Pensioners' patchwork income 13 November 2015 at 8:01AM in Over 50s MoneySaving 27 replies 4.4K views

mardatha

I can use mine if I get on a bus to Carlisle or Berwick on Tweed.

Bogof_Babe

I can use my English bus pass on the service from Hereford to Llandrindod Wells, so presumably could do the same in reverse.

moneyistooshorttomention

pollypenny wrote: »

Welsh bus passes can be used to travel from Wales across the border and back.

Most of us in Flintshire see Chester as our main shopping city and use our passes. It would be possible to travel from Newtown to Birmingham, I suppose as long as there is a direct bus.

That's a thought worth bearing in mind:T

I guess that's based on you "buying" a return ticket at the start of the outward journey and what this is based on is the starting point of the original journey (ie in Wales).

I'll remember that one. Ta.

pollypenny

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

That's a thought worth bearing in mind:T

I guess that's based on you "buying" a return ticket at the start of the outward journey and what this is based on is the starting point of the original journey (ie in Wales).

I'll remember that one. Ta.

No need to buy a return. It's Arriva here, as it is in most of Wales.

Just give your destination as you put your card on the reader.

Before the introduction of automatic readers, I used my Welsh card when visiting DD in Manchester. No good now, of course.

poppasmurf_bewdley

Bogof_Babe wrote: »

I can use my English bus pass on the service from Hereford to Llandrindod Wells, so presumably could do the same in reverse.

Some friends and myself were caravanning just outside Hereford last year and made this journey using our bus passes. We couldn't wait to get out of the place once we arrived. We joked that we would have been very willing to pay to leave the place.

moneyistooshorttomention

Just as well that I knocked it off my "research list" when deciding where to move to was it?

There was an aspect of the housing market there that was worrying me a bit (thinking of the future) and that was my main reason for deleting it. I've searched RightMove recently for there and the house prices are looking even lower to me than they did a couple of years back. Don't know if that's accurate or no - as I didn't keep records of what houses I might potentially be interested in were costing.

margaretclare

Be_Happy wrote: »

I was on holiday in Carlisle last year and got on the bus to Gretna Gateway Shopping Outlet. I handed over money for bus fare and was asked why I wasn't using a bus pass. Explained it was a Scottish bus pass, not English, and was told it could be used for 'local' cross border journeys.

I like the Gretna shopping outlet - was there when we stayed overnight in Gretna on our way further north. It seems a bit more 'mobility-friendly' for those of us with walking problems. Others I've tried to visit are huuuge and long distances from car parking.

I never use buses and therefore don't have a bus pass.