The best ways to buy festivals tickets

Here’s how you can split the cost across your festival tickets so you can miss the dread of your bank account but don’t miss the memories in the fields.

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DOn’t miss out on another festival

We can’t wait to do it all again in 2025 – all the stellar line-ups dropping, your favourite artists playing lots of festivals across the UK and the choice is tough. What shouldn’t be a tough choice is deciding whether or not to go to a festival this year. With living costs rising it can be hard to commit to a weekend ticket with all the bells and whistles, and whilst that is THE best way to experience a festival, you shouldn’t miss out on being part of the summer fun. So we put together ways to split your festival ticket costs, or make your festival experience more affordable without losing any of the bliss.

1. Payment plans

Many festivals offer payment plans or deposit schemes that let you split your ticket into 4, 5, 6 or more payments that you can plan in every month. Paid off by the time you walk through the gates so it’s basically free – festival math, stay with us.

2. Pay In Three

Similar to payment plans but you can use PayPal and Klarna options at checkout up until the day before the festival and still have three months to pay off. One for all you last minute.com festival people out there!

3. Day tickets

Can’t quite make up your mind if you want to commit to the whole weekend? Why not check out that new festival with a day ticket! They tend to be affordable, usually similar to an arena or stadium gig and you get a lot more artists in one day, so win win.

4. Girl math

Not an official payment method, use at your own risk but technically if you bought your tickets last year they are free now because that was last year’s money. And 100+ bands across a whole weekend for £250 is £2.50 per band, with an average set of 30 minutes, that is £0.08 per second so essentially the music is free. Girl math, you’re welcome!

Note: Terms and conditions apply to all payment options and ticket types, so make sure to read them thoroughly before purchasing. Contact our CS team if you have any questions.

2025 festivals

Pick your favourite festival and discover flexible payment options.

Here’s Your Options

INSTANT DECISION
No long forms. Get an instant online loan approval decision.

PAY IN THREE
Split your purchase into 3 interest-free payments

MONTHLY FINANCING
Pay over 6, 9 or 12 months through direct financing

Ticketmaster’s Festival Finder 2025

Ticketmaster’s Festival Guide is dedicated to everything festivals for 2025. Whether you’re looking for the biggest music acts in the world right now, up-and-coming new festivals, a boutique experience or a family-friendly festival to take the kids to, we’ve got you covered.

Our Festival Finder hub is designed to help you find your perfect festival experience whatever your location, tastes, budget or time-frame, with tickets on sale for events and weekends across the 2025 UK festival season from May – September and beyond! Use our exclusive filtering system to discover your perfect festival with some of the best live music acts and headliners the UK & world has to offer.

You can filter festival listings by weekend camping options, day tickets for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and by music genre for festivals happening this week, this month and this year. So whether you’re looking for fun for all the family, music and arts, festivals designed for food lovers, camping festivals happening soon or well into the future (or even next year!), our festivals guide is all you need!

Music Festival Genres

Our festival finder guide spans a wide range of music genres. These include pop, hip hop, classic rock, dance, DJ, electronic music, EDM, funk and soul. Country & folk, grime, RnB, indie, jazz, metal, new music and more.

Types of Festivals – Arts, Food and Comedy Festivals

Along with music festivals, there are also Arts, Comedy, Theatre, Boutique, Family Friendly, Festival Holiday and Food Festivals to enjoy. Food lovers can sink their teeth into a variety of international delicacies, street food and great eats at most events this summer.

Discover the 2024 Festival Finder hub and filter your way through summer’s biggest and best UK and international festivals with top music artists and line-ups.

FAQs

Festival ticket prices vary; however, the Festival Finder filter allows you to select a price point minimum and maximum and view festivals based on your budget. Prices are included across all festivals featured in the guides. Many have deposit scheme options so you can buy tickets now and then spread the cost over many months. Child tickets can often be free or much cheaper for family friendly events.

Yes, we offer a variety of ticket types, upsells and VIP options for festival-goers. From picnics and early entry passes to collector tickets, luxury VIP experiences and more.

Go VIP – while VIP packages vary by venue, they often include early entry or exclusive areas, bars and food stalls, etc for you to enjoy across the festival.

For some festivals, advance travel can be booked and parking passes can be purchased when you buy tickets.  Some festivals also provide local shuttle buses to and from the location. At larger festivals, coach travel is also available from most major cities across the UK to the festival site.

Most festivals offer up parking permits which can be booked alongside your tickets.  This gives attendees access to an on-site carpark for the duration. You can also often buy campervan passes for weekend ticket events.

Yes, many festivals sell out so it’s important to get your tickets early to secure your spot before it’s sold out.

Ticketmaster offers a fan ticket exchange for select events and UK festivals. Ticketmaster’s resale platform is completely safe and secure and you can buy tickets at face value. Any tickets transferred or resold to you are verified by us and re-issued in your name, so you can be assured that the tickets are genuine. Sell your tickets on our fan to fan resale site here.