How the other half ‘camp’! Inside lavish manor where A-listers spend Glastonbury

For more than 200,000 Glastonbury visitors, it’s a frantic race to Somerset to find a square meter of space in the festival’s busy campsites and pitch their tents for the weekend.

But for the rich and famous, the Glastonbury experience looks very different as they enjoy the swimming pools and spa at the five-star Babbington House hotel, 30 minutes from the Worthy Farm site.

The hideaway is a hotspot for A-listers such as Holly Willoughby, Peter Crouch and Abbey Clancy and the Gallagher brothers who have stayed there in recent years.

The famous faces use the chauffeur service to take them from the private members club to the center of the festival.

Guests of the Grade II listed Georgian house can eat seafood or pizza in the various open-air restaurants on a spacious, freshly mown lawn.

But for the rich and famous, the Glastonbury experience looks very different as they enjoy the swimming pools and spa at the five-star Babbington House hotel – 30 minutes from the Worthy Farm site

Daybeds will be available to watch the festival performances live from a large screen, allowing guests to ‘channel the festival experience without the crowds’.

For £2,300, festivalgoers can get their hands on one of 50 bell tents built across the 18-acre Somerset estate, which are ‘fully equipped with comfortable double beds, fluffy bathrobes and a selection of drinks.’

Although there are staff on hand to attend to all guests’ needs, the five-star hotel has a strict no-dogs and children policy. This limits the customer base even further.

Indoor and outdoor pools can be used at leisure, along with a Cowshed spa, as the venue is part of the private members club Soho House chain.

The house itself has 33 bedrooms and ‘garden-to-table dishes’ in the Orangery.

Meanwhile, campers were left exhausted as they queued for more than two hours at London’s Paddington Station due to canceled trains after a person died on the tracks yesterday morning.

One festivalgoer told the Mail: ‘We’re not even there yet and I’m already exhausted from the queues. It’s like they’re punishing us for wanting to have fun.”

The gates of Glastonbury officially opened on Wednesday and within two hours all the major campsites were full, leaving people scrambling for the next best spots half an hour from the main stages.

The hideaway is a hotspot for A-listers, with the likes of Holly Willoughby, Peter Crouch and Abbey Clancy and the Gallagher brothers staying there in recent years

Guests of the monumental Georgian house can eat seafood or pizza in the various open-air restaurants on a spacious, freshly mown lawn

Sunbeds will be available to watch the festival performances live from a large screen, allowing guests to ‘channel the festival experience without the crowds’

For £2,300, festival goers can get their hands on one of the 50 bell tents built on the 18-acre Somerset estate which are ‘fully equipped with comfortable double beds, fluffy bathrobes and a selection of drinks’

Indoor and outdoor pools can be used at leisure, along with a Cowshed spa, as the venue is part of the private members club Soho House chain

The house itself has 33 bedrooms and garden-to-table dishes in the Orangery

Meanwhile, campers were left exhausted as they queued for more than two hours at London’s Paddington Station due to canceled trains after a person died on the tracks yesterday morning

The gates of Glastonbury officially opened on Wednesday and within two hours all the major campsites were full, leaving people looking for the next best places half an hour from the main stages

Rain hit the grounds of Worthy Farm yesterday morning as campers donned waterproof jackets after expecting the heatwave to last all weekend.

Around 200,000 festival goers descend on Worthy Farm to enjoy a long weekend of music from acts such as headliners Dua Lipa, Coldplay and Shania Twain.

The country legend, 58, has promised to take to the festival’s main Pyramid stage for her set on Sunday.