Do Rail tickets have a "Holiday Premium"

McKneff

Now the trick is, you have bought your tickets and are quite happy with the price you have paid.

So now you have to stop looking...............

So many people on other threads comment that they have bought a (say) freezer for £300, then they see it £50 cheaper elsewhere, and then ask us for help in getting the £50 back
I will never understand why they keep on shopping around even when the bloody freezer is full of food.:mad:

rev_henry

tripled wrote: »

Just don't forget that, as they aren't through tickets, if you miss a connection for whatever reason you have to pay the full fare as your advance tickets won't be valid on a later train. If you are on the last train in either direction and it is delayed/cancelled they also aren't obliged to provide onward travel further than the leg you are on.

A couple of years ago now I split ticketed a journey involving actual one change, so I got one ticket for the 1st train and another for the 2nd as it was cheapest way of doing it. The 2nd ticket was an Advance ticket, the 1st train was late so I missed the 2nd train stated on my ticket. I went into the office at Leeds Station when I got off the 1st train and explained the situation, they immediately wrote me out a kind of ticket alteration form on a special pad for me, which allowed me to use a later train. Didn't have any problem with what I'd done or with altering my ticket...

Capt_Slog

Jeff_Bridges_hair wrote: »

NRE will give you the price for the journey combined. As you split the tickets this will give you the price you have now found. NRE would also have shown this if you had SPLIT the tickets as you have just done.

Putting in the journey as a split NRE didn't make a difference when I started looking at the trip in January. I tried a lot of permutations of stations and I only made a saving of around £2 at the most on the trip.

I've just checked the same journey today, and I get a combined SPLIT price which today comes to £81 instead of the £99 if bought as "one-trip". (The £71 I paid seems to have sold-out.) Rather bizarre, because I really did check this quite thoroughly 3 months ago, and know I checked that combination. Splitting journeys to get lower prices appears to be dependent on the time of year.


I too was worried what would happen if I got to Exeter too late to make the connection due to late running trains. I enquired and was told that I would be allowed to travel with the same ticket on a later train after "getting the tickets stamped at the station office for the alternate service". I accept there is little they can do if I missed the last train but I've left myself some leeway. Like the Rev, I have done the same in the past when one train has delayed me getting the next. The nice man on the train told us to get off at one station where we could get on the next faster train to make up the lost time, and altered our tickets accordingly.

McKneff, Yes I have stopped looking, apart from today for the above, and I am happy with my price. :-)