durham to manchester airport help please

supermum4

Hi i'm trying to book train tickets from durham to manchester airport, going on 3rd feb returning 19th feb, ive tried all day every way i can think of but the cheapest i can get is £146, for 3 adults and 3 children using a family railcard, do you think this is the best i will get if anyone has the time and the know how to get this cheaper it would be greatly appreciated:beer: thanks in advance guys:T

alanrowell

As of a day ago you could only book discounted tickets up to the 13th February, so at a guess you are seeing full price tickets only

Wait a week or two and you should be able to book up to the 19th

BUT in the meantime do some trial bookings for - say 3rd to 12th Feb - to see what sort of prices you are likely to get. NOTE the cheapest tickets may not be available immediately, so you may have to wait until the middle of December in order to book them

supermum4

alanrowell wrote: »

As of a day ago you could only book discounted tickets up to the 13th February, so at a guess you are seeing full price tickets only

Wait a week or two and you should be able to book up to the 19th

BUT in the meantime do some trial bookings for - say 3rd to 12th Feb - to see what sort of prices you are likely to get. NOTE the cheapest tickets may not be available immediately, so you may have to wait until the middle of December in order to book them

Hi thanks for the reply i have done some trial bookings for various dates in dec and jan but the price is always the same £146 so i'm wondering if this is the best price i'm going to get .

dzug1

The £146 is a walkon fare

It looks like it may be a journey with no cheap advance fares. If that is so then try split tickets - say at York or Leeds

dzug1

The other thing that may be worth trying is a 'groupsave 3' rather than your family railcard - I did find some cheapish airport special fares this way for a couple of week's time.

Livingthedream

If you do split at Leeds to get the cheap advance tickets go via Mancester Piccadilly as cheap advance via the airport are not much cheaper than an Anytime ticket
ie;
Durham to Leeds
Leeds to Manchester Picadilly
Manchester Picadilly to Manchester Airport ***

*** Don't know if you need this part of the ticket as I'm doing a split advance journey from Edinburgh to N.Wales via Manchester Picadilly in the New Year and the Edinburgh to Manchester tickets say 'Manchester Stns' would this include the airport aswell? (booked online Edindurgh Waverly to Manchester Picadilly selected stations) dzug1 what do u think?

ahrimaniac

Could it be worth getting the train to Newcastle, then getting the airport getaway fare?

dzug1

ahrimaniac wrote: »

Could it be worth getting the train to Newcastle, then getting the airport getaway fare?

It exists from Durham as well

ahrimaniac

I see.

Well there you go.

dzug1

Livingthedream wrote: »

If you do split at Leeds to get the cheap advance tickets go via Mancester Piccadilly as cheap advance via the airport are not much cheaper than an Anytime ticket
ie;
Durham to Leeds
Leeds to Manchester Picadilly
Manchester Picadilly to Manchester Airport ***

*** Don't know if you need this part of the ticket as I'm doing a split advance journey from Edinburgh to N.Wales via Manchester Picadilly in the New Year and the Edinburgh to Manchester tickets say 'Manchester Stns' would this include the airport aswell? (booked online Edindurgh Waverly to Manchester Picadilly selected stations) dzug1 what do u think?

I doubt if Manchester stations would include the airport - just Victoria, Oxford Road and Piccadilly

Livingthedream

dzug1 wrote: »

I doubt if Manchester stations would include the airport - just Victoria, Oxford Road and Piccadilly

It was a long short, but never mind worth a try