As the temperature heats up at Glastonbury, unfortunately so does the smell from the toilets but for those looking to make a trip to relieve themselves a bit exciting, Worthy Farm has a host of weird and wacky toilets on offer.
Unlike most festivals, you’ll rarely see rows of portaloo cabins by the stages at Glastonbury, instead, the festival offers rows and rows of glorified holes in the ground.
The elevated toilet facilities are the most common on site and by just the second day the majority of them had run out of toilet paper as well as hand sanitiser.
Located next to the Pyramid stage, the toilets otherwise known as the ‘long drops’ are unflushable as the name suggests and festival-goers want to be very careful they don’t drop anything as each row of toilets is connected by a huge pit.
One reveller remarked: “I saw a pair of glasses down the drop on Wednesday. I felt so bad for whoever lost them!”
Elsewhere, festival-goers can opt for the feline experience at the compost toilets dotted across Worthy Farm.
Revellers are instructed to pick up a scoop of sawdust from the bags in front of the toilets for each deposit to “keep it nice for your fellow sitters and sistas”.
Although the smell is almost unbearable, this option is friendly to the environment which is a bonus especially considering the toll festivals can take on the land.
If Glastonbury excites you but the thought of covering your deposits in sawdust doesn’t, hospitality could be for you.
The hospitality campsite offers flushable toilets that are regularly restocked with toilet roll.
However, nothing is perfect and by Thursday the water had stopped working in the female toilets with no sign as to when it would resume operation.
One hospitality member remarked: “You pay a lot of money to have access to nicer toilets in hospitality, it’s outrageous the water isn’t working.”
Unsurprisingly, the nicest toilets can be found backstage where VIPs are treated to flushable, restocked toilets with individuals mirrors.
Unfortunately, as the weather continues to hot up and the days go on, the toilets are only going to get worse.
Another reveller added: “I don’t want to think about how bad the toilets are going to smell by Sunday!”
