Traveling to Newquay

dizzybee

Hi looking for some ideas on getting to newquay going by coach would be lowest price but 10 hours on a coach is pushing it, the train would be quicker but more expensive, have heard of sleeper trains or mail trains also would spilt ticket be possible? craving in Aug.

k3lvc

Where from ?

Kernow666

would help if we knew where you coming from , i am guessing when you say 10hrs its somewhere up north



for example from London your options are

National Express coach - stops in Newquay
Train - stops in Newquay
Air - Gatwick to Newquay

Stevie_Palimo

I prefer flying but for me it is all about time saving and could not be stuck on motorways or trains for hours on end it would do my nut in.

PasturesNew

If you get the sleeper train get off at St Austell (06:45) then catch the bus (just 20 yards away/can't miss it/in the car park of the station) it'd shorten the journey a bit. Catch bus at 7am, arrive NQY at 8am.

Whatever you do, don't change at Par, the train is walking speed. Always change from train to bus at St Austell. Better/faster and more options (e.g. town's alongside, v Par which is a lonely station in the middle of nowhere).

dizzybee

hi, sorry guys will be Traveling from Nottingham.x

Kernow666

just had a quick look Nottingham to Newquay

National Express is like 11hrs
Train is like 7hrs but 3 times the price

probably be cheaper and easier to go to London from nottingham then onto Newquay

duchy

You can fly Birmingham to Newquay return in August for GBP68 with Flybee. Add coach from Nottingham and it may be the quicker but not outragously expensive option

macman

Mail trains? A bit late, the last one was phased out in 2004. Not for use by the travelling public anyway, unless you planned on wrapping yourself up in brown paper and string?

dizzybee

thanks for the info guys.x

Swinfc1

Hi there. If you split your ticket from Nottingham to Newquay it will be much cheaper. I am unsure of whether you can split ticket the sleeper train, but from Nottingham if you split your tickets at Birmingham new street, Cheltenham spa, Bristol temple meads and Taunton it will be much cheaper and you don't have to change trains usually until you are either at Plymouth or even par if you're luckier