Reading Festival - should the town be avoided?

[Silver Birch]

Still desperately trying to sort a punt for tomorrow and have a possible wg in mind but she is in Reading, not sure exactly which part yet.

I know there will be 1000s of festival goers descending on the town and wonder if it is a good idea to give Reading a wide berth this weekend?

Any locals able to advise?

[Louise 100% British]

Traffic has been horrendous.
Took me an hour to get from caversham to train station at 5.30pm.

[Silver Birch]

Cheers Louise, I guess that answers my question then - AVOID until Tues 

I only thought about congestion because my mate said the Reading train was packed with young people & tents!

[berksboy]

    Yep deff stay out of reading to after the BH weekend is over.

[James999]

Reading is a nightmare at the best of times, and for some reason one of the worst area's for fake profiles / scams, perhaps it has something to do with the M4 corridor and bored IT staff creating profiles on AW 

[daverfc]

Its just full of romanian scam merchants at the moment.

All with similar profiles, a hell of a lot that offer bareback. Had a bait and switch a few months back and refuse to see anyone in those serviced apartments again.

[tomcat600]

what area were those apartments?

[daverfc]

Southampton street.