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Please help! Cheap travel to Edinburgh from the midlands

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Blow_2
Blow_2 Posts: 11 Forumite
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Hello,
I am hoping to go to Edinburgh the week after next but I can't find any cheap transport. I have tried skyscanner, megabus, national express and Virgin trains. I'm based in Worcester but can travel from Gloucester, or Birmingham as well. It's all looking £75 upwards and that is at least double what I paid a couple of years ago and sadly not viable for me this year..............HELP, please!
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  • when you do want to travel you havent said. please post dates then can look properly :)
  • Blow_2
    Blow_2 Posts: 11 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Well, I'm not too fussy, but Friday the 19th late pm at the earliest and any time up to Wednesday the 24th I wanted to go for two or three days. I have to be back at work on the 30th August, Thanks!
  • balletshoes
    balletshoes Posts: 16,610 Forumite
    you could try split-ticketing on the train route from Birmingham to Edinburgh (I can see fares direct there with no changes for £40 each way).
  • The problem is the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is on till the end of August so most of the cheap train tickets have long gone, try splitting at Manchester Piccadilly might knock a couple of quid off the fare.
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  • Blow_2
    Blow_2 Posts: 11 Forumite
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    The problem is the Edinburgh fringe festival is on till the end of August so most of the cheap train tickets have long gone, try splitting at Manchester Piccadilly might knock a couple of quid off the fare.
    It better be on, that's why I want to go!!! Last time I went I think I paid about £15 from Edinburgh to Birmingham......... and it wasn't in the 70's it was a couple of years ago!
  • if you dont mind a long trip you can get megabuss for £26 return now i know you looked before but prob is they have this deal on over summer saying no tickets more than £8. soooo you have to get tickets seperatly bimingham to leed £5 each way and leeds to edinbugrh £8 each way. the site is playing up or maybe it is for me making searches a pain in bum lol but i found this

    23/08/11
    birmingham 16:45 arrive leeds 20:05
    leeds 21:00 arrive edinburgh 01:40

    26/08/11
    edinburgh 05:45 arrive leeds 10:50
    leeds 13:00 arrive birmingham 16:15
  • Blow wrote: »
    It better be on, that's why I want to go!!!

    Oh, it's on, even with the rain at the moment :(. I went last week to see the Tattoo and had a quick afternoon today and as per norm it's well worth the visit.
    Blow wrote: »
    Last time I went I think I paid about £15 from Edinburgh to Birmingham......... and it wasn't in the 70's it was a couple of years ago!

    £15 is still the price of the cheapest advance singles on the system, however, you will be very lucky to find any of these, a quick look reveals that apparently £27 is now the cheapest if you book weeks in advance.
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  • Blow_2
    Blow_2 Posts: 11 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    It was luck that got us there last time, we booked a last minute holiday to Ibiza and it flew from Birmingham but back into Glasgow, it was only just over £100 for the week! So we got the train from Glasgow to Edinburgh and then the train to Birmingham a few days later then train back home. I thought I'd be able to get a cheap train but it looks like It will cost more than the holiday to Ibiza cost me!
    Megabus deal is the best by a mile all thought that will mean a hell of a lot of travelling......... we'll see.
  • nutty1
    nutty1 Posts: 2,204 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker I've been Money Tipped!
    £67.50 travelling on 21 august 845 birmingham to preston £6.50 preston to edingburgh £25.00. returning 28 august 0800 edinburgh to preston £27.50 preston to birmingham £8.50
  • citykid5
    citykid5 Posts: 821 Forumite
    flybee this sat from brum flight num
    Flight: 855
    £29 all in
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