Cheaper train tickets

Chris1712 · 25 Aug 2013 at 16:27

That seems like a bargain to me, it's a pretty long way!

neil_g · 25 Aug 2013 at 16:33

That is pretty cheap, its about £15 from Southampton to Bournemouth

ScoTTyBEEE · 25 Aug 2013 at 17:04

I find this site is the best http://www.redspottedhanky.com/

Threepwood · 25 Aug 2013 at 17:09

Get on the Coach from norwich to london with a fun fare for £6.

Then a funfare from london to brighton for £5.

Add a tenner for some food and drink and it is still £23 cheaper.

http://www.nationalexpress.com/waystosave/cheapcoachtickets.aspx

Hyburnate · 25 Aug 2013 at 17:11

Threepwood said:
Get on the Coach from norwich to london with a fun fare for £6.

Then a funfare from london to brighton for £5.

Add a tenner for some food and drink and it is still £23 cheaper.

http://www.nationalexpress.com/waystosave/cheapcoachtickets.aspx

But how much more time?

areksnumbr1sxylady · 25 Aug 2013 at 17:12

walk?

tomparker95 · 25 Aug 2013 at 21:29

It seems excessive when I paid £24 for a return to Birmingham. Will look around though, thanks for suggestions

[TW]Fox · 25 Aug 2013 at 21:48

tomparker95 said:
It seems excessive when I paid £24 for a return to Birmingham. Will look around though, thanks for suggestions

London to Birmingham has huge amounts of capacity and large numbers of very cheap advance purchase fares as a result. It's not really a good measure of what to.expect elsewhere.

tomparker95 · 25 Aug 2013 at 21:50

Oh..im not great with train and tickets if im honest (evidently) Just weighing up whether to just go for it and spend £44 on a traint tieket or not

Threepwood · 25 Aug 2013 at 21:53

Hyburnate said:
But how much more time?

It's about 7 hours all in, if you get to match up the two leaving times.

mattyprice4004 · 25 Aug 2013 at 21:58

tomparker95 said:
Oh..im not great with train and tickets if im honest (evidently) Just weighing up whether to just go for it and spend £44 on a traint tieket or not

You'd probably have better luck travelling with a ticket.

Hyburnate · 25 Aug 2013 at 21:58

tomparker95 said:
Oh..im not great with train and tickets if im honest (evidently) Just weighing up whether to just go for it and spend £44 on a traint tieket or not

Yes, or save £20 and spend 14 hours return on a coach

Threepwood · 26 Aug 2013 at 01:43

Hyburnate said:
Yes, or save £20 and spend 14 hours return on a coach

£30 if you include the £10 eating money.

Which is a £60 saving if it is to be a return!

Edit: There is also the compromised version. Do the norwich to london part by coach and the london to brighton part by train.

I'm presuming that the london to brighton part by train will have some cheap offers for use somewhere.

tomparker95 · 26 Aug 2013 at 09:36

No way am I doing coach, im going to Norwich away for football and it's a 12.30 kick off

Will look around now though, see if I can get it slightly cheaper etc otherwise i'll just pay up and shut up lol

Participant · 26 Aug 2013 at 09:45

If it's to watch Norwich play football then I can understand why it would seem expensive.

NotAGolf · 26 Aug 2013 at 09:54

ScoTTyBEEE said:
I find this site is the best http://www.redspottedhanky.com/

I've used this place the last couple of times as if you've got Tesco clubcard vouchers you can use them at double the value. E.g. You could get to Norwich for £22 worth of clubcard vouchers.

Very good if like me you struggle to actually spend your vouchers.

But as others have said, £44 seems like a very good deal to me.

Semple · 26 Aug 2013 at 09:58

[TW]Fox;24827316 said:
Never, ever use thetrainline. They offer exactly the same tickets as everyone else but charge a booking fee which most sites do not. If you like thetrainline interface simply pick a TOC which uses thetrainline as their backend and get the same interface with no booking fee.

Could not agree with this statement more!

Anyone who asks me to recommend where they can purchase train tickets from i steer them clear of thetrainline and towards redspottedhanky.

RSH has no booking fee, and if you are a regular purchaser of tickets, you get 1% of the booking value back in points, which you can swap for vouchers for various things.

I'm surprised how thetrainline keep themselves in business when charging £1 a booking!

tomparker95 · 26 Aug 2013 at 10:01

I used the train line before, and they never actually took a booking fee. I will use someone else in future though as I think that was just a mistake

[TW]Fox · 26 Aug 2013 at 10:21

Threepwood said:
£30 if you include the £10 eating money.

Which is a £60 saving if it is to be a return

How can there be a £60 saving when the return ticket in the first place is less than that?