Go to London for FREE (subject to a 50p booking charge)

rizla01 · 29 November 2005 at 2:34PM

Looks good to me.

can't see a catch.

Travel from many places around the U.K.

point here and click for that free trip. But be quick! Limited seats!

Megabus.com is offering 100,000 free seats on its services to and from London, excluding internal and cross-border services to and from locations in Scotland. The seats are available on Monday to Thursday journeys from 12 September until 12 December. Customers taking up the free seats offer pay only the standard 50p booking fee.

N.B. Would customers please note that there is a limit of four free reservations per order, to allow all customers the best chance of being able to take advantage of our free seats offer.

scooper · 29 November 2005 at 4:25PM

this is a good one
i have tried it but it is no good for me as i would not be staying over and would only get a hour in london brfore i would have to catch the bus back!!
better if you could sleep over for a night then come back

UKays_Finest · 29 November 2005 at 5:35PM

Thanks for that info rizla.

The only catch is that its valid for travel between Mon - Thurs only, not weekends

worried_and_confused · 29 November 2005 at 5:41PM

UKays_Finest wrote:

Thanks for that info rizla.

The only catch is that its valid for travel between Mon - Thurs only, not weekends

The other catch is that you have to go on the optimistically named 'Mega' bus. Tried it once, never again!!!

madfrenchgirl · 29 November 2005 at 5:48PM

they sound ok but problem is we would have to drive in the opposite direction, pay for car park, then hop on towards London.... might be simpler just to take the train...

xueta · 29 November 2005 at 5:59PM

The offer's been going on since August so I don't think that there are any completely free seats left

Nonetheless, there are some cheap tickets available.

ClarkeEJ · 6 December 2005 at 7:02PM

worried_and_confused wrote:

The other catch is that you have to go on the optimistically named 'Mega' bus. Tried it once, never again!!!

Same here.... Never again will I use Megabus..... dreadful....

black-saturn · 6 December 2005 at 7:05PM

What do you expect for 50p? If they went via my town I'd use it as I go to London every weekend to see my bf. I have to pay out £19, so I'd much rather it be 50p.

mcallister1 · 6 December 2005 at 9:02PM

I've travelled on the megabus a couple of times and put the teenagers on one a few times as well. It is a bus not a coach , but for a couple of hours it is ok. The seats upstairs, anyway, didn't have head rests, so for a long journey I can see it would be horrible.
Anyway, I've taken the wrong booking number once and they were very good about calling up to check I was booked. The only bad moment was when I went to put two teenage kids on it and they said they didn't take unaccompanied minors ( nothing obvious on website tp say so), but they let them travel after confirming they would be met.HTH. :xmassign:

crossleydd42 · 6 December 2005 at 10:29PM

It's called megabus because it's not a coach, so no misleading there. They are slowly updating their ex-Hong Kong fleet and the new ones are much better. Sometimes they're faster than National Express in terms of getting from A to B. NX often stop too much at intermediate stops. For comfort and ambiance, megabus is not an option, but, as ever, you get what you pay for. And it's good to have the choice. NX was a monopoly before and they've had to trim their prices.

the_tired_one · 6 December 2005 at 10:49PM

For all the 50p whingers, dont go! Use the hyper-inflated NX and pay £20+

I've used it, and for 50p I have no complaints.

Go to London for FREE (subject to a 50p booking charge)

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