big difference to your experience.

Leg of Lickle

Leg of Lickle is the really posh, fancy bit, and the closest to the gate. It has pre-pitched tents and other structures that are an even bigger upgrade on the rest of Love Fields, and I believe there’s a restaurant and other facilities there too. Across Love Fields, the 2027 options include Mongolian yurts, cabins, large safari-style tents and Airstreams.

Spring Ground

Spring Ground had smaller pre-pitched bell tents. Love Fields describes it as an intimate field close to the action.

Barron Ground

Barron Ground is where we stayed. It’s mostly campervans, caravans and tents, and it’s further from the gate than Leg of Lickle, but it’s still very close compared with most off-site options.

• Campervan pitches are squares marked out on the grass, and each pre-allocated campervan parks within its lines. You pick a pitch size when you book, and some pitches have an electric hook-up, which costs extra.
• Lovebug was a small section of the campervan area just for little Volkswagen campervans.
• Pitch-your-own tents had a large area of their own, which was really handy. You could drive your car up, stop right next to your pitch, unload, then park at the edge of the field, only a couple of minutes’ walk away. Unfortunately, this area has been discontinued for 2027. Barron Ground’s 2027 page lists furnished bell tents and campervan pitches instead.
• Car parking was all the way around the edge of Spring Ground and Barron Ground.

Facilities at Love Fields

• Proper flushing toilets and shower cubicles, plus compost toilets. Love Fields says they’re cleaned and maintained throughout your stay (and I found that to be true, there were no problems with the toilets at all). If you’re used to festival toilets, this is a big upgrade.
• A breakfast bar, with reasonably priced meat and vegan options. I didn’t have any breakfast, but there were lots of people who were and the servings looked large.
• Several food stands and a bar selling alcohol, including beer, cider and cocktails.
• A small live music area, which is covered and has plenty of seating.
• A glitter and hair braiding station, which was a bit like a fancy dress shop as well. You could pay to have face paint, glitter or hair braids.
• Water points all around the edge of the fields.
• A spa and massage treatment area – there were various treatments available which cost extra.
• Power banks for charging your phone. If you don’t have an electric hook-up, for example if you’re in a pre-pitched structure, they give you a power bank. When it runs out, you can swap it for a fully charged one. It’s only for phones and other USB devices, though, so it won’t run a hair dryer.
• A covered hair-drying area, with hair dryers and mirrors (more on this below).
• A secure entrance with security on it 24/7, so only people staying in Love Fields can get in.

At peak times of day, like mid-morning, there were queues for the showers. If you don’t want to wait, shower late at night, or just accept the queue.

The Hair-Drying Area

The hair-drying area is undercover, with hair dryers and mirrors. The only thing about it is that the hair dryers were hardwired in, so there wasn’t a separate socket where you could plug in your own hair straighteners or other devices.

On the second or third day of the festival, a few extension leads appeared. I’ve got a feeling somebody complained, because people wanted to use their hair straighteners. If you’re relying on it for straighteners or curling tongs, don’t count on there being somewhere to plug them in.

If you want to straighten your hair, the easiest answer is to bring cordless straighteners that charge by USB, so you don’t need a socket at all.

Arriving at Love Fields

If you’re in a campervan, Love Fields lets you arrive a day early, on the Tuesday evening. If you’re in a tent or one of the pre-pitched structures, you arrive on the Wednesday (for 2027, the site opens at midday). If you have any questions about arriving, email them. They’re extremely accommodating and very helpful.

If you’ve got a campervan, Love Fields sends you a vehicle pass in the post beforehand. For us, that was for the festival’s Blue Route. According to the Glastonbury Festival website, the Blue Route doesn’t exist for 2027 and it’s now called the Brown Route, so follow whatever route is on your pass.

When you arrive, you go to the reception area. You get a Love Fields wristband and get told the number of the pitch you’ve been pre-allocated. Love Fields says you’ll need your invoice number, the lead booker’s name and photo ID to check in. All the pitches are numbered and in very neat rows, so they’re easy to find.

Then you drive to your pitch. In a campervan, you just park up on your pitch and you’re ready to go. In a car, you unpack your things, then move your car to the edge of the field.

You Skip the Big Arrival Queue

One of the biggest benefits of staying somewhere like Love Fields is that you skip the mega queue overnight on the Tuesday and into the Wednesday. Your pitch is already reserved for you, so there’s no scramble to get everything in through the gate and pitch your tent as early as possible before the main campsites fill up.

Instead, you can stroll in at 1pm on Wednesday, after the mad rush has died down. You don’t have any heavy bags to carry, so you can walk straight in and enjoy the festival, without the ridiculously long slog through the massive zigzags, dragging all your stuff on a trolley that might break.

If you are camping inside the festival, read up on arriving at Glastonbury and the best folding festival trolleys first.

Staying in a Campervan at Love Fields

We stayed in a campervan with an electric hook-up both times, and it was amazing. Here’s what you need to know.

