£40 extra? No advance tickets available?
That is an Advance Price.
A walk-on First Class return from Elgin to Newcastle is £266, which is completely extortionate and I'd never suggest offers good value.
£40 extra? No advance tickets available?
Try booking though the EC site, http://www.eastcoast.co.uk/, often a discounted price. Don't know the date you're travelling but I get £44.95 on EC vs £50.50 on the national rail site for the same journey 1st advance.thats from the National rail enquiries site.
Ye, I see now, thought he meant £40 extra for a single.[TW]Fox;17929407 said:That is an Advance Price.
Sounds good to me, some peace and quiet and no smelly masses.
Train prices are utterly ridiculous tbh![]()
Sounds good to me, some peace and quiet and no smelly masses.
Whilst I'd agree with Fox I'll also disagree. £40 extra for me would be a no no, even for a 6 hour trip.
Whilst I'd agree with Fox I'll also disagree. £40 extra for me would be a no no, even for a 6 hour trip.
Make sure you have a first class seat booked and not just a first class ticket. My Dad did some work for a company who paid for him to travel to London from Preston first class, but didn't book him a seat. There were no spare first class seats so he had to stand all the way to Milton Keynes where he managed to get a vacated seat in standard class. The mind boggles really at how stupid some TOCs are.
I was thinking the extra £40 was good for a 1-2 hour trip!
6 hours in standard class would kill me, £40 is worth every penny for a journey that long and IMO offers good value for money!
[TW]Fox;17929598 said:Thats return - so its a 12 hour trip?
Not if you don't go at peak time it isn't.
[TW]Fox;17929631 said:How do you complete a journey of 6+ hours without involving at least some peak time?
Not if you don't go at peak time it isn't. Yes the seats are a bit bigger but get a table seat in standard class and the only real difference is the number of people around you. Leave london outside peak times and you'll regularly (read most) of the time have at max only one other person on your table.
[TW]Fox;17929631 said:How do you complete a journey of 6+ hours without involving at least some peak time?
I don't mean to sound rude, but I don't want anyone at my table and most 1st class carriages allow this.
I don't mean to sound rude, but I don't want anyone at my table and most 1st class carriages allow this.