Any train promotion codes out there?

ticketcollector

sawanderer wrote: »

The price it quotes for a full price ticket seems to differ from those usually displayed on other websites and at stations, so it may be worth checking the website of the train company you are travelling with to check the offer is the cheapest.

e.g.
National Express East Coast advance London-York single = £10
Same ticket using FirstScotRail offer = £11.25 - £1.10 (10%) = £10.15 :huh:

NXEC have special prices for their own tickets online. I think you get a 11% discount or something like that.
I have checked the normal fares and they are the same as is in the fares database.

ollysmum

Just used the First Scotrail discount to get 10% off my journey from stoke on trent to london, £26.00 discounted to £23.40, thank you!

lucy_lulu

hi all, newbie here!

im trying to get a good deal to get from crewkerne to bournemouth on the 7th of june in the morning.. off to see britians got tallent live but i would like the best deal on the train, the best i have found so far is £24! it will only need to be a single trip
thanks

dzug1

lucy_lulu wrote: »

hi all, newbie here!

im trying to get a good deal to get from crewkerne to bournemouth on the 7th of june in the morning.. off to see britians got tallent live but i would like the best deal on the train, the best i have found so far is £24! it will only need to be a single trip
thanks

Your best bet is to get the train from Crewkerne to Salisbury - £11.90 single. Then catch a bus to Bournemouth - they go direct, rather than the train's circuitous route via Southampton, and will be cheaper and quicker. I'd guess between £5 and £10. Every hour - maybe every half hour.

There is a cheaper train ticket - £16.80 - but it involves changing stations (walking) in Yeovil and Dorchester and a bus between Wareham and Poole due to engineering works.

http://www.wdbus.co.uk/htm/ttSouthern/S_X3.pdf has the buses

ziceman

please can someone help me out because i live in northern ireland and flying to southampton and i never used public transport because it's none existent where i live lol.

anyway i feel very confused with how is the best fastest cheapest way to go from southampton to london, it will be funny as me and my son never been on a plane, never been on a train and never used escalators so everything is very daunting.

miller

ziceman wrote: »

anyway i feel very confused with how is the best fastest cheapest way to go from southampton to london, it will be funny as me and my son never been on a plane, never been on a train and never used escalators so everything is very daunting.

Fastest option:
Southampton Airport Parkway station is immediately adjacent to the airport terminal.

Saver return to London Waterloo for 1 adult + 1 child is about £50 -
if you have a family and friends railcard its £28 (the card costs £24 but is valid for a year - http://www.familyandfriends-railcard.co.uk/ ). Day returns will be cheaper, the Saver is valid for a month.

Further information can be found from the South West Trains website http://www.southwesttrains.co.uk

Cheaper options:
There are coaches from Southampton to London Victoria but they go from the coach station (nowhere near the airport so you have to get there first):
http://www.nationalexpress.com

Promotional rail fares are available from www.megatrain.com , but as far as I know these only go from Southampton Central station so again, you would have to get there first.

*manda*

miller wrote: »

Fastest option:
Southampton Airport Parkway station is immediately adjacent to the airport terminal.

Saver return to London Waterloo for 1 adult + 1 child is about £50 -
if you have a family and friends railcard its £28 (the card costs £24 but is valid for a year - http://www.familyandfriends-railcard.co.uk/ ). Day returns will be cheaper, the Saver is valid for a month.

Further information can be found from the South West Trains website http://www.southwesttrains.co.uk

Cheaper options:
There are coaches from Southampton to London Victoria but they go from the coach station (nowhere near the airport so you have to get there first):
http://www.nationalexpress.com

Promotional rail fares are available from www.megatrain.com , but as far as I know these only go from Southampton Central station so again, you would have to get there first.

With the megatrain fares you do have to board in Southampton, but you can actually get off at Southampton Airport on the way back- which would make things slightly easiers. Megatrains cost from £1 each way but are few and far between as are the other option megabus.

Just so you're aware, the train takes just over an hour, the coach is just under 3 hours. National express do funfares so if you don't mind the length of journey try looking to see if you can get a cheaper deal through the funfares section on their site- they run more frequently than megabus.

There are quite alot of buses from Southampton Airport to Southampton centre, and both the train and coach station are easy to find.

miller

*manda* wrote: »

With the megatrain fares you do have to board in Southampton, but you can actually get off at Southampton Airport on the way back

If you want to persue the cheaper options, consult the Unilink timetables which run to the town centre:
http://www.unilink.soton.ac.uk/routes.shtml

alchemista

Go to First Great Western website home page and you'll see the offer for free train travel between these stations or points in between, valid this Sunday.

http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/FreeSundays.aspx

p.s. - this thread is for promotion codes and such, not for tips on finding the cheapest fares. If you want help finding the best fare, use the proper thread for tips on cheap tickets:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=18454
Please help keep the two threads organized.

dzug1

*manda* wrote: »

With the megatrain fares you do have to board in Southampton, but you can actually get off at Southampton Airport on the way back- .

Not legally - megatrain forbid travelling short.

In practice it depends whether there are barriers or ticket checks at the Airport Station or not