Trying to book a return train from Glasgow to London!

The_Groat_Counter

Agreed - the same tickets can always be obtained from a booking site other than The Trainline, so you can avoid paying the Trainline's extra fees.

lee1985

Emmy_ wrote: »

Thought you might be interested to know that I've managed to get two x single adult tickets to London from Edinburgh for £33, leaving at 10am in the morning.

The return was £27.10 (which includes the free £10 e-voucher from redspottedhanky, so it was £37.10) for two adults, leaving London for Glasgow at 3pm.

Times suit and so do the prices! Both with East Coast trains.

So, £42.25 per adult return to London, including the single ticket to Edinburgh on the day we go. Not bad considering the increases in everything these days!

I did what I had been doing, looking, looking and looking!

If the coach was a feasible option then the single journey from London to Glasgow would have cost £21 - a saving of £6.10 - wooo!

Owain_Moneysaver

lee1985 wrote: »

If the coach was a feasible option then the single journey from London to Glasgow would have cost £21 - a saving of £6.10 - wooo!

For £6.10 I'd rather have a train, where you're not stuck sitting next to the nutter or the stinky toilet, but can walk about and have a choice of nutters and stinky toilets.

lee1985

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

For £6.10 I'd rather have a train, where you're not stuck sitting next to the nutter or the stinky toilet, but can walk about and have a choice of nutters and stinky toilets.

So would I.

But you never know just how precious every pound is to some moneysavers.

Besides, the return was £40 which left the total fare £20 cheaper. That's a saving of a third.

yorkie2

Thetrainline will save you money over a "walk on" ticket that you could buy on the day but you will save that money AND save on Thetrainline's booking fees, AND get TOC-specific discounts (where available) such as a further 10% off East Coast tickets, when you book on a TOC website such as East Coast. Therefore, Thetrainline costs more money compared to many other sites.

Jeff_Bridges_hair

lee1985 wrote: »

So would I.

But you never know just how precious every pound is to some moneysavers.

Besides, the return was £40 which left the total fare £20 cheaper. That's a saving of a third.

So you didnt really save any money as you had already spent at Tesco to gain your clubcard points.

Take heed from people on this forum who know - There are no cheaper fares from any third party. Yorkie and others tell you the truth.. Wheterh you choose to believe that is up to you

lee1985

Jeff_Bridges_hair wrote: »

So you didnt really save any money as you had already spent at Tesco to gain your clubcard points.

Take heed from people on this forum who know - There are no cheaper fares from any third party. Yorkie and others tell you the truth.. Wheterh you choose to believe that is up to you

Jeff not quite sure what you're on about, I think you quoted the wrong post?

I never mentioned anything to do with clubcard points or thetrainline.

What I did say, and only what I said, was that was a return ticket on the coach was £40 compared to the £60 return on the train that Emmy found/paid. Which by all perspectives is correct - a £20 saving.

Of course no-one has to take the coach - or the train for that matter. I was merely giving a money saving tip

Jeff_Bridges_hair

I think i quoted the wrong person then.