• Bring levelling blocks. The field isn’t completely flat.
• The electric hook-up is easy. You just plug straight in. Having electricity was amazing, because it meant we had a fridge to keep our food and drink cold, and a hair dryer.
• Bring an Aqua-roller or a large water carrier and a funnel. There are plenty of water points around the edge of the field, but you can’t always drive up to them, so you’ll want something to fill your tank with easily as you’ll have to carry your water from the water point to your pitch.
• Waste disposal. There are waste points in Barron Ground, so ask at reception where to find them. We didn’t need them, because we didn’t use the toilet or shower in our campervan at all. Love Fields’ toilets and showers meant there was very little water to drain away.
• You can cook your own breakfast. We cooked our own food in the morning, but the breakfast bar is reasonably priced if you don’t feel like cooking.
• Pitches are large enough for outdoor seating. On our campervan pitch, there was plenty of space to put some outside tables and chairs, an awning or even a small tent for storing dirty boots, etc.

Getting In and Out of the Festival

Love Fields is outside of the Glastonbury fence. That means you must leave the festival to get to your pitch.

From our campervan pitch in Barron Ground, it was about a 5-minute walk to the Love Fields entrance, and then about a minute from there to Gate C. In 2024 and 2025, you literally crossed a short country road and you were right at the gate. It’s downhill on the way in, and slightly uphill on the way back, which takes about 5 to 10 minutes. If you’re staying in Leg of Lickle, you’re even closer.

Queues at Gate C

Gate C is a public pedestrian gate, not a private gate for Love Fields guests. So you queue with everyone else coming in and out at Gate C, including lots of people staying at the official Glastonbury caravan and campervan field, up the affectionately named Hill of Death.

There’s usually a 5 to 10-minute queue every time you enter or leave through the gate, but this could be longer during peak times.

Bring Your Ticket and Wristband Every Time

Because this is Glastonbury, you need your ticket and your wristband every time you go in and out. Glastonbury’s own information says your wristband alone isn’t valid for re-entry.

You also need a “pass out slip” that you’re given when leaving Glastonbury, you need 3 things to re-enter the festival:

1. Your wristband securely on your wrist
2. Your paper ticket
3. A pass out slip

Searches at the gate

There’s security at the gate, and they do stop people. Most people going through Gate C during the festival only have small bags or day bags, so it’s very easy for security to quickly search you.

If you have anything you wouldn’t want security to find, take precautions. We’re not here to judge.

More on getting searched at Glastonbury and keeping your valuables safe.

Is Love Fields Quiet at Night?

Not really.

Because of where it is, Love Fields isn’t particularly quiet at night. It’s not that other guests are making noise outside.

Love Fields fairly close to the south-east corner of the festival, which is where much of the late-night fun takes place, so you can hear music playing until very late, all through the night, until 5am. There will be bass, and you will probably hear it.

Inside a motorhome is quiet enough, but if you’re sleeping in a tent you will hear music through the night. Most of the public camp areas inside the festival have some level of noise at night, it is a festival after all!

I recommend earplugs, and Loop ones are a good choice. For more tips, read my guide to sleeping well at a festival.

What’s Changing at Love Fields for 2027

Expect some changes for 2027:

• No more pitch-your-own tents. The pitch-your-own tent area in Barron Ground has been discontinued. They are no longer offering this for some reason.
• The Blue Route is now the Brown Route, according to the Glastonbury Festival website.
• The festival fence might move. There’s a lot of speculation that Glastonbury is moving its fence boundary for 2027, which might eat into the festival’s existing caravan and campervan field next to Gate C.

Love Fields: Pros and Cons

Pros

• It’s right next to Gate C, far closer than most off-site glamping.
• Proper toilets and showers, which is a huge upgrade on camping inside the festival.
• Electric hook-ups for campervans, if you book one, so you can run a fridge and a hair dryer.
• It’s secure, with security on the entrance 24/7.
• You can drive right up to your pitch to unload, and park in the same field.
• Early access, with campervans allowed in on the Tuesday.
• You skip the arrival queue. There’s no overnight queue or trolley slog, and you can stroll into the festival once the Wednesday rush has died down.
• Breakfast, food and a bar on your doorstep.
• The staff are extremely helpful and accommodating.

Cons

• It’s expensive. Love Fields is essentially a pricey upgrade to Glastonbury, on top of your festival ticket.
• You’re outside the fence. Going through the gate every day, or several times a day, is a bit of a hassle.
• Queues at Gate C, usually 5 to 10 minutes each way.
• You could be searched every time you go back in.
• It’s noisy at night, with music until the early hours.
• The walk back is uphill.

Is Love Fields Worth It?

The experience of staying in Love Fields was amazing, and it’s very convenient. But the main downside is that you’re not staying inside the fence.

The thing I love about Glastonbury is that everything is just there, inside the fence, in one place. Usually, I’d go in on Wednesday morning and not leave again until Monday morning. Coming and going through the gate every day, or even several times a day if you want to pop back to your campervan or tent, is a bit of a hassle. It really feels like you’re leaving the action.

If you want proper toilets and showers, electricity and a bit of comfort, and you can afford it, Love Fields is one of the best off-site options there is. If you’d rather be in the thick of it, look at where to camp inside Glastonbury.

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