How to get Boardmasters tickets with your group

Boardmasters 2027 hasn't been announced yet. Our working dates are 4–8 Aug 2027, which follow the Wednesday-to-Sunday pattern the last three editions used, so treat them as provisional until the official site says otherwise. What won't change is the shape: the music festival and campsites at Watergate Bay, the surf and skate side down at Fistral. That split is the soul of the thing. You aren't only buying a weekend in front of stages. You're buying a Cornwall week, with cliffs and weather and beach windows, in a town where everybody is running on festival time.

No lineup yet either, and that's rather the point. Boardmasters sells its cheapest tickets months before it tells you who's playing. For 2026 you had to register by midnight on 26 November 2025 to reach the presale the next morning, with general sale the day after that, and weekend camping opened around £234 before the litter bond and booking fee. By the end of the cycle the same ticket was £311 or more. Recent licensing puts the site around 58,000 people, which is why the practical questions matter: which day you arrive, where you sleep, who can buy for whom, whose name ends up on the ticket, and how everyone gets back out of Newquay.

The hard bit isn't only getting through checkout. It's knowing what you're trying to buy before the page gets hot. Five-day, four-day or three-day camping. 3 Day No Camping. Day tickets, VIP, the child and teen bands, coach bundles, live-ins, pre-pitched, Boutique, Chilled, Family Chilled, parking, shuttle, hospitality, resale. A day ticket with accommodation doesn't magically become a camping ticket. A live-in pitch isn't entry. A teen ticket changes the adult supervision maths.

Names matter too. Boardmasters terms say tickets must contain the ticket-holder name and match photographic ID if requested. The official resale route is Tixel, and Boardmasters warns you off social listings, Twickets, TicketSwap, StubHub and Viagogo, or anything similar, because those routes may not issue a fresh barcode in the new buyer's name.

• Tiered pricing means the cheap or preferred product can move before the whole group has agreed what to do.
• Named tickets punish sloppy data entry, nicknames, swapped phones and last-minute "can you buy mine too?" messages.
• Under-16s need the right age-band ticket and a 21+ adult; each adult can accompany a maximum of two under-16s.
• Tixel resale is the safe route, but it works better when everyone has realistic budgets and alerts ready early.

Boardmasters is a good example of why the TicketSquad method isn't only for Glastonbury. The same principle works, but the unit changes. This guide keeps a four-ticket planning cap because historic/local data points to that shape; current public terms say exact limits are shown by the official ticketing agent before booking. So prepare four-person checkout Groups, then confirm the live See Tickets or Tixel limit before anyone pays.

For Boardmasters, the after-click plan is as important as the click itself. Someone who buys a coach bundle needs the matching coach pass. Someone aiming for Live-Ins needs a weekend camping ticket as well as the vehicle add-on. Someone staying in Chilled or Family Chilled needs to know that those are limited, quiet-area choices, not generic fields you can drift into later.

Boardmasters is magic when the admin is already handled. Friends arriving on the right day, tents in the right field, somebody remembering the shuttle, and nobody finding out at the gate that their ticket is in the wrong name. The beach and the cliffs are the romance; the buyer assignments are how you protect them.

TicketSquad is built for exactly this kind of admin. One place for the ticket routes, the budgets, the legal names, the buyer Groups, the travel, and who is still helping. Instead of pinning a half-finished note and hoping people read it, the squad gets a live checklist that matches the actual sale.

For Boardmasters that means the official-sale buyers, the Tixel watchers, the coach people, the live-in people, the day-ticket friends and the under-16 family groups all stay visible in one view. Less chaos in the chat, and a much better chance the whole group reaches Watergate Bay with the right ticket in the right name.