Any train promotion codes out there?

evesham1988la

jonnym wrote:

I'm looking to go to Edinburgh on the morning/afternoon of the 4th April from Crewe and return the other way back on the 11th. Best I can currently find is £56.00 for two adult fares, is there a cheaper option hat anyone knows of?

If anyone is particularly qualified to answer the following, I would also appreciate it. I am going with my wife and my two sons, being 2 and 4 years old. I'm worried that although I don't have to pay for either of them, if the train was busy, we would not be able to get the four year old in a seat. Are these trains that leave around midday particularly busy or should i get a child seat for him to make sure? The answer would seem obvious, but if I pick one of these up and the train isn't busy, I'll be kicking myself! :rotfl:

https://www.megatrain.com - £1 fares between Manchester Picadilly to Edinburgh - need to book in advance. These trains are not busy, that is why they offer cheap fares.

Then just add a normal fare from Crewe to Manchester.

piquet_D

further to the comments re. the daily mail offer -thanks to Morf for uploading the tokens. funnily enough my parents get the Mail day in, day out -but i didn't think to cut out the tokens at the time.:(

anyway i printed them off and travelled manchester-london return last week. i booked the day before travel and it cost £15 (the best non-token price was £56ish!). i was concerned about being pulled up about the tokens -as they obviously don't look like they've come from the newspaper), but wasn't asked about them at all. this was despite the 'train manager' spending 5 mins at the start of the journey back from London advising that 'you will be charged the full open ticket price (£109...)' if there is the tiniest detail wrong with your ticket.

BTW -the only physical difference to the actual rail tickets is that 'virgin promo 2' was printed (discreetly) on the top of the ticket.

The_Bloodster

I'm buying tickets for 2 adults and 1 child to go to Scarborough on Saturday 10th from Manchester and the cheapest I can find is £52.30 despite yesterday there being one for £49.85 which is now only available on my return time.

I notice on Trainline they have a place for promotion code - is there one or can anyone suggest a cheaper ticket!!

The_Bloodster

Managed to get it to £49.20 by doin two open return tickets

Manchester ---> Leeds £20.35
Leeds ---> Scarborough £28.85

Is this allowed and is there problems with open returns? The price is the same if I do a normal return and state the time. I suppose a open return is safer in case anything delays the match I'm going to.

angelajl

angelajl wrote:

I'm taking the train from London to York on a Saturday mid-March and returning one week later. The best I can find right now is £10.65 outbound and £18 return. Does anyone know of a cheaper way? Thanks for your help!

Apparently I should have bought the tickets at that price. The last few days, every time I search on nationalrail.co.uk, I get a message that says, "Sorry, the site can't find any trains meeting your request." I get that message no matter what I try. I don't know what's going on.

On GNER, I can find tickets, but there is NOTHING for less than £74.10 each way!!! I'm about to cry.

Any ideas? Or are my husband and I doomed to spend nearly £300 just to get to York and back? We need to travel to York on March 17th and back to London on March 24th.

Thanks.

misspeachykeen

Anyone able to help me?! I am looking to travel from Manchester to London on Friday 16th March (preferably in the afternoon), and come back on either Sunday 18th or Monday 19th. I've looked on the Daily Mail/Virgin offer but don't seem to be having much luck! I really need to do this as cheap as possible, or it's the National Express for me and I hate the coach!
Thank you for all your help, sorry to be a pain! xxx

misspeachykeen

angelajl wrote:

Apparently I should have bought the tickets at that price. The last few days, every time I search on nationalrail.co.uk, I get a message that says, "Sorry, the site can't find any trains meeting your request." I get that message no matter what I try. I don't know what's going on.

On GNER, I can find tickets, but there is NOTHING for less than £74.10 each way!!! I'm about to cry.

Any ideas? Or are my husband and I doomed to spend nearly £300 just to get to York and back? We need to travel to York on March 17th and back to London on March 24th.

Thanks.

You could split the ticketing at Leeds, quite often there's cheap fares between London and Leeds ( I used to do this route all the time when I was a student!). Or, at a push you could even get the National Express or Megabus from London to Leeds (from around £3 each way). From Leeds, you can get a Saver Return to York for about £12 on the train, or there's even a bus between Leeds and York which takes an hour and a half and costs around £5 each way!

It's a lot of messing about I know, but it's the only way I can think of, so it depends how much you wanna save money!
Hope this helps! xxx

Starfish

misspeachykeen wrote:

Anyone able to help me?! I am looking to travel from Manchester to London on Friday 16th March (preferably in the afternoon), and come back on either Sunday 18th or Monday 19th. I've looked on the Daily Mail/Virgin offer but don't seem to be having much luck! I really need to do this as cheap as possible, or it's the National Express for me and I hate the coach!
Thank you for all your help, sorry to be a pain! xxx

Try Manchester- Sheffield and then Sheffield-London on Midland Mainline.

Speaking of Leeds there's a new promotion out today, £5 one-way between Leeds and London on GNER. Book by March 29th for travel between May 21st and June 22nd.

http://www.gner.co.uk/GNER/Tickets/_Leeds-london.htm

gsxr1000

angelajl wrote:

Apparently I should have bought the tickets at that price. The last few days, every time I search on nationalrail.co.uk, I get a message that says, "Sorry, the site can't find any trains meeting your request." I get that message no matter what I try. I don't know what's going on.
On GNER, I can find tickets, but there is NOTHING for less than £74.10 each way!!! I'm about to cry.
Any ideas? Or are my husband and I doomed to spend nearly £300 just to get to York and back? We need to travel to York on March 17th and back to London on March 24th.
Thanks.

Have you tried one way car rentals for each of the days you are travelling? Has anyone tried this? Does anyone know any car rental frims who will let you drive one way from London?

atmyageishouldknowbetter

Hi
Hope you can help - downloaded the Daily Mail vouchers (many thanks) when I go onto Midland Mainline it is asking for a EpiServer 4 Login and Password?

Any ideas ..do I have to register on Midland Mainline site?