After queuing for a while I went off the signed route and in from the North. No problem.
But I heard some people queued for six hours. Others gave up and walked in.
Lots of people already in though. So I don't know how many people overall. They were talking about 35,000.
A lot to do around the show as well and not just the usual suspects.
I hope they're back next year.
Edited to add
Just seen on this report
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet_extr ... Kent-2332/"Many have blamed poor planning and said organisers were overwhelmed by a reported 120,000 visitors in 40,000 cars."
That's an awful lot of cars/people